WordPress 2.7 Beta 2

WordPress Development Blog: WordPress 2.7 Beta 2

WordPress 2.7 Beta 2 is ready. Here is a quick rundown of changes since beta 1.

The Upload button didn’t always show. Fixed.
JS on the Dashboard broke for blogs with no comments, causing several UI elements to “freeze”. Fixed.
Recent Drafts Dashboard module didn’t show correct times. Fixed.
Various Autosave fixes.
Redirect after deleting a page from the editor [...]

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WordPress 2.7 Beta 1

WordPress Development Blog: WordPress 2.7 Beta 1

The first public beta of WordPress 2.7 is here at last. Join the thousands of people already testing 2.7 by downloading 2.7 Beta 1. As previously mentioned on this blog, 2.7 is bringing a new visual design. This design is almost completely implemented, but there are still a few areas that aren’t quite finished in [...]

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Calling All WordPress-loving Icon Designers

WordPress Development Blog: Calling All WordPress-loving Icon Designers

Have you seen the getting-prettier-all-the-time menus in 2.7-almost-beta? They really are. Getting prettier all the time, I mean. Once we drop in the fonts and do a little brushing up of edges and colors, the menu system is going to be smooth. The last thing we’ll need to do to is replace the icons we’ve [...]

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WordPress 2.6.3

WordPress Development Blog: WordPress 2.6.3

A vulnerability in the Snoopy library was announced today. WordPress uses Snoopy to fetch the feeds shown in the Dashboard. Although this seems to be a low risk vulnerability for WordPress users, we wanted to get an update out immediately. 2.6.3 is available for download right now. If you don’t want to download the whole [...]

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The Visual Design of 2.7

WordPress Development Blog: The Visual Design of 2.7

It’s finally here, the moment you’ve all been waiting for! The long months of your tolerance and forbearance as you suffered through the inelegance of our hacked-together, leftover Crazyhorse interface are almost at an end. (Was it really that painful?)
The visuals you have been craving are finally finished enough to show, and have been [...]

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WordPress 2.7 Wireframes

WordPress Development Blog: WordPress 2.7 Wireframes

For those of you who have been downloading the nightly builds or contributing code to 2.7, you’ve noticed how quickly features are being added, small layout changes are gradually being implemented, and the application is morphing before your very eyes. For the most part, the response has been extremely positive, but even the people who [...]

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Cal Evans’ Blog: Upgrading WordPress

PHPDeveloper.org: Cal Evans’ Blog: Upgrading WordPress

Cal Evans has yet again upgraded his WordPress install and has list his quick and dirty process in a new post to his blog.

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WordPress 2.7 UI Survey #2: Search box, Favorites menu, Future Publish

WordPress Development Blog: WordPress 2.7 UI Survey #2: Search box, Favorites menu, Future Publish

Another round of mini-mockups and multiple choice questions awaits the first 5000 respondents. WordPress 2.7 UI Survey #2 is now available to take your opinions regarding:

Where to put the search box
Where to put the Add New Post button/favorites menu
How to label the Future Publish/Edit Timestamp function

The survey (hosted by the good guys over at PollDaddy.com) [...]

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Site News: Blast from the Past - One Year Ago in PHP

PHPDeveloper.org: Site News: Blast from the Past - One Year Ago in PHP

Here’s what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:

• Jonathan Street’s Blog: Lightning Fast Sites & Better Benchmarks
• Eirik Hoem’s Blog: Why Delphi for PHP should have used Prado instead of VCL
• Web Development Blog: Tutorial: Create a zip file from folders on the fly
• Felix Geisendorfer’s Blog: Migrating from WordPress to CakePHP
• Stefan Mischook’s Blog: PHP Video Tutorial: PHP Loops
• The Bakery: Four New Articles/Components (Colors, Models, InotImg & CakeSWXPHP)
• Felix Geisendorfer’s Blog: PHP 5.2.1 was a evil release - check your server
• Stefan Mischook’s Blog: Video Tutorial: Processing forms with PHP, Part 3
• Site News: Popular Posts for the Week of 09.28.2007
• Paul Jones’ Blog: Memory Leaks With Objects in PHP 5
• Bill Staples’ Blog: IIS7 Patch for Windows Vista fixes CGI/PHP apps - multiple response headers
• Evan Sims’ Blog: WordPress 2.3 Impressions
• Christopher Jones’ Blog: Book Review: PHP Oracle Web Development
• O’Reilly Ruby Blog: 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails
• Make Me Pulse Blog: Serialize and Unserialize SimpleXML in php

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WordPress modules for Plagger

I’ve been busy coding a couple Perl modules for Plagger that allow you to use Plagger like you normally would, but then instead of publishing the end result as a Planet site (like Bundle::Planet does), they connect to WordPress through XMLRPC and post each feed entry into your WordPress site as Posts.

This has been rather amusing on some levels, with not always the desired effect, but more often than not the modules are working now and they are currently powering this site, among several others that I cannot reveal yet (read: they are beta, beta, BETA.)

It did seem a little strange at first to be writing Perl code to connect to WordPress, which is written in PHP, and having to do it through XMLRPC would have been insurmountably difficult had it not been for the invaluable contributions of Leo Charre with his WordPress::API modules.

There are, of course, some tricky logistical aspects of doing it this way, such as attribution/excerpting posts, copyright issues, having to manually categorize each post after the cron job runs, et cetera. Overall, however, I’m pleased with the direction this is going and expect that these plugins will serve my clients and Dragonfly Networks quite well for the foreseeable future.

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