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| 1 | 1 | FeedWordPress Change Log |
| 2 | 2 | ======================== |
| 3 | 3 | |
| 4 | +Changes from 0.993 to 2008.1030 | |
| 5 | +------------------------------- | |
| 6 | + | |
| 7 | +* WORDPRESS 2.6 COMPATABILITY: FeedWordPress should now be compatible with | |
| 8 | + WordPress 2.6, and should work more or less seamlessly with the new post | |
| 9 | + revision system. A bug which caused multiple new revisions to be created | |
| 10 | + for posts on certain feeds, regardless of whether or not the item had | |
| 11 | + been updated, has been fixed. | |
| 12 | + | |
| 13 | +* INTERFACE IMPROVEMENTS: The user interface has been substantially | |
| 14 | + restyled to fit in better with the visual style of WordPress 2.5 and | |
| 15 | + 2.6. | |
| 16 | + | |
| 17 | +* YOUTUBE BUG FIXED: POSTS SYNDICATED THROUGH AN AUTOMATIC UPDATE ARE NO | |
| 18 | + LONGER STRIPPED OF `<OBJECT>` TAGS AND CERTAIN OTHER HTML ELEMENTS: Due | |
| 19 | + to the way that some versions of WordPress process posts that are | |
| 20 | + inserted into the database when no user is logged in, many users | |
| 21 | + experienced an issue where YouTube videos and other content using the | |
| 22 | + HTML `<object>` tag would be stripped out of posts that were syndicated | |
| 23 | + during an automatic update. (Posts that were syndicated through manual | |
| 24 | + updates from within the WordPress Dashboard were not affected, because | |
| 25 | + the issue does not arise when an update is executed under a logged-in | |
| 26 | + administrator's credentials.) This bug has now been fixed; YouTube | |
| 27 | + videos and other content using `<object>` tags should now appear | |
| 28 | + properly in syndicated posts, regardless of the way in which the post | |
| 29 | + was syndicated. | |
| 30 | + | |
| 31 | +* AJAX BUGS FIXED: Bugs which blocked the normal operation of WordPress | |
| 32 | + 2.5's AJAX interface elements when FeedWordPress was activated have been | |
| 33 | + fixed. | |
| 34 | + | |
| 35 | +* TAG SUPPORT: A couple of features have been introduced to take advantage | |
| 36 | + of the tagging features in WordPress 2.3.x, 2.5.x, and 2.6.x. Now, when | |
| 37 | + unfamiliar categories are encountered for posts on a feed, you can | |
| 38 | + choose for FeedWordPress (1) to drop the category; (2) to drop the | |
| 39 | + category and to filter out any post that does not match at least one | |
| 40 | + familiar category; (3) to create a new category with that name, or, | |
| 41 | + now, you can also have FeedWordPress (4) create a new *tag* with that | |
| 42 | + name. This option can be set site-wide under Syndication --> Options, | |
| 43 | + or it can be set on a feed-by-feed basis in a feed's Edit screen. | |
| 44 | + | |
| 45 | + In addition, you can now set particular tags to apply to all incoming | |
| 46 | + syndicated posts, under Syndication --> Options, or you can set tags | |
| 47 | + to apply to all incoming syndicated posts from a particular feed in that | |
| 48 | + feed's Edit screen. | |
| 49 | + | |
| 50 | +* FORMATTING FILTERS: There is a new option available under Syndication -> | |
| 51 | + Options which allows users to choose whether or not to expose syndicated | |
| 52 | + posts to being altered by formatting filters. By default, FeedWordPress | |
| 53 | + has always protected syndicated posts (which are already in display-ready | |
| 54 | + HTML when they are syndicated) from being reformatted by formatting | |
| 55 | + filters. However, this approach means that certain plugins which depend | |
| 56 | + on formatting filters (for example, to add "Share This" bars or relevant | |
| 57 | + links to the end of a post) are blocked from working on any syndicated | |
| 58 | + posts. If you want to use one of these plugins together with | |
| 59 | + FeedWordPress, you can now do so by changing the "Formatting Filters" | |
| 60 | + setting from "Protect" to "Expose." | |
| 61 | + | |
| 62 | +* **`<atom:source>` ELEMENTS NOW INCLUDED IN ATOM FEED:** Atom 1.0 provides | |
