Comments on: Underused Plugin Function

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:46:46 +0000

Hi Stephen, Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it, even if it is negative!! My problem was a classic copy and paste issue – Was using some code in one of my plugins as well as other stuff from around the web and function names etc got a bit muddled, and I hadn’t noticed!

I’ve updated the article, and hopefully everything should now be in order…?!

By: Stephen Cronin

Stephen Cronin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:38:50 +0000

Also, I suspect you need to remove the $plugin from the 2.7 add_filter line at the bottom. You appear to be appending plugin_basename(__FILE__) directly, instead of via the $plugin variable (as you did earlier in the post).

Actually, there appear to be bigger problems here. For example, the nue_actlinks does have the elseif functionality I talked about in my first comment, but nothing appears to call this function (certainly the add_filter lines don’t call it).

By: Stephen Cronin

Stephen Cronin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:14:58 +0000

Umm, haven’t tried this yet, but I’m not sure about your code at the end (checking for the post_class and plugin_row_meta functions before adding the filters).

I’m sure it works, but wouldn’t it be better to do the following (pseudo code):

if plugin_row_meta exists, add the filter for 2.8
elseif post_class exists, add the filter for 2.7

As it stands, 2.8 would trigger both if statements and therefore add both filters (unless they’ve removed the post_class function in 2.8 which is unlikely). I know the filter for 2.7 won’t actually do anything in 2.8, but surely it would be better not to add the 2.7 filter if we’re running 2.8?

Anyway, sorry to be negative, because this looks like it will be a great help to me in figuring out how to do this. So Thanks!!

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By: XIII

XIII — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:24:09 +0000

I’m a user who thinks it’s a great idea as it saves a few clicks checking for new settings every time we install or upgrade a plugin.

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