• Separation of cookie generation from cookie setting by introduce wp_generate_auth_cookie() (#5367).
• Changes to allow filtering the view of available themes based on theme tags (#5545).
• Improvements in the WXR importer to defer post comment counting during importing (#5557).
• Allow translation of calendar caption (#5562).
• Introduction of a new xmlrpc method wp.getCommentCount() (#5463).
• New API for setting a posts “type” (#4844).
• Addition of a separator location argument to wp_title() to allow for changing the ordering of the output – effectively integrating the popular Optimal Title plugin (#4407).
• Removal of the file based persistence of the WordPress object cache (#5570).
• Introduction of auto-suggest for tag entering ([6542]).
• phpdoc for cache.php, comment.php, l10n.php and registration.php (#5511, #5578, #5590 and #4383,).
• File level phpdoc for a whole raft of files (#5572).
• Work on transitioning the admin autosave javascript over to using jQuery (#3842).
• Improvements to the javascript that enabled switching between Visual and Code editors so as to not mangle table markup (#5577).
• A new interface for selecting which widgets you want on which sidebar (#5583).
• Changes to the dual visual/code editors to remember which one you used last (#3978).

As you will have probably read elsewhere the next major WordPress version will v2.5 as is to be released in March.

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

• Improvements and refactoring of the WXR importer including supporting zipped xml files (#5522).
• Changes to allow the salt used by WordPress in password generation and other areas to be overridden using a define ([6478]).
• Documentation for author-template.php, bookmark.php, bookmark-template.php, template-loader.php, compat.php, canonical.php, comment-template.php and file level phpdoc for some other files. (#4393, #5523, #5521, #5513, #5510, #5526, #5528, and #5527 ).
• Improved implementation of the javascript addLoadEvent function to speed up the execution of javascript on admin pages ([6482]).
• Changes to wp-mail.php to escape the error messages when displaying them to avoid a possible XSS attack (#5484).
• Changes to ensure that the post password is only exposed by the xmlrpc method metaWeblog.getRecentPosts to users with rights to edit a post (#5535).
• Changes to the information exposed the wp.getAuthors xmlrpc method to reduce the information exposed and add a capabilites check (#5534).
• Addition of extra capabilites checks to xmlrpc methods ([6504]).
• Addition of extra capabilites checks to APP server ([6508]).
• Changes to validate_file() to improve its traversal attempt detection when running on windows ([6521]).
• Changes to the magic number detection for gettext file loading for better support of 64bit systems (#3780).
• Fixes to the tag extraction code so as to not strip ‘s’ from either end (#5539).
• Updated javascript libraries -Prototype 1.6.0 and script.aculo.us 1.8.0 (#5543).
• Introduction of deprecated function and file use tracking functionality to allow for theme and plugin developers to easily identify what is deprecated. (#4361).
• Better documentation for the_author() and prep_atom_text_construct() ([6515], [6516]).
• Final deprecation of comments_rss() and create_user() ([6517]).
• A change to avoid variable expansion in the invalid $table_prefix error message (#5546).

This week the list of changes is quite long event though a lot of time was spent on the preparation and testing of the recent WordPress 2.3.2 maintenance release for which you can read a detailed list of the changes here – don’t forget to upgrade!

You can read more about the support for theme and plugin developers to help identify what deprecated functions or files they might be using in this post – “Tracking deprecated functions”

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

De momento solo ha sido unos cambios en el CSS, está disponible en el SVN de WordPress por si quieren probarla. La verdad que me agrada bastante, es notorio que el azul característico de WordPress desaparece en este nuevo diseño (llamado internamente «Happy Cog»). Solo me parece curioso que la forma de la franga superior me recuerda un poco a Movable Type 4 jeje.

También en un futuro se podrá personalizar el Dashboard (según algunos links sin funcionar que han puesto). Aún faltan bastantes cosas por actualizar, pero luce bastante bien.

