Wordpress 2.5 is the latest version to date of the world’s most popular publishing system. Despite my innards telling me not to go with the update, I went ahead did it anyway.
There’s nothing wrong with WP 2.5. It is more organized and sort of easy to the eyes. I like that they decided to let go of the old look and came up with a refreshing one. When I got the site working with WP 2.5, I checked the control panel and said to myself “Eh, it’s not so bad.”
Or so I thought.
Everything works (AFAIK) so I go changing my theme and modified some stuff here and there before I decided to change the order of things in the sidebars. Apparently, it is tougher to do this in this version. I tried moving one widget from my left sidebar onto the right sidebar. So I dragged the widget to the left in attempt to deactivate the widget first before clicking the RightSidebar dropdown. But no sir, it cannot be done. The widget kept bouncing back to the Left Sidebar column. So how do I move one widget from left sidebar to the right sidebar or vice versa?
Well, good question.
Or what if you want to just deactivate the widget without deleting it?
That is another good one.
Some folks down at the wordpress.org forum have their opinions about the widget ‘bug’. Looks like I am not alone in this one. So I guess that means we have to do some workaround until they release another version with the ‘bug’ fixed.
To bring a widget from one sidebar to another:
1. Open the widget and copy the codes inside. Remember to put the copied code in a notepad.
2. Delete the widget by selecting Remove and click Save Changes.
3. Open the other sidebar and create a new widget. Paste the codes here and save your changes.
To deactivate the widget without deleting:
(I have not yet found a workaround for this).
So you see, the task that can be done in 2 seconds in version 2.3.3 is now a 3-minute job. This is a huge backward step in terms of usability. Nevertheless, I am too lazy to rollback my site to version 2.3.3. I just got my site working again from database disaster, for crying out loud! Now you want me to rollback everything? I don’t think so. So I’m sticking to 2.5 until they get this fixed. I’m sure that the WP team is working to resolve this. 
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