keppy

Focus on the WPMU – WP merger. I’d imagine it’s going to be quite a task and needs to work flawlessly. The new default theme should be considered as part of this merger. I think those two are probably enough ‘big’ things.

Once 3.0 is out and WPMU functionality is in place, then the next item should be all the requests for more CMS types of improvements. Imagine how great it’ll be to manage multiple ‘sites’ (instead of just basic blogs) all from the same installation. Since WP is headed in the CMS direction, I think the WPMU merger is crucial to that next step and should be focused on first before adding all the CMS specific things.

And finally canonical plugins I think should be next. Things like better media management and photo albums/galleries should be a canonical plugin in my opinion and not in core.

Anyone have any idea why query_posts with cat=-15 is returning my posts in ascending order? I thought it could have been related to the MySQL problem discussed here, but I’ve ruled that out. Here is the code I’ve been using since WP 2.3

query_posts($query_string . '&cat=-15');

This was effectively removing my ‘front_page’ category from my author pages. This worked just fine until sometime after I upgraded to the RC-1 version of WP 2.5. Shortly after (unfortunately I wasn’t looking at these author pages very closely until nearly a week after the upgrade) I upgraded to WP 2.5 RC-1, this query_posts started returning the posts in reverse order.

In an attempt to work-around this issue, I tried the following:

query_posts($query_string . '&cat=-15&order=DESC')

This seemed to just completely ignore the DESC order request. Next I tried this:

query_posts($query_string . '&order=DESC&showposts=3')

Without the cat=-15, the query returns the posts in the correct order. I played around with it with lots of different combinations of queries, and it seems that any time cat=-# is put into the query_posts, it returns the posts in reverse order.

Anyone know a fix for this?