Ryan Boren

Sounds like ecto doesn’t follow up the call to metaWeblog.editPost with mt.setPostCategories. All of my clients call mt.setPostCategories after both metaWeblog.editPost and metaWeblog.newPost. After a quick glance at the patch, I’m failing to see how it helps. That might just be because I haven’t had lunch yet. I’ll look at it later and try to fix this up. Thanks.

I finally found an ecto user to help with debugging. We now have a fix. You need these versions of xmlrpc.php and functions-post.php.

functions-post.php
xmlrpc.php

Feedback appreciated. Finding testers has been a chore.

This version has a confirmed fix for the image upload bug and an unconfirmed fix for the category bug. Please try it out and provide feedback.

We’re looking at it now. Matt and I always seem to be on the road when these things come up. It’s a talent we have. 🙂

Thanks for the very detailed and informative report.

Well, we don’t mention the GPL in the source either.

Anyway, the source is provided, so I don’t see anything to get worked up about.

Yes, this is plugin territory. There are too many countries and too many laws. It’s up to you to be compliant with COPPA, the EU Directive on Data Protection, US/EU Safe Harbor, or whatever laws may apply to you. If someone writing such a plugin needs an extra plugin hook in WP core to make the plugin possible, we could add that.

If you have subversion handy, you can see every line changed with this command:

svn diff http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/1.5.1 http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/1.5.1.1

If you only want the files changed, you can use this beauty (if you are on *nix):

svn diff --diff-cmd "diff" -x "-q" http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/1.5.1 http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/1.5.1.1 | grep Index | sed 's/Index: //'

To save you from having to do that, here’s the output.

wp-blog-header.php
wp-includes/functions-post.php
wp-includes/template-functions-category.php
wp-includes/template-functions-links.php
wp-includes/template-functions-post.php
wp-includes/pluggable-functions.php
wp-includes/functions.php
wp-includes/wp-db.php
wp-includes/version.php
xmlrpc.php
wp-admin/post.php
wp-admin/quicktags.js

Those are the files changed from 1.5.1 to 1.5.1.1. Of course, we always recommend that you upgrade every file. Perhaps the most common cause of problems reported to the support forums is incomplete uploads. I recommend everyone use rsync or the equivalent, if your host supports it. With rsync you don’t have to care about what changed. The tool takes care of it.

Visit Options->Permalinks and click “Update Permalink Structure” to get the fixed rewrite rules.