1) Adding photos to a post just got 300% harder. When you click a photo, you have to wait for it to load (5 to 10 seconds), then if you haven’t uploaded the photo already you need to import it. Once you have imported it, it does NOT add it to the post, you have to then click the photo button AGAIN (5 to 10 seconds) and select your photo and insert it into the post.

2) Widgets. Loss of functionality, less adequate. This isn’t that big of a deal because widgets are added only occasionally, but regardless, drag-n-drop is the way of the future, and WP just took a back-step.

3) Moving Categories below editing area. This kinda pissed me off, and I saw this as a definitely MISTAKE. The categories should be moved back to the sidebar immediately. This change alone will result in many people forgetting to choose a category, with more posts in ‘uncategorized’ than anywhere else.

4) Incomplete. One of the most crucial components to a new release candidate is compatibility and the capability to upload old data. Simple Tagging Import is broken, and has been for several releases without a fix, or any change to the file in months (the last change was a grammatical typo >:P). I personally cannot upgrade thanks to this problem. I have tried to debug it myself, but it’s non-functionality goes much deeper than it’s file (wp-admin/import/stp.php), and it returns false no matter what from the function wp_add_posts_tags(). I can’t upgrade until this is addressed, along with a lot of people. I have been suggested to upgrade to ‘Simple Tags’ plugin, however, the upgrade path from ‘Simple Tagging Plugin’ to ‘Simple Tags’ breaks the tags, and floods the ‘categories’ with thousands upon thousands of tags.

5) Lack of a native feedback form. When making such a huge change to the interface, it is almost assumed that there would be a link within the dashboard, or even a form, to submit feedback to the development team. On the recieving end, there would be alot of duplicate feedback, so all you would do is tag every piece of feedback that comes in, and the most popular tags are then the most needed fixes.

Regardless of my long post full of complaints, WordPress remains the best Open Source blogging system, I love it. Let’s just hope 2.6 addresses some of these obvious problems!

But I must admit that the widget in 2.5 is confusing. I have multiple blogs in my site and I always get lost when rearrange my widgets. I can’t see what I’ve done to my widgets, I must go back and forth to check the widgets and see it on the live site to recheck. Really time consuming.

I also find that the javascript code for adsense and shopping ads are breaking down everytime I put them in a post.

I hope there will be fix on this issue in the next release.

Thank you.

The widgets panel now lacks a meaningful interface. This is also confusing compared to the previous version where it was easy to drag and drop. I can understand that maybe these changes were made so that non-javascript users can also use the screen, but it seems a shame to have lost some great drag-and-drop functionality which has been replaced by something, well, unnecessarily complicated.

I’d be really interested to see the user analysis and usability studies that Happy Cog undertook to come to these design changes because I can’t really see a good case for changing what was previously a better, more functional interface.

I’m posting this here after a quick google because a mod on the WordPress Feedback forum said we shouldn’t be using it for… posting feedback. Bit confused by that, I must confess!

i kept on editing the time but no luck