Comments on: Anyone else having problems with WordPress 2.5?

By: Aleks

Aleks — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:51:18 +0000

You could try the latest nightly for Firefox 3 beta builds:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Beta 3 used to crash on me all the time until I recently tried the nightly, though the downside is that it might disable some of your extensions, which OTOH can be enabled by the ‘nightly tester tools’ addon:

http://www.oxymoronical.com/web/firefox/nightly

Making compatible said extensions could bork though….

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By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:36:03 +0000

I’ve probably just put the kiss of death on my PC now but I’m using 2.5 and Firefox 2.0.0.13 without any trouble what-so-ever. Well that was what I was going to say until I tried to change the time stamp which is a little temperamental to say the least if I change the month and time then the month and time changes however if I change just the time then nothing happens – although I don’t get “you don’t have permission to do that”. As far as plugins go, I’ve got all mine working (Akismet, Bad Behaviour, Spam Karma 2 & wp-cache), which I guess isn’t too many.

As for Firefox I’ve haven’t tried version 3.

By: nosemonkey

nosemonkey — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:45:39 +0000

Oh, and on a semi-related note – why has Firefox suddenly gone shit? Both the regular version (which keeps removing the back and forward buttons for no apparent reason) and the latest beta of Firefox 3 (which is eating up half my – sizable – processor power, leeching up to 900megs of RAM, and generally being rubbish). I’ve been forced to switch to Opera having been a loyal Firefox/Firebird/Phoenix user for the last six years.

Grrr… Computers… Vista’s pissing me off too.

By: nosemonkey

nosemonkey — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:42:24 +0000

Meh – too fiddly. And having hunted around a bit (ta for that FAQ link, Quinn) I’ve gone back to the old version.

Surely upgrades are meant to improve, not reduce possibilities – and that’s all that WordPress 2.5 appears to do. I particularly object to a bit of software telling me I don’t have permission to make changes to my own damn website – and I couldn’t find a fix for that anywhere…

By: Jon Worth

Jon Worth — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:38:48 +0000

It needs some time to bed down… I considered upgrading, but realised most of my plugins would not work with it, and hence decided not to. You can edit timestamps though (although I forget how just at the moment!)

By: Quinn

Quinn — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:04:12 +0000

Apart from Popularity Contest not working, which you don’t seem to have a problem with (and which was easily solved by reading this forum and editing the plugin) I seem to have got away with 2.5 pretty much unscathed. This FAQs may help you out, though. Regarding timestamps it says “In Write->Post, in the Publish Status area, click on the Edit button to the right of Publish immediately. When editing a Post, there is a similar edit button in the Publish Status area next to the Published on date and time.” As for Custom Fields, whatever they are, I have them as the third of the Advanced Options at the foot of the Write Post page.