Version 1.5
Note: The working version number for version 1.5 was 1.3.
Archive version available at: http://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/
This page lists the goals that Version 1.5 aspired to. Striked out items have been implemented.
Critical bugs that need to be fixed New functionality that needs implementation/fixing Other stuff
I know many potential users are trying to decide whether to install 1.2mingus or wait until an official 1.3 release. This page should help them tackle that decision.
1.3 (now 1.5) Goals
This is a temporary section outlining goals for 1.3(now 1.5) for developers to work on if they have the time. Not all of this will make it into 1.3(now 1.5). If you have any questions or comments, or even better if you want to work on any of this, please email m@mullenweg.com
Dashboard - blocker: magpie/custom decision Finish options
Remove tables:
optiongroup_options optiongroups optiontypes optionvalues
Fix geo 0;0 behaviour re: CarthikAdd GUID field to wp_posts (should be permalink at time of posting, with isPermalink=no) Users
Ability to edit other users
Login page
Needs to give errors in a big red box
Plugins
Update Markdown to 1.0 re: Michel Fortin Update Staticize, more graceful errors Move Geo to plugin and enhance. (Geo removed from core. MooKitty working on plugin.) Doc what to do with bad plugin Add API for providing admin UI (Options pages done. What else?)
Additional slugs (category and author) - blocker: UI decision Comments
Emergent registration - Kitten will provide patches Retrospaminator - Kitten will provide patches User agent field, record and filter Still needs a little work Throttling - if there are more than 20 posts, then take a weighted average of the number of comments on recent posts and if more comments than that are left in a short period of time start putting them into moderation Moderation notification when you leave a comment Whitelist trackbacks and pingbacks from blogroll Automatically moderate posts more than 10 days old
Texty stuff
Fix ending double quote bug in Texturize Make autop faster
Pages
Polish Admin UI (Getting there. Add slug?) Add page support to template Add wp_list_pages() to template Add folder/subpage support Add custom, per-page template support
Cleanup database install/upgrade Presentation
Theme Switcher Theme Editor
Migrate to IXR Link Manager UI
Remove Options->Link Manager Move link update options to Options->Misc
Permalinks, Cruft-Free Links
Tidy Options->Permalinks Full PATH_INFO support 404 support %category% %author% Timestamp permalinks Automatically update .htaccess I18N Support Clean page links, everywhere Clean feed links, everywhere Have htaccess redirect to path info by default?
I18N
Fix email subject encoding bugs Audit use of htmlentities Add UTF-8 support to title sanitizer (Almost done. Need to complete remove accents.)
Feeds
Enclosures (pretty much done?) RPC 3299 Extended ping support Image?
Template and file editing UI cleanup
Developer Notes
Don't use the trackback and pingback pseudo-xml tags anymore, use the new comment_type field. Note that the table names have all moved into $wpdb Use WP_Query and the is_*() functions.
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