WordPress weekly digest 24th March to 29th March 2008

It was a busy week again for WordPress 2.5, this list look short as we have been doing the final polishing on today’s WordPress 2.5 release, the changes were:

• A fix to ensure that we preserve HTML entities in Custom Fields (#6374).
• Pretty permalinks for taxonomies (#6357).
• Changes to the login page redirect code to ensure that we honour redirect_to for logged in users (#6385).
• A new filter to allow a plugin to force enable/disable the flash uploader (#6406).
• Switch to using is_numeric() instead of ctype_digit() (#5481).
• A change to the trackback handling code to drop trackbacks that request UTF-7 ([7559]).
• Some updates to the new admin style.

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

Now go an update to WordPress 2.5 – you know you want to!

WordPress weekly digest 17th March to 23rd March 2008

It was a busy week again for WordPress 2.5, this list may look short but a lot of work was done on polishing the new admin UI, the changes were:

• Addition of avatar support to the default and classic themes ([7360], [7361]).
• Lots of title attributes to improve the accessibility of the Manage pages (#6082).
• Addition sanitization of option values to add_option (#5209).
• Addition of more tab indexes to the Post and Page creation screens to make them easier to navigate (#6352).
• More work on the plugin updater (#5586).
• More updates to the new media library (#5911).
• Lots of updates to the new admin style.

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

WordPress weekly digest 4th March to 9th March 2008

This weeks digest post is only for 6 days as I seemed to have got my dates wrong on Friday when writing the last one and ended it on a Monday instead of a Sunday! It was a busy week again for WordPress 2.5, even though the list below looks short, the changes were:

• Abstraction of the colours from the layout within the css files to allow for multiple admin themes ([7178]).
• Improvements to add_menu_page() so as to create the correct links for top level menus in more cases (#4907).
• Lots of work on the plugin update installer (#5586).
• Update to TinyMCE 3.03 (#6084).
• More updates to the new media library (#5911).
• Lots of updates to the new admin style.

For even more information on some of the other little changes that went in this week you can read the whole weekly trac timeline, look at a complete changelog for trunk or view a diffstat of the changes.

WordPress weekly digest 25th February to 3rd March 2008

Firstly, apologies again for this digest post being a bit late – the final push for 2.5 has been in full swing and I took a week out to go on holiday. It was a busy week again for WordPress 2.5, the changes were:

• Changes to do_feed() to ensure that an error page is generated when a non-existent feed format is requested (#5446).
• Introduction of a new image_resize() function (#6005).
• Introduction of get_temp_dir() to allow for the different locations temporary files may be stored (#5984).
• An update to the in_category() function to support category names that are all numbers and add documentation ([7064]).
• Change to generating random passwords for users created during import (#5837).
• A fix to the WXR importer to ensure that tags are imported correctly by name rather than as numbers (#5330).
• A fix to ensure that the current_page_item class is set correctly when listing pages (#2959).
• Introduction of get_post_ancestors() and the addition of the current_page_ancestor class to ancestors of the current page when listing pages (#5662).
• Fixes to the plugin update code to use string comparison to detect version differences (#5978).
• Introduction of post editing collision detection (#6043).
• Changes to switch preg_replace() calls with the e modifier to preg_replace_callback() to improve security ([7056], #5644).
• Update to TinyMCE 3.02 (#6012).
• More updates to the new media library (#5911).
• Lots of updates to the new admin style.

For even more information on some of the other little changes that went in this week you can read the whole weekly trac timeline, look at a complete changelog for trunk or view a diffstat of the changes.

WordPress weekly digest 21st January to 27th January 2008

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

• Performance improvement to the outgoing trackback processing code. (#5699).
• Refactoring of the code in wp-login.php to pull it out into re-usable functions (#5405).
• Improvements to the APP implementation to handle updated timestamps correctly (#5680).
• Improved usability when selecting which name should be displayed publicly for a user (#5508).
• Ensure that the global $post is restored when the query is reset (#5439).
• Improvements to the caching of post-meta to ensure that the cache is correctly invalidated (#5718).
• Changes to the IP address sanitisation code so as to allowIPv6 addresses as well (#4579).
• The beginnings of a new uploader ([6659]).
• A new Manage -> Tags interface (#5684).
• Bumping of the PHP version required to 4.3 (#5416).

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

WordPress weekly digest 14th January to 20th January 2008

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

• Changes to the blogger importer to have a better statement of requirements (#5220).
• Updates to get_sidebar() to allow for multiple named sidebars (#5615).
• Removal of the redundant and slow check on $now in the SQL queries in get_lastcommentmodified() (#5650).
• Changes to the url sanitisation to allow for parenthesis (#5668).
• Fixes to url_to_postid() to ensure it doesn’t mangle the url it is trying to match (#5661).
• Refactoring of the admin code to make the WP_User_Search class available to plugin authors (#5111).
• Changes to wp_tag_cloud() to ensure that it returns the array if 'format=array' is specified (#5155).
• Extensions to the html tags and attributes that kses will allow in posts (#5617).
• Upgrade of the jQuery library to 1.2.2 (#5492).
• Improvements to the plugin error detection code to ensure that the errors are correctly displayed (#5673, #5658).
• Documentation updates for kses.php and pluggable.php (#5641, #5509).
• Initial migration to TinyMCE v3.0 RC1 (#5674).
• New functionality to allow for editing of post slugs within there permalink context (#5679).
• Addition of more do_action calls to the xmlrpc functions (#5686).
• Changes to the APP implementation to ensure that timestamps can be updated on already published posts (#5680).

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