WordPress upgraded to 2.5

WordPress just released vertion 2.5. I have been using 2.5 RC from demo site of Wordpress China. The backstage management is re-designed and it is amazing. Accordingly, I have also upgraded my site.

Since I have never upgraded my WordPress site from version 2.1 when I initially set up the site, WP2.5 is a big progress for me: native tagging, new backstage management, etc.

There was a problem that defining the permalink while writing new post, since the “Permalink” section only displayed after post had been saved. While I’m using in 2.5 Final, the auto saving will make “Permalink” section appeared, so there is a chance to update the link. That never be a problem now.

I also re-grabbed the plugins and themes, so at the very begining, the theme will be set to default and will be assigned new themes once everything goes okay.

Update Mar 30@19:05: Theme is decided and all plugins are available now. Sitemap is re-generated w/o Category, Tag, and Archive pages to improve SEO. Some legacy plugins are remained since some posts rely on it.

Update Mar 30@23:16: Just found that the theme is designed for WordPress v2.2, so it is using UTW as tagging plugins, not the new native tagging. In that case, the theme will not show the buildin tags. And the design will not show Permalink, Trackback and Categories in main page. Simply edited the theme file, to make these available.

Update Apr 1@17:17: I finally disabled “Add to any” and “Add to any subscribe” plugins, which made my blog loaded really slow.