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Finally…upgraded my wordpress to the latest version. Was at version 2.2 for a many long days…couldn’t find a theme that I like and don’t really like the image uploader feature in the new version, hence delaying the upgrade.

Need to add Facebook LIKE BOTTON to my blog, so have to upgrade my WordPress. Old version is not supported.

Upgrade was easy and straight forward. Basically just need to backup the config file and images folder. That’s it.

How’s the WordPress 3.1? I think it is definitely very nice and smooth. Interface is clean and easy to navigate. Plugin and theme installation is very easy and just within a few clicks in the WordPress admin itself (FTP username and password required). The coders of WordPress is definitely very very good! I just wished my online shop admin interface is just as smooth…

Found a quite nice theme – GIRL. Changed some colours and I think it is good to go live.

Yes, after some RC versions…finally WordPress 2.5 full official version has been release 16 hours ago.

http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/wordpress-25-brecker/

I have blogged about my problem with RC1 previously…so I am in no hurry of upgrading this time…especially since I am quite busy recently and have no mood of upgrading and doing the major backup or restore if something bad happened. My blog (WP 2.3) is still serving me fine, and I am happy with what I have now. Of course there are some new features in WP2.5 that are worth having, but I am just not in the mood right now especially after the failure just a week ago.

Good luck to those who are upgrading and do share your experience with us.

WordPress has just announced the RC2 version of their upcoming WordPress 2.5.

http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/wordpress-25-rc2/

In the link above, there is a video demo of how WordPress 2.5 works. The gallery feature looks nice, and the multi upload feature looks cool. However, after trying RC1 and faces some problems with FireFox, I think I will not waste my time for RC2 again this round. Better wait till their full release and then think again if I really want to upgrade or not.

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I tried WordPress 2.5 RC1 today. Spent some time to upload and backup my original files.

Again, my main concern and attraction is the multi-upload as told by WordPress in their latest release. I was hoping to get good and easy way of uploading photos to my blog, as I share a lot of photo at my blog, which makes file uploading an important feature for me.

After installing WP2.5RC1, I have to spent some time to get use to the new interface. I think the orange dashboard is ugly, but nevermind…just personal preference.

I reactivated back all my plugins (I deactivated them before installing the new version), all works without problem except for WP-STATS software I have to re-keyin the API key. No problem, easy job since I have ASKIMET that uses the same key. Just copy and paste and done.

Lightbox plugin works without problem.

Now…I tried with my first post with WP2.5RC1.

1. Typing is easy, posting is no problem.
2. I want to upload some photos…how? Yeah…found the new insert picture button. There is an insert video feature too…I wonder how it works…but nevermind for the time-being as I have no video to share.

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I notice that WordPress has really really poor thumbnail image quality when I upload my photos online. It really spoil a photo or even discourage people to view/click your photo.

To change the thumbnail image quality:

Edit File:
/wp-admin/includes/image.php

Change:
if (!imagejpeg( $thumbnail, $thumbpath ) ) {

To:
if (!imagejpeg( $thumbnail, $thumbpath, 90 ) ) {

90 is the image quality of your thumbnail. My personal experience is that 85-90 are of very good quality. Not encourage to use 100 as it will generate big file size with virtually very little different in image quality.

Here’s the thumbnail from original WordPress default setting (I used trial and error to check the compression setting of WP default, should be around 60-65%, which is definitely TOO POOR for photography work):

File size = 19.52 KB

Here’s after (80):

File size = 22.31 KB Read More