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{ 2007 09 03 }

WordPress and Atompub Revisited

Tim beat me to the post, but as of around midnight last night we have no known issues with Atompub support in WordPress 2.3. Woot!

My dear departed father use to give me this piece of advice (left over from his Navy days), “never volunteer.” But I did, and I’m happier for it. This is the first time I’ve contributed to an open source project, and you know what, it’s a lot of fun—and rewarding. And working with Sam, Tim, Elias, and Joseph was a distinct honor and pleasure.

That said, Tim gives me too much credit. The bulk of the code is Elias’s. All I did was patch some bugs and bring the code up to compliance with the latest spec. Sam nailed some gnarly ones too, and automated everything—a habit I have to get into. It took a little longer than expected because I had to relearn PHP, which I haven’t used since 2001, and go spelunking through the WordPress codebase.

Currently, we expose posts and uploads (media entries). Once 2.3 is released I hope to add support in 2.4 for WordPress pages and comments among other things. I might also be convinced to back-port this to WP 2.2 if anyone’s interested.

Posted by Pete on Monday, September 3, 2007, at 9:32 am. Filed under Tech. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

{ 6 } Comments

  1. Joe Cheng [MSFT] | September 4, 2007 at 5:28 pm | Permalink

    Great work, all of you. Looking forward to testing this with Windows Live Writer!

  2. Pete | September 4, 2007 at 5:40 pm | Permalink

    Joe: Thanks, Joe. It’s funny, we were just talking about you. Wondering what the issues would be for authenticating clients like WLW if the PHP install didn’t support Basic auth (as apparently is the case with certain hosting providers). Thoughts?

  3. Jim | September 14, 2007 at 12:41 pm | Permalink

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY PETE!!!!!!!!!!!!

  4. Elliotte Rusty Harol | September 22, 2007 at 9:01 am | Permalink

    So this patch has been accepted into WordPress 2.3 and will ship as part of the default install?

  5. Pete | September 22, 2007 at 11:01 am | Permalink

    Elliotte Yes. The patches have been accepted into the trunk and will ship with WP 2.3. WP 2.3 will be AtomPub compliant.

  6. Lloyd Budd | October 3, 2007 at 6:14 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for this important work!

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