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Category: Development

  • When WordPress plugin adoption goes wrong

    When WordPress plugin adoption goes wrong

    I love reading Mika Epstein’s stories about her dealings with plugin developers, but never thought I’d be writing something similar myself. And, like Mika, I’m going to keep this anonymous, albeit you’d probably be able to find the details with a little digging

    First, let’s rewind. Back in November I some of my plugins up for adoption. Soon after, a developer approached me wanting to take one of them on. His credentials were good and he seemed appreciative of the opportunity to take the code over.

    I switched things over to him and, all done, I walked away, happy to have given him the proverbial keys. In this case, ownership of the SVN report on wordpress.org as well as transferring my Github repo to him. The latter of which included a reasonably sized issues log of requested enhancements, as well as bug fixes.

    But, a couple of months later, it turned oddly sour.

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  • Add some techno-babble to your WordPress experience

    Add some techno-babble to your WordPress experience

    Have you ever wondered what a “microscopic anaphasic gravity intake” is? What about “unicobalt particle chamber”?

    No, me neither.

    But you too can now marvel at a piece of randomly generated Star Trek-style techno-babble right in your WordPress admin.

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  • Using SVG icons with your WordPress plugins

    Using SVG icons with your WordPress plugins

    When adding a plugin to wordpress.org, you have the ability to provide icons for it. There are 2 sizes, to take into account retina screens – 128×128 pixels and 256×256 pixels. However, I’ve recently noticed that they also allow an SVG icon as well – if you specify that, it will be used in preference to the other.

    For years I’ve been making use of very talented designers on Fiverr to make the icons for my plugins but never thought to ask them for SVG files, only PNG. But, as is often the case these days, AI was the answer.

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  • Putting WordPress plugins up for adoption & transferring ownership

    Putting WordPress plugins up for adoption & transferring ownership

    After writing last year about various ways of walking away from WordPress plugins that you’ve developed, I put words into action and put 3 of my plugins up for adoption. Two months later and 2 out of the 3 have now been taken over by other developers.

    In this post I want to share what I did to achieve this and what actions were then taken afterwards to hand them over to their new owners.

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  • WordPress: When do we stop and fix things?

    WordPress: When do we stop and fix things?

    This is often the case with software. Each major release cycle sees lots of new features being added, with minor released dedicated to security issues and major bugs (often causes by the previous major release). Rarely do we stop and spend a big chunk of time dealing with the minor things – the poor wording or the minor bugs.

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