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This week is a little different to the previous ones, as it’s a primarily testing focussed week. I’m skipping the release for this week in favour of just an update post. I noticed fairly late this week that the aforementioned client library wasn’t actually public and available to you guys, so I’ve now fixed that…

As we approach 3.6 final, we need to start thinking about the About page for the release. What should go on it? Shout out your ideas. #3-6

Following last week’s update about the WP_Importer_Cron approach to writing importers and running import jobs, I’ve been steadily transitioning code from the current non-stateful, single-execution pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to…

Rather unexciting update this week, as I’m still in the midst of a few things (and have been distracted by caring for a cat who had some teeth pulled… poor kitty!). As I mentioned last week, in reading through old TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and…

Time for another release of the JSONJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that…

Version 0.4 of the Code RevisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision. pluginPlugin A plugin…

This week, I began work on the next phase of my project: fixing up the WXR importer plugin. A number of developers, including Jon Cave, Peter Westwood, and Andrew Nacin have been maintaining this pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website.…

This past week, I continued delving into the mysteries of unit testing, and ended up submitting a minor patch back to the unit-tests repo (after spending some time trying to figure out what was wrong with my setup that was causing one of the tests to fail on coreCore Core is the set of software…

The WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ support forums were taken offline this morning to help resolve data corruption and…

It’s that time of week again folks (and actually on-time this time)! Version 0.2 of the JSONJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. REST APIREST API The REST API is…