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| 1 | 1 | FeedWordPress Change Log |
| 2 | 2 | ======================== |
| 3 | 3 | |
| 4 | +Changes from 2008.1214 to 2009.0612 | |
| 5 | +----------------------------------- | |
| 6 | +* WORDPRESS 2.8 COMPATIBILITY: FeedWordPress 2009.0612 has been tested for | |
| 7 | + compatibility with the recent version 2.8 release of WordPress. | |
| 8 | + | |
| 9 | +* INTERFACE RESTRUCTURING: In order to avoid settings posts from becoming | |
| 10 | + too crowded, and to modularize and better organize the user interface, | |
| 11 | + new "Posts" and "Categories & Tags" subpages have been created under the | |
| 12 | + "Syndication" menu. "Posts" controls settings for individal syndicated | |
| 13 | + posts (such as publication status, comment and ping status, whether or | |
| 14 | + not to use the original location of the post as the permalink, whether | |
| 15 | + or not to expose posts to formatting filters, and so on). "Categories & | |
| 16 | + Tags" controls settings for assigning new syndicated posts to categories | |
| 17 | + and tags, such as categories or tags to apply to all syndicated posts, | |
| 18 | + and how to handle categories that do not yet exist in the WordPress | |
| 19 | + database. These subpages, like the Authors subpage, handle settings for | |
| 20 | + the global default level and for individual syndicated feeds. | |
| 21 | + | |
| 22 | + Corresponding to these new subpages, the old Syndication Settings and | |
| 23 | + Feed Settings subpages have been cleaned up and simplified, and now only | |
| 24 | + link to the appropriate subpages for options that can be set in the | |
| 25 | + Posts, Authors, or Categories & Tags subpages. | |
| 26 | + | |
| 27 | +* FEATURE: ADD CUSTOM SETTINGS TO EACH SYNDICATED POST: FeedWordPress has | |
| 28 | + long had an interface for creating custom settings for each syndicated | |
| 29 | + *feed* which could be retrieved in templates using the `get_feed_meta()` | |
| 30 | + template function. But it had no feature for adding custom fields to | |
| 31 | + each individual syndicated *post*. In response to requests from users, I | |
| 32 | + have added the ability to apply custom fields to each individual | |
| 33 | + syndicated post, using the new Syndication --> Posts subpage. You can | |
| 34 | + set up custom fields to be applied to every syndicated post, or custom | |
| 35 | + fields to be applied to syndicated posts from a particular feed. | |
| 36 | + | |
| 37 | +* FEATURE: MAGPIERSS VERSION CHECK AND UPGRADE: FeedWordPress will attempt | |
| 38 | + to determine whether or not you are using the upgraded version of | |
| 39 | + MagpieRSS that comes packaged with FeedWordPress. If not, it will throw | |
| 40 | + an error on admin pages, and, if you are a site administrator, it will | |
| 41 | + give you the option to ignore the error message, or to attempt an | |
| 42 | + automatic upgrade (using a native file copy). If the file copy fails, | |
| 43 | + FeedWordPress will offer some guidance on how to perform the upgrade | |
| 44 | + manually. | |
| 45 | + | |
| 46 | +* BLANK POSTS PROBLEM NO LONGER OCCURS WITH OLD & BUSTED MAGPIERSS: Due | |
| 47 | + to the fact that I relied on a content normalization that occurs in my | |
| 48 | + upgraded version of MagpieRSS, but not in the old & busted version of | |
| 49 | + MagpieRSS that ships with WordPress, until this version, if you tried to | |
| 50 | + syndicate an Atom feed without having performed the (*strongly | |
| 51 | + recommended*) MagpieRSS upgrade, all of the posts would come up with | |
| 52 | + completely blank contents. That's not because MagpieRSS couldn't read | |
| 53 | + the data, but rather because the new Magpie version puts that data in a | |
| 54 | + location where the old version doesn't, and I was only looking in that | |
| 55 | + newer location. Now it checks for both, meaning that posts will continue | |
| 56 | + to display their contents even if you don't upgrade MagpieRSS. (But you | |
| 57 | + **really should** upgrade it, anyway.) | |
| 58 | + | |
| 59 | +* BUGFIX: RELATIVE URI RESOLUTION FOR POST CONTENT RESTORED. Some time | |
| 60 | + back, I added support for resolving relative URIs against xml:base on | |
| 61 | + feeds that support it to the MagpieRSS upgrade in FeedWordPress. Then I | |
| 62 | + took out code that did the same thing from the main FeedWordPress code. | |
| 63 | + Of course, the problem is that some people, even though it is clearly | |
