{"id":175,"date":"2008-07-02T18:46:45","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T10:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/?p=175"},"modified":"2008-07-03T16:35:13","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T08:35:13","slug":"my-plugins-with-wordpress-26-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/02\/my-plugins-with-wordpress-26-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"My Plugins With WordPress 2.6 Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My good friend <a href=\"http:\/\/planetozh.com\">Ozh<\/a> has written an article entitled, <a href=\"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/what-plugin-coders-must-know-about-wordpress-26\/#comment-58617\">What Plugin Coders Must Know About WordPress 2.6<\/a>. It is a good read if you are a plugin developer for WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>Both of us have came to a conclusion that if you move your \/wp-content\/ folder to elsewhere, you may need to manually specify the path to wp-config.php in the respective plugins that make use of them as there is no 100% way of guessing the path to wp-config.php.<\/p>\n<p>So my recommendation is <strong>DO NOT MOVE<\/strong> the \/wp-content\/ folder. It is OK to move wp-config.php to a level higher, but try not to touch \/wp-content\/.<\/p>\n<p>With regards to my plugins, I will release a .01 update bringing the version to 1.31 and 2.31 for the respective plugins. This update will make sure that the plugin will work for <strong>BOTH<\/strong> WordPress 2.5 and WordPress 2.6. That is right, I will maintain backward compatibility with WordPress 2.5 for the next update as WordPress 2.6 is just a minor release.<\/p>\n<p>When WordPress 2.7 comes out in November 2008, I will bump all the versions to 1.40 and 2.40 respectively <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">and I will remove the backward compatibility feature to WordPress 2.5<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My good friend Ozh has written an article entitled, What Plugin Coders Must Know About WordPress 2.6. It is a good read if you are a plugin developer for WordPress. Both of us have came to a conclusion that if you move your \/wp-content\/ folder to elsewhere, you may need to manually specify the path &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/02\/my-plugins-with-wordpress-26-part-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Plugins With WordPress 2.6 Part 2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[80,29],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plugins","category-wordpress","tag-80","tag-beta"],"views":9506,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}