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WordPress weekly digest 12th November to 18th November 2007

with 5 comments

It has been another busy week for WordPress 2.4, the changes this week have included:

  • Output WP_Error message when adding categories via AJAX (#5342).
  • WXR Importer fix to ensure that tags are imported correctly (#5330).
  • A change to the capability checks used by “submit-for-review” to ensure the same capability is check in all cases (#5329).
  • Caching of the current theme in options (#5346).
  • Refactor of the WXR exporter to allow for unit-testing (#5347).
  • Improvements to the memory usage of the WXR importer (#5357).
  • Changes to ensure that when the page set as the homepage is deleted we revert to a blog view on the homepage (#5361).
  • Ensure that we offer https access to atom in the RSD if it is available (#5298).

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

Written by Peter Westwood

November 18, 2007 at 9:48 pm

WordPress weekly digest 5th November to 11th November 2007

with 10 comments

It has been another busy week for WordPress 2.4, the changes this week have included:

  • Extraction of metadata from uploaded images (#5162).
  • Performance improvements to seems_utf8() and uf8_uri_encode() (#5320).
  • Refactoring and improvements to actions and filters including the ‘all‘ hook (#5321, #5232).
  • Performance improvements in some of the sanitisation functions when called for the raw data (#5235).
  • Changes to ensure that WordPress does not reset to the default theme when a site is under heavy access (#3907).
  • Introduction of a new get_category_feed_link() template tag to make it easy to use a different feed type for categories (#5173).

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

Written by Peter Westwood

November 12, 2007 at 10:11 am