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Wordpress 2.5 image upload issue

Like tens of thousands of other blogs on the web, this site is run on the Wordpress blogging platform. Today I upgraded to Wordpress 2.5, which seemed to work great, as I use Firefox. It turns out, however, that others who I installed Wordpress for are having issues with uploading images using Internet Explorer 7. I Googled this issue and found that it’s not an isolated problem. Hopefully, it’s an issue that will be fixed in the next few days, as we seem to get Wordpress security updates on a regular basis and they can roll it into one of those. Here’s a link to a fix for this issue until then. The best fix, however, would be to simply switch to using Firefox instead of IE. At the very least, you should have both browsers installed on your machine.

Here’s a video that gives a quick overview of the new features in Wordpress 2.5 for those who are interested:

Another minor problem I’ve encountered so far is that it’s easy to accidentally post a page instead of a blog post. For some reason when I clicked on “Write” to create this post, it defaulted to creating a new page instead.