We don’t want to worry about the technical aspects of maintaining a blog. This is an important shift in the way bloggers think about writing. New WordPress 2.6 installs would be given the option at install to enable XML-RPC editing and upgraded blogs (pre-existing) ware grandfathered in to an “enabled” paradigm. He took his battle up, a bit more congenially among WordPress developers, and the result was a compromise. He is the developer behind the very nice MarsEdit client for Mac which, incidentally, I’m using to write this post. In the development cycle, XML-RPC and Atom Pub API for remote editing was turned off by default as a “security precaution” since many recent WordPress security issues seem to stem from the XML-RPC protocol.ĭaniel took the issue up on his blog in a bit of a vicious manner because he has a vested interest in desktop client support for blogs. Quietly, a new bit of functionality snuck into WordPress trunk that threw a number of developers and kicked off an interesting discussion. To enable Gears in your new WordPress 2.6 installation, click on the Turbo link in the upper right corner of your WordPress admin. This is particularly important where broadband access is limited or inaccessible (third world, for instance). Gears has been integrated with WordPress 2.6 on the admin side and speeds things up tremendously. Gears is the Google technology that allows for Firefox (apparently IE 6 too, but I can’t confirm) to “pre-cache” pages and speed up access. Still though, there is a significant amount of new functionality that I find quite nice. The thinking is that WP 2.6 can be released so a WordPress 2.7 can come in the early fall timeframe and integrate new features developed in conjunction with the Google Summer of Code project. While there are certainly major new changes that warrant a new major release, much of the release consists of various improvements generally saved for “dot releases”. In my opinion, this is an odd major release. WordPress 2.6 is around the corner (sometime next week, it looks like), and as usual, there’s a bunch of changes, improvements, enhancements that have went into this version.
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