WordPress versions
Apparently WordPress version 2.0 was just released, but this is not what baffles me. I’ve just set up another blog for my HCI group using the same easy “One-Click Install” method made available to me from my lovely hosting people.
You would think that the interface would be exactly the same, even though the two blogs look different on the outside. Somehow this is not the case. The two blogs appear to use the same version of WordPress, but this blog as a far less confusing “write post” interface (an interface that I think has slightly confused my team-mates). There are none of these expanding menus on the right to chose from users, categories and breakfast cereals to author your post with (the cereal thing wasn’t really a choice).
For at least the team-mate I live with, posting was a bit confusing. Fair enough, you pick “Write” from the menu and then “Write Post” (as a non-admin user, he doesn’t have the myriad of other options I am faced with), but then what? The rest of the options weren’t visible. Hopefully with time and exploration it’ll be easier. At least with my incredible admin powers, I can at least edit the entries into the right categories. On the other hand, I had to show one team-mate where to log in, and he had to explain over msn messanger to my other team-mate what to do. Putting the log-in options at the bottom of default templates wasn’t an inspired idea, and is counter-intuitive for people not used to blogging.
edit: It appears on checking the other blog that it’s a later version than this one. But why make it more difficult to navigate?
