In a follow up comment on his WebFinger post Joe Gregorio gives some perspective on AtomPub and XML:
Look, AtomPub has this problem, and if I had to do it all over again I would build AtomPub in JSON. An implementer wants to go from bits on the wire to a native data structure they can [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Just in time for Christmas WordPress 2.9 is out. Here’s what has changed in the XML-RPC and AtomPub APIs since 2.8.6:
XML-RPC
Expose user registration option via wp.getOptions/wp.setOptions ( ticket #10454 )
Fix bug in wp.getComment that reported spam comments with a status of hold ( ticket #10510 )
Adjust how the XML-RPC server is activated so that [...]
Here’s what has changed in WordPress XML-RPC and AtomPub APIs from 2.7.1 to the new WordPress 2.8 release:
XML-RPC
Fixed wp.getUsersBlogs and blogger.getUsersBlogs to return the correct value for the ‘xmlrpc’ field when WordPress is installed in separate directory ( ticket #9516 )
Authentication is filterable now, allowing for alternative authentication methods like OAuth ( ticket #8941 and [...]
When creating a WordPress theme don’t forget to include a wp_head(); call in the HTML HEAD section of your theme. It’s very simple to do, just include:
<?php wp_head(); ?>
Before the closing HEAD tag (</head>) in your HTML.
Why make such a fuss over a single function call? Because it does a fair bit of [...]
Ryan just tagged the 2.7.1 release of WordPress. This being a maintenance release there are only a few changes to XML-RPC:
Fixed bugs in wp.newComment (ticket 8672)
Fix break of metaWeblog.getCategories that was introduced in 2.7 (ticket 8494)
Added the new categoryDescription field to metaWeblog.getCategories in light of the problems introduced in 2.7 as part of ticket [...]
Today brings the official release of WordPress 2.7. I love what Michael Pick has been doing with the videos for the new WordPress releases:
There’s lots of information about the new UI and features in the announcement. Here’s what’s changed for XML-RPC when you compare the 2.6 branch to the new 2.7 code:
New method: [...]
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