| 64 | + stupid or evil to do so, still include relative URIs for images or links | |
| 65 | + in posts on feed formats that do *not* adequately support xml:base | |
| 66 | + (notably, RSS 2.0 feeds). In response to a user request, I have added | |
| 67 | + this functionality back in, so that MagpieRSS will resolve any relative | |
| 68 | + URIs that it knows how to resolve using xml:base, and then FeedWordPress | |
| 69 | + will attempt to resolve any relative URIs that are left over afterwards. | |
| 70 | + | |
| 71 | +* BUGFIX: INTERFACE OPTION FOR SETTING SYNDICATED POST PUBLICATION STATUS | |
| 72 | + ON A FEED-BY-FEED BASIS HAS BEEN RESTORED: Due to a version-checking | |
| 73 | + bug, users of WordPress 2.7.x lost an option from the "Edit a syndicated | |
| 74 | + feed" interface which allowed them to determine whether newly syndicated | |
| 75 | + posts should be published immediately, held as "Pending Review," saved | |
| 76 | + as drafts, or saved as private posts. (The option to change this | |
| 77 | + setting globally remained in place, but users could no longer set it on | |
| 78 | + a feed-by-feed basis.) The version-checking bug has been fixed, and the | |
| 79 | + option has been restored. | |
| 80 | + | |
| 81 | +* BUGFIX: "ARE YOU SURE?" FATAL ERROR ELIMINATED AND SECURITY IMPROVED: | |
| 82 | + Under certain circumstances (for example, when users have configured | |
| 83 | + their browser or proxy not to send HTTP Referer headers, for privacy or | |
| 84 | + other reasons), many features in the FeedWordPress administrative | |
| 85 | + interface (such as adding new feeds or changing settings) would hit a | |
| 86 | + fatal error, displaying only a cryptic message reading "Are you sure?" | |
| 87 | + and a blank page following it. This problem has been eliminated by | |
| 88 | + taking advantage of WordPress's nonce functions, which allow the | |
| 89 | + security check which ran into this error to work properly even without | |
| 90 | + receiving an HTTP Referer header. (N.B.: WordPress's nonce functions | |
| 91 | + were first introduced in WordPress 2.0.3. If you're using FeedWordPress | |
| 92 | + with an older version of WordPress, there's no fix for this problem: | |
| 93 | + you'll just need to turn Referer headers back on. Sorry.) | |
| 94 | + | |
| 95 | +* BUGFIX: MANUALLY-ALTERED POST STATUS, COMMENT STATUS, AND PING STATUS NO | |
| 96 | + LONGER REVERTED BY POST UPDATES: If you manually altered the post status, | |
| 97 | + comment status, or ping status of a syndicated post from what it was set | |
| 98 | + to when first syndicated -- for example, if you had a feed that was set | |
| 99 | + to bring in new posts as "Pending Review," and you then marked some of | |
| 100 | + the pending posts as "Published" and others as "Unpublished" -- then | |
| 101 | + in previous versions of FeedWordPress, these manual changes to the | |
| 102 | + status would be lost -- so that, for example, your Published or Unpublished | |
| 103 | + articles would revert to Pending Review -- if the source feed made any | |
| 104 | + upates to the item. This could make the Pending Review feature both | |
| 105 | + unreliable and also extremely frustrating to work with. The good news is | |
| 106 | + that this bug has since been fixed: if you manually update the status | |
| 107 | + of a post, it will no longer be reverted if or when the post is updated. | |
| 108 | + | |
| 109 | +* BUGFIX: OCCASIONAL FATAL ERROR ON UPDATE ELIMINATED: Under certain | |
| 110 | + limited conditions (specifically, when both the title and the content of | |
| 111 | + a post to be updated are empty), an attempt to update the post would | |
| 112 | + result in a fatal error. This has been fixed. | |
| 113 | + | |
| 114 | +* INTERFACE: "CONFIGURE SETTINGS" CONVENIENCE LINK ADDED TO CONFIRMATION | |
| 115 | + MESSAGE WHEN A NEW FEED IS ADDED: When you add a new subscription to | |
| 116 | + FeedWordPress, the message box that appears to confirm it now includes a | |
| 117 | + handy link to the feed's settings subpage, so that you can quickly set | |
| 118 | + up any special settings you may want to set up for the new feed, without | |
| 119 | + having to hunt through the list of all your other subscriptions to pick | |
| 120 | + out the new one. | |
| 121 | + | |
| 122 | +* INTERFACE: SIMPLIFYING AND CLARIFYING AUTOMATIC UPDATES SETTINGS. I have | |
| 123 | + removed an interval setting for the cronless automatic updates which has | |
| 124 | + confused many FeedWordPress users. In past versions of FWP, when you | |
