Okay. I use Wordpress to power this awesome blog before you, right? I made the big switch about 1 1/2 years ago from MT and I’ve not regretted it once. I truly love Wordpress with all of my heart and would tongue-kiss it to show my appreciation if I wasn’t a married woman. My husband frowns on extra-marital technology make out sessions. I learned that the hard way when I tried to seduce flickr. We had to go to counseling.
So…Wordpress rocks. Right? That has been established.
However, I need to make one complaint. I feel like Wordpress has gotten a little bit pushy after the last few upgrades.
Several versions ago, Wordpress got smart enough to tell me when there’s a new version out. However, I do not like upgrading as soon as the new release is out. I like to wait a bit and find out if anyone has problems or if there are bugs. I like to take my time with an upgrade. Consider all my options and weigh the pros and cons. This upgrade to 2.5 is a BIGGIE and I am even more hesitant than usual. So – why can’t I make that message go away? Why can’t I say, “Not right now, Wordpress. I have a headache.”
Every time I log into my blog, I see the same message. Please update now. Bolded and underlined. I mean, even though my blog says “Please” – I still feel like I’m being yelled at. I don’t like it. I want a small little “x” next to the message that allows me to say, “Yes. I heard you. I will remember that you told me this but I would like to not have to see it EVERY TIME I OPEN MY DASHBOARD.”
Edited to Add:
Hey! Now twitter is getting pushy with me. I found this new little message waiting for me when I pulled up my update page. Telling me to add my twitter updates to my site. My updates are already on my site! Look, twitter! On my sidebar, at the top, under “tweeting” – I already have my updates there! Don’t you believe me? I promise they’re there! I want twitter to know that so the little message with the exclamation point (Don’t Yell At Me!) will go away. Will someone vouch for me and tell twitter I’ve already added my updates to my site? And it can leave me alone now?
Why must my web tools be so demanding? And why won’t they give me a way to politely decline their orders? JUST SAY NO!
Man. I suddenly feel like I really need to get a life.
That’s how I feel about “People You May Know” on Facebook. Just don’t be as drastic as I was and start a boycott.
I know, it’s like we’re suddenly MARRIED to our blogs.
I recently upgraded to 2.5 and while it’s mostly good, there are things about it that I don’t like so much (and wrote about on my blog).
I couldn’t agree more. I am always hesitant to upgrade because it seems like every time I do, something goes wrong (except for the last couple of times — I guess I may have gotten the hang of it! but still, I hesitate). I have enough stress surrounding upgrades as it is without them trying to force them on me every time I log in.
I just switched from Blogger to Wordpress and I like it so far. Mine automatically updated so I didn’t know we had a choice! It’s a lot easier to put pictures in posts now. That’s all I’ve really noticed!
I had my twitter updates on my sidebar, and every time twitter was acting wonky, so was my blog. Removed the twitter feed. Problem solved. I hate, hate, hate upgrading things unless I absolutely have to. I use the dot com version of wordpress for my photoblog, and it upgraded itself. (I don’t really have a choice. It’s free, so I can’t complain to much.) Do. Not. Like.
I just read that there is a plugin where you can “turn off” those reminders. They bug me too because I feel like I can’t relax until I follow through and update. LOL! I did update to 2.5 though and it really wasn’t too bad. It does have some nice features and wasn’t nearly as devastating to my blog as upgrading to 2.3 was. Just be aware, you may have to edit your .htaccess file in order to use the flash uploader for pictures, I did.
I just finally got up the courage to do the last upgrade a couple weeks ago and now I have to do it again. This angers me. I’m a big ol’ chicken when it comes to upgrading, but not because of bugs and all that…I’m just scared I’ll delete the whole dang internet. Ya never know, man. Ya just never know.
Twitter is bossing me too! How annoying
I am so much of a WP newbie still! I always upgrade immediately to get rid of the pushy alert. It yells and I cringe and say “okay, I will update you now if you promise to go away!”
But I should probably do like you do…wait a few days, weigh my pros and cons, etc. I actually broke my blog when I tried to upgrade to 2.2 or whatever it was two releases ago. It has gotten better since, and this upgrade to 2.5 was the least painless I’ve experienced thus far.
I keep hearing about what a huge change this version is, but other than the new dashboard and admin structure, it seems basically the same to me. Then again, maybe I just haven’t done enough exploring.
Oh….and Twitter can kiss my insert-least-favorite-body-part-here! I don’t Twitter enough to mess around with it anymore than I do. Which is to click the ‘follow’ button on a few profiles and maybe update it once every several days.
I forget to log into Twitter until someone reminds me.
Ah, so that’s why they call them web “tools.”
Dude, shower curtain liners are disposable!
And my mother-in-law says the St. Anthony finding things prayer.
Wordpress didn’t give me the option…Last time I logged in it was just ALL DIFFERENT!
Ha ha – yes!
And I do my upgrades through Fantastico becausee I’m not yet quite confident in my ability to upgrade it myself, and Lunarpages doesn’t yet have their Fantastico upgraded to it.
Always hopeful that by the time Lunar gets it it will be tested and worthy of the upgrade!
I’m glad it’s not just me who feels vaguely anxious about looking at the “update now!!!!!!” message all the time.
Incidentally, I upgraded to 2.5 and disliked it enough to re-downgrade. Which involved quite a lot of screwing with the actual database because the upgrade changed some of the tables, too.
Pleh.
I never did update between 2.3 and 2.5 . But this time I updated the day it was released; for some reason knowing that there was a delay in its release made me feel comfortable that the bugs were out of the system.
I have had terrible luck in the past in updating it correctly the first time, but this time I got it all right in 15 minutes at the most.
One thing I wish they would do is instead of telling me “do delete this” and “don’t delete that” is to provide a screen shot of the ones to keep. I’m always scared I’m going to delete the critical file and all those really (non)important posts will all be gone.
If it helps any, I had no problems at all upgrading to 2.5. But it did annoy me too that I was getting shouted at all the time. I was still on 2.2 when I upgraded to 2.5 though.