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| 1 | 1 | FeedWordPress Change Log |
| 2 | 2 | ======================== |
| 3 | 3 | |
| 4 | -Changes from 0.98 to 0.981 | |
| 5 | - | |
| 6 | -Version 0.981 is a narrowly targeted bugfix and compatibility release, whose | |
| 7 | -main purpose is to resolve a major outstanding problem: the incompatibility | |
| 8 | -between version 0.98 of WordPress and the recently released WordPress 2.1. | |
| 9 | - | |
| 10 | -* WORDPRESS 2.1 COMPATIBILITY: FeedWordPress is now compatible with | |
| 11 | - WordPress 2.1, as well as retaining its existing support for WordPress | |
| 12 | - 2.0 and 1.5. Incompatibilities that resulted in database warnings, fatal | |
| 13 | - errors, and which prevented FeedWordPress from syndicating new posts, | |
| 14 | - have been eliminated. | |
| 15 | - | |
| 16 | -* RSS-FUNCTIONS.PHP RENAMED TO RSS.PHP: if you use the upgraded MagpieRSS | |
| 17 | - replacement that's included with FeedWordPress, be sure to note that | |
| 18 | - there are now *two* files to upload from the `OPTIONAL/wp-includes` | |
| 19 | - subdirectory in order to carry out the upgrade: rss-functions.php and | |
| 20 | - rss.php. **It is necessary to upload both files**, due to a change in | |
| 21 | - the file naming scheme in WordPress 2.1, and it is necessary to do so | |
| 22 | - whether you are using WordPress 2.1 or not. If you only upload the | |
| 23 | - `rss-functions.php` file as in previous installations you will not have | |
| 24 | - a working copy of MagpieRSS; the rss.php file contains the actual code. | |
| 25 | - | |
| 26 | -* DATE BUG AFFECTING SOME PHP INSTALLATIONS RESOLVED: due to a subtle bug | |
| 27 | - in parse_w3cdtf(), some installations of PHP encountered problems with | |
| 28 | - FeedWordPress's attempt to date posts, which would cause some new posts | |
| 29 | - on Atom feeds to be dated as if they had apppeared in 1969 or 1970 | |
| 30 | - (thus, effectively, never appearing on front apge at all). This bug in | |
| 31 | - the date handling should now be fixed. | |
| 32 | - | |
| 33 | -* PHP <?=...?> SHORT FORM ELIMINATED: some installations of PHP do not | |
| 34 | - allow the <?=...?> short form for printing PHP values, which was used | |
| 35 | - extensively in the FeedWordPress interface code. Since this could cause | |
| 36 | - fatal errors for users with the wrong installation of PHP, the short | |
| 37 | - form has been replaced with full PHP echo statements, and is no longer | |
| 38 | - used in FeedWordPress. | |
| 39 | - | |
| 40 | -* BETTER USER INTERFACE INTEGRATION WITH WORDPRESS 2.x: Some minor changes | |
| 41 | - have been made to help the FeedWordPress interface pages blend in better | |
| 42 | - with the user interface when running under WordPress 2.x. | |
| 43 | - | |
| 44 | -* GLOBAL CATEGORIES BUG RESOLVED: a bug that prevented some users from | |
| 45 | - setting one or more categories to apply to syndicated posts from all | |
| 46 | - feeds (using the checkbox interface under Options --> Syndication) has | |
| 47 | - been resolved. | |
| 48 | - | |
| 49 | -Changes from 0.97 to 0.98 | |
| 50 | - | |
| 51 | -* WORDPRESS 2.0 COMPATIBILITY: This is a narrowly-targeted release to | |
| 52 | - solve a major outstanding problem. FeedWordPress is now compatible with | |
| 53 | - both WordPress 1.5 and WordPress 2.0. Incompatibilities that caused | |
| 54 | - fatal SQL errors, and a more subtle bug with off-kilter counts of posts | |
| 55 | - under a given category, have been resolved. FeedWordPress tests for | |
| 56 | - database schema using the global $wp_db_version variable (if null, then | |
| 57 | - we presume that we're dealing with WordPress 1.5). | |
| 58 | - | |
| 59 | - NOTE: I have **not** fully tested FeedWordPress with WordPress 2.0. | |
| 60 | - Further testing may reveal more bugs. However, you should now be able | |
| 61 | - to get at least basic FeedWordPress functionality up and running. | |
| 62 | - | |
| 63 | -* AUTHOR MATCHING: FeedWordPress tests several fields to see if it can | |
| 64 | - identify the author of the post as a user already in the WordPress user | |
| 65 | - database. In previous versions, it tested the user login, the nickname, | |
| 66 | - and tested for "aliases" listed in the Profile (see documentation). FWP | |
| 67 | - now also matches authors on the basis of e-mail address (*if* an e-mail | |
| 68 | - address is present). This is particularly helpful for formats such as | |
| 69 | - RSS 2.0, in which authors are primarily identified by e-mail addresses. | |
| 70 | - | |
| 71 | 4 | Changes from 0.96 to 0.97 |
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| 73 | 6 | |
| 74 | 7 | * INSTALLATION PROCEDURE: Some of the changes between 0.96 and 0.97 |