| 125 | + turned on automatic updates, you would be presented with a time interval | |
| 126 | + setting which controlled how often FeedWordPress would check for feeds | |
| 127 | + ready to be polled for updates. (That is, it DID NOT control how often | |
| 128 | + feeds *would be polled*; it controlled how often FeedWordPress would | |
| 129 | + *check* for feeds that *had become ready to poll*. The schedule on which | |
| 130 | + feeds became ready for polling was still controlled either by requests | |
| 131 | + encoded in elements within the feed itself, or else according to an | |
| 132 | + internal calculation within FeedWordPress, averaging out to about 1 hour, | |
| 133 | + if the feed did not include any scheduling request elements.) Since many | |
| 134 | + users very often (and understandably) confused the purpose of this | |
| 135 | + setting, and since the setting is for a feature that's actually very | |
| 136 | + unlikely to require any manual control by the user, I have removed the | |
| 137 | + setting; FeedWordPress now simply uses the default value of checking for | |
| 138 | + feeds to poll every 10 minutes. | |
| 139 | + | |
| 140 | +* FEEDFINDER PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT: FeedWordPress's FeedFinder class | |
| 141 | + now uses `array_unique()` to make sure that it doesn't waste time | |
| 142 | + repeatedly iterating over and polling the same URI. Props to Camilo | |
| 143 | + (<http://projects.radgeek.com/2008/12/14/feedwordpress-20081214/#comment-20090122160414>). | |
| 144 | + | |
| 145 | +Changes from 2008.1105 to 2008.1214 | |
| 146 | +----------------------------------- | |
| 147 | + | |
| 148 | +* WORDPRESS 2.7 COMPATIBILITY: FeedWordPress has been tested for | |
| 149 | + compatibility with the newly released WordPress 2.7. WordPress 2.7 has | |
| 150 | + deprecated the Snoopy library for HTTP requests, which caused a fatal | |
| 151 | + error for users who had not installed the MagpieRSS upgrade (or whose | |
| 152 | + installation of the MagpieRSS upgrade was overwritten by a recent update | |
| 153 | + of WordPress). FeedWordPress now handles things gracefully when Snoopy | |
| 154 | + is not immediately available. | |
| 155 | + | |
| 156 | +* INTERFACE SPIFFED UP: Interface elements have been updated so that | |
| 157 | + FeedWordPress's management interface fits in more naturally with the | |
| 158 | + WordPress 2.7 interface (including a new logo and a number of small | |
| 159 | + interface tweaks). | |
| 160 | + | |
| 161 | +* BUG WITH TAGS FOR SYNDICATED ARTICLES FIXED: Several users encountered a | |
| 162 | + bug with the option to add tags to all syndicated posts under | |
| 163 | + Syndication --> Settings -- if you told FeedWordPress to add more than | |
| 164 | + one tag to all syndicated posts, instead of doing so correctly, it would | |
| 165 | + add a *single* tag instead, whose name was composed of the names of all | |
| 166 | + the tags you asked it to add. This bug was the result of nothing more | |
| 167 | + dignified than a typographical error on my part. It has now been fixed. | |
| 168 | + | |
| 169 | +* MORE INFORMATION AVAILABLE WHEN FEEDWORDPRESS CAN'T FIND A FEED: When | |
| 170 | + you enter a URL for a new syndication source, FeedWordPress uses a | |
| 171 | + simple feed-finding algorithm (originally based on Mark Pilgrim's | |
| 172 | + Universal Feed Finder) to try to determine whether the URL is the URL | |
| 173 | + for a feed, or, if the URL points to an ordinary website rather than to | |
| 174 | + a feed, whether there is a feed for that website. All well and good, but | |
| 175 | + if FeedWordPress failed to find a feed, for whatever reason, it would | |
| 176 | + typically return nothing more than a nasty little note to the effect of | |
| 177 | + "no feed found," without any explanation of what went wrong. | |
| 178 | + FeedWordPress now keeps track of error conditions from the HTTP | |
| 179 | + requests that it uses in the course of looking for the feed, and so may | |
| 180 | + be able to give you a bit more information about the nature of the | |
| 181 | + problem if something goes wrong. | |
| 182 | + | |
| 183 | + | |
| 184 | +Changes from 2008.1101 to 2008.1105 | |
| 185 | +----------------------------------- | |
| 186 | + | |
| 187 | +* INTERFACE RESTRUCTURING AND SYNDICATION --> AUTHORS PAGE: As a first | |
| 188 | + step towards modularizing and better organizing the user interface, a | |
| 189 | + new "Authors" subpage has been created under the Syndication menu, which | |
