Everything Under The Tropical Sun

After one seamless wordpress upgrade (version 2.7)… the curse was bound to strike again. And without a hitch, wordpress upgrade to version 2.8 was it. I was praying hard that I had already possessed a magical talisman to deter the WP upgrade curse from ever hitting me again.

So what happened? After upgrading to version 2.8, it seemed that everything was working. My dashboard looked pretty much the same. It didn’t look like anything was out of place. I worked on a blog entry I drafted earlier and as soon as I hit the publish button, it’s when it hit me: my visual editor was out of whack. The buttons weren’t there.

“OMGoodness, does this mean I have to get used to writing my blog entry with html?”

It’s the curse of the WP upgrade. It attacked me once again! *sigh* But I guess it wasn’t as bad anymore because after upgrading some of the plugins, it became alright again. The buttons are back and I’m back to happily posting. So all’s well that ends well… until the curse strikes again, that is.

I’m so happy! Nothing bad happened after I upgraded to the new version of wordpress. –> THAT is how happy I am… I just had to blog about it.

Stand up and shout… bounce and hop and skip with me! The day is beautiful, the sun is out and the wordpress upgrade is a success! Hehehehe. I love it.

I wrote about the bad experience I had the last time I upgraded to the latest version of wordpress. Here we are again, another upgrade in my midst. That reminder has been up there for almost a month now. I’m so hesitant to “click here” but at the same time, I might be missing out on something. I know it will never end. Which I guess is still a good thing, right? That they wouldn’t stop trying to improve this wonderful software?

So anyway, I’ve decided that I’ve waited long enough. It may totally screw up my theme or anything else but I came to the conclusion that I’d rather upgrade and brave the changes rather than get left behind or get some fatal error in the future.

I’m going to close my eyes and click now… wish me luck!

I am ashamed to say that I am a creature of habit. So much so that I really hate the little things changing on me. Just like upgrading to a newer version of wordpress.

Sure, I understand that they like checking on their software and updating it as soon as a bug is found. I understand that all these upgrades are to my benefit. But they really messed up with my last theme just because it was no longer compatible with the newer wordpress version. I could live with that because it’s the theme developer’s responsibility to keep the theme up to date to accommodate the new wordpress version.

Now, imagine my surprise when they changed the whole interface of wordpress. No longer are the tag and the category fields are where they used to be which is right below the text box. They moved all the buttons around! Such bullies! Just because they’re THE software to use by bloggers they can change their interface with little or no consequence. Let’s all face it, they’ve designed a nifty software which makes our lives a whole lot easier.

There must be some bugs still because as I am typing this, it feels like there’s a delay with the keys pressed and when it appears on screen. *Sigh* I hate little changes like this when I’ve already gotten used to where to click that it comes out as muscle memory. Now, I have to adjust my life around yet another wordpress upgrade. *sigh*