[wp-testers] Various questions about 3.1 beta

[Ryan Boren]

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Michael E. Hancock
<justmichaelh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just a few questions about the 3.1 beta.  Thanks for any responses.
>
> 1. If you have a custom post type that supports 'sticky', what order should
> a sticky 'regular' post and a sticky 'custom post type' display?  I have a
> 'sticky' post dated April 21, 2010, and a 'sticky' book (custom post type)
> dated May 27, 2010, and on the blog it shows the post first, where I
> expected the book (with the newest date) to show first.

Sticky support for CPTs is still rather incomplete and may be reverted
entirely.  See http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12702

> 2. Is it correct that the patch attached to Trac Ticket 15325 [1] is
> necessary to make the importer work on a Windows environment?  I installed
> the WordPress Importer plugin, upgraded to the latest nightly, then had to
> apply that patch to successfully import a file exported from a 3.0
> environment.

Fix committed.

> 3.  When logged in as admin (not a network install) the admin bar appears
> when visiting the site, but does not appear when visiting the admin screens,
> correct?

The admin bar defaults to on for the frontend and off for the admin
for single blog installs. It defaults to on for both for multisite
installs. Preferences to control this might be added.

> 4.  Is it correct that if I change the sort (say change the Date to
> ascending) in the Posts screen, then visit another admin screen, then return
> to the Posts screen, it is necessary to change the sort order
> again...meaning the sort choices are true just for that particular visit to
> the screen?

Such is the nature of AJAX. Some improvements to this as well as
linking to paged/sorted/searched screens are in the works.

> 5. I'm experiencing the "Fatal error: Call to a member function
> is_singular() on a non-object in C:\xampp\htdocs\wp31\wp-includes\query.php
> on line 525" when visiting a page.  The page is using a Page Template [2]
> and is querying a list of a custom post type (books).  I use a Twenty Ten
> child theme and the theme's function.php to create the custom post type book
> with an add_action('init','create_post_type_book'); so what do I need to fix
> to correct this error?

Perhaps due to this? http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/14729