| 190 | + controls settings for syndicated authors, both at the global default | |
| 191 | + level and at level of individual syndicated feeds. | |
| 192 | + | |
| 193 | +* BUG RELATED TO THE ATTRIBUTION OF POSTS TO THE WRONG AUTHOR FIXED: Some | |
| 194 | + users encountered an issue in which posts by different authors on | |
| 195 | + different blogs -- especially blogs generated by Blogger -- were | |
| 196 | + mistakenly attributed to a single author. The problem was caused by the | |
| 197 | + way in which FeedWordPress matches syndicated authors to user accounts | |
| 198 | + in the WordPress database: normally, if two feeds each list an author | |
| 199 | + with the same e-mail address, they are counted as being the same person. | |
| 200 | + Normally this works well, but it creates an issue in cases where | |
| 201 | + blogging software assigns a single anonymous e-mail address to users who | |
| 202 | + do not want their real e-mail address published. This is, for example, | |
| 203 | + what Blogger does (by giving all users a default e-mail address of | |
| 204 | + <noreply@blogger.com> if they don't want their own e-mail address | |
| 205 | + listed). FeedWordPress now allows the user to correct for this problem | |
| 206 | + with a couple of new settings under **Syndication --> Authors**, which | |
| 207 | + allow users to turn off e-mail based author matching for particular | |
| 208 | + addresses, or, if desired, to turn it off entirely. By default, e-mail | |
| 209 | + based author matching is still turned on, but disabled for a list of | |
| 210 | + known generic e-mail addresses. Right now, the "list" consists entirely | |
| 211 | + of <noreply@blogger.com>; if you know other addresses that should be | |
| 212 | + added, please [contact me](http://radgeek.com/contact) to let me know. | |
| 213 | + | |
| 214 | + Please note that if you have already encountered this issue on your | |
| 215 | + blog, upgrading FeedWordPress will prevent it from re-occurring in the | |
| 216 | + future, but you still need to do two other things to fix the existing | |
| 217 | + problem on your blog. | |
| 218 | + | |
| 219 | + First, for each feed where posts have been mis-attributed, you need to | |
| 220 | + change the existing author mapping rules to re-map a a syndicated | |
| 221 | + author's name to the proper target account. Go to **Syndication --> | |
| 222 | + Authors**, select the feed you want to change from the drop-down list, | |
| 223 | + and then change the settings under the "Syndicated Authors" section. | |
| 224 | + (You will probably need to select "will be assigned to a new user..." to | |
| 225 | + create a new user account with the appropriate name.) | |
| 226 | + | |
| 227 | + Second, for each feed where posts have been mis-attributed, you need to | |
| 228 | + re-assign already-syndicated posts that were mis-attributed to the | |
| 229 | + correct author. You can do that from **Syndication --> Authors** by | |
| 230 | + using the author re-assignment feature, described below. | |
| 231 | + | |
| 232 | +* AUTHOR RE-ASSIGNMENT FOR A PARTICULAR FEED: The author settings page | |
| 233 | + for each syndicated feed, under **Syndication --> Authors**, now | |
| 234 | + includes an section titled "Fixing mis-matched authors," which provides | |
| 235 | + an interface for re-assigning or deleting all posts attributed to a | |
| 236 | + particular author on a particular feed. | |
| 237 | + | |
| 238 | +* SUPPORT FOR `<atom:source>` ELEMENT IN SYNDICATED FEEDS: Some feeds | |
| 239 | + (for example, those produced by FeedWordPress) aggregate content from | |
| 240 | + several different sources, and include information about the original | |
| 241 | + source of the post in an `<atom:source>` element. A new setting under | |
| 242 | + **Syndication --> Options** allows you to control what FeedWordPress | |
| 243 | + will report as the source of posts syndicated from aggregator feeds in | |
| 244 | + your templates and feeds: you can have FeedWordPress report that the | |
| 245 | + source of a post is the aggregator feed itself, or you can have it | |
| 246 | + report that the source of a post is the original source that the | |
| 247 | + aggregator originally syndicated the post from. | |
| 248 | + | |
| 249 | + By default, FeedWordPress will report the aggregator, not the original | |
| 250 | + source, as the source of a syndicated item. | |
| 251 | + | |
| 252 | +* LOAD BALANCING AND TIME LIMITING FEATURES FOR UPDATES: Some users have | |
