Update 2008-11-06: FeedWordPress 2008.1030 is now out of date. You can download the latest release — 2008.1105 at the time of this writing — from the project homepage.
I’ll talk about what’s new in a second. But first, I’m going to ask you for some money. Here’s why.
It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to concentrate on FeedWordPress development and support, and I’m glad to finally get this release released. The major reasons for this have been related to work: FeedWordPress development has had to take a back seat while I took on other projects as full-time or seasonal work in order to pay the bills. FeedWordPress started out, originally, as itch-scratch-ware for my own purposes, and eventually became a sort of hobby that I was pleased to find a lot of people were finding useful. But I do have rent and bills to pay, and other work has kept me from being able to keep up with FeedWordPress as much as I would like. Since then my circumstances have changed. I am now working as a freelance web developer, which gives me more flexibility over choosing my projects and setting the hours that I work on them. And what I would like is to be able to devote significantly more time to developing and supporting FeedWordPress. Which I will be able to do if my work on FeedWordPress generates enough user donations to free me up from having to spend that time looking for paying gigs. So, if you enjoy FeedWordPress (or at least find it useful), I’d encourage you to figure out how much ongoing development and support for FeedWordPress is worth to you, and consider making a contribution to the project through the project tip jar at .
O.K. Now, on to the release.
This release of FeedWordPress features a couple of fixes to bugs that have been irritating FeedWordPress users for some time now. It also features some important new features. And a new versioning scheme: rather than call this release 0.994, I have decided that, with these bug fixes in place, and with the number of reasonable version numbers left between 0.993 and 1.0 quickly running out, it is time to drop the beta-status versioning and to adopt a new versioning scheme. Because of the way that FeedWordPress releases work — the basic architecture is likely to remain stable even if there are bug fixes, small or significant changes to internal workings, or the occasional significant new feature added — I think that it will not make much sense to try to follow a standard major.minor.bugfix pattern for version numbers of FeedWordPress. Instead, I’ve decided to adopt release numbers based on the date of the release; since this one is being released on October 30, 2008, we’ll call it FeedWordPress 2008.1030.
Here is most of what has changed since FeedWordPress 0.993:
* **WORDPRESS 2.6 COMPATABILITY:** FeedWordPress should now be fully compatible with
WordPress 2.6, and should work more or less seamlessly with the new post
revision system. A bug which caused multiple new revisions to be created
for posts on certain feeds, regardless of whether or not the item had
been updated, has been fixed.
* **INTERFACE IMPROVEMENTS:** The user interface has been substantially
restyled to fit in better with the visual style of WordPress 2.5 and
2.6.