About once per year I realize that I’ve neglected my blog and decide that it’s time to change that. I’m going to try to blog at least once per week, starting with this recap of what I’ve been up to since my last post.
WordPress Unit Tests Sprint: A Primer
WordPress 3.4 finally shipped a few weeks ago, and now attention turns to 3.5. Feature discussions will start at the July 11 IRC dev chat, but in the meantime there will be a sprint to revise the unit tests suite. This post is to serve as starting guidance for the contributors who will be helping in this sprint. For background, you can read the kickoff IRC chat logs.
WordCamp NYC Talk
Today I gave a talk on “Integrating with WordPress via XML-RPC” at WordCamp NYC:
If you have any questions or follow-ups, please reach me via the comments or contact form.
Remembering Shuttle
The Space Shuttles have been in the news lately as Discovery and Enterprise were ferried to DC and NYC, respectively, for public display in their retirement. And SpaceX is scheduled to launch the first private industry spacecraft to the International Space Station next week. So in keeping with the space news, I’ve fixed the broken gallery on my Space Shuttle Atlantis launch post.
python-wordpress-xmlrpc v2.0!
As WordPress 3.4 approaches RC and final release, the new features in the XML-RPC API have finally stabilized. For those Python users out there, I’ve updated my Python binding library to take advantage of the new functionality.
As part of the release, I spent the time to write proper documentation; be sure to check out the examples section! The library is now also compatible with Python 3 (in addition to Python 2.6+).
If you are currently using a previous release (1.x) of the library, be warned that 2.0 is not backwards compatible. I’ve removed all but one use of legacy Blogger/metaWeblog methods, which has caused the posts module and several others to change significantly. See the changelog for full details.
And, of course, you can download it on PyPI or directly through GitHub.
XML-RPC in WordPress 3.4
WordPress 3.4 has finally hit beta! Since full changelog/release notes are not yet available, I want to recap the improvements in XML-RPC functionality for this release here.
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XML-RPC Modernization Plugin: v0.7 Release
I’ve released another update of my XML-RPC modernization plug-in for WordPress. This release incorporates the work from Ticket #18429, and adds new wp.newPost, wp.editPost and wp.deletePost methods. With these new methods, full CRUD capabilities for posts of any type (posts, pages, and any registered custom post types) are available through XML-RPC.
Redesign
As a birthday present to myself, I’m finally launching a redesign of maxcutler.com. Read More…
XML-RPC Modernization Plugin: v0.6 Release
Today I released an update (version 0.6) to my XML-RPC modernization plugin for WordPress, and have put it up on the WordPress.org plugin repository. I have also released a branch of python-wordpress-xmlrpc that supports the new functionality provided by the WordPress plugin.
XML-RPC Modernization Plugin: v0.5 Release
Tonight I’ve open sourced the current state of my WordPress XML-RPC plugin containing a slew of new methods. I’m going through the motions to get it on the WordPress.org plugin repository and will update this post with a link when it’s up there. Read More…