Etiquetas: diseño, wordpress, wordpress 2.4

• Introduction of a wp_set_password() pluggable function to allow it to be overridden easily (#2394).
• Changes to is_page() to allow for an array of pages to be specified (#5430).
• Faster rewrite rules for pages for some permalink structures (#3614).
• Escaping added to the POP3 error messages to avoid XSS attacks (#5484).
• Fixes to the valid element configuration of TinyMCE to allow for more valid combinations (#3826).
• Fixes to the tag entry field to avoid erroneous blank tags (#5412).
• Changes to sanitize_title() to allow ’0′ to be a valid title (#5293).
• New get_search_feed_link() and get_search_comments_feed_link() template tags (#5442).
• Improvements to the relative links provided in atom comments feeds (#5435).
• Addition of an xmlrpc method for deleting categories (#4599).
• Custom field support for the xmlrpc interface (#5148).
• Addition of a password strength meter to the user profile page (#4470).
• Improvements to the strings used where a different message text is displayed for plurals (#4865).
• Add a link to the relevant post to the comment editing screen (#4345).
• Documentation for wp-settings.php (#5211).
• Fixes for some of the NOTICE errors visible when WP_DEBUG is enabled ([6435], [6436]).
• Improvements to the image metadata extraction functionality to ensure we only try and extra metadata from valid file types (#5397).
• Changes to ensure that PNG transparency and alpha channels are preserved during thumbnail generation (#2805).
• Addition of file level documentation to the third party libraries (#5443).
• Changes to the wpdb class to suppress database errors by default (#5473).
• Support for a custom database down page (#5500).
• Improvements to make_clickable() to have different rules for different uri types ([6449]).
• Improvements to the install process to check for valid database connection info (#5495).
• Addition of pages to the things searched (#5149).
• Addition of new actions import_done and xmlrpc_call ([6472], [6473]).

We have also seen the beginnings of the new admin design being checked in. Hopefully next week I will be able to bring you some screenshots!

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

Apprezzo gli angolini leggermente stondati e il baloon dei commenti, per il resto hanno, apparentemente, solo cambiato colori, un po’ più pastello in stile 2.0.

S’ha da vedere…

[Grazie ad Alex Rabe, creatore di NextGen Gallery]

• Addition of a new filter for the attributes in the html link generated by comments_popup_link() (#5247, #5448).
• Support for Atom Threading Extensions (#5434).
• The addition of documentation for the deprecated functions (#5444).
• Layout and usability improvements to the comment moderation page ([6371]).
• Saving of tags when auto-saving (#5359).
• Completion of the documentation for the taxonomy api (#4742).
• Performance improvements for pages (#3614, #5303, #5458).
• Improvements to the wxr exporter and importer (#5456, #5454, #5466).
• Fixes to register_sidebars to allow multiple sidebars to be registered correctly (#5352).
• Addition of a new filter called the_content_export for the post content when exporting (#5456).
• Introduction of a pluggable function for random password generation (#5401).
• Changes to the login cookie format to make it more secure (#5367).
• Suppression of database error messages by default (#5473).

If you would like to read more about the new cookie format then Ryan has written an excellent post – “Secure Cookies and Passwords”

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

• A number of changes to remove unused variables (#5418).
• A change to allow plugins to handle admin page access failures (#5379).
• A change to ensure that wp-mail.php doesn’t issue a 500 error if no messages are available to post (#5420).
• Exposure of the post_status over xmlrpc to allow desktop blogging clients to be aware of things like private posts (#4982).
• Refactoring of next_post_link and previous_post_link (#5411).
• Optimisation and documentation improvements to the filter and action handling code(#5338).
• Improvements in the AJAX fade colours used with the admin pages to make them more consistent (#5423).
• Changes to update_option to remove unnecessary trimming of string options (#4781).

