I’ve heard that there was some issues with the new WYSIWYG editor (which can be disabled, by the way, if you so choose), and I had experienced some quirkiness in using it before (such as the cursor moving to unexpected places at times).

But now I’ve experienced what I’d consider a serious bug.  Here’s what happened:

WordPress has the capability (if you choose to enable it in the Options|Discussion) to automatically send a ping to any article that you reference within your post, saving you the time of having to paste the trackback URL into the Trackbacks section of the Write Post screen.

Some people have reported in the forums that they’ve had problems with trackbacks using WordPress 2.0.

Nope - no cigar.

BUT NOW IT WORKS JUST FINE!!!  As I haven’t done anything to my WP 2.0 install, I’ve got to assume this must have been a Firefox problem (especially since it also never occurred with IE).  And now it no longer appears to be a problem.  Hurray!

As mentioned in my last post, I had some difficulty with the new rich text editor’s control for inserting hyperlinks.  After I selected the text I wanted to hyperlink, I then clicked the hyperlink button, which popped open a window asking me for the URL, whether I wanted to open the link in a new window or the same one, and for an optional link title.  The problem?  The window was way too small for all that information, and the edit boxes were truncated.  To make matters worse, the window itself was not resizeable, nor scrollable - so I wasn’t able to see the tail end of the URL’s that I was entering.  Yikes.  I am now testing to see whether this problem has anything to do with my using Firefox 1.5 as my browser, and so I’m giving IE a whirl.  Here goes - let’s try linking this to my blog on How To Blog.  Well, that worked just fine, so it would seem there is a little incompatability between Firefox (which is the WordPress team’s recommended browser..) and the new WordPress 2.0 wysiwyg editor - at least as far as creating hyperlinks go.  Interesting.

In this test post I’m going to try each different element of the WYSIWYG editor.

This text should be bolded

Here is some italicized text

Made a mistake? STRIKETHROUGH

This paragraph is to be right justified. I guess I’ll need to do a little bit of extra typing here in order for it to actual be considered a paragraph. Perhaps a few more sentences… Sorry, I’m feeling creatively tapped at the moment.

HERE IS SOME CENTERED TEXT. COOL.

• I think it’s time to try an unordered list
• and then indent it
• and even another level
• outdent again
• nice bulleted lists!! Go WP!

Well this is my first post using a WP 2.0 install. As a result of doing an unbelievably moronic move, I had accidentally deleted my wp-config.php file instead of backing it up and of course my webhost had no backup, so what turned into a test of upgrading from WP 1.5 to WP 2.0 on a blog that didn’t have any content I cared about (just in case it went horribly wrong) ended up into a test of a fresh install of wordpress 2.0 to a new mysql database, etc, because no longer had the requisite info from the wp-config.php file needed to do an actual upgrade.