I added password protection to the RSS 2.0 feed for comments and checked it in. You can subscribe to the feed directly (http://www.example.com/wp-commentsrss2.php) to get the latest comments, or pass in the post ID and subscribe to comments for that particular post (http://www.example.com/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=1234).
I also added password protection to the pop-up comments page (b2commentspopup.php). If you see anywhere that does not use the password protection let us know about it.
I’ve checked in some changes to the Admin screens that give you a historical view of comments. This gives you quick access to recent comments on your site which is pretty handy if you need to modify or delete a comment on an older post (you don’t have to navigate to the post first anymore).
I’ve started working on an implementation of WordPress that will be used to drive the Hacks Section of this site. Check out this thread in the forum for a discussion of potential categories.
The Hacks Section will include tested hacks that follow the Hack Guidelines. I believe this will become a great resource for the WordPress community and encourage the development of more WordPress hacks and add-ons.
The entire site and much of the forum should now be XHTML 1.1, completely valid and tested. I’ve submitted the site to the X-Philes. The forums still need some work. Cursed invalid embedded markup!
Beta 2 is now available. This contains numerous bugfixes, including one to the dreaded convert_char problem. Unless any outstanding bugs are found, this is going to be the official release version. So test it out well.
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