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

• Use of ‘Log in’ instead of ‘Login’ for verb form (#5296).
• Modifications to the way in which the login process determines if it is handling a POST request (#5365).
• Addition of a get_user_by_email() function and clean up for the other get_user*() functions (#5392).
• Correct support for mt_allow_comments to cover all possible values (#5366).
• When posting by email, publish only if user has publish caps, otherwise set status to pending (#4642).
• Changes to the hashing function used when storing the users password in the database (#2394).

The last change means that the next time you login the value stored in the database will change – this means that if you do upgrade passed this point reverting back to an old version will invalidate all users passwords and they will need reseting. Therefore it is a good idea to backup up your users table before updating to the latest trunk.

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

• Addition of debug backtrace for query logging code (#5218)

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

• 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.

• 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.

• Caching of the queries in wp_get_archives() (#5275).
• Documentation for wp_version_check() (#5233).
• Fixes to the javascript comment delete links and ajax moderation (#5288).
• AJAX for link category add and delete (#5291).
• More centralisation of the database setup code into $wpdb (#5287).
• Form validation via AJAX (#5299).
• Fixes to allow wp-links-opml.php to return the links for just one category (#5295).
• A refactor of wp-admin/includes/image.php (#5312, #4151, #4709, #5304).

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

The changes going into WordPress 2.4 this week have included:

• A increase in the types of sorting supported by get_terms() (#5245).
• Separation of taxonomy relationships into separate cache buckets ([6286], [6288])
• Fixes to the manage posts page to restoring the filtering functionality with the new “infinite posts” feature (#5249)
• A fix in install-helper.php so that you do not get errors when included from a plugin (#5090)

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

• A refactor of the plugin (de)activation functionality so as to enable unit tests to be written (#5210).
• Lots of new and updated phpdoc documentation for different areas of the code. (#4742, #5225).
• Addition of Atom support to the RSD document to enable easy discovery of it’s support (#5213).
• A refactor of the Atom publication and feed code to share common functionality (#5181).
• Improvements to the email address extraction in wp-mail.php (#5169).
• A security fix to the link manager to ensure that only uses with the manage_links capability can add/remove/edit links (#4627).

The security fix above will be included in the upcoming 2.3.1 bug fix release for v2.3. For more information of the upcoming 2.3.1 release and information on the beta release please read Ryans post – “WordPress 2.3.1 Beta 1“

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

• More work on the to switch to $wpdb->prepare() (#4553).
• Switch to jquery for all list-manipulation within the admin pages (#4805).
• The addition of more $wpdb methods – $wpdb->insert and $wpdb->update to further sanitize and abstract the SQL queries (#5178).
• The addition of a new template function is_page_template() to allow theme authors to have conditional output dependant on which page template they are in (#3335).
• Elimination of the remaining global variables caching data that should be stored in the object cache (#5128).

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

• More work on the to switch to $wpdb->prepare() (#4553). Note this is on going work and some of the changes may cause temporary issues like the ones reported in #5145.
• Changes to the way in which the WordPress generator tags are output (#4803 and #5085).
• Improvements to the database access abstraction so that all calls to mysql functions are made via the $wpdb class (#5127 and #5128).
• The introduction of a new sanitisation function for urls on there way into the database (#4411).
• Improvements to the queries used for Tag intersection (#5137)

The last two of these changes will also be included in the upcoming 2.3.1 release.

You can read more about the types of Category and Tag intersections supported by WordPress v2.3 in Ryan’s excellent post: “Taxonomy Intersections and Unions”

More information about the changes to the WordPress generator output and the new filters that are available to allow themes and plugins to affect the output can be read in this article: “Improving the WordPress Generator“

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

• The beginings of the work to switch to $wpdb->prepare(). See the trac ticket for more info.
• An easy way to enable all PHP Notices for developers.

The new support for PHP Notices is easy to enable by adding a single line to wp-config.php:

define('WP_DEBUG',true);

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

Update 02-Oct-2007: The define for debug mode has changed