Feeding on feedback and progress

Keeping track of a projects progress is a common desire and if the project you are interested in happens to be a WordPress plugin then there are a number of RSS feeds which are an important resource for you (replace plugin_slug with the plugins slug!).


http://wordpress.org/support/rss/tags/plugin_slug

http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/plugin_slug?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss

The first of these contains all the support forum posts relevant to a particular plugin and the second is all the code changes that are happening in the plugins repository.

To keep track of these you have a couple of choices.

Firstly you could subscribe to them in your feed reader or if like me you like to receive emails for this sort of thing you can setup a cool tool called rss2email on your pc/server to email you new posts/changes.

Thought for the day

“If you want to make money in the open-source world then you need to think of the code you give away for free, and the community interaction you make as an on-going job interview.”

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WordPress developer documentation

Tonight I have restored my WordPress phpDocumentor site into functionality and added bbPress and BackPress into the mix too.  The root of the site is http://phpdoc.ftwr.co.uk/ and it is set to automattically update every 30 minutes as things change.

antileech

After the recent episodes of content theft that have been reported by myself and others Owen has written a new plugin called antileech which aims to make it easy to protect your sites against leechers. I have installed antileech on this site so please let me know if you are having any problems with my feeds.

WordPress 2.0.4 released (Security update)

WordPress v2.0.4 has been released with a number of security updates so it is well worth upgrading.

To simplfy the upgrade process I decided again to try generating a diff file between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4 and using that to patch my sites rather than uploading a full set of new files. The process for generating the diff file is actually simpler than the one I used last time!

Here is the process I took on my local machine to generate the diif file:

  1. Generated the patch file with svn diff using the following command (all on one line):

    svn diff http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.0.3 http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.0.4 > ~/2.0.3-to-2.0.4.patch

I then uploaded the patch file to my server and placed it in my home directory and applied the patch as follows:
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WordPress 2.0.2 released – Security update

WordPress v2.0.2 has been released with a number of security updates so it is well worth upgrading.

To simplfy the upgrade process I decided to try generating a diff file between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 and using that to patch my sites rather than uploading a full set of new files.

Here is the process I took on my local machine to generate the diif file:

  1. Exported both 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 from svn using the following commands:

    To get 2.0.2 - svn --force export http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/branches/2.0
    To get 2.0.1 - svn --force export http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.0.1

  2. Generated a patch file using diff:

    diff -U3 -r 2.0.1 2.0 > 2.0.1.to.2.0.2.patch

I then uploaded the patch file to my server and placed it in my home directory and applied the patch as follows:
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WordPress v2.0.1 Released

WordPress v2.0.1 is now available with over 100 bugs fixed since v2.0 was released about a month ago. This is looking like a very stable release and should be a great improvement over v1.5.2 with all the new features added in v2.0.

If you want to help out development of future WordPress versions then you can head over to the codex to sign up under areas which you feel you can help out.

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Wordpress Version Check v1.0

Wordpress Version Check v1.00 is now available.

The follow changes have been made in v1.00:

  1. Added support for WordPress v2.0-RC1 (see below for a screen shot)
  2. Added timeout to XML-RPC calls.
  3. Updated version number to 1.00.

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