This is the first patch in a series of slimming patches for mp-wp. The biggest savings comes from the removal of TinyMCE, a JavaScript library for rendering "WYSIWYG"1 text editing boxes for the types of users who might fall and hurt themselves if, god forbid, they had to write some HTML tags by hand.
Additionally, all importers were removed with the exception of the importer that handles files generated by the native WordPress exporter2. Other items removed include the Google Gears plugin3, as well as any "auto-upgrade" "features" that any self-respecting citizen of the republic would neither need nor want to use.
This patch was first published and announced in #trilema last week but has since been reground to fit on top of hanbot's latest. Overall this patch proved to be an effective first step in mp-wp's healthy new lifestyle, resulting in a 14% reduction in total LOC and an 18% reduction in size-on-disk (21% when comparing gzipped directories).
| Before | After | Reduction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lines of Code | 162,594 | 139,205 | 14.4% |
| Bytes on Disk | 6,053,039 | 4,962,628 | 18% |
Patch and Signature
mp-wp_remove-tinymce-and-other-crud.vpatch
mp-wp_remove-tinymce-and-other-crud.vpatch.billymg.sig
- The acronym omits what you really get, which is typically HTML tag spew in the generated output. [↩]
- This may be worth removing later but I chose to leave it in for now so that one can at least export and re-import their existing mp-wp blog—and to keep as a reference in case someone eventually decides to re-write this functionality. [↩]
- Some local caching scheme that they in any case gave up on in 2011. [↩]
MP-WP's "native" exporter/importer is a very sad pile of xml, which is not practically useful (the files generated end up too large on non-trivial blog for the php-based importer to be able to import) and incomplete (images, for isntance, are not included, thus you're still stuck bashing the server into obtaining a proper, useful archive).
The only sane way to import/export MP-WP blogs is by doing a db dump of the tables and taring its directory structure.
Do you have your version running anywhere I could give a gander ?
Ah, I see. I'll mark it for deletion in the next patch then.
This site is currently running on the latest patch, for a full week now. I copied over the changes from hanbot's patch manually yesterday, so those are in as well.
I suppose I could make you a temporary contributor account on here to test out the post editing / image upload functionality -- if that's what you had in mind.
That's what I had in mind.
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