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I finally pushed out some embarrassingly outdated WordPress plugin updates a few moments ago.

• Updated unAPI plugin with a patch contributed by Jay Luker that removes the hard-coded "wp_" table prefix. The updated version of the plugin has been tagged as 1.4.1.
• Updated LinkPURL plugin with a patch contributed by Mark Matienzo that enables partial redirects. I made some additional tweaks to the plugin to make this feature configurable via the WordPress management UI. This has been tagged as 1.1.
• Created a new unAPI plugin branch for Mark Matienzo's Scriblio-oriented tweaks. The branch is called 1.4.1-anarchivist-scriblio and it contains the scriblio.diff file. I have yet to integrate the diffs, as the file that was patched has changed since the patch was issued. If anyone is interested in working on unAPI/Scriblio integration, please get in touch with me.

And here is my to-do list which I hope will keep me honest.

• Update OAI-ORE plugin to support version 1.0 of the ORE specification.
• Add per-post (and per-page?) resource maps that wrap all embedded images and links.
• Enable "cool URIs" for all resource maps.

It is my hope that I'll get to those sometime before the summer begins. :)

I've been using my time at RepoCamp today to get the OAI-ORE plugin for WordPress validating again.  I'm having some trouble using the validator so I say that with some diffidence.  But the latest code which is now checked in to the WordPress plugins svn repo ought to be close, if not fully conformant, to the 0.9 version of the ORE spec.

I'm not sure the plugin is really useful; it's just an Atom feed of all posts and pages in a WP instance.  I can think of some ways to make this more useful, by allowing blog authors to create their own aggregations, pulling in content outside of the particular instance.  I am certain that others can come up with even better uses.  I'm open to suggestions.

Thanks to Jay Datema for prodding me a bit, if indirectly.

This is very rough, but here's a WordPress plugin that provides a resource map for the aggregation of all posts within an installation of WordPress. I'll be working on this some more, but for now, it does appear to work and validate (as Atom). Useful? If so, I'll zip it up and commit it to the wp-plugins svn.

Note:Ed reminds me that xsltproc can be used to transform the Atom-based resource map into RDF via GRDDL:

xsltproc http://www.openarchives.org/ore/atom-grddl.xsl http://lackoftalent.org/michael/blog/wp-content/plugins/oai-ore/rem.php

Update: The plugin has its own page.