I made the switch from WordPress 1.2 to WordPress 1.5. Pretty easy and I noticed that some annoying bugs in 1.2 were fixed, so I don’t have to waste time looking for patches.
Perhaps most notably, I can post trackbacks to other people’s blogs now. I had been getting errors with 1.2 and had tried to patch it to work, but gave up when I saw that 1.5 was out.
Another bug that was fixed was the display of nested categories in the write/edit post pages. In 1.2, there was a stupid bug where if you nested categories and you created them in exactly the right order, they wouldn’t display.
I also like the fact that in 1.5, the themes split the formatting out into more files, no more monolithic index.php.
One thing I haven’t figured out yet is how to get my categories to display hierarchically instead of in one big, flat list. My 1.2 with Kubrick setup had that, but I lost it in the upgrade to 1.5.
In general, I am very happy with 1.5.
Update (2005-03-13): I noticed that Jud also just upgraded to 1.5.
Hey Marc
How did you get the nested categories sorted? And if you don’t mind telling, what plugin are you using for anti-spam’ming comments (the code required above)?
Cool – nice content!!
Gareth
Hmmm – trying to remember if the nested categories were the default in WordPress 1.5 (they were definitely messed up in WP 1.2)… Anyway, this is what I have in my sidebar.php:
<?php wp_list_cats("sort_column=name&optioncount=1&optionall=1&hierarchical=1&hide_empty=0") ?>
For the bot check images, I used this:
Bot Check plugin for WordPress