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Can you identify in general what *might* cause a plugin to break under 2.1 vs 2.0.x ?

There aren’t any database layout changes in 2.1 correct, just additional options for some fields?

ie. “future” for the post status is new in 2.1 but the field data type is identical so it shouldn’t break anything unless it’s poor code that doesn’t know what to do with an unknown setting (or interprets it wrong)

Don’t plugins have a priority level?
Perhaps I can change the url shortening to a higher priority and the word wrap to a lower one so they get executed in the prefered order?

TADA!
Once you upload and go to the permalinks section you will see you can change all the bases – tested working.

You can use the “WordPress Internal Rewrite Viewer” to see the changes happen after you save.
http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/wordpress-internal-rewrite-viewer-plugin/

There is only one bug right now that I can see.
Unlike the category field, if you clear out the others, they do not revert to their default.

I think this has to do with the way wp_rewrite inits and has default settings, category_base is done differently and I am not sure how.

Unsetting the variables may fix it, I am too much a novice at PHP to figure it out right now, perhaps a greater mind can tell me easily how to fix that.

This is too late for 2.0.4 I guess but I’d like to see this fix permanently done for 2.1.0 – I have no idea how to use the bugtrack system so feel free to submit all this for me if you are a bugtrack pro.

Okay after a bunch of poking around I got this working nicely from the permalinks option in the dashboard/control panel.

Unfortunately due to my limited knowledge of WordPress and if the init() function is replaceable by a plugin, I chose to do this directly as a hack for now. Those that know better can see what I did and perhaps make it a complete standalone plugin with no hacks needed?

Okay, start here:
wp-includes\classes.php
function init() at or around line 1425 in wp2.0.3
it’s missing all the options to set ANY base except for category – someone was either in a hurry or lazy

add below the $this->category_base…

$this->author_base = get_settings('author_base');
$this->feed_base = get_settings('feed_base');
$this->search_base = get_settings('search_base');
$this->comments_base = get_settings('comments_base');

that will allow WP to rebuild all the rules for those extra bases

now find this part of code in classes.php

function set_category_base($category_base) {
if ($category_base != $this->category_base) {
update_option('category_base', $category_base);
$this->init();
}
}

and again mimic it for the other bases, adding


function set_author_base($author_base) {
if ($author_base != $this->author_base) {
update_option('author_base', $author_base);
$this->init();
}
}

function set_feed_base($feed_base) {
if ($feed_base != $this->feed_base) {
update_option('feed_base', $feed_base);
$this->init();
}
}

function set_search_base($search_base) {
if ($search_base != $this->search_base) {
update_option('search_base', $search_base);
$this->init();
}
}

function set_comments_base($comments_base) {
if ($comments_base != $this->comments_base) {
update_option('comments_base', $comments_base);
$this->init();
}
}

it’s a shame all this isn’t done in a nice “eval” loop with an array of all the bases but that’s too much work for me right now and I don’t want to break anything

now we need to move to
wp-admin/options-permalink.php
it’s going to need bunch of additions, all mimicking the functions for base_category

first find
<?php _e('Category base'); ?>: <input name="category_base" type="text" class="code" value="<?php echo $category_base; ?>" size="30" />

and again, add and mimic:

<?php _e('Author base'); ?>: <input name="author_base" type="text" class="code" value="<?php echo $author_base; ?>" size="30" />

<?php _e('Feed base'); ?>: <input name="feed_base" type="text" class="code" value="<?php echo $feed_base; ?>" size="30" />

<?php _e('Search base'); ?>: <input name="search_base" type="text" class="code" value="<?php echo $search_base; ?>" size="30" />

<?php _e('Comments base'); ?>: <input name="comments_base" type="text" class="code" value="<?php echo $comments_base; ?>" size="30" />

(saving and coming back to edit)