WordPress is working dilligently to sort out and stomp the bugs in the update, but it may be several days, perhaps even a week or more before they get them all. Some are quite elusive as I have not been able to reproduce them.
Check to make sure that your browser is up to date. This is especially important for those that may have automatic updating turned off.
Clear your browser cache before logging into WordPress. With WordPress making changes to the code on the fly, my suggestion is that for at least a week or so you make this a habit. Between the time you last used it and your current session, they may have pushed out several new bug fixes, and you want to make sure you have the latest code and that old code is not loaded from your browser cache.
Download and install the latest version of shockwave Adobe flash in your browser. This is also very important since WordPress now uses a flash-based uploader for images. You can get the latest by going to Adobe’s website. [Edit: You can check to see if you are using the latest version by going here.]
If you go to insert a link, or upload an image, or images, and the popup window comes up blank, right click on the blank window and select reload, refresh, or reload frame (depending on what your browser calls it). The window should then refresh properly.
If you are using IE7, you may encounter problems editing text widgets where the left half of the text widget window looks like it has been sliced off. I have yet to find a fix for this other than downloading and using another browser such as Firefox. I’m sure that WordPress will get this issue taken care of, but in the meantime, this will get you by. Once the problem is fixed, you can then uninstall Firefox if you wish and go back to using IE7.
Some have not been able to get the gallery thing figured out. With the gallery window open, force refresh the page. You cannot, as far as I can tell, get images that have already been uploaded into the gallery. What you do, is while in the editor, go to the “add an image” button, select the images, and then after they have uploaded, click on the gallery tab at the top of the window. You should see the images in the gallery. Click on the “insert gallery shortcode” link and it will put the gallery in your post. The images will not show in the editor, but they will if you preview the post. There is some good information on the gallery shortcode here.
I’m tired, it is nearly midnight my time so I’m going to hit publish, make sure this shows up on my blog and the shut down for the evening.
Have faith people. Things will get better, the bugs will be stamped out, and once we all get used to the new interface, we will again be shooting out posts as we used to.
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Well you’re WAY nicer about this situation than I was a week ago when I first wrote about it. But of course even I’ve calmed down since last week when I first made the “upgrade.”
But there are many problems, not just the bugs, but what seemed to be bizarre priority switch to being Apple pretty in exchange for stabilty and functionality. It wasn’t a giant margin like 70/30, but 52/48. Enough to cause problems. The widget thing ALONE is insane. Who makes things less useful?
Thanks for these tips, Richard – very useful, especially the link to the new codex page on gallery shortcode. I don’t have much patience for the forums anymore, so I’m subscribing to a few more WordPress-focused blogs, and this is one of them.
@Dave from… There are definitely some functional and design issues and I hope they will be massaged and streamlined in the next revision, and for me the number 1 issue is the widgets admin.
@Dave (not from…) Thanks for the kind words. At this point I don’t know how long I will keep blogging about WordPress, or if I will slow down any. This was actually just a test blog to begin with and somewhere I could try things out on problems reported in the WordPress.com forums, but at one point it just sort of “started” and here we are.