Got the permalinks working again! Glad I don’t have to redo a bunch of internal site links. We now return you to your normally scheduled web surfing.

Upgraded WordPress today and something I’ve done along the way seems to have broken the permalinks. So for the time being I’ve changed the permalink structure from what I had to the default. This means that you can get to the pages from the wordpress created links but any internal links I have set up (or any outside links) will result in a 404. I’m not however going to go through and change the internal links since I hope to have the problem figured out and fixed sometime and would then just have to change everything back.

I apologize for any inconvenience this causes any of my readers or anyone who might actually link to a post of mine.

Well, I upgraded to WordPress 2.5 over the weekend and after playing with it for a couple of days here are my initial thoughts.

I really like the new link/blogroll functionality, much improved over previous versions.

I like the concept of tags, however I don’t care for the tag cloud widget which is as far as I can tell the only way to give them a function out of the box. I think they should make it possible to allow the search widget to search through the tags as well as the actual words in a post or page.

Speaking of tags, I also think there should be someway to tag photos in the new gallery/media library. I know you can add descriptions but sometimes tagging the photo is easier and/or less cluttering on the page. This would also be another good reason to allow the search widget to search the tags as well.

And last of all, the new gallery function. This is by far the feature I was most looking forward to in 2.5. I do have another gallery site that is based on WordPress, but I was looking forward to moving the albums there so that I would only have to use one log in and everything would be better integrated. I was even more excited after seeing Photo Matt’s galleries using the new software. However, out of the box the gallery function doesn’t seem to work as nice as Matt has it. The options for the gallery and media library need to be more fleshed out in my opinion.

Those aren’t the only new changes of course, just the ones that caught my attention. And I also know that the issues I mentioned above could be fixed by either manually tweaking the code and/or with plugins, but if the issues aren’t brought up how will people who know how to do that know people are interested?

Overall I really do like this latest version of WordPress, I just think a few tweaks would make it even better.

Just signed up for a twitter account. Still trying to get it integrated with my site though.

Update: Got it working, I think Twitter was having some issues.