What do you think about the new wordpress update is it something that you can really get into or is is another step in the wrong direction?

The latest version of wordpress has yet to be released, it is version 3.3 and it could cause you a lot of trouble.

In fact there are already some plugin vendors that are asking what is going on and why are they doing it.

The answer to that may not be easy to understand and in fact, in some ways it is somewhat understandable.

Because the admin section was loading the admin menu upon every single page load, and what a mess that is.

   So what is the problem and how can we fix it, again the answer to that is not known, but I can say this, it looks like it might be very difficult to design plugins, that fit into the new system.  What this means is that when a website owner or webmaster, updates their blogs, or websites, they might find that half the plugins they used to use are now not able to be accessed because the admin tool bar has changed, and the plugin does not know how to deal with that issue.

You might be tempted to say, hey, did they do this on purpose?

Who knows for sure, and to be fair this is just a beta, so were not even sure what the end result will be, one thing is clear,
Change is coming and performance, is going to be a lot better this way the downside is that we have to find a way to make
plugins work, or else you may have to abandon wordpress like a sinking ship.

The sad thing here is that most of us, just cannot afford to jump ship just because we see a giant ice burg dead ahead, though it might make sense to do that, the truth of the matter is that most of us have invested so much time and energy developing for wordpress that at this late date, the choice is to jump over board, or sink with the ship…

Sounds bad, and it might be, but we really dont know yet, what this is going to do to all the different plugins.

In fact, in the forum one plugin developer was saying hey I have been working for 5 years, and this is news to me why change this all around and you want to know the answer he received?

(paraphrased)

Tough, you should have been paying attention, we have been talking about this for months and if you were not paying attention its just too, bad, so sad, (Wow, it makes you wonder what kind of people are over there developing wordpress anyways)

One thing remains clear, if your not watching where the ship is headed you might end up hitting an iceburg…