For the past few weeks, I’ve been at the mercy of an unfortunate bug in the initial release of WordPress 2.5 (specifically, the 2.5.0 release) which rendered me utterly unable to post.  Proving once again that one should never trust the dot-zero release of any software product, I struggled through three weeks of support forum postings only to find that, in the end, WordPress needed to fix the problem themselves.  (For those interested in the techy details:  something in WordPress 2.5.0 broke a single line of JavaScript in TinyMCE, the rich text editor used by WordPress for creating posts.  And, no, this is not the you-need-to-turn-on-the-visual-editor “bug” which a few people were fooled by.)  Fortunately, the 2.5.1 release is out, and among other things it provides an upgraded version of the culprit component.  (TinyMCE is now at 3.0.7; the 3.x family, initially introduced in WordPress 2.5.0, is substantially upgraded from the 2.x series on which WordPress used to rely.)  For those who rely on Andrew Ozz’s very useful TinyMCE Advanced plug-in, you’ll want to download the 3.0.1.version which is compatible with WordPress 2.5.1 and TinyMCE 3.0.7.  It also adds an incredibly useful new feature:  finally, it allows you to control whether TinyMCE automatically tries to remove <P> and <BR> tags when saving.  (Here’s a hint:  if I wanted it to do that, I’d tell it to do that!)

So, we’re back on the air.  Stay tuned….