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WordPress weekly digest 4th February to 10th February 2008

Posted in weekly digest, wordpress by Peter Westwood on February 11th, 2008

It has been a busy week again for WordPress 2.5, the changes this week were:

  • Addition of extra capabilities checks to the xmlrpc code (#5313).
  • New filters for comments_open() and pings_open() (#5761).
  • Addition of a key on comment_approved,comment_date to speed up the get_lastcommentmodified() mysql queries (#5773).
  • Introduction of wp_count_posts() ([6730]).
  • More portable and extensible database structure (#4778).
  • Renaming of is_front() to is_front_page() to avoid conflict with bbPress (#3682).
  • Changes to make RSS 2.0 comment feed GUIDs immutable (#5072).
  • New redirect_canonical filter to allow a plugin to cancel a redirect (#5766).
  • Introduction of a new pluggable get_avatar() function which defaults to using gravatar (#5775).
  • Changes to add the post_password to the WXR export file so that the posts are still protected after import (#4376).
  • Update to jQuery 1.2.3 ([6757]).
  • Introduction of a new meta box api for adding boxes to the write pages (#5798).
  • Introduction of the ability to have random post ordering (#4617).
  • Reversion to full content, including content after the more tag, for feeds (#2582).
  • A more informative error message when theme files are not writeable (#5783).
  • Removal of gzip_compression(). Leave it to the server to handle (#4342).

For even more information on some of the other little changes that went in this week you can read the whole weekly trac timeline.

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  2. Jonathan Dingman said, on February 12th, 2008 at 4:23 am

    Awesome! That post meta box addition is something I’ve been wanting for a long time. I’ve been using a hack plugin for the mean time to create those types of boxes, but having an API will be far more effective.

    Can’t wait for the 2.5 release!

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  7. voiceswithoutvotes said, on February 15th, 2008 at 11:22 pm

    Sweet deal about the redirect canonical filter. It will be great to only turn off the $_GET urls that we are exploiting, rather than all of the canonical system.

  8. Stas Sushkov said, on February 16th, 2008 at 1:56 pm

    Any docs on how to use get_avatar()?
    I’m using 2.4-bleeding and would like to play a bit with the new feature…
    Thanks!

  9. Peter Westwood said, on February 16th, 2008 at 2:25 pm

    @Stas: If you look at the code there is phpDoc comments on how to use get_avatar() hope that helps.

  10. Stas Sushkov said, on February 17th, 2008 at 10:57 am

    I did that…
    Actually I did this:
    $avatar_email = comment_author_email();
    get_avatar($avatar_email);

    The output was just the author’s email, not a string with img tag :-/

  11. Peter Westwood said, on February 17th, 2008 at 9:24 pm

    @Stas: That is because comment_author_email() echos the email address. You need to use get_comment_author_email() to have it returned to be assigned into a variable like that.

  12. Stas Sushkov said, on February 17th, 2008 at 10:26 pm

    Thank you Peter, I fixed all.
    Here’s the code if someone else is interested:
    $avatar_email = get_comment_author_email();
    echo get_avatar($avatar_email, 48);

    I must say the 2.5 version features are amazing!

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