Tag: php

  • How To Prevent WordPress Plugins From Activating On Sites With Incompatible Hosting Environments

    How To Prevent WordPress Plugins From Activating On Sites With Incompatible Hosting Environments

    It’s frustrating for plugin authors when users mark their plugin as broken when in fact, it’s an incompatibility with the user’s hosting environment. Too many broken plugin reports could damage the reputation of the author even if it’s not his/her fault. Pressing Matters proposed a solution to the problem that while good for developers, is…

  • Plugin And Theme Devs Have Reason To Celebrate

    A topic of discussion that’s popped up numerous times within the WP Hackers Mailing List as well as other places throughout the community is when WordPress would stop supporting PHP version 4 and move up to version 5. Well, the good news for all WordPress theme and plugin developers is here in that starting with…

  • Even A Widgetifyr Stumps Me

    A few days ago, Glenn Bennett got in touch with me to let me know about a site called Widgetifyr.com. This site is a service which aims at making the WordPress widget creation process much easier than creating the code from scratch every time. If you’ve ever tried to turn your code into a wordpress…