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The deed is done, and Wordpress is upgraded to version 2.5. All in all, it was mostly painless, though there seems to be an issue with the plugin upgrade script, as a couple of my plugins vanished after the one click plugin upgrade. Fortunately, nothing that I would call “mission critical”, so I’ll mess with them later. For now, It’s time to play!

One Picture Upload

First up, the following is a first time try at the new picture upload feature. In the old versions, uploading and embedding a photo or other picture was a multi click process, and if you had several photos to upload, well, grab a cup of something nice, because you were doing them one at a time. So for my first rum, we will do one picture… here goes… wish me luck

Ok, that was reasonably painless, though it did take a minute to figure out. If you click the picture, it will take you to a larger version. Then click your back button to return here, and we shall continue. One thing, though: I did tell it to center the image in the post, and as you can see, that didn’t happen… I’ll have to check the code and see if there is something I can do in the style sheet.

Gallery Upload and Formatting

So on to the next thing: if I read it correctly, you can upload a folder’s worth of images, and have them automagically formatted into a gallery, so let’s give that a try, shall we?

Staring at my admin screen, the gallery just shows as a short piece of code, but clicking the preview button brings up the nicely formatted gallery you see above. Click one of the images, and you will be taken to an intermediate size, and clicking that will bring you to a full sized image. I just want to point out that I haven’t done any thing to my theme to make this happen. This is exactly as WP is set to do, out of the box.

All the images except for “8 Ball” came from flickr, and are reproduced here by way of a Creative Commons license. Make sure you check out the contributor’s pages: Jose Miguel Serrano, medium as muse, gimmeahug, wonderferret, ukslim, and Zara. Thanks guys, you rock!

One surprise feature: while crafting this post, firefox crashed on me. Restarting it, and telling it to reopen the crashed session brought me right back here, with everything I had already done still here! The whole process was very easy, and that is seriously cool!

I’ll keep playing with Wordpress 2.5 over the next few weeks, but for a first impression, I am very happy with the new features and improvements. Soon, I will try out some of the other media features, but for now, enjoy the pictures