I’ve just installed the latest Wordpress for a friend, and it’s a beauty but there are a few things to trip up the unwary, especially if you haven’t upgraded to the latest Flash in Ubuntu. There are postings around the net about the best way to do this, but the Flash site itself is the simplest, I think. Just click on Installation instructions and you should have installed in a few minutes.

That’s step one. The extra code that should go into the .htaccess files is at B Space.

And finally, there is a curious and annoying quirk that distorts thumbnail images.

If you don’t want your thumbnails to get distorted, you need to change WordPress 2.5’s default setting before you upload your photos into the media manager. Go to Settings > Miscellaneous and UNcheck the “Crop thumbnail to exact dimensions (normally thumbnails are proportional)” box.

Thanks to Sillybean.net for that one.

Yes, I’ll upgrade my own Wordpress sites asap, as while every radical new design entails a learning curve, this one will be worth it, I think. But do see to the above caveats first.