Comments on: 2.6 by the numbers

By: Brett

Brett — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:43:20 +0000

I agree that releases should be as often/fast as possible; HOWEVER, when there are known bugs [like all of my hundreds of categories going blank! and requiring a lot of hassle to figure out what the new taxonomy is all about and where in the SQL it has been moved after WP automatically destroyed the data! DOH!] then that release should be labeled as “alpha”, “beta” or “gamma”, so that I don’t make the mistake of trying it out on a production server, and so that people can have realistic expectations.

Keep up the great work, Matt! Thank you!

By: Erum Munir

Erum Munir — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:08:26 +0000

I personally don’t mind WP version being rolled out every few months. I mean who wants to wait a whole year for great new features

I think the main reason why people are stuck at older version of WP is because they are afraid that the plugins will stop working with the latest version.

I finally upgraded to 2.6 and very happy to note that all the plugins are still working Even the plugin authors have started working very fast and making sure they are compatible with the latest WP version.

By: danu

danu — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:03:19 +0000

i hope WP 2.7 will be launched soon,
and have much stuff and new capacity,
i’m waiting for WP 2.7

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WordPress 2.7 liegt in der Luft | webdemar.com — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:44:01 +0000

[...] angekündigt, da munkelt die Gemeinde fröhlich über die nächste Version 2.7. In einer kleinen Statistikübersicht für WordPress 2.6 sagt Matt auf seinem Blog, dass WordPress 2.7 bereits von 700 Blogs genutzt wird. Neben dieser Zahl [...]

By: ruud

ruud — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:48:46 +0000

I’m waitng for 2.7

By: Dresah

Dresah — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:06:19 +0000

Congratulations!

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Site Outage | TANcast — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:05:00 +0000

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By: cuchulain

cuchulain — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:04:07 +0000

Matt, the number one thing I wish you’d do for 2.7 is to make it easy to change folder names. That would improve security immensely. There should not be any universally known names to any folders. Should be individual to each blog.

I know there are some plugins that do this, but none of them work when servers are a bit behind in their SQL or PHP versions. Which is more common than it should be.

Please consider working on this for 2.7

Thanks in advance . . . .

By: Nemo

Nemo — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:00:57 +0000

As one of those people less than enthused about the endless parade of CMS-ized upgrades and cosmetic changes, I wonder if you can say – if it’s even been discussed, yet – what the next “stable legacy” version in Debian will be, after 2.0.n becomes unsupported in a year or so?

By: Weekly Links #11 | GrantPalin.com

Weekly Links #11 | GrantPalin.com — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:26:58 +0000

[...] 2.6 by the numbers Matt Mullenweg shows numbers on the uptake of WordPress 2.6. [...]

By: putradi

putradi — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:35:12 +0000

Bravo WP ..

By: Estadísticas de WordPress 2.6 10 días después de su lanzamiento | John Zárate

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:05:54 +0000

[...] Matt Mullenweng, el cabezilla de WordPress, ha compartido a través de tu sblog algunas esadísticas de esta nueva versión de WordPress 2.6. [...]

By: Curiosidades sobre WP 2.6 | ContraPosteando

Curiosidades sobre WP 2.6 | ContraPosteando — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:03:56 +0000

[...] el blog de Matt Mullenweg, el creador de WordPress, algunas estadísticas curiosas acerca de la última versión de éste CMS [...]

By: David Esrati

David Esrati — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:23:01 +0000

Matt-
Looking at 2.7 and Crazyhorse- Thanks Robert for posting both- I’ve got to say that I almost jumped for joy when I saw Crazyhorse just had a single “Add media” button instead of the 4 choices that lead to almost identical interfaces in 2.5/2.6
I teach Wordpress as a business CMS- and the media handler has been made too complicated for most users according to my class feedback.
Too many options- not clear descriptions of what all the options do- and, when they want to put a video in from YouTube- they get a link instead of an embedded video most times.
I’m pretty web savvy- and I still think putting a piece of media into a post shouldn’t be that complex.
As to the new theme directory- I’m glad something new is up, but, don’t you trust the community to grade the themes? How about just building in a compatibility checker? Dr. Dave had one in Spam Karma 2 (which was a great alternative to Akismet with it’s odd requirement to start a Wordpress.com site to get a key- c’mon).
Yes- the new versions have been improvements (bringing PressThis back for one) but- with each new version brings new update/compatibility issues- PodPress breaking is a major one.
At some point- there has to be a balancing act if you don’t want to frustrate the hell out of the user base.

By: Randy

Randy — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:00:57 +0000

Thanks, Matt, for the numbers — and for 2.6, itself!

Chiming in on the frequency of new versions, count me in the group who like the quicker updates. I personally like to see improvements / developments every few months.

Of course, it’s not a lot of work for me, I use DreamHost’s one-click install/upgrades, which have worked flawlessly so far!

By: Evita

Evita — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:52:41 +0000

Just installed Crazyhorse – works fine with 16 plugins! Great Job!

By: Algumas estatísticas do Wordpress 2.6 | Open Mania

Algumas estatísticas do Wordpress 2.6 | Open Mania — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:47:01 +0000

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By: Some WordPress 2.6 Statistics

Some WordPress 2.6 Statistics — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:23:17 +0000

[...] ran across a great post over at Matt’s blog which talks about some WordPress 2.6 statistics, and thought I might share part of it here for our readers who might have missed [...]

By: WordPress 2.7 ist bereits in Arbeit | Christian Soeder Webdesign

WordPress 2.7 ist bereits in Arbeit | Christian Soeder Webdesign — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:56:56 +0000

[...] nicht komplett stabil sein müssen, sondern wo man auch mal selbst Hand anlegen muss. Folgerichtig arbeitet das WordPress-Team bereits an der nächsten WordPress-Version, an Version 2.7. Vladimir Simovic hat einen vorsichtigen ersten Blick auf WordPress 2.7 geworfen, [...]

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:33:56 +0000

I would love to see in the next version or two to have the gallery improved. I know there are plugins out there, but photo’s have become very popular in posts and would love to see the core improved.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:25:30 +0000

James, as I said in a comment above yours, themes need to be reviewed before showing up in the directory so we can maintain a high level of quality.

By: james

james — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:24:01 +0000

Hi Matt, just out of curiosity, you say there have been over 300 themes submitted to the new them directory. Why when I go there does it say, “28 themes, 34,377 downloads, and counting”. Am I missing something?

By: Martín

Martín — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:21:43 +0000

¡Felicitaciones! (¡Congratulations!)

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By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:35:49 +0000

Dean, you’re using SVN in the themes directory too, you just don’t know it.

Probably not going to replicate it for the plugin directory in the short term because it’s doing fine on its own and if you can’t use SVN you probably shouldn’t be distributing a plugin.