Curator & Collector

This post is neither a museums post, nor a numismatics post, but a note for the technically-inclined.

We’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.5. The chief reason for our decision to upgrade was to prevent the post composition window from “messing with” our code, as the WordPress people put it. This was extremely annoying, as every time we would edit an entry with a photograph in it, the paragraph following the photograph was always scrunched together with insufficient spacing between the letters and the lines. An additional improvement we like is that we didn’t have to go hunting for our Akismet key, as we had to do the last time we upgraded; WordPress somehow remembered it for us.

On the other hand, the new dashboard is decidedly impractical, especially in regards to the placement of the categories, which one now has to scroll down to see. The layout and the colours are also much less attractive than 2.3.3, and to us the special organization of the dashboard leaves much to be desired. it would be difficult to overstate our aversion to the new dashboard’s format, and we hope that these issues can be fixed in a later update.

Now, back to our regular programming!