Comments on: WordPress Bugs Bugging Me

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:57:27 +0000

Everyone prescribes Firefox, and for good reason. If you don’t use it you are simply missing out. IE is not better than Opera or Firefox in any way.

By: Amog

Amog — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:25:14 +0000

You should see this then :

http://technomite.blogspot.com/2008/04/battle-royale-all-over-again.html

By: Karthik

Karthik — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:02:10 +0000

@George,

Because Marc keeps recommending it.

@Marc,

That’s not why.

@Priya,

MS claims its better. They also said Vista is better than XP. WordPress dashboard takes some getting used to.

Oh, and ignore my friend if you want to stay sane. (Even if AU was a sane enough reason for me to close down my blog.)

None taken (on behalf of Marc.)

By: Priya

Priya — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:09:52 +0000

Is your friend now going to ask you to stop blogging ‘coz I landed up in your blog from an external source ? ( Psst…I just read your guest book )
No offence what so ever !! Cheers !

By: Priya

Priya — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:59:06 +0000

Hey! Came across this post when I was actually searching for some answers regarding wordpress.
IE ?? LOL !! IE sucks. I heard the new version was even better than Firefox. All crap ! I too hate the new wordpress dashboard and he new logo too! The previous one was much simpler.

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:56:04 +0000

He’s a hardcore MS fanboi, that’s why. Everyone uses Firefox. Why would you choose to use a bad browser than implements web standards incorrectly and has more bugs that anyone can keep track of?

By: George

George — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:09:53 +0000

I’m like an Open Source Mormon, so I have to know. Why won’t you use Firefox, Karthik?

By: Karthik

Karthik — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:46:43 +0000

@Marc,

I do not intend on using Firefox. Thanks.

The gallery is simply no good. Maybe if you don’t want to give organisation of photos on your post any thought at all.

That multiple linking happens with gallery (which is why gallery sucks).

I did use the code editor to check once the post was done. Didn’t find anything odd there.

By: Karthik

Karthik — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:19:22 +0000

@Jeffrey,

Firefox ? No. What’s that ?

@Marc,

I’ll read your comment later. Still have an exam to go.

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:04:00 +0000

ROFL.

Karthik, prepare to have lots of people insulting you for not using Firefox (even though you mentioned later that you tried it on Opera too). You were really brave to mention that you were using IE. What’s wrong with you? IE sucks. Fact.

So anyway I use WordPress 2.5.1 and it is similar to the customised version running on WordPress.com. The Gallery is quite weird but I suspect that it is only because we are not used to it. The previous mode was suited for power users and the Gallery is configured towards casual users. I liked the old system better but I have learned to tolerate the new one after spending some time understanding it. I still prefer the old way.

After changing some options I am able to get thumbnails resized and displayed correctly though the quality of the resized thumbnail leaves much to be desired. I don’t have your problem of thumbnails linking to the thumbnail image which in turn links to the actual image. I have never heard of this happening actually. I am also able to insert one image when I have upload two or more. There are options there but I haven’t uploaded an image for a long time and I’m too lazy to actually try it out so I’m not sure.

I also haven’t heard of any word wrap issues. I suggest you try to code editor mode for writing posts instead of the other editor. I turned off the visual editor when I first tried out WordPress. It was that bad.