| 63 | + a standard method for aggregators to indicate information about the original source of | |
| 64 | + a syndicated post, using the `<atom:source>` element. FeedWordPress now | |
| 65 | + introduces standard `<atom:source>` elements including the title, homepage, and | |
| 66 | + feed URI of the source from which a syndicated post was syndicated. Cf. | |
| 67 | + <http://www.atomenabled.org/developers/syndication/atom-format-spec.php#element.source> | |
| 68 | + | |
| 69 | +* MODULARIZATION OF CODE: The code for different elements of FeedWordPress | |
| 70 | + has been broken out into several modules for easier inspection, | |
| 71 | + documentation, and maintenance of the code. | |
| 72 | + | |
| 73 | +* VERSIONING SCHEME CHANGED: FeedWordPress's feature set has proven stable | |
| 74 | + enough that it can now be removed from beta status; a good thing, since | |
| 75 | + I was very quickly running out of version numbers to use. New releases | |
| 76 | + of FeedWordPress will have version numbers based on the date of their | |
| 77 | + release. | |
| 78 | + | |
| 79 | +Changes from 0.992 to 0.993 | |
| 80 | +--------------------------- | |
| 81 | + | |
| 82 | +* WORDPRESS 2.5.1 COMPATIBILITY: FeedWordPress should now be compatible | |
| 83 | + with WordPress 2.5.1. | |
| 84 | + | |
| 85 | +* WORDPRESS 2.5 INTERFACE IMPROVEMENTS: FeedWordPress's Dashboard | |
| 86 | + interface has undergone several cosmetic changes that should help it | |
| 87 | + integrate better with the WordPress Dashboard interface in WordPress | |
| 88 | + version 2.5.x. | |
| 89 | + | |
| 90 | +* SYNDICATED POSTS CAN BE MARKED AS "PENDING REVIEW": WordPress 2.3 users | |
| 91 | + can now take advantage of WordPress's new "Pending Review" features for | |
| 92 | + incoming syndicated posts. Posts marked as "Pending Review" are not | |
| 93 | + published immediately, but are marked as ready to be reviewed by an | |
| 94 | + Administrator or Editor, who can then choose to publish the post or | |
| 95 | + hold it back. If you want to review syndicated posts from a particular | |
| 96 | + feed, or from all feeds, before they are posted, then use | |
| 97 | + Syndication --> Syndicated Sites --> Edit or Syndication --> Options to | |
| 98 | + change the settings for handling new posts. | |
| 99 | + | |
| 100 | +* AWARE OF NEW URI FOR del.icio.us FEEDS: Previous releases of | |
| 101 | + FeedWordPress already automatically split del.icio.us tags up | |
| 102 | + appropriately appropriately when generating categories. (del.icio.us | |
| 103 | + feeds smoosh all the tags into a single `<dc:subject>` element, | |
| 104 | + separated by spaces; FeedWordPress un-smooshes them into multiple | |
| 105 | + categories by separating them at whitespace.) Unfortunately, del.icio.us | |
| 106 | + recently broke the existing behavior by changing host names for their | |
| 107 | + feeds from del.icio.us to feeds.delicious.com. Version 0.993 accounts | |
| 108 | + for the new host name and un-breaks the tag splitting. | |
| 109 | + | |
| 110 | +Changes from 0.991 to 0.992 | |
| 111 | +--------------------------- | |
| 112 | +* AUTHOR RE-MAPPING: FeedWordPress now offers considerable control over | |
| 113 | + how author names on a feed are translated into usernames within the | |
| 114 | + WordPress database. When a post by an unrecognized author comes in, | |
| 115 | + Administrators can now specify any username as the default username to | |
| 116 | + assign the post to by setting the option in Syndication --> Options | |
| 117 | + (formerly FeedWordPress only allowed you to assign such posts to user | |
| 118 | + #1, the site administrator). Administrators can also create re-mapping | |
| 119 | + rules for particular feeds (under Syndication --> Syndicated Sites --> | |
| 120 | + Edit), so that (for example) any posts attributed to "Administrator" | |
| 121 | + on the feed <http://praxeology.net/blog/feed/> will be assigned to | |
| 122 | + a user named "Roderick T. Long," rather than a user named | |
| 123 | + "Administrator." These settings also allow administrators to filter out | |
