Comments on: WP Commit Digest for February 2006 http://ryan.boren.me/2006/03/01/wp-commit-digest-for-february-2006/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:22:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: WordPress is Starting to Look Even Better at Cole Camplese: Learning & Innovation http://ryan.boren.me/2006/03/01/wp-commit-digest-for-february-2006/#comment-26572 Sat, 11 Mar 2006 22:59:39 +0000 http://boren.nu/archives/2006/03/01/wp-commit-digest-for-february-2006/#comment-26572 [...] This is getting good! The whole static front page thing is going to let us all do some serious stuff with WordPress in the near future. More goodness to read here. [...]

]]> By: ceejayoz http://ryan.boren.me/2006/03/01/wp-commit-digest-for-february-2006/#comment-26571 Fri, 10 Mar 2006 23:29:42 +0000 http://boren.nu/archives/2006/03/01/wp-commit-digest-for-february-2006/#comment-26571 In my opinion, AJAXifying the front end (what readers see) should be left to theme and plugin authors.

]]> By: Thomas Lee Elifritz http://ryan.boren.me/2006/03/01/wp-commit-digest-for-february-2006/#comment-26570 Fri, 10 Mar 2006 22:55:06 +0000 http://boren.nu/archives/2006/03/01/wp-commit-digest-for-february-2006/#comment-26570 That’s another thing, sidebar expand and contract page, category and link lists, directly from the database, using AJAX. These should be integrated with the same AJAX features used in the admin backend. Do I have to do all this myself?

]]> By: Thomas Lee Elifritz http://ryan.boren.me/2006/03/01/wp-commit-digest-for-february-2006/#comment-26569 Fri, 10 Mar 2006 22:52:47 +0000 http://boren.nu/archives/2006/03/01/wp-commit-digest-for-february-2006/#comment-26569 I’m very interested in seeing your future WordPress page handling capabilities, as I would also like to see a lot more AJAX on the WordPress front end, rather than having to implement a hodgepodge of AJAX plugins and hacks. If you guys want to keep up with Google, you have to start integrating some AJAX front end features on WordPress. All that page reloading is starting to annoy me, now that I am thinking of implementing massive amounts of information in the pages in lieu of databasing.

]]> By: HR http://ryan.boren.me/2006/03/01/wp-commit-digest-for-february-2006/#comment-26568 Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:36:40 +0000 http://boren.nu/archives/2006/03/01/wp-commit-digest-for-february-2006/#comment-26568 The big thing giving me a little bit of grief with WordPress is the lack of fine grained control over category and post display based on user roles. The Category Visibility plugin worked really well on WordPress 1.5.x when it was extended to include next/previous navigation filtering, 403 access denied pages, and archive list filtering. Category exclusion for WP2 handles the roles well but doesn’t have next/previous nav filtering, 403 pages or archive list filtering. I tried to port the patches over but failed miserably (thanks to having next to no coding skills) and also because the original author suggested that not all the hooks are in place in WP2. For example, when I updated the get_next_post() function, it fails to work for anyone except the WP admin (again probably because I suck at coding). How hard would it be for the WordPress developers to extend the link functions to work with user permissions in the main trunk? My opinion is that once more CMS functionality comes into play, then permission control will be the next big thing. Thanks.

]]> By: Simon http://ryan.boren.me/2006/03/01/wp-commit-digest-for-february-2006/#comment-26567 Thu, 09 Mar 2006 13:29:12 +0000 http://boren.nu/archives/2006/03/01/wp-commit-digest-for-february-2006/#comment-26567 Hi

Sounds great stuff, most of it currently achievable via plugins but anyhting that makes life easier straight out of the box is fine by me!

One feature I’d really love to see is the ability to easily change the order that pages are listed when called by wp_list_pages. Maybe something similar to how in Mambo you have little Up and Down buttons in the admin screen? The current numbering system is a bit unwieldy.

That very minor point aside, I love WP and it just seems to be getting better all the time!

Simon

]]> By: Ryan http://ryan.boren.me/2006/03/01/wp-commit-digest-for-february-2006/#comment-26566 Mon, 06 Mar 2006 18:59:25 +0000 http://boren.nu/archives/2006/03/01/wp-commit-digest-for-february-2006/#comment-26566 We’re adding a means to hide all links and/or posts in a category when displaying lists.

]]> By: renaluelle http://ryan.boren.me/2006/03/01/wp-commit-digest-for-february-2006/#comment-26565 Mon, 06 Mar 2006 09:18:53 +0000 http://boren.nu/archives/2006/03/01/wp-commit-digest-for-february-2006/#comment-26565 I’m so happy to hear about these developments.

Another built-in feature that would greatly improve WP as a CMS would be a checkbox feature to display/hide pages or categories when using the list_pages/wp_list_pages and list_cats/wp_list_cats tags in templates.

Something like this would allow for so much more control over site design without having to struggle against the very “blog-y” convention of having a huge category list on the sidebar.

Thanks for all the great work that has gone into making WP a great CMS so far. I’m actually a fairly new WP user so please let me know if there is an official WP feature wishlist somewhere that I can post to. I couldn’t seem to find one in the Codex.

]]> By: Ryan http://ryan.boren.me/2006/03/01/wp-commit-digest-for-february-2006/#comment-26564 Fri, 03 Mar 2006 04:25:04 +0000 http://boren.nu/archives/2006/03/01/wp-commit-digest-for-february-2006/#comment-26564 I’ll try to answer some of the questions.

Categories for Pages is being discussed.

Improving search to cover Pages and other objects is also being discussed. We need to be better at this out of the box.

Right now the only way to get these changes is via the subversion repository. We’re still very early in the development process with things changing daily. These features may look entirely different by the time they are released.

Austin’s Home Page Control is a very good plugin that provides the “page on front” functionality for 2.0.1. We decided that this feature is popular enough to bring into core for the next release. Props to Austin.

]]> By: Austin http://ryan.boren.me/2006/03/01/wp-commit-digest-for-february-2006/#comment-26563 Thu, 02 Mar 2006 19:08:30 +0000 http://boren.nu/archives/2006/03/01/wp-commit-digest-for-february-2006/#comment-26563 Rich, I don’t know what Mark J had in mind, but I wrote a plugin that can “show static page on front page and show blog posts in subdirectory.”

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