| 253 | + encountered issues due to running up against PHP execution time limits | |
| 254 | + during the process of updating large syndicated feeds, or a very large | |
| 255 | + set of syndicated feeds. FeedWordPress now has a feature that allows you | |
| 256 | + to limit the total amount of time spent updating a feed, through the | |
| 257 | + "Time limit on updates" setting under **Syndication --> Options**. By | |
| 258 | + turning on this setting and adjusting the time limit to a low enough | |
| 259 | + figure to avoid your PHP installation's time-out setting. (PHP execution | |
| 260 | + time limits are usually in the vicinity of 30 seconds, so an update | |
| 261 | + time limit of 25 seconds or so should provide plenty of time for updates | |
| 262 | + while allowing a cushion of time for other, non-update-related functions | |
| 263 | + to do their work.) | |
| 264 | + | |
| 265 | + If feed updates are interrupted by the time limit, FeedWordPress uses | |
| 266 | + some simple load balancing features to make sure that updates to other | |
| 267 | + feeds will not be blocked by the time-hogging feed, and will also make | |
| 268 | + sure that when the interrupted update is resumed, FeedWordPress will | |
| 269 | + skip ahead to resume processing items at the point at which it was | |
| 270 | + interrupted last time, so that posts further down in the feed will | |
| 271 | + eventually get processed, and not get blocked by the amount of time it | |
| 272 | + takes to process the items higher up in the feed. | |
| 273 | + | |
| 274 | +* `guid` INDEX CREATION BUTTON: FeedWordPress frequently issues queries on | |
| 275 | + the `guid` column of the WordPress posts database (since it uses post | |
| 276 | + guid URIs to keep track of which posts it has syndicated). In very large | |
| 277 | + FeedWordPress installations, you can often significantly improve | |
| 278 | + performance by creating a database index on the `guid` column, but | |
| 279 | + normally you would need to poke around with MySQL or a tool like | |
| 280 | + phpMyAdmin to do this. FeedWordPress can now save you the trouble: to | |
| 281 | + create an index on the `guid` column, just go to | |
| 282 | + **Syndication --> Options**, and mash the button at the bottom of the | |
| 283 | + "Back End" section. | |
| 284 | + | |
| 285 | +Changes from 2008.1030 to 2008.1101 | |
| 286 | +----------------------------------- | |
| 287 | + | |
| 288 | +* INTERFACE BUG THAT PREVENTED ADDING NEW SITES FIXED: The UI reforms in | |
| 289 | + FWP 2008.1030 unintentionally introduced a bug that prevents clean | |
| 290 | + installations of FeedWordPress from providing an input box for adding | |
| 291 | + new feeds to the list of syndicated feeds. This bug has been fixed. | |
| 292 | + | |
| 293 | +Changes from 0.993 to 2008.1030 | |
| 294 | +------------------------------- | |
| 295 | + | |
| 296 | +* WORDPRESS 2.6 COMPATIBILITY: FeedWordPress should now be compatible with | |
| 297 | + WordPress 2.6, and should work more or less seamlessly with the new post | |
| 298 | + revision system. A bug which caused multiple new revisions to be created | |
| 299 | + for posts on certain feeds, regardless of whether or not the item had | |
| 300 | + been updated, has been fixed. | |
| 301 | + | |
| 302 | +* INTERFACE IMPROVEMENTS: The user interface has been substantially | |
| 303 | + restyled to fit in better with the visual style of WordPress 2.5 and | |
| 304 | + 2.6. | |
| 305 | + | |
| 306 | +* YOUTUBE BUG FIXED: POSTS SYNDICATED THROUGH AN AUTOMATIC UPDATE ARE NO | |
| 307 | + LONGER STRIPPED OF `<OBJECT>` TAGS AND CERTAIN OTHER HTML ELEMENTS: Due | |
| 308 | + to the way that some versions of WordPress process posts that are | |
| 309 | + inserted into the database when no user is logged in, many users | |
| 310 | + experienced an issue where YouTube videos and other content using the | |
| 311 | + HTML `<object>` tag would be stripped out of posts that were syndicated | |
| 312 | + during an automatic update. (Posts that were syndicated through manual | |
| 313 | + updates from within the WordPress Dashboard were not affected, because | |
| 314 | + the issue does not arise when an update is executed under a logged-in | |
| 315 | + administrator's credentials.) This bug has now been fixed; YouTube | |
| 316 | + videos and other content using `<object>` tags should now appear | |
| 317 | + properly in syndicated posts, regardless of the way in which the post | |
| 318 | + was syndicated. | |
