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Next WP 2.3 Alpha and Beyond

Pete Lacey: Currently, we expose posts and uploads (media entries).  Once 2.3 is released I hope to add support in 2.4 for WordPress pages and comments among other things.

With this fix, the code now works on PHP4 (evidence).  In 2.4, I’d like to see WordPress support foreign markup, presumably as a sort of attachment.  I also think the code deserves a good bit of refactoring, as there are two places where Atom is parsed (import/blogger.php and wp-app.php) and two places where Atom entries are created (wp-app.php and feed-atom.php).

Pete mentioned automation.  Here’s how to install WordPress 2.3 from svn on php4 a clean system.  The php5 instructions are identical, other than s/php4/php5/g and the one workaround is not necessary for php5.

First, install Ubuntu Dapper (Feisty no longer has php4, even in universe); enable universe; install latest patches.

sudo apt-get install subversion php4 mysql-server mysql-client php4-mysql
svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk/
cd wordpress
mkdir wp-content/uploads
chmod 777 wp-content/uploads
sudo ln -s `pwd` /var/www/wordpress

cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php
vi wp-config.php
mysql -u root < wpinit

Make the top of wp-config.php look like the following (note the workaround):

<?php
if (!extension_loaded('mysql')) {if (!dl('mysql.so')) {exit;}}

// ** MySQL settings ** //
define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress');    // The name of the database
define('DB_USER', 'wordpress');     // Your MySQL username

And make wpinit look like the following:

create database wordpress;
grant all privileges on wordpress.* to "wordpress"@"localhost" identified by "password";
flush privileges;

visit http://localhost/wordpress/

Follow Installation instructions, login as admin

mysqldump -u root wordpress > wordpress.dump

Now, at any time, you can restore yourself back to a clean system with the following:

rm -rf ~/wordpress/uploads/20*
mysql -u root < wpinit
mysql -u root wordpress < wordpress.dump