When developing for WordPress, one of the great thing about adding admin menus is the flexibility that it gives you. But that same flexibility has led to some truly awful user experiences.
Let me show some examples and explore what is wrong with some of the things that developers do and what best path is.
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Look, it happens. There are numerous reasons why we may need to walk away from one of our plugins. But just leaving it isn’t cool.
Why shouldn’t you walk away from your plugin? Simply put, your users won’t know and, without realising, the plugin they have installed may become a security risk containing unpatched vulnerabilities. Or it may no longer work as well with newer versions of WordPress, without the person using it realising that’s the cause.
So, In this article I’m going to provide a multi-pronged approach to how you can do it but not leave your users in the lurch – everything from a minimal approach to full, deleting from the WordPress directory and walking away.
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Yesterday Threads launched, to much media fanfare. Right now, it’s staunchly app-only, with threads.net taking you to a pretty logo and a QR code that will help you install the app.
But, how do you link people through to your profile from, say, your website if there’s no web presence? After a bit of digging I found the answer…
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The plugin Hello Dolly comes bundled with every WordPress installation and adds a line of the famous to the top of the WordPress dashboard. And it’s not always appreciated.
This is the most useless plugin ever created
Why???
For The Love of GOD, Why is this STILL on the Repo?
…are just 3 of the 1 star reviews for it.
Why is it included? Well, it’s not basically Matt wants everyone to learn the lyrics to one of his favourite songs. No, it’s included as an example of a basic plugin and how anyone can write one. It’s a demo.
But it’s been in the plugin directory for 15 years and probably existed for even longer, with no real updates during this time. And, as a demonstration, it’s now out-of-date. As an example of how to write a plugin, it’s no longer doing its job.
So, as a mini personal project, I’ve decided to bring Hello Dolly up to date. Sadly, I can’t make people love it.
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Back in 2008 I released an online tool (which was a simple page on this site) for CSS compression. You pasted in your CSS, pressed a button and it compressed it.
However, I never really did much else with it – either improving what it did and what functions it provided, but also promoting it.
Now, I’ve taken the original compression script and open sourced it for everyone to copy, fork, or just generally use.
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