WordPress News

Just a summary of some of the things I’ve been working on today. The RSS 2.0 feed now supports multiple categories. Not sure how to do it for 1.0 yet, looking into it. The includes stuff now uses constants instead of variables. This means if you’re on the bleeding edge of the CVS you’ll have […]

I just wanted to point everyone to XFN, the XHTML Friends Network. Read about the release on my blog, Eric’s blog, or Tantek’s blog. XFN is a standardized method for leveraging the HTML rel attribute to describe relationships between people. More simply, it’s about enhancing how you link to somebody. If you use WordPress you […]

Hello everyone, I have a few free minutes so I’d thought come up for air and clarify everything that’s been happening the past few weeks. Development progress has been huge and I’m very excited about where things are going. I’ll start first with what Alex has dubbed “The Great Renaming.” This was not change for […]

In the past if you were going to add a filter or hack you would have to modify one of the existing WP files and your changes would then be overwritten when you upgraded to a new version. No more. I’ve just checked in the code that adds a new option where you can enable […]

Matt is too busy to blog about it, but he has just finished converting all the ‘b2’ filenames to ‘wp-‘. This is something I’ve been pushing for and I’m thrilled he’s done it. I think it is a huge step forward for WordPress. Some of the benefits: Filnames will be more stable going forward. This […]

This morning it seems that sites who manage their blogrolls using blogrolling.com’s service had their links hijacked, every link being replaced by one to “Laura’s Blog” which predictably redirects to a porn site. As painful and unfortunate as this is, I think it illustrates an important point that as a weblogging community we should be […]

As a first step in making the administration and posting interfaces as elegant as possible, I’ve started implementing some of the ideas I’ve had as a very frequent user of WordPress and those that came up from a discussion with Matthew Thomas. Last night I checked in the code that is essentially a “save” button […]

Alex hacked the RSS functionality I wrote for the support forums and added a feed that shows the last 20 posts in any forum. Also as always you can get an RSS representation of a thread by adding /rss/ to the end of the URL or following the link at the top of every thread. […]

There is some good discussion starting in the forums with regard to including some statistics functionality in WordPress. I think this is a very useful idea that a lot of people would benefit from. Feel free to hop in the discussion if you have any ideas regarding this. There have been some more improvements to […]

The legacy calendar code we had was a little messy so over the past day or so I recoded it from scratch, making it easier to understand and cleaner. The XHTML of the calendar itself is semantically richer table markup, inspired in part by Dunstan Orchard and with some guidance from Joe Clark. You now […]

Just implemented! Import of opml blogrolls from blo.gs

Mike has posted a great SQL trick to the forums. Old versions of b2 would naïvely enter break tags (<br />) into the database, often breaking block-level code posted or just making formatting awkward. Now that WordPress has the autop function to intelligently add line breaks what do you do about all of your legacy […]