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WordPress 2.1

I've upgraded to the latest WordPress, release 2.1

Hopefully everything works as before.

Funnily, the biggest new thing (besides 'boring' security fixes) advertized with 2.1 is a new visual editor for posts. But to my surprise I found it was not enabled by default! In the admin panel you need to go Users/Your Profile and check the "Use the visual editor when writing" tickbox to get the new and improved editor.

There's also a new spell-checker, but for me it errors out with a cryptic message "Could not execute AJAX call, server didn't return valid a XML."

For some reason I also needed to replace my <code>.htaccess</code> file for everything to work.

Update: I'm still finding it quite annoying that WordPress creates posts with no ALT tag when I insert images and don't bother to include some text in the ALT field. This results in errors when doing XHTML validation. So I've filed a WordPress bug report. Let's see what happens!

This was written by admin. Posted on Monday, January 29, 2007, at 14:09. Filed under Blog. Tagged . Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Comments are closed, but you can leave a trackback.

2 Comments

  1. Paul wrote:

    Did you find a fix for the Ajax problem with wordpress?

    Tuesday, July 10, 2007 at 03:01 | Permalink
  2. Administrator wrote:

    I did not get the wordpress spell-check to work.

    The empty ALT-tag problem is also unsolved as far as I know.

    My simple solution is to use the latest FireFox which contains a spell-checker for all entry fields (like this comment)...

    Anders

    Tuesday, July 10, 2007 at 03:16 | Permalink