Well, I bit the proverbial bullet, and upgraded from WordPress 1.5 to WordPress 2.0.1, hoping for some useful upgrades.

The best one so far has been the fact that my £ signs entered directly with a UK keyboard have been displaying nicely for me – before they displayed as A circumflex followed by the symbol. The new MCE based editor is nifty, as are the DHTML tweaks to the posting interface to make things smaller. The templated preview also rocks – I’ve always had to be careful about how long I made my posts, because I couldn’t see the templated form without posting.

The biggest problem to date though, is that the Gallery 1.5 random block code, and the WordPress code both contain a function with the same name, and this upsets PHP no end. I haven’t seen any postings on the net about this yet, but that probably means I haven’t looked hard enough. Push come shove, I’ll post in the Gallery forum and the WP support area – someone might know a fix that doesn’t involve renaming all calls to the function in one package or the other (and renaming the function in that package).

Getting used to this MCE editor will take a bit of time, I’m far too used to pressing Enter twice to end a paragraph and start a new one – MCE detects the enter and closes the paragraph and inserts a blank line and starts the next paragraph.