Tim Flight

I thought I would offer my list of reasons why I’m not upgrading to WordPress 2.0 yet. I’ll approach this by going through the list of new features listed on the WP website.

• Completely Redesigned Backend - Okay, yes it is pretty. But this won’t impact my blogging.
• Faster Administration - Yes, if I decide to add a new category on the fly while in the middle of a post things are faster. But it really doesn’t make a difference to my blogging habits.
• WYSIWYG Editing - I’m faster with a keyboard than with a mouse, the editor doesn’t work properly in my browser of choice, and I typically use ecto to post anyway.
• Included Spam and Backup Plugins - I’ve got spam filtering in place that works perfectly and my site files and databases are backed-up nightly automatically already.
• Resizable Editing - Doesn’t impact me, I use ecto.
• Inline Uploading - Again, I use ecto for this which gives me more control over the images
• Faster Posting - Ecto
• Post Preview - Now this I would enjoy having. I do sometimes edit posts within WP and sometimes I look over something that “isn’t right” because I didn’t see it under the proper CSS.
• Streamlined Importing - All of my sites are already under WP.
• User Roles - Almost all of my blogs are one person blogs so I don’t need this. And I’ll need to rewrite one of my plugins to get it to work under the new role based security.
• Header Customization - I got rid of that awhile ago.
• User Level Options - I’m the only user of most of my blogs.
• Improved Abstraction - This is nice, it will make troubleshooting easier, but not a reason for me to upgrade.
• Built-in Caching - Reducing server load is always a good thing, especially when it comes to hitting a database. But WP has always been better than most CMS systems in this regard. My Xserve handles the load quite well.
• Plugin Hooks Galore - This is nice, but I don’t have a need for any of the new hooks at the moment.
• Import Framework - I don’t have a need for this at the moment.
• Theme Functions - This is pretty interesting, and maybe something I might use in the future. But right now I don’t have any needs that are tied to a theme that wouldn’t better be done within a plugin.
• Theme preview images - I don’t change themes enough for this to be beneficial. Only one theme is loaded in each of my blogs.
• Hundreds and Hundreds of Bug Fixes - None of them appear to impact how I currently use WP.

I’m not saying people shouldn’t upgrade. I’m not saying I will not upgrade. I’m not saying there are not very good things about WP 2.0. However what I will gain will not exceed the time it takes for me to upgrade…. not right now anyway.

I will eventually upgrade to WP 2, but not at 2.0. I’ll wait for some of the Ecto/WP issues to be sorted out and hopefully by then I’ll have more use for some of the new features.

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