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Update on WordPress blog APIs

6/30/2008 – 9:32 am

I mentioned previously that the XML-RPC and Atom blog APIs would be disabled by default when WordPress 2.6 is released. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Announcements, Atom, Blogging, Community, WordPress | Also tagged API, Atom, AtomPub, Beta, delicious, Flickr, posting, Services, tools, WordPress, xmlrpc | Comments (24)

Last night Ryan Boren announced the release of WordPress 2.6 Beta 1. At first glance, you probably wouldn’t notice much difference between versions 2.5 and 2.6. The two biggest new features are Post Revisions, which saves a history of edits made to each post, and support for Gears, which greatly speeds up working with the admin screens.

Other changes of note:

Support for the XML-RPC and Atom client APIs is turned off by default now. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Announcements, Community, WordPress | Also tagged app, Atom, Beta, easy-gravatars, gravatars, jquery, jqueryui, Plugins, Releases, Themes, tinymce, WordPress, xmlrpc | Comments (60)

WordPress 2.2 Released

5/15/2007 – 9:52 pm

WordPress 2.2 “Getz” is now official. I’ve listed some of the changes previously, but here’s another quick rundown:

Atom feeds updated to Atom 1.0
Preliminary support for Atom Publishing Protocol
Widgets are now supported in core
Protection against activating broken plugins
“Deactivate All Plugins” button. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Software, WordPress | Also tagged Atom, Feeds, jquery, plugin, Plugins, Releases, WordPress | Comments (51)

New WordPress Releases: 2.0.10 and 2.1.3

4/3/2007 – 11:44 pm

That’s right, two shiny new bugfix/security updates. One for the 2.0 branch and one for the 2.1 branch. There are some small bugfixes in both of these versions, but the main reason to upgrade is for the security fixes (I’m going to write more on that subject later).

Visit the downloads page for version 2.1.3, and the Release Archive for version 2.0.10.

Watch later this month for the release of WordPress 2.2. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Security, Software, WordPress | Also tagged Atom, Feeds, Releases, WordPress | Comments (9)

WordPress 2.0.1

2/1/2006 – 11:55 am

For those of you who never install “dot-zero” software releases, now is probably a good time to upgrade to WordPress 2.0.1.

All in all weâ€™ve closed 114 bugs in the 2.0.1 release, which youâ€™re welcome to check out if youâ€™re curious about every fix. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Announcements, Blogs, Software, WordPress | Also tagged PHP, Release, WordPress | Comments (5)

WordPress 1.5.x safe from XML-RPC worm

11/9/2005 – 9:58 am

In case you didn’t already see my post over on the WordPress Development Blog, rest assured that WordPress is safe from the recently announced PHPXMLRPC worm. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, News, Security, Tech, WordPress | Also tagged PHP, Web, WordPress | Comments (4)

WordPress 1.5.2

8/15/2005 – 9:46 am

Announcing WordPress 1.5.2, now available for download. Owen Winkler has a good plain-English description of the changes.

There is a security-related bugfix in this release, which affects servers that have register_globals turned on (which you shouldn’t). [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Security, WordPress | Also tagged RSS, Web, WordPress | Comments (2)

Putting the “Simple” back in SOAP

10/21/2004 – 6:29 pm

I’ve never been too big on SOAP. It’s nice that there are lots of toolkit implementations out there, but for most of my projects, it just seems like overkill. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Tech | Also tagged Ruby, SOAP, Web | Comments (0)

Brain dump

6/10/2004 – 6:06 pm

It’s been over two weeks since my last update. I’m sure that it’s been terribly distressing to the three people who actually read this site. My only excuse is that I’ve been insanely busy, because a lot of things have been going on. [...]