| 319 | + | |
| 320 | +* AJAX BUGS FIXED: Bugs which blocked the normal operation of WordPress | |
| 321 | + 2.5's AJAX interface elements when FeedWordPress was activated have been | |
| 322 | + fixed. | |
| 323 | + | |
| 324 | +* TAG SUPPORT: A couple of features have been introduced to take advantage | |
| 325 | + of the tagging features in WordPress 2.3.x, 2.5.x, and 2.6.x. Now, when | |
| 326 | + unfamiliar categories are encountered for posts on a feed, you can | |
| 327 | + choose for FeedWordPress (1) to drop the category; (2) to drop the | |
| 328 | + category and to filter out any post that does not match at least one | |
| 329 | + familiar category; (3) to create a new category with that name, or, | |
| 330 | + now, you can also have FeedWordPress (4) create a new *tag* with that | |
| 331 | + name. This option can be set site-wide under Syndication --> Options, | |
| 332 | + or it can be set on a feed-by-feed basis in a feed's Edit screen. | |
| 333 | + | |
| 334 | + In addition, you can now set particular tags to apply to all incoming | |
| 335 | + syndicated posts, under Syndication --> Options, or you can set tags | |
| 336 | + to apply to all incoming syndicated posts from a particular feed in that | |
| 337 | + feed's Edit screen. | |
| 338 | + | |
| 339 | +* FORMATTING FILTERS: There is a new option available under Syndication -> | |
| 340 | + Options which allows users to choose whether or not to expose syndicated | |
| 341 | + posts to being altered by formatting filters. By default, FeedWordPress | |
| 342 | + has always protected syndicated posts (which are already in display-ready | |
| 343 | + HTML when they are syndicated) from being reformatted by formatting | |
| 344 | + filters. However, this approach means that certain plugins which depend | |
| 345 | + on formatting filters (for example, to add "Share This" bars or relevant | |
| 346 | + links to the end of a post) are blocked from working on any syndicated | |
| 347 | + posts. If you want to use one of these plugins together with | |
| 348 | + FeedWordPress, you can now do so by changing the "Formatting Filters" | |
| 349 | + setting from "Protect" to "Expose." | |
| 350 | + | |
| 351 | +* `<atom:source>` ELEMENTS NOW INCLUDED IN ATOM FEED: Atom 1.0 provides | |
| 352 | + a standard method for aggregators to indicate information about the original source of | |
| 353 | + a syndicated post, using the `<atom:source>` element. FeedWordPress now | |
| 354 | + introduces standard `<atom:source>` elements including the title, homepage, and | |
| 355 | + feed URI of the source from which a syndicated post was syndicated. Cf. | |
| 356 | + <http://www.atomenabled.org/developers/syndication/atom-format-spec.php#element.source> | |
| 357 | + | |
| 358 | +* MODULARIZATION OF CODE: The code for different elements of FeedWordPress | |
| 359 | + has been broken out into several modules for easier inspection, | |
| 360 | + documentation, and maintenance of the code. | |
| 361 | + | |
| 362 | +* VERSIONING SCHEME CHANGED: FeedWordPress's feature set has proven stable | |
| 363 | + enough that it can now be removed from beta status; a good thing, since | |
| 364 | + I was very quickly running out of version numbers to use. New releases | |
| 365 | + of FeedWordPress will have version numbers based on the date of their | |
| 366 | + release. | |
| 367 | + | |
| 368 | +Changes from 0.992 to 0.993 | |
| 369 | +--------------------------- | |
| 370 | + | |
| 371 | +* WORDPRESS 2.5.1 COMPATIBILITY: FeedWordPress should now be compatible | |
| 372 | + with WordPress 2.5.1. | |
| 373 | + | |
| 374 | +* WORDPRESS 2.5 INTERFACE IMPROVEMENTS: FeedWordPress's Dashboard | |
| 375 | + interface has undergone several cosmetic changes that should help it | |
| 376 | + integrate better with the WordPress Dashboard interface in WordPress | |
| 377 | + version 2.5.x. | |
| 378 | + | |
| 379 | +* SYNDICATED POSTS CAN BE MARKED AS "PENDING REVIEW": WordPress 2.3 users | |
| 380 | + can now take advantage of WordPress's new "Pending Review" features for | |
| 381 | + incoming syndicated posts. Posts marked as "Pending Review" are not | |
| 382 | + published immediately, but are marked as ready to be reviewed by an | |
| 383 | + Administrator or Editor, who can then choose to publish the post or | |
| 384 | + hold it back. If you want to review syndicated posts from a particular | |
| 385 | + feed, or from all feeds, before they are posted, then use | |
| 386 | + Syndication --> Syndicated Sites --> Edit or Syndication --> Options to | |
