Tag Archives: WordPress Plugins

Broken WordPress Plugin or Theme, Blame Me

WordPress community superstar and regular web tools collection contributor Jeff Chandler (jeffr0) recently published a passionate article, “Stop Blaming The WordPress Team“. The article is about plugin developers blaming WordPress for too frequent updates without testing of popular plugins. His conclusion ends “So the next time you upgrade WordPress and realize your favorite plugin is [...]

WordPress Trunk, More Feed, Less Plugin

With changeset 6763 on WordPress trunk (soon to be WordPress 2.5), when I select Full text in Settings > Reading I now get… you got it, full text feed.
Ryan wrote in the issue ticket, “Looking back, this was a mistake. By popular demand, we’re returning to disregarding the [<!--more-->] tag when serving feeds.”
And with this [...]

Updating WordPress Plugins 2.2 to 2.3 and to 2.5

Jennifer Hodgdon, WordPress Plugin Development Documenter extraordinaire, has written Migrating Plugins and Themes. This seems like a great resource for the WordPress plugin developer who may have been putting off updating their blogs.
As she says, “it’s a Wiki — feel free to add/clarify/edit/fix.”
Jennifer continues to provide essential contributions both to the codex and in [...]