| 124 | + posts by particular users, and to control what will happen when | |
| 125 | + FeedWordPress encounters a post by an unrecognized user on that | |
| 126 | + particular feed. | |
| 127 | + | |
| 128 | +* BUG RELATED TO URIS CONTAINING AMPERSAND CHARACTERS FIXED: A bug in | |
| 129 | + WordPress 2.x's handling of URIs in Blogroll links created problems for | |
| 130 | + updating any feeds whose URIs included an ampersand character, such as | |
| 131 | + Google News RSS feeds and other feeds that have multiple parameters | |
| 132 | + passed through HTTP GET. If you experienced this bug, the most likely | |
| 133 | + effect was that FeedWordPress simply would not import new posts from a | |
| 134 | + feed when instructred to do so, returning a "0 new posts" response. In | |
| 135 | + other cases, it might lead to unpredictable results from feed updates, | |
| 136 | + such as importing posts which were not contained in the feed being | |
| 137 | + syndicated, but which did appear elsewhere on the same website. This bug | |
| 138 | + has, hopefully, been resolved, by correcting for the bug in WordPress. | |
| 139 | + | |
| 140 | +Changes from 0.99 to 0.991 | |
| 141 | +-------------------------- | |
| 142 | +* WORDPRESS MU COMPATABILITY: FeedWordPress should now be compatible with | |
| 143 | + recent releases of WordPress MU. Once FeedWordPress is made available | |
| 144 | + as a plugin, each individual blog can choose to activate FeedWordPress | |
| 145 | + and syndicate content from its own set of contributors. | |
| 146 | + | |
| 147 | +* DISPLAY OF MAGPIE WARNINGS: A number of MagpieRSS warnings or error | |
| 148 | + messages that were displayed when performing an automatic update are | |
| 149 | + no longer displayed, unless debugging parameters have been explicitly | |
| 150 | + enabled. | |
| 151 | + | |
| 152 | +* BUG RELATED TO INTERNATIONAL CHARACTERS IN AUTHOR NAMES FIXED: Due to a | |
| 153 | + subtle incompatability between the way that FeedWordPress generated new | |
| 154 | + user information, and the way that WordPress 2.0 and later added new | |
| 155 | + authors to the database, FeedWordPress might end up creating duplicate | |
| 156 | + authors, or throwing a critical error message, when it encountered | |
| 157 | + authors whose names included international characters. This | |
| 158 | + incompatability has now been fixed; hopefully, authors with | |
| 159 | + international characters in their names should now be handled properly. | |
| 160 | + | |
| 161 | +* media:content BUG IN MAGPIERSS FIXED: A bug in MagpieRSS's handling of | |
| 162 | + namespaced elements has been fixed. Among other things, this bug caused | |
| 163 | + items containing a Yahoo MediaRSS `<media:content>` element (such as | |
| 164 | + many of the feeds produced by wordpress.com) to be represented | |
| 165 | + incorrectly, with only a capital "A" where the content of the post | |
| 166 | + should have been. Feeds containing `<media:content>` elements should now | |
| 167 | + be syndicated correctly. | |
| 168 | + | |
| 169 | +* update_feedwordpress PARAMETER: You can now use an HTTP GET parameter | |
| 170 | + (`update_feedwordpress=1`) to request that FeedWordPress poll its feeds | |
| 171 | + for updates. When used together with a crontab or other means of | |
| 172 | + scheduling tasks, this means that you can keep your blog automatically | |
| 173 | + updated on a regular schedule, even if you do not choose to use the | |
| 174 | + cron-less automatic updates option. | |
| 175 | + | |
| 176 | +* Some minor interface-related bugs were also fixed. | |
| 177 | + | |
| 178 | + | |
| 179 | +Changes from 0.981 to 0.99 | |
| 180 | +-------------------------- | |
| 181 | +Version 0.99 adds several significant new features, fixes some bugs, and | |
| 182 | +provides compatability with WordPress 2.2.x and 2.3.x. | |
| 183 | + | |
| 184 | +* WORDPRESS 2.2 AND 2.3 COMPATIBILITY: FeedWordPress should now be | |
| 185 | + compatible with WordPress version 2.2 and the upcoming WordPress | |
| 186 | + version 2.3. In particular, it has been tested extensively against | |
