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Blog.uvm.edu has seen some updates recently as I fit it in-between my other work. Not much finished, but things looking better.
I’ve overhauled the activity stream so that it is vastly better looking, though it’s still getting tweaked. Any input is welcome. The whole point is so that people can find out what interesting things others at UVM are saying or doing.
The blog and user directories have been tidied up so that they at least look UVMish.
I’ve also been working on a couple oft-requested plugins such as the ability to subscribe to notices of new articles on a blog, as well as a contact form. If you’d like other functionality not already present, just let me know and I’ll see what I can do.
Wapuu
This cute guy — who is very definitely not Pikachu holding a WordPress logo — is Wapuu, the newly-named mascot of WordPress Japan.
UVM Blogs updates
I just upgraded UVM Blogs to WordPress 3.1.2. It’s a pretty minor update, so I’m not expecting issues.
Last night, I also rolled out the new UVM theme for the top-level blog. Ooh, pretty. 🙂 Among other things, it brings the most recent several posts from people’s blogs onto the home page.
I’m also working on adding a few requested plugins for Google Maps integration and more advanced gallery support, and need to re-add the global announcement feature that was removed from WordPress 3.1.
WordPress 3.1
WordPress 3.1 is out, and has some nice new features. I will try to get blog.uvm.edu upgraded as soon as I can, though we have a lot of plugins and customizations that complicate things, particularly the social features on the top level blog and our hooks into the user account logic that allows us to use NetIDs and not just native WordPress accounts.
WordPress 3.0
I’m working on the upgrade of this site to WordPress 3.0. Unfortunately, the upgrade from a rather-customize installed of WordPress MU is “special”, but the test server is… mostly… working at this point. There are still a number of broken plugins, though. Hopefully, we’ll get there next week.
Testing the WordPress iPad app
This is just me, testing out the WordPress iPad app. The keyboard on this thing is much more usable than on an iPhone. The app is a bit strange in the UI department, but seems decently usable.
XML-RPC Working
XML-RPC is now working. Blog owners can simply turn it on in Settings → Writing, and then go to Users → My Profile to generate a passcode for authentication. Woohoo!
XML-RPC
We’ve given up for now trying to get the XML-RPC interface to WordPress both to require SSL and to actually work consistently across third-party applications, and are switching to a mode of offering but not requiring SSL for XML-RPC, and ensuring that authentication is done with a non-NetID password. Users will be able to generate a WordPress “passcode” that will work for XML-RPC apps, while still logging in with their NetID when using a web browser.
This is being tested currently and should be put in production soon.