Wicked Wenches

I’m in huff.

Actually, I’m pissed off as all blazes. And that’s putting it mildly.

When 2.5 came out, I was all gung ho and upgraded a blog to it.
Previously, every new release was a step forward, with many workflow improvements.

2.5 was a BAD move.

The admin area was a shambles. Many, MANY people hated it. Myself included.
It made no sense.

The widgets area (the bits like the RSS feeds, text, etc) went from drag and drop to…
Not drag and drop.

If I wanted to move a widget to another sidebar, I had to remove the widget from Bar 1, lost ALL the settings, had to switch to the other bar, re-add the widget, set up the widget again because it lost all the settings.
WTF? That’s an "Improvement"????

I found some blog posts by Matt Mullenberg (The wordpress honcho) who tried to pacify users on onblogging.com

Other things people have taken issue with, for example the new placement of the category and tag interface, were deliberate. Because of the feedback those assumptions are being reexamined for 2.6

He also said:

The changes we’re making in 2.6 will be as a result of the feedback given here and many other places.

So, I ask you, do you expect to see fixes / changes, considering those statements? I did.
Well.

I was wrong.

Nothing changed, the widgets are still the same as 2.5, the categories haven’t moved.

I’m looking at new blogging platforms at the moment, because of it, but Wenches won’t change until I’ve tried and tested and am happy with another one, and until I’ve used it a while.

Meanwhile… yeah. I’m pissed.

So you may be asking yourself why on Earth do we need a new group blog in the blogosphere? Excellent question. Because we can. Who are we? A group of unpublished paranormal writers who decided to form a critique group and what the heck, while we’re at it we can blog too. This will be the first time blogging for some of our members and some of us have been doing it for a while. What do we have to offer? We’re still working on that one. A blog evolves as the members get comfortable. We have ideas for research, our own writing experiences, potentially a round robin or two. If you, as a reader, have anything you think would be interesting to read. Let us know, we’re definitely not afraid of criticism. Okay, maybe a little afraid, but that won’t stop us. So bear with us as our blog evolves.

I think the blog looks great. I’m wondering if we should post a link to our yahoo group in case we get some search engine traffic from this that might direct people to our yahoo group?

Also, Silke do you know if you’re able to update the meta data on the backend of the HTML here? If so, we could add keywords, description and title tags to our blog to get the search engines to come by for those people who search our particular keywords. Can you tell I’m in online marketing? LOL Let me know and I can come up with the meta data tags.

Testing the blog, to make sure permalinks work

So here it is, I’m still messing around, trying to get various things to work, as well as get people registered.

Since I don’t want to keep the “Hello World” Post, I modded it.

Anywhoo… Onward!

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