| 187 | + WordPress 2.2.3 and WordPress 2.3 Release Candidate 1. | |
| 188 | + | |
| 189 | +* AUTOMATIC UPDATES WITHOUT CRON: FeedWordPress now allows you to | |
| 190 | + automatically schedule checks for new posts without using external task | |
| 191 | + scheduling tools such as cron. In order to enable automatic updates, go | |
| 192 | + to **Syndication --> Options** and set "Check for new posts" to | |
| 193 | + "automatically." For details, see "Automatic Feed Updates" in | |
| 194 | + README.text. | |
| 195 | + | |
| 196 | + An important side-effect of the changes to the update system is that if | |
| 197 | + you were previously using the cron job and the `update-feeds.php` script | |
| 198 | + to schedule updates, you need to change your cron set-up. The old | |
| 199 | + `update-feeds.php` script no longer exists. Instead, if you wish to use | |
| 200 | + a cron job to guarantee updates on a particular schedule, you should | |
| 201 | + have the cron job fetch the front page of your blog (for example, by | |
| 202 | + using `curl http://www.zyx.com/blog/ > /dev/null`) instead of activating | |
| 203 | + the `update-feeds.php` script. If automatic updates have been enabled, | |
| 204 | + fetching the front page will automatically trigger the update process. | |
| 205 | + | |
| 206 | +* INTERFACE REORGANIZATION: All FeedWordPress functions are now located | |
| 207 | + under a top-level "Syndication" menu in the WordPress Dashboard. To | |
| 208 | + manage the list of syndicated sites, manually check for new posts on | |
| 209 | + one or more feeds, or syndicate a new site, you should use the main page | |
| 210 | + under **Syndication**. To change global settings for FeedWordPress, | |
| 211 | + you should use **Syndication --> Options**. | |
| 212 | + | |
| 213 | +* FILE STRUCTURE REORGANIZATION: Due to a combination of changing styles | |
| 214 | + for FeedWordPress plugins and lingering bugs in the FeedWordPress admin | |
| 215 | + menu code, the code for FeedWordPress is now contained in two different | |
| 216 | + PHP files, which should be installed together in a subdirectory of your | |
| 217 | + plugins directory named `feedwordpress`. (See README.text for | |
| 218 | + installation and upgrade instructions relating to the change.) | |
| 219 | + | |
| 220 | +* MULTIPLE CATEGORIES SETTING: Some feeds use non-standard methods to | |
| 221 | + indicate multiple categories within a single category element. (The most | |
| 222 | + popular site to do this is del.icio.us, which separates tags with a | |
| 223 | + space.) FeedWordPress now allows you to set an optional setting, for any | |
| 224 | + feed which does this, indicating the character or characters used to | |
| 225 | + divide multiple categories, using a Perl-compatible regular expression. | |
| 226 | + (In the case of del.icio.us feeds, FeedWordPress will automatically use | |
| 227 | + \s for the pattern without your having to do any further configuration.) | |
| 228 | + To turn this setting on, simply use the "Edit" link for the feed that | |
| 229 | + you want to turn it on for. | |
| 230 | + | |
| 231 | +* REGULAR EXPRESSION BUG FIXED: Eliminated a minor bug in the regular | |
| 232 | + expressions for e-mail addresses (used in parsing RSS `author` | |
| 233 | + elements), which could produce unsightly error messages for some users | |
| 234 | + parsing RSS 2.0 feeds. | |
| 235 | + | |
| 236 | +* DATE / UPDATE BUG FIXED: A bug in date handling was eliminated that may | |
| 237 | + have caused problems if any of (1) WordPress, or (2) PHP, or (3) your | |
| 238 | + web server, or (4) your MySQL server, has been set to use a different | |
| 239 | + time zone from the one that any of the others is set to use. If | |
| 240 | + FeedWordPress has not been properly updating updated posts, or has been | |
| 241 | + updating posts when there shouldn't be any changes for the update, this | |
| 242 | + release may solve that problem. | |
| 243 | + | |
| 244 | +* GOOGLE READER BUGS FIXED: A couple of bugs that made it difficult for | |
