Peregrine

Four days ago, a new release of WordPress, the blogging software that runs OpenBrainstem blogs was made available. It’s now up to version 2.0.4, which all OpenBrainstem blogs are now using.

There were several security fixes and over 50 bug fixes, according to the announcement on the WordPress website. However, I’ve also noticed a couple of irritating regressions. For example, when managing pending comments, it’s always been possible to click on the text next to the radio buttons at the bottom of each comment you are moderating. This makes it easy to select the action you wish to take for each comment, as you have a larger target for your mouse pointer. Unfortunately, this broke with 2.0.4 and clicking the text no longer selects the bullet.

There were a couple of other patches I had to reapply to the code. For example, if you look at the calendars at my blog, you’ll see that dates with a post are displayed very nicely. This is thanks to a small change I made to the template-functions-general.php file. You can download the patch file and apply it to your own WordPress installation, if you like. Then, I added the posted-day class to the style.css file for the theme that I am using.

There are also a few other tweaks I have made to that theme, and I’m planning a couple more. One thing is that when you view a dated page, the sidebars don’t get their background colors set. A minor bug, but I’ll fix it sometime.

Anyway, there were some other code patches I had to reapply, but it only took about 10 minutes to do. I’m going to get some of these patches packaged up and submitted for inclusion in future versions of WordPress.