WP-ServerInfo

I have coded this plugin within a night. It enables you to display your server’s PHP information from “phpinfo()” and MYSQL information from “SHOW VARIABLES” on your Dashboard under the sub-tab called “WP-ServerInfo”. Here is a screenshot of it. I will release it along side with almost all my plugins updates for WordPress 2.1. Most of them will break with WordPress 2.0.x including this because I am using some of the functions available in WordPress 2.1 only.

If you are wondering what plugin I used to modify those dates to Today, Yesterday, 5 Days ago, 1 minute ago, etc. It is one of my plugin called WP-RelativeDate.

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WordPress 3.7 RC1

WordPress 3.7 RC1 is out and the final version of WordPress 3.7 is targetted to be release next week!

In RC 1, we’ve made some adjustments to the update process to make it more reliable than ever. We hope to ship WordPress 3.7 next week, but we need your help to get there. If you haven’t tested 3.7 yet, there’s no time like the present. (Please, not on a production site, unless you’re adventurous.)

WordPress 3.7 introduces automatic background updates for security and minor releases (like updating from 3.7 to 3.7.1). These are really easy to test – RC 1 will update every 12 hours or so to the latest development version, and then email you the results. (You may get two emails: one for debugging, and one all users of 3.7 will receive.) If something went wrong, you can report it.

Download: WordPress 3.7 RC1

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Plugins Structure Changes

All my plugins will undergo a structure change to accommodate the Official WordPress Plugins Repository. This is also a much requested feature for most of my users as they complained that the zip file generated by WordPress Plugins Repository was 2 level deep and they got some issues when installing the plugin and the official plugin update notification will not work.

As posted in WordPress Ideas:

Some of us the older plugin authors are facing problem/hassle of restructuring the our plugin structure as our plugin name need not necessary follow the official plugin name folder naming convention.

And when user download the file from the repository, it will be the <official plugin name>\<plugin name>\<plugin>.php

As this is a major change, things will break, so I need you guys help to help me test it. The first plugin that rolls out this structure update will be WP-Polls.

The structure change for wp-polls involves:

  1. Using /wp-polls/ folder instead of /polls/
  2. Using wp-polls.php instead of polls.php
  3. Using wp-polls-widget.php instead of polls-widget.php
  4. Replacing all the old references with the new references stated above

Please kindly post any bugs found in WP-Polls Support Forum. Thank You.

I will roll out this updates to the rest of the plugins in December 2007/January 2008.

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Plugins Uninstaller

My first plugin to have an uninstaller is WP-Polls and it is contributed by Philippe Corbes. Recently there is a thread in WordPress Forums asking plugin authors to provide uninstaller for their plugins. And that motivated me to add uninstaller to all my plugins, and they will be included in the next release.

I urge all plugin authors to do the same thing to prevent the options table from being overloaded with plugins’ options, and the wost part being that the plugin has already been deactivated and deleted.

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