Is there a need to upgrade beyond WordPress 1.5.1.2 in near future?

June 20th, 2005 by Angsuman Chakraborty

I looked at the proposed feature set summary for WordPress 1.6. Mostly UI changes, few extra plugin hooks etc.

None of the features looks compelling enough to upgrade. At this point I will hold of on any upgrade till I get some killer features incorporated in some future versions.

The fact is with WP 1.5.1.2 and the plethora of WordPress plugins I use, there isn’t much more I expect from a blogging platform. Few things which I still want are outside the domain of light-weight CMS like WordPress.

What are your thoughts? Is there any killer feature you would like to see in future versions of WordPress?

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Thomas Says:
June 20th, 2005 at 11:57 pm

In my opinion, less IS more as far as software goes..

I say keep things as they are…

would love to see wordpress SEO optimized however..

Angsuman Says:
June 21st, 2005 at 3:38 am

Amen to that

Tom Raftery Says:
June 29th, 2005 at 4:12 pm

Guys,

how would you improve WP for SEO, if you could?

Just curious (’cos I happen to think it is quite good for seo as it is),

Tom

Elliott Bäck Says:
June 29th, 2005 at 9:30 pm

Yes, because there is a 1.5.3 security update coming soon. Even WP has bugs…

Angsuman Says:
June 30th, 2005 at 1:53 am

@Eliott
I just created a small patch for 1.5.1.3 update for 1.5.1.2 users.

Why not patch the security issues independently of feature releases?

WP development recently has very much declined in quality. New releases are riddles with bugs and then bugfix release after release are issues. Things are breaking everywhere with even minor changes. It appears non-Object Oriented development of WordPress is finally catching up with it.

Angsuman Says:
June 30th, 2005 at 6:12 am

@Tom
Mostly little things like the title of the post.
I too think WP is rather well optimized SEO wise.

parasew Says:
July 7th, 2005 at 6:27 am

i posted some suggestions in the wordpress support forum, since the feature i am missing most, is a logical relation between posts and media data. read more here

Angsuman Says:
July 7th, 2005 at 10:06 am

@parasew Can you post the link?