| 387 | + change the settings for handling new posts. | |
| 388 | + | |
| 389 | +* AWARE OF NEW URI FOR del.icio.us FEEDS: Previous releases of | |
| 390 | + FeedWordPress already automatically split del.icio.us tags up | |
| 391 | + appropriately appropriately when generating categories. (del.icio.us | |
| 392 | + feeds smoosh all the tags into a single `<dc:subject>` element, | |
| 393 | + separated by spaces; FeedWordPress un-smooshes them into multiple | |
| 394 | + categories by separating them at whitespace.) Unfortunately, del.icio.us | |
| 395 | + recently broke the existing behavior by changing host names for their | |
| 396 | + feeds from del.icio.us to feeds.delicious.com. Version 0.993 accounts | |
| 397 | + for the new host name and un-breaks the tag splitting. | |
| 398 | + | |
| 399 | +Changes from 0.991 to 0.992 | |
| 400 | +--------------------------- | |
| 401 | +* AUTHOR RE-MAPPING: FeedWordPress now offers considerable control over | |
| 402 | + how author names on a feed are translated into usernames within the | |
| 403 | + WordPress database. When a post by an unrecognized author comes in, | |
| 404 | + Administrators can now specify any username as the default username to | |
| 405 | + assign the post to by setting the option in Syndication --> Options | |
| 406 | + (formerly FeedWordPress only allowed you to assign such posts to user | |
| 407 | + #1, the site administrator). Administrators can also create re-mapping | |
| 408 | + rules for particular feeds (under Syndication --> Syndicated Sites --> | |
| 409 | + Edit), so that (for example) any posts attributed to "Administrator" | |
| 410 | + on the feed <http://praxeology.net/blog/feed/> will be assigned to | |
| 411 | + a user named "Roderick T. Long," rather than a user named | |
| 412 | + "Administrator." These settings also allow administrators to filter out | |
| 413 | + posts by particular users, and to control what will happen when | |
| 414 | + FeedWordPress encounters a post by an unrecognized user on that | |
| 415 | + particular feed. | |
| 416 | + | |
| 417 | +* BUG RELATED TO URIS CONTAINING AMPERSAND CHARACTERS FIXED: A bug in | |
| 418 | + WordPress 2.x's handling of URIs in Blogroll links created problems for | |
| 419 | + updating any feeds whose URIs included an ampersand character, such as | |
| 420 | + Google News RSS feeds and other feeds that have multiple parameters | |
| 421 | + passed through HTTP GET. If you experienced this bug, the most likely | |
| 422 | + effect was that FeedWordPress simply would not import new posts from a | |
| 423 | + feed when instructred to do so, returning a "0 new posts" response. In | |
| 424 | + other cases, it might lead to unpredictable results from feed updates, | |
| 425 | + such as importing posts which were not contained in the feed being | |
| 426 | + syndicated, but which did appear elsewhere on the same website. This bug | |
| 427 | + has, hopefully, been resolved, by correcting for the bug in WordPress. | |
| 428 | + | |
| 429 | +Changes from 0.99 to 0.991 | |
| 430 | +-------------------------- | |
| 431 | +* WORDPRESS MU COMPATIBILITY: FeedWordPress should now be compatible with | |
| 432 | + recent releases of WordPress MU. Once FeedWordPress is made available | |
| 433 | + as a plugin, each individual blog can choose to activate FeedWordPress | |
| 434 | + and syndicate content from its own set of contributors. | |
| 435 | + | |
| 436 | +* DISPLAY OF MAGPIE WARNINGS: A number of MagpieRSS warnings or error | |
| 437 | + messages that were displayed when performing an automatic update are | |
| 438 | + no longer displayed, unless debugging parameters have been explicitly | |
| 439 | + enabled. | |
| 440 | + | |
| 441 | +* BUG RELATED TO INTERNATIONAL CHARACTERS IN AUTHOR NAMES FIXED: Due to a | |
| 442 | + subtle incompatability between the way that FeedWordPress generated new | |
| 443 | + user information, and the way that WordPress 2.0 and later added new | |
| 444 | + authors to the database, FeedWordPress might end up creating duplicate | |
| 445 | + authors, or throwing a critical error message, when it encountered | |
| 446 | + authors whose names included international characters. This | |
| 447 | + incompatability has now been fixed; hopefully, authors with | |
| 448 | + international characters in their names should now be handled properly. | |
| 449 | + | |
| 450 | +* `<media:content>` BUG IN MAGPIERSS FIXED: A bug in MagpieRSS's handling | |
