Unstable 1.0.0 beta2

ludo, Wednesday 23 March 2005 17:32:29 PST

I know you're supposed to enter a features freeze before releasing a beta up to the final release, but WPFF is such a tiny project that I could not resist adding a few features in this latest beta:

  • a search interface, with RSS/Atom subscription for search results

  • categories feeds (they were already there, I added a page to display them)

  • author pages, listing the author's details and posts

  • new hooks for plugins

Apart from the new features, I have fixed quite a few minor bugs. I am starting writing detailed user and developer docs, and a couple of support scripts to install WPFF and manage the config.php and .htacsess files. As soon as I have finished them I will declare WPFF stable and release 1.0.0.

On a side note, WPFF is now handling around 15-20k pages (not hits, pages) a day on an owerworked old Celeron 900, who is doubling as db server (MySQL+Interbase) and doing tons of other things as well (mailboxes, spam filtering, stats aggregation in SQL, etc.). We often have serious traffic spikes, with a 30 min average of 5-6Mb/sec (which means burst rates of at least double that) which WPFF handles without any problem.

The tarball is in the usual place.

Readers' Comments

  1. ludo

    First comment, first bug spotted. :)

    Note to myself: post_permalink is not set in plugins/PostComment.php. Uhm, I remember having already fixed it on our sites…..

  2. WordPress Fast Frontend

    Unstable 1.0.0 beta3 As promised, I have applied most the patches Jerome sent me yesterday night and released 1.0 beta 3. I chose not to apply the following two patches:

    query logging in DB_lite/MySQL.php, it’s a good idea and very useful when you need to debug a SQL …

  3. jerome

    I noticed the post_permalink vs. notify_post_permalink tag issues – sorry, should have warned you about those. You should also check post_comment_notification.txt for the same issue in beta-3.

  4. jerome

    Whoops, ignore that last comment – it’s my version that’s broken.