My favorite feature in Wordpress is the upgrade functionality of both the core bundle as well as additional plugins. I know FTP overwriting is rather straight forward and possibly safer, but if there's any 'one button click' that I adore it's this one.
On Mar 7, 11:45 pm, The Editor <[email protected]> wrote: > We've been knocking out some good stuff lately, and there's only one > or two things left on my immediate agenda. So I took some time to > revise my roadmap for the immediate future. Here's an outline of > things to come: > > 1. Finish up the current 3.3.x series and put out a stable 3.4. > Basically, as soon as we feel confident the currently release seems to > be working. > > 2. Add a few things to the 3.4 series and finish it off with a final, > stable 3.5. And make this the end of the entire 3.xx round of > development. The todo's for 3.4 include: > > * Improved automatic paragraph making... We really need an entirely > different system for doing this... Have some ideas, but haven't > tinkered much with them yet. Soon... > * Improved performance of searching by caching index, and a new data > querying technique... I have a custom query script working on my site, > that gives impressive results speed wise, and with many enhanced > capabilities. I just need to integrate it into the core somehow. > > 3. For 4.xx I plan to finally do the major overhaul I've been planning > for how forms work. Namely, forcing all commands to be session > variables and allowing formats like this: > > [session mail to=... from=... subject=... body=... etc] > > These were listed as a 3.5 goal, but I've renumbered things, and it > seems more appropriate to make this a 4.xx goal, as it could be quite > disruptive, affecting virtually all existing sites and many plugins... > Yet I'm convinced this will be a major improvement to things. Can't > wait to do it... > > The other goal for 4.xx is to go through the code very carefully and > try to simplify everything possible: strip out all absolutely > unnecessary code. Features we don't use. Options we don't need. > Anything complicated. That kind of stuff. Just general house cleaning. > Perhaps even get us back down to under 100k. I've been beginning to > feel BoltWire is not quite as spry as it once was... > > To be honest, I'm inclined to have a BoltWire lite and a BoltWire pro. > With the lite version being a simpler feature set that is rock solid > stable, easy to use, and rarely updated. Just works. And then a > BoltWire pro that is more full featured, with a several choice plugins > built in, more actions and common stuff built in. Everything ready to > go as an all-in-one CMS system. Just toying with the idea actually. > Not sure I like maintaining two versions, but I like the idea of > giving people a really positive, first impression. And of having > something bigger with everything in it. Just thinking out loud. > > Well, open to feedback and opinions, and of course feature requests > not listed above. All the usual stuff. > > Thanks to everyone for being a part of BoltWire's development. > > Cheers, > Dan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BoltWire" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/boltwire?hl=en.
