Title: 2.5 Upgrade Remorse
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# 2.5 Upgrade Remorse

 *  [Dusibello](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dusibello/)
 * (@dusibello)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/25-upgrade-remorse/)
 * It is less intuitive and user-friendly than its predecessor.
 * The disappearance of the Page slug field is maddening… (reminds me of disappearing
   features in MS Windows upgrades…)
 * The widget management console gives me a headache…
 * Hope 2.7 looks more like 2.3….

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 *  [chewru](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chewru/)
 * (@chewru)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/25-upgrade-remorse/#post-749724)
 * Just an FYI.. the page slug field just moved, it’s not gone entirely. If you 
   edit an existing page you’ll see the permalink under where you can input the 
   title. If you click the small EDIT, you can edit the slug just as you would have
   before.
 * The only change is that you can’t name the slug when writing a post for the first
   time, which is a minor annoyance, but I can live with it. I resisted 2.5 but 
   am settling in with 2.5.1. Try the write panel hack too if you want it to look
   more like the old layout:
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/169595?replies=24](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/169595?replies=24)
 *  [pjries](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pjries/)
 * (@pjries)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/25-upgrade-remorse/#post-749808)
 * chewru, thanks for the link. Count me among those who are extremely disappointed
   in the way the redesign of the Write page turned out. It wasn’t broken for my
   clients, tho I would love for them to be able to use the other features of 2.5.
 * It surprises me that the WP powers that be are taking such a defensive stand 
   on this issue. I don’t think that the ones who did the redesign actually used
   or use the product or watched people use it. And that’s really too bad.
 * BTW, 2.5.1 doesn’t change anything about that Write page interface.
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/25-upgrade-remorse/#post-749810)
 * _It surprises me that the WP powers that be are taking such a defensive stand
   on this issue. _
 * what “powers” would that be, and where?
 *  [StrangeAttractor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/strangeattractor/)
 * (@strangeattractor)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/25-upgrade-remorse/#post-749812)
 * If you are unhappy with the new write panel interface for 2.5, please vote on
   
   [Idea: Revert the 2.5 Write screen to 2.3](http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=1354)
   in the ideas section.
 * It has recently come to light in these forums that the developers don’t really
   read the support forums (that’s right — not even this “Requests & Feedback” section!)—
   these forums are pretty much only for user to user support. But they DO look 
   at the IDEAS section, so that’s a good place to be proactive about changes you
   would like to see.
 *  Thread Starter [Dusibello](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dusibello/)
 * (@dusibello)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/25-upgrade-remorse/#post-749845)
 * thanks for the info above…
 * strangeattractor, i did vote on the idea – thanks for posting here…
 * another 2.5 bitch: attaching files is a process which needed improvement but 
   has become even less intuitive than in 2.3….
 * and does not work yet for me.. the screen hangs when i try to attach the ‘media’
   to my post…
 *  [panaqqa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/panaqqa/)
 * (@panaqqa)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/25-upgrade-remorse/#post-750034)
 * Same here, Dusibello. I have not yet been able to do a simple image upload and
   add to post with 2.5. The script has Javascript errors. There are other bugs 
   also.
 * Perhaps Microsoft took over the WordPress project and nobody told us?
 *  [bryan868](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bryan868/)
 * (@bryan868)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/25-upgrade-remorse/#post-750035)
 * Go here to support changing the widget management: [http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=1329](http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=1329)

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