WordPress weekly digest 10th March to 16th March 2008

It was a busy week again for WordPress 2.5, the changes were:

• Addition of sanitization to get_link() and get_link_to_edit() (#6125).
• phpDoc with copyright and licensing info to external ftp libs (#6155).
• Improved self links for feeds (#5238).
• Introduction of a per-user admin colour scheme selector (#6167).
• Changes to move the restrict_manage_posts hook back inside the form (#6196).
• A new filter to allow plugins to filter the fetched pingback source data (#3525).
• Improvements to the export file to enclose more data in CDATA sections so as to produce more valid xml. (#4242).
• Changes to wp_nonce_field(), wp_referrer_field() and wp_original_referer_field() so they can return the output rather than echoing (#3628).
• Switch from addLoadEvent to jQuery(document).ready for kicking off javascript code (#6241).
• Enhancements to the MT importer to import keywords as tags (#4472).
• Update to TinyMCE 3.05 (#6195).
• More work on the plugin updater (#5586).
• More updates to the new media library (#5911).
• Lots of updates to the new admin style.

For more information of the per-user admin stylesheet selector and examples of how to add your own themes you can read Ozh’s excellent post Per User Custom Stylesheet in WordPress 2.5″

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 11th February to 24th February 2008

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

• Changes to make sure that a plugin is a file before loading (#5822).
• Addition of a new hooks called 'submit{post|page|link}_box' in the submit boxes (#5873).
• Add optional $post_ID argument to the_category() and get_the_category_list() (#5050).
• Changes to make user option name sanitization consistent (#5901).
• Introduction of a new 'admin_init' action to allow plugins to do admin panel specific initialisation (#5924).
• A change to not save translated role names to the Database. Instead, translating them on the fly. (#3442 #5537).
• A new 'pre_post_update' action that runs just prior to saving an edited post (#5815).
• Allow the comment object to be passed to get_avatar() for convenience (#5775).
• Changes to make sure post has future status before publishing from cron (#5801).
• Addition of bulk role change to the User management page ([6990]).
• Update to TinyMCE v3.01 (#5944).
• Work on an automated installer for plugins (#5586).
• Lots of work on the new media library (#5911).

On top of all of this there has been a lot of work this week on finishing off the new admin design.

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 28th January to 3rd February 2008

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

• A Tag Searching interface for the Tag Editor (#5684).
• Removal of any old compatibility functions for PHP 4.2 and 4.3 (#5415).
• I18N updates for the new widgets interface (#5583).
• Changes to increase the memory limit for PHP (#3141).
• Comment feed fixes to ensure that we have got a post before we a querying for the comments (#5185).
• Introduction of a wp_authenticate_user filter ([6685]).
• Addition of the TinyMCE Fullscreen plugin (#5735).
• Add depth arg to wp_dropdown_categories() (#2461).
• Fixes to future post publishing over xmlrpc (#5721).
• Update TinyMCE to v3.0 final (#5674).
• Merging of wp-admin/profile.php and wp-admin/user-edit.php (#5736).
• Changes to allow for multiple database connections (#2722).
• Introduction of a new template tag is_front() which is only true on the front page of a WordPress install (#3682).
• Addition of extra capabilities checks to the xmlrpc code (#5313).

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