| 245 | + FeedWordPress to interact with Google Reader public feeds have been | |
| 246 | + fixed. Firstly, if you encountered an error message reading "There was a | |
| 247 | + problem adding the newsfeed. [SQL: ]" when you tried to add the feed, | |
| 248 | + the cause of this error has been fixed. Secondly, if you succeeded in | |
| 249 | + getting FeedWordPress to check a Google Reader feed, only to find that | |
| 250 | + the title of posts had junk squashed on to the end of them, that bug | |
| 251 | + has been fixed too. To fix this bug, you must install the newest version | |
| 252 | + of the optional MagpieRSS upgrade. | |
| 253 | + | |
| 254 | +* FILTER PARAMETERS: Due to an old, old bug in WordPress 1.5.0 (which was | |
| 255 | + what was available back when I first wrote the filter interface), | |
| 256 | + FeedWordPress has traditionally only passed one parameter to | |
| 257 | + syndicated_item and syndicated_post filters functions -- an array | |
| 258 | + containing either the Magpie representation of a syndicated item from | |
| 259 | + the feed, or the database representation of a post about to be inserted | |
| 260 | + into the WordPress database. If you needed information about the feed | |
| 261 | + that the item came from, this was accessible only through a pair of | |
| 262 | + global variables, $fwp_channel and $fwp_feedmeta. | |
| 263 | + | |
| 264 | + Since it's been a pretty long time since WordPress 1.5.0 was in | |
| 265 | + widespread usage, I have gone ahead and added an optional second | |
| 266 | + parameter to the invocation of the syndicated_item and syndicated_post | |
| 267 | + filters. If you have written a filter for FeedWordPress that uses either | |
| 268 | + of these hooks, you can now register that filter to accept 2 parameters. | |
| 269 | + If you do so, the second parameter will be a SyndicatedPost object, | |
| 270 | + which, among other things, allows you to access information about the | |
| 271 | + feed from which an item is syndicated using the $post->feed and the | |
| 272 | + $post->feedmeta elements (where $post is the name of the second | |
| 273 | + parameter). | |
| 274 | + | |
| 275 | + NOTE THAT THE OLD GLOBAL VARIABLES ARE STILL AVAILABLE, for the time | |
| 276 | + being at least, so existing filters will not break with the upgrade. | |
| 277 | + They should be considered deprecated, however, and may be eliminated in | |
| 278 | + the future. | |
| 279 | + | |
| 280 | +* FILTER CHANGE / BUGFIX: the array that is passed as the first argument | |
| 281 | + syndicated_post filters no longer is no longer backslash-escaped for | |
| 282 | + MySQL when filters are called. This was originally a bug, or an | |
| 283 | + oversight; the contents of the array should only be escaped for the | |
| 284 | + database *after* they have gone through all filters. IF YOU HAVE WRITTEN | |
| 285 | + ANY syndicated_post FILTERS THAT PRESUME THE OLD BEHAVIOR OF PASSING IN | |
| 286 | + STRINGS THAT ARE ALREADY BACKSLASH-ESCAPED, UPDATE YOUR FILTERS | |
| 287 | + ACCORDINGLY. | |
| 288 | + | |
| 289 | +* OTHER MINOR BUGFIXES AND INTERNAL CHANGES: The internal architecture of | |
| 290 | + FeedWordPress has been significantly changed to make the code more | |
| 291 | + modular and clean; hopefully this should help reduce the number of | |
| 292 | + compatibility updates that are needed, and make them easier and quicker | |
| 293 | + when they are needed. | |
| 294 | + | |
| 295 | +Changes from 0.98 to 0.981 | |
| 296 | +-------------------------- | |
| 297 | +Version 0.981 is a narrowly targeted bugfix and compatibility release, whose | |
| 298 | +main purpose is to resolve a major outstanding problem: the incompatibility | |
| 299 | +between version 0.98 of WordPress and the recently released WordPress 2.1. | |
| 300 | + | |
| 301 | +* WORDPRESS 2.1 COMPATIBILITY: FeedWordPress is now compatible with | |
| 302 | + WordPress 2.1, as well as retaining its existing support for WordPress | |
| 303 | + 2.0 and 1.5. Incompatibilities that resulted in database warnings, fatal | |
