A couple of weeks ago we shut down the Crowd Favorite office for a day and a half to do a migration from SVN to Git. This was not a small undertaking. We had nearly five years of code in a single SVN repository that was then broken out into literally hundreds of Git repositories.…
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I ran into an interesting “bug” in Twitter Tools last night that I traced back to http_build_query(). I expected that the query strings generated by this function used & as a separator for the key=value pairs, but on one of our test servers, the separator being used was &. This is a php.ini config setting,…
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I’ve packaged beta 2 of the next generation version of Twitter Tools. Version 3.0 is a ground-up rewrite on top of the Social platform, with a few features included for backward compatibility. If you’d like to test the beta, grab it from GitHub. This version fixes several bugs that were found in our QA process,…
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When using WordPress post formats, you’ll quickly start looking for a way to query WordPress content by the “standard” post format. This Trac ticket seeks to work on solving this. The implementation there handles URL-based requests: http://example.com/type/standard/ quite nicely. However the code in that patch doesn’t (yet) handle direct WP_Query calls. I was hacking on…
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At today’s team meeting, the Crowd Favorite folks who contributed to the WordPress 3.3 release (including me!) received goodies. I hope to dole out a few more for the 3.4 release. Related: If one of your 2012 resolutions is to contribute to core WordPress code development, please read this post: wp.me/pbNCB-ui — WordPress(@WordPress) January 5,…
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I wrote the Popularity Contest plugin for WordPress back in May of 2005. It had a good run, but that run is over. We are no longer developing or supporting Popularity Contest, and I recommend letting it rest peacefully. Why? It does too much, and too little at the same time. It does too much.…
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Just created tickets in Trac for 2 potential core features: Improved admin UI for Post Formats, with fallbacks (as previously discussed) A post stack switch/restore implementation (useful for developers) Already some good feedback on the latter. This post is part of the project: Post Formats Admin UI. View the project timeline for more context on…
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If you’re doing serious development for WordPress you will quickly find yourself in a situation where you need to test a plugin in multiple installations. Using symlinks is a great way to make sure that you don’t end up editing in multiple locations, perhaps forgetting to commit a change, etc. However, there are some headaches…
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I’ve been working for a while on a version of Twitter Tools that extends Social. Version 3.0 is a ground-up rewrite, with a few features included for backward compatibility. If you’d like to test the beta, grab it from GitHub. Note that this is lightly tested and there is absolutely no information in the README…
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My upgrade to WordPress 3.3 was a simple svn switch command – everything just worked. The level of polish in the admin has really been stepped up in the last few releases. Hats off to all the folks doing great work there. I’m probably most pleased that my media size patch was accepted; I think…
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I’m very excited about today’s release of Social 2.0, a WordPress plugin from MailChimp. This is perhaps my favorite WordPress plugin; it is complex and ambitious, but I love the way it helps build a bridge between social networks and WordPress – a platform where we can really own our data. Social has a couple…
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I’m looking forward to attending WordCamp Orlando with Devin this weekend. Looks like there is a great schedule in place and I’m looking forward to catching up with fellow developers and hanging out with our friends at Voce. I’ll be helping out at the Happiness Bar at 9:30am if anyone wants to say hello or…
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If you’re trying to figure out why your custom taxonomies aren’t being set when you pass them to
wp_insert_post()in your custom code, you might be running into the same issue I did. Luckily, it’s easy to work around once you understand why it is happening. -
We have been working hard on a new version of the MailChimp’s Social plugin for WordPress. We have packaged a beta version for public testing (2.0b3, currently running on this site). Download from GitHub We are hoping for a general release of version 2.0 on Monday, so please report any issues you find in the…
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While our post formats admin UI is getting a nice warm reception (100+ tweets, pings and comments, wow!), there is a concern that has popped up a few times – one that I included a nod towards in my original post. What happens when publishers put important data in the post format custom fields, then…