| 451 | + of namespaced elements has been fixed. Among other things, this bug | |
| 452 | + caused items containing a Yahoo MediaRSS `<media:content>` element (such | |
| 453 | + as many of the feeds produced by wordpress.com) to be represented | |
| 454 | + incorrectly, with only a capital "A" where the content of the post | |
| 455 | + should have been. Feeds containing `<media:content>` elements should now | |
| 456 | + be syndicated correctly. | |
| 457 | + | |
| 458 | +* update_feedwordpress PARAMETER: You can now use an HTTP GET parameter | |
| 459 | + (`update_feedwordpress=1`) to request that FeedWordPress poll its feeds | |
| 460 | + for updates. When used together with a crontab or other means of | |
| 461 | + scheduling tasks, this means that you can keep your blog automatically | |
| 462 | + updated on a regular schedule, even if you do not choose to use the | |
| 463 | + cron-less automatic updates option. | |
| 464 | + | |
| 465 | +* Some minor interface-related bugs were also fixed. | |
| 466 | + | |
| 467 | + | |
| 4 | 468 | Changes from 0.981 to 0.99 |
| 5 | 469 | -------------------------- |
| 6 | 470 | Version 0.99 adds several significant new features, fixes some bugs, and |
| 7 | 471 | provides compatability with WordPress 2.2.x and 2.3.x. |
| @@ -142,9 +606,9 @@ | ||
| 142 | 606 | * DATE BUG AFFECTING SOME PHP INSTALLATIONS RESOLVED: due to a subtle bug |
| 143 | 607 | in parse_w3cdtf(), some installations of PHP encountered problems with |
| 144 | 608 | FeedWordPress's attempt to date posts, which would cause some new posts |
| 145 | 609 | on Atom feeds to be dated as if they had apppeared in 1969 or 1970 |
| 146 | - (thus, effectively, never appearing on front apge at all). This bug in | |
| 610 | + (thus, effectively, never appearing on front page at all). This bug in | |
| 147 | 611 | the date handling should now be fixed. |
| 148 | 612 | |
| 149 | 613 | * PHP <?=...?> SHORT FORM ELIMINATED: some installations of PHP do not |
| 150 | 614 | allow the <?=...?> short form for printing PHP values, which was used |
| @@ -226,9 +690,9 @@ | ||
| 226 | 690 | regular expressions and careful matching of lowercasing functions |
| 227 | 691 | (comparing results from PHP only to other results from PHP, and results |
| 228 | 692 | from MySQL only to other results from MySQL). |
| 229 | 693 | |
| 230 | -* BUG FIX: Items dated Decembr 31, 1969 should appear less often. The | |
| 694 | +* BUG FIX: Items dated December 31, 1969 should appear less often. The | |
| 231 | 695 | function for parsing W3C date-time format dates that ships with |
| 232 | 696 | MagpieRSS can only correctly parse fully-specified dates with a |
| 233 | 697 | fully-specified time, but valid W3C date-time format dates may omit the |
| 234 | 698 | time, the day of the month, or even the month. Some feeds in the wild |
| @@ -253,9 +717,9 @@ | ||
| 253 | 717 | that all the examples of improper side-effects that I can find now |
| 254 | 718 | require an HTTP POST to take effect. I think I got pretty much |
| 255 | 719 | everything; if there's anything that I missed, let me know. |
| 256 | 720 | |
| 257 | - Further reading: [Sam Ruby 2005-05-06: This Stuff Matters] (http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2005/05/06/This-Stuff-Matters) | |
| 721 | + Further reading: [Sam Ruby 2005-05-06: This Stuff Matters](http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2005/05/06/This-Stuff-Matters) | |
| 258 | 722 | |
| 259 | 723 | * BUG FIX: Categories applied by `cats` setting should no longer prevent |
| 260 | 724 | category-based filtering from working. In FeedWordPress, you can (1) |
| 261 | 725 | apply certain categories to all syndicated posts, or all posts from |
| @@ -363,9 +827,10 @@ | ||
| 363 | 827 | into the WordPress database so that (among other things) that post |
| 364 | 828 | will have its enclosure listed in your blog's RSS 2 newsfeed. |
| 365 | 829 | |
| 366 | 830 | Note that enclosure support requires using the optional MagpieRSS |
| 367 | - upgrade (i.e., replacing your `wp-includes/rss-functions.php` with `OPTIONAL/wp-includes/rss-functions.php` from the FWP archive) | |
| 831 | + upgrade (i.e., replacing your `wp-includes/rss-functions.php` with | |
| 832 | + `OPTIONAL/wp-includes/rss-functions.php` from the FWP archive) | |
| 368 | 833 | |
| 369 | 834 | * FEATURE: for completeness's sake, there is now a feed setting, |
| 370 | 835 | `hardcode url`, that allows you to set the URI for the front page |
| 371 | 836 | of a contributor's website manually (that is, prevent it from being |