| 304 | + errors, and which prevented FeedWordPress from syndicating new posts, | |
| 305 | + have been eliminated. | |
| 306 | + | |
| 307 | +* RSS-FUNCTIONS.PHP RENAMED TO RSS.PHP: if you use the upgraded MagpieRSS | |
| 308 | + replacement that's included with FeedWordPress, be sure to note that | |
| 309 | + there are now *two* files to upload from the `OPTIONAL/wp-includes` | |
| 310 | + subdirectory in order to carry out the upgrade: rss-functions.php and | |
| 311 | + rss.php. **It is necessary to upload both files**, due to a change in | |
| 312 | + the file naming scheme in WordPress 2.1, and it is necessary to do so | |
| 313 | + whether you are using WordPress 2.1 or not. If you only upload the | |
| 314 | + `rss-functions.php` file as in previous installations you will not have | |
| 315 | + a working copy of MagpieRSS; the rss.php file contains the actual code. | |
| 316 | + | |
| 317 | +* DATE BUG AFFECTING SOME PHP INSTALLATIONS RESOLVED: due to a subtle bug | |
| 318 | + in parse_w3cdtf(), some installations of PHP encountered problems with | |
| 319 | + FeedWordPress's attempt to date posts, which would cause some new posts | |
| 320 | + on Atom feeds to be dated as if they had apppeared in 1969 or 1970 | |
| 321 | + (thus, effectively, never appearing on front apge at all). This bug in | |
| 322 | + the date handling should now be fixed. | |
| 323 | + | |
| 324 | +* PHP <?=...?> SHORT FORM ELIMINATED: some installations of PHP do not | |
| 325 | + allow the <?=...?> short form for printing PHP values, which was used | |
| 326 | + extensively in the FeedWordPress interface code. Since this could cause | |
| 327 | + fatal errors for users with the wrong installation of PHP, the short | |
| 328 | + form has been replaced with full PHP echo statements, and is no longer | |
| 329 | + used in FeedWordPress. | |
| 330 | + | |
| 331 | +* BETTER USER INTERFACE INTEGRATION WITH WORDPRESS 2.x: Some minor changes | |
| 332 | + have been made to help the FeedWordPress interface pages blend in better | |
| 333 | + with the user interface when running under WordPress 2.x. | |
| 334 | + | |
| 335 | +* GLOBAL CATEGORIES BUG RESOLVED: a bug that prevented some users from | |
| 336 | + setting one or more categories to apply to syndicated posts from all | |
| 337 | + feeds (using the checkbox interface under Options --> Syndication) has | |
| 338 | + been resolved. | |
| 339 | + | |
| 340 | +Changes from 0.97 to 0.98 | |
| 341 | +-------------------------- | |
| 342 | + | |
| 343 | +* WORDPRESS 2.0 COMPATIBILITY: This is a narrowly-targeted release to | |
| 344 | + solve a major outstanding problem. FeedWordPress is now compatible with | |
| 345 | + both WordPress 1.5 and WordPress 2.0. Incompatibilities that caused | |
| 346 | + fatal SQL errors, and a more subtle bug with off-kilter counts of posts | |
| 347 | + under a given category, have been resolved. FeedWordPress tests for | |
| 348 | + database schema using the global $wp_db_version variable (if null, then | |
| 349 | + we presume that we're dealing with WordPress 1.5). | |
| 350 | + | |
| 351 | + NOTE: I have **not** fully tested FeedWordPress with WordPress 2.0. | |
| 352 | + Further testing may reveal more bugs. However, you should now be able | |
| 353 | + to get at least basic FeedWordPress functionality up and running. | |
| 354 | + | |
| 355 | +* AUTHOR MATCHING: FeedWordPress tests several fields to see if it can | |
| 356 | + identify the author of the post as a user already in the WordPress user | |
| 357 | + database. In previous versions, it tested the user login, the nickname, | |
| 358 | + and tested for "aliases" listed in the Profile (see documentation). FWP | |
| 359 | + now also matches authors on the basis of e-mail address (*if* an e-mail | |
| 360 | + address is present). This is particularly helpful for formats such as | |
| 361 | + RSS 2.0, in which authors are primarily identified by e-mail addresses. | |
| 362 | + | |
| 4 | 363 | Changes from 0.96 to 0.97 |
| 5 | 364 | ------------------------- |
| 6 | 365 | |
| 7 | 366 | * INSTALLATION PROCEDURE: Some of the changes between 0.96 and 0.97 |
