Hello everyone, I have a few free minutes so I’d thought come up for air and clarify everything that’s been happening the past few weeks. Development progress has been huge and I’m very excited about where things are going. I’ll start first with what Alex has dubbed “The Great Renaming.” This was not change for…
Matt is too busy to blog about it, but he has just finished converting all the ‘b2’ filenames to ‘wp-‘. This is something I’ve been pushing for and I’m thrilled he’s done it. I think it is a huge step forward for WordPress. Some of the benefits: Filnames will be more stable going forward. This…
This morning it seems that sites who manage their blogrolls using blogrolling.com’s service had their links hijacked, every link being replaced by one to “Laura’s Blog” which predictably redirects to a porn site. As painful and unfortunate as this is, I think it illustrates an important point that as a weblogging community we should be…
As a first step in making the administration and posting interfaces as elegant as possible, I’ve started implementing some of the ideas I’ve had as a very frequent user of WordPress and those that came up from a discussion with Matthew Thomas. Last night I checked in the code that is essentially a “save” button…
There is some good discussion starting in the forums with regard to including some statistics functionality in WordPress. I think this is a very useful idea that a lot of people would benefit from. Feel free to hop in the discussion if you have any ideas regarding this. There have been some more improvements to…
The legacy calendar code we had was a little messy so over the past day or so I recoded it from scratch, making it easier to understand and cleaner. The XHTML of the calendar itself is semantically richer table markup, inspired in part by Dunstan Orchard and with some guidance from Joe Clark. You now…
Just implemented! Import of opml blogrolls from blo.gs
Mike has posted a great SQL trick to the forums. Old versions of b2 would naïvely enter break tags (<br />) into the database, often breaking block-level code posted or just making formatting awkward. Now that WordPress has the autop function to intelligently add line breaks what do you do about all of your legacy…
I’ve been working on two new features that I have personally wanted for a long time and is now available to WordPress users currently through the CVS and eventually through a release. First we’ve separated the post and edit screen. The post screen now has just the form for creating a new post. There is…