WordPress __autoload() idea

PHP 5 introduces autoloading classes. The way WordPress is currently structured, I don’t think we’d get much benefit from switching to autoloading. There aren’t that many classes in core WordPress that don’t need to get loaded on every page load.
With some restructuring, though, we might be able to cut down on the number [...]

Post Revisions in WordPress 2.6

Have you ever saved a post on your blog only to realize later that you accidentally erased a critical paragraph? Ever worked on a blog with multiple authors and needed to keep a log of who changed what and when?
WordPress should store a history of all your posts. You’d get protection from accidental [...]

Improved Post and Page management in WordPress

Managing thousands of posts and dozens of drafts will be much easier in the upcoming WordPress 2.3 thanks to some revamped backend code and admin interfaces.
First, the interface changes. In Manage -> Posts you can currently look for posts by search term, or browse by month or category, but only one of these things [...]

Hitting WordPress Attachment Handling

In debugging some stuff here on WordPress.com, I dived (once more) into the image handling guts of WordPress.
A while ago, I revamped WordPress’ inline uploading functionality to be more pluggable, cacheable, maintainable and (hopefully) intuitive. A hundred bugs later, it seems to be working pretty well.
This time around, the issue was not how WP [...]