I’ve finished installing WordPress 2.5 on my blogs and the blogs that I manage (about 20 in all), and I’m thrilled with how smoothly it went. The best news is that all of my favorite plug-ins still work without a hitch!
Two of the plug-ins had updates yesterday, but they both still worked properly before the update. The first was for the All in One SEO Pack, and the other one updated was the Google XML Sitemaps plugin.
One neat new feature in the 2.5 dashboard is that it shows your stats from the WordPress.com Stats plug-in directly on the dashboard (see the screenshot on the left). The stats weren’t appearing on one of my sites, but the problem was simply that I hadn’t updated the plug-in the latest version from a few weeks ago.
I’m still getting used to the new way it handles media inside posts, but it’s certainly a much better system. I had a brief problem with not being able to upload any images, but solved with this the help of this support thread.
All in all, I’m very pleased with this update!
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Thanks for the update about these two plugins. (saw it on twitter – ImGenie) I don’t always check and its nice to know to go get em. I haven’t moved up to 2.5 yet.Too little time as yet but good to know its working well for you.
2.5 is a very quick upgrade. Depending on how nervous you are, more of your time will be spent backing things up “just in case” than you’ll spend actually doing the upgrade.
Post again after you do it and let us know how it goes.
Thank you very much for the article.