{"id":159,"date":"2008-03-20T22:24:49","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T14:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/?p=159"},"modified":"2008-03-20T22:27:28","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T14:27:28","slug":"my-plugins-and-wordpress-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/20\/my-plugins-and-wordpress-25\/","title":{"rendered":"My Plugins And WordPress 2.5"},"content":{"rendered":"

The current version of all my plugins will work on WordPress 2.5 PROVIDED<\/strong> you have upgraded your WordPress blog from WP 2.x to WP 2.5.<\/p>\n

If you are using a fresh copy of WordPress 2.5 together with my plugins, it WILL NOT work as WordPress 2.5 changes the Activation Global Scope Of The Plugins<\/a>. In simpler terms, it means that upon activation of my plugins in WP-Admin, it will not create the tables needed by the respective plugins.<\/p>\n

To solve this problem temporary, do the following in polls.php<\/strong> (I am using WP-Polls as an example):<\/p>\n

Find:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\r\n$wpdb->pollsq = $table_prefix.'pollsq';\r\n$wpdb->pollsa = $table_prefix.'pollsa';\r\n$wpdb->pollsip = $table_prefix.'pollsip';\r\n<\/pre>\n
Replace:<\/strong><\/p>\n
\r\nglobal $wpdb;\r\n$wpdb->pollsq = $wpdb->prefix.'pollsq';\r\n$wpdb->pollsa = $wpdb->prefix.'pollsa';\r\n$wpdb->pollsip = $wpdb->prefix.'pollsip';\r\n<\/pre>\n
Note the addition of the “global $wpdb;<\/strong>” and the replacement of “$table_prefix” with “$wpdb->prefix<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n
I have updated WP-Polls, WP-ServerInfo, WP-Sticky and WP-UserOnline to work with WordPress 2.5. You can get them here at my downloads page<\/a> (do note that they are still in beta). Those plugins that end with a “Beta 2” means it will work for WordPress 2.5.<\/p>\n
Some of the updates are:<\/p>\n