[TxMt] Re: Wordpress 2.2 and Pings/Comments

[Christoph Koehler]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:58:46 -0500, Joseph Scott  
<joseph at automattic.com> wrote:

>
> I've trimmed the quotes.
>
>
> On Jun 13, 2007, at 1:23 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
>
>> Well, actually the “standard” is 1 or 0 -- but WordPress has been using  
>> “open” and “closed” in the past. So ideally you’d change it to accept  
>> both values, then long-term (i.e. when users are on WP 2.2+) we can  
>> remove the special-casing for WP.
>>
>> Btw: have a look at both NewPost and EditPost -- it seems NewPost sets  
>> comment_status to open/closed where EditPost sets it to the value of  
>> mt_allow_comments casted to an int. When using comment_status, it is  
>> tested against the string value 'open'. So regardless of value sent  
>> (for mt_allow_comments) it will always disable comments when editing a  
>> post.
>
>
> I've deployed the patch for this to all wordpress.com blogs.  There is  
> also a ticket for wordpress.org:
>
> http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4469
>
> I'll follow up and make sure the committers there are aware of it.
>
> Thanks for point this out and doesn't hesitate to contact me about any  
> other questions/issues/bugs that come up in XML-RPC for WordPress.
>

Thanks for the quick action! That's really amazing! I tested the patch on  
my local install and comments work fine now, but pings are still always  
disabled.

Thanks again!

Christoph