Back in the Saddle - WP 2.2 Released
May 15th, 2007
Well, things behind the scenes here at the Station have been less than ideal, and thus no time to keep up with the constant growth of WordPress. However the dust is settling, so with the release of Getz, I figured now was as good a time as any to pick back up. I have a few bookmarks to follow up on, and then will try to get back into a regular posting schedule. I’m still struggling with how to track the many minor updates as well as new releases, not to mention the issues with the dozens of “new” themes released daily.
I had intended to weigh in on the issues of this most recent release, for those not aware, tagging was going to go into the core of WP, but due to strong disagreement from the community in the approach that was being taken, it was shelved in this release, and instead, “widgets” became the major new feature. Personally, I’m not a fan of widgets, as it minimizes the ability to customize the output in many of the core widgets (though I haven’t tested the newest versions - specifically the list page widget I’m referring to).
Look for new posts wrapping up some of the releases I’ve come across recently, as well as a potential new format. Thanks to those who’ve kept the Station in their feed readers.
the new version of widgets is at least a little better, it gives you options for dropdown cats and archives, but you’re right, the links widget and others are still dumb boxes.
I realize that it’s definitely something that’s going to be around for good now, so I’m going to have to embrace them to some degree, and maybe put my poor coding where my mouth is and see if those default widgets can get some options pages at least. I’ll be testing them out soon enough.