Deborah Woehr

A huge thanks to John and Jim, who offered a great list of plugins for this new upgrade. The admin dropdown menu plugin and the Remove Max Width are essential in getting the old feel of WordPress back onto your browser.

Other plugins that work great with WordPress 2.5:

1. IImage Browser: I love this plugin because it lets you resize the image to fit perfectly within your text, make thumbnails clickable to the original size of the image, and add captions within a single dialog box. It also displays every image that you have uploaded to your server.

2. WP-ShortStat: This is a good stats plugin that tells me where my visitors are coming from, what keywords they use to find me, what websites are linking to me, etc. I was pleasantly surprised to find this plugin still working after I upgraded.

As you can see, I’m not that big on plugins, just the ones that I absolutely need.

I’ve noticed some new things in this new version, other than the media features, like writing links and the blog rating system. I’ll be exploring this upgrade for a little while until I get really comfortable with it. If you’re going to upgrade to 2.5, I would definitely plan on installing the above plugins. Otherwise, plan on hunting down the features that were so readily available in the older versions of WordPress.