Aehso’s Output

Wordpress 2.3 ships, with APP support.

Great to see Wordpress 2.3 shipping with support for Atom 1.0 and APP (draft 17 compliant I’m guessing). I haven’t updated this blog yet (for fear of borking plugins/themes that I have enabled) but from playing with a local test install this afternoon I see Wordpress now publishes the following feed URLs out of the box:

1. <wordpress-root-URL>/?feed=atom - Atom 0.3 format feed
2. <wordpress-root-URL>/?feed=rss - RSS 0.92 format feed
3. <wordpress-root-URL>/wp-app.php/service - APP Service
4. <wordpress-root-URL>/wp-app.php/posts - “Wordpress Posts” APP collection feed
5. <wordpress-root-URL>/wp-app.php/categories - “Wordpress Posts” APP category document
6. <wordpress-root-URL>/wp-app.php/attachments - “Wordpress Media” (attachments?) APP Collection

I am a little curious about why the HTML doesn’t contain a <link> for 4 though - its absence makes it kind of difficult to auto discover the collection feed URL. I’m also curious why both 1. and 4. exist. I always assumed that the APP collections would just point to the real Atom feed URL, with APP clients authenticating to send HTTP POST, PUT and DELETE requests. Was this necessary because of bad feed readers/aggregators or was my assumption just plain wrong?

Update: Sam Ruby has some good commentary, doesn’t answer my question though…

1 Comment to Wordpress 2.3 ships, with APP support.

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   There are a few reasons to separate an AtomPub collection from the public feed. Mostly, the collection will contain information that feed readers don’t care about or that you don’t want them to see; eg. an entry’s edit URL or draft entries that haven’t been published yet.

   There’s nothing wrong with doing it either way.
Brendan Taylor on October 2nd, 2007

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