Wordpress 2.5

I’ve upgraded. Really, I’ve only upgraded so quickly because the screen shots of the new post page show how really sexy it is. It’s those buttons. And the dashboard is so… useful and beautiful!

Except for the fact that it’s stupid because it’s not very fluid. Very fluid? I mean that it’s fluid for resolutions up to 1024 by 768, but anything larger (in width) than that will have the main portions no longer stretch.

I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one complaining about this, check search the blogs with Google with the words “wordpress 2.5 widescreen” if you’d like.

I’ve changed the stylesheet to my liking, however, and made a little plugin for those who don’t want to dig into their stylesheets. It’s only four lines of code, I believe. Just add it to somewhere like: wp-admin > css > global.css

.wrap, .updated, .error { max-width: 5000px !important; }
.updated, .error { max-width: 4970px !important; }
div.dashboard-widget { margin-right: 15px !important; }
#rightnow { margin-right: 2px !important; }

Here’s a quick plugin. Save it as a “.php” file and upload it to your plugins folder. Activate it. wp-fluid.txt

This plugin makes the max-width much larger, so that it’ll support much larger screen resolutions. It also fixes a discrepancy between the padding in the main pages. It was put together after a brief snoop of the current stylesheet.

Otherwise, here’s my pros and cons list

Pros

• It’s beautiful.
• It’s a welcomed design from the old admin panels, which was pretty cluttered in some spots. And this design isn’t one to distract.
• Tag management is completely supported.
• Searching everything is supported, no more plugins.
• Dashboard widgets.
• Automatic plugin upgrade. This is wonderful, no more wasted time on plugins.
• That media gallery is awesomes.
• No more messing with my code in posts.

Cons

• The contrast isn’t impressive. Some thing’s need me to squint a little on my laptop. The light blue’s not doing much favors.
• Obviously, the non-fluidity.
• The font size isn’t very impressive on some parts of the admin pages. Making it bigger with Firefox provokes some sections to semi-break. (See the “Settings, Plugins, Users” menu.)
• Some things that used to be on the sidebar of the post pages are now under the textarea. I don’t like that. Especially the categories.