WordPress 2.5.1 is Available, and the Reminders are PERSISTENT

I’m subscribed to the official WordPress blog so I know when new updates are released, however, it seems with the 2.5 landmark release, notification of the update appears on every page of the admin interface. There’s no way you can miss it now. Now, we just gotta get automatic upgrades without having to upload and overwriting files manually.

Anywho, 2.5.1 is out and it addresses a bunch of problems people have been having with the coveted 2.5 release. It looks like a 2.5 “redo” release. After browsing through the WordPress forums, version 2.5 has frustrated many a WordPress user, even veterans. I’ve been lucky, I guess, I have yet to come across anything buggy.

WordPress Fixed Pinging for Future Posts

It took me some amount of time to find this answer, but it seems that WordPress will process a “ping” for your blog when a post goes live. Previously, WordPress would send a ping as soon as any post was published, regardless if a post was scheduled to go live at a later date. After version 2.3 (I believe), the ping will be sent after the new post is public.

One thing to keep in mind, though, is that when your blog pings whatever services you have set up, it’s not telling the service what’s new, only that there is something new at your blog and the service should send a spider/robot/crawler/killer coding ninja monkey at your blog to discover the new content.

Either way, it’s a pretty important feature… But, so are killer coding ninja monkeys… and they don’t have that integrated into WordPress yet, damnit.

(Yes, this post was scheduled for a future time… heheh.)

WordPress 2.5 is Different

I think I’m really going to like the new admin interface for WordPress 2.5, but it’ll take some getting used to. It’s very different.