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I’ve been working on the MultiSite hack along with mainly UmQuat. I d/l’d 1.3A3 and started messing with that code. I do like the way WP is going with 1.3. Obviously there are a few things that still need worked out, which is the purpose for this thread.
I agree with the pop-up dialog to insert images into posts. I do like the whole Presentation layer concept. It opens up an easy way for visitors to change the style to their preference. It appears to me, that WP is taking gradual steps to support multiple users/blogs, and this is great. One problem with the Presentation layer concept is that index page is called out of the theme folder. If an individual user wanted to modify that page, he would change it for everyone. I know multiple blogs isn’t an issue yet, but any creative solution for this would solve the issue now and since the Presentation area is being changed a lot as it is, this could be added as well.
Really, the main thing that I’d like to see changed is the install/upgrade scripts. I ran into this problem when I was making an admin interface for MultiSite. I’d like to be able to call the install/upgrade functions seperately. An easy way to change this would be to pass the $wpdb object by reference (or otherwise) into the install functions as opposed to using the global object. A cleaner way (I think) would be to subclass the wpdb class with an install/upgrade class. I know this requires significant rearrangement, but in the end, it would be easier to modify by hack/plugin authors.
The above suggestions are just that, suggestions. They are mostly my opinions on how it should be coded and could be taken with a grain of salt. But these changes will help move towards a more distant goal in the future and are not so involved as to ruin somebody’s day.