WordPress News

I’ve been working on two new features that I have personally wanted for a long time and is now available to WordPress users currently through the CVS and eventually through a release. First we’ve separated the post and edit screen. The post screen now has just the form for creating a new post. There is […]

I added password protection to the RSS 2.0 feed for comments and checked it in. You can subscribe to the feed directly (http://www.example.com/wp-commentsrss2.php) to get the latest comments, or pass in the post ID and subscribe to comments for that particular post (http://www.example.com/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=1234). I also added password protection to the pop-up comments page (b2commentspopup.php). If […]

I’ve checked in some changes to the Admin screens that give you a historical view of comments. This gives you quick access to recent comments on your site which is pretty handy if you need to modify or delete a comment on an older post (you don’t have to navigate to the post first anymore).

There is also a new function called get_links_list() but I’ll let Dougal explain that. Oh, sure, put me on the spot. /* * function get_links_list() * * added by Dougal * * Output a list of all links, listed by category, using the * settings in $tablelinkcategories and output it as a nested * […]

So what’s been going on since we released the beta? Dougal just committed conditional GET support for all the RSS files. I’ve been squashing bugs wherever possible, particularly with regards to the intelligent line break tool. It now has a fairly sophisticated understanding of different types of block level tags, nested lists, arbitrary whitespace, and […]

I just checked in the password protected posts code and some improved autop. This will be in the next release. Check it out.

There was a good bit of progress today, as Michel, Dougal, and I hammered out some bugs on IRC (#wordpress on freenode. Dougal caught a bug in the upgrade script, I tweaked some links code to make it more consistent with the date handling elseware in the application, and I worked on the style a […]

Dougal has done some great work already adding full MetaWeblog API and partial MT API support already, and Orien Vandenbergh spotted a capitalization bug that is now fixed. Moving along nicely.

Mike checked in some bug fixes, but he’s now on vacation and banned from the CVS for the duration. Michel (yes that one) and I tracked down a nasty bug that would create invalid characters from normal quotes. Alex has said he’s going to work on improving the quicktag code to be cursor aware […]

So, in the spirit of the last post, I’d like to post about the two commits I’ve made so far today. The first was to the comments posting code, decreasing the flood protection timeout to something more in line with someone actually going from entry to entry and commenting. Anything over five seconds is generally […]

This is just a quick post to let everyone know that the RSS for this development blog has been fixed. We’ve been so busy adding great features to WordPress that it must have just slipped under the radar. On that I’d like to bring this blog back to more what it was originally intended: an […]

While writing a critique of John Gruber’s misunderstanding of TrackBacks I stumbled across an article which said everything I was going to and decided to point you there instead. Gruber’s current system has many flaws, including the fact that it’s arbitrarily ordered by popularity (why?) and every referrer that isn’t a permalink is going to […]