WordPress 2.5 notes from the field

It’s been a few weeks since I upgraded to WordPress 2.5 and whilst the upgrade went well it hasn’t been all plain sailing. New and changed Manage files removed The Manage > Files administration function has been silently removed despite still appearing in the on-line documentation . If you don’t have FTP access this was the only way to modify your .htaccess and other important files without installing additional software. I can understand such a powerful function could be abused but an option to turn it back on or even a warning about its removal in the upgrade notes/read-me would have been useful. Hopefully somebody will repackage the old functionality into a plug-in. New look administration I’m not sold on the new administration theme look but Dean J Robinson has crafted a plug-in called Fluency that refines the styling. Generally usability in the administration user interface is better, the write post screen makes a lot more sense and the categ...