WordPress 2.5 - First Impression
Last night I had the pleasure/misfortune to install WordPress 2.5 on (shudder) Yahoo! Webhosting for my brother. Yahoo’s tools for small business are extremely backwards and easily some of the most unfriendly, unintuitive ’services’ I’ve ever had the misfortune to use.
If it weren’t for this tutorial from Nate at Nates Post, I don’t know if I would have ever gotten the damn thing installed. As it was, I spent almost an hour and a half just trying to connect to the SQL server. It turns out that I missed setting the database server as ‘mysql’ instead of ‘localhost.’
I don’t think I’ve ever worked with a server that didn’t use ‘localhost’ for scripts, and the inability to edit your .htaccess file is a huge hindrance. I don’t think I’ve ever appreciated HostGator as much as I did after my experiences last night.
Anyway, after the trials of installing WordPress I logged into the Dashboard to start doing the routine of configuring a new website. What the crap? I was expecting something akin to the usual Dashboard, but instead was presented with the WordPress equivalent of Microsoft Windows Vista.
Instead of having all of the options out in the open like before, they’ve been condensed down and hidden in various submenus. I have to say that I’m not a fan. Everything has been simplified to the bare minimum.
I hate having to play hide and seek with options. I’ve spent years learning WordPress, and now everything has changed. It may have been the mood I was in last night, but color me unimpressed. Until it becomes a security issue, I’m staying with the 2.3 branch. Your mileage may vary.
Glad I could help, and thanks for the plug!!
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Seriously, thank you. If it weren’t for your tutorial, I’d probably still be scratching my head. They say never take a knife to a gun fight, I’m thinking I shouldn’t take php to a yahoo server.
P.S. I just changed the “make sure db_host is set to ‘mysql’” to bold on the tutorial. It seems that is a stumbling block for most people.
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That’s a welcome change, although in all honesty, I probably missed it because I skimmed over it.
I’ve been installing php scripts for about 8-9 years, and this was almost certainly one of only 4-5 times I’ve ever had to change the database from localhost.
At this point, I just assume that localhost will work, because in 99.9% of the cases it does work. Fie on Yahoo!
I am on Yahoo! too.
I chose to have my permalinks of the format /%category%/%postname%/. This messes up the whole page links. My site seem to work when i have /index.php/%category%/%postname%/.
I don’t understand why it is expecting index.php/ for all the urls. Any idea on how to get rid of index.php in permalinks structure, yet to have all functional links?
Thanks for any help towards this.
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