April 9, 2008

TinyMCE issue with WordPress 2.5 and gZip

I was having a problem trying to get the TinyMCE editor to display when creating/editing posts in my WordPress 2.5 installation. Only the HTML version would display and Firebug would display an error saying: Illegal Character in the file: /wp-includes/js/tinymce/tiny_mce_config.php?ver=20080327

I read lots of posts with other people having problem with the TinyMCE editor, and eventually I found out that gzip compression may be causing the problem. I turned off gzip compression from the hosting control panel and cleared the javascript cache (/wp-content/updates/js_cache/) by deleting the file(s) in there.

This fixed my issue. Hopefully this will help someone else too.

March 20, 2008

WordPress 2.5 coming soon

Yay there is finally a major update to WordPress. I have been very happy with the way the WordPress has developed their product to be as stable as it is and as easy-to-use as it is, but I know they can do better. This is what I’m hoping from WordPress 2.5.
Following are some screenshots from the pending release:
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