Archive For December, 2007

Before we go any further: if you want to discuss Phorum 5.2, please use the special Phorum 5.2 forum that we created for this purpose. If you have a bug, start a new thread in that forum. Thank you.After some weeks collecting bugfixes we are proud to release our second and hopefully last Release Candidate of Phorum-5.2. If all goes well you might see the stable release as a new-years present .Some small bugs were fixed, the templates got some documentation and also a "tidy"-option to get cleaned up output.The announcements-module got another option as well.Manual changes from 5.2.3 to…

When building WordPress themes from scratch it is easy to forget about things that “just work”.  One of such things, often forgotten by newcomers to WordPress theme development, is trackback auto-discovery – a really tiny bit of code, which is not visible to a naked eye (an eye without HTML source that is).  Trackback auto-discovery provides a specially formatted HTML code for other content management systems to find a trackback URL in your post.  Gladly, there is a Codex page that covers trackback_rdf() function.

Before we go any further: if you want to discuss Phorum 5.2, please use the special Phorum 5.2 forum that we created for this purpose. If you have a bug, start a new thread in that forum. Thank you.After another month collecting bugfixes we are proud to release our first Release Candidate of Phorum-5.2.Some small bugs were fixed and the admin-overview of the forums and folders was overhauled for usability.Manual changes from 5.2.2 to 5.2.3 are listed in this thread:[www.phorum.org]This is the excerpt from the changelog:Quote2007-12-06 11:12 ts77* added charset definition to create-table statements andconnections2007-11-25 17:46 mmakaay* MFT: # Make…

If you are using subversion to update your phorum or your development install please read the following changes.We moved Subversion to its separate subdomain and changed the url a little bit.The old url was
svn://www.phorum.org/repos/phorum5
The new url is
svn://svn.phorum.org/phorum5You can use the
svn switch –relocate
command to update your repositories.Additionally we enabled (read-only) HTTP-access to the repository which should help you if you can reach the svn-url because of firewall issues.The url with http is:
[svn.phorum.org]Full Subversion instructions are available in TRAC again at[trac.phorum.org]

If you don’t have a lot of time to follow WordPress development news, just read to this one blog – WordPress weekly digest.  One short post per week, with a summary list of what changes went into trunk.  Occasionally, there are also brief explanations like this one:

 The last change means that the next time you login the value stored in the database will change – this means that if you do upgrade passed this point reverting back to an old version will invalidate all users passwords and they will need reseting. Therefore it is a good idea to backup up…