Comments on: WordPress Plugin Activation using PHP classes

By: Deacon

Deacon — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:08:13 +0000

I think I see what is going on here. There are a couple WordPress-defined functions in here that I don’t quite know the context for.

I think this goes on the “some day” list.
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By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:42:33 +0000

Time to tinker would be nice, I’ll have to see what I can carve out of other things (probably not for a while though).
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By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:37:58 +0000

Yeah, I have the same issue.

Time in the saddle, with php.net open in the browser solves all.

By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:32:31 +0000

Chris, if you write a useful plugin that people really like, you stand a decent chance of getting some pretty high quality links from people using it. You might possibly get linked from WordPress.org as a featured plugin if it’s really good. That doesn’t hurt your page rank or Alexa ranking.

I could limit my posting to just the hRecipe plugin page and retain 30+ hits per day on just that. More if I released more often. That doesn’t sound like much… but it would be very highly targeted traffic… more so than the blog.

Poke around here for more information. I should write a little tutorial to accompany the demo code I have. Probably will at some point.
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By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:06:06 +0000

It’s the syntax that throws me off; there’s no logical reason for this since it’s actually simpler than some of the other languages I’ve coded in, but it just messes me up completely.
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By: Chris Roane

Chris Roane — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:54:15 +0000

This is great! I’ve been wanting to get into wordpress plugin development for a long time (I am a PHP programmer).

This will definitely keep me coming back. Thanks for posting it.

One question that I have, and this may not be the correct place to post it. But does creating wordpress plugin bring a lot of traffic to a website (even if it doesn’t become super popular)?
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By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:49:15 +0000

Debugging and testing tools for web coding are way behind desktop coding. That’s what makes it hardest for me.
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By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:47:47 +0000

hehe yep, $hisclass, $herclass, $lowclass, $noclass, you got it.

PHP is really procedural though. OO was bolted on afterwards.
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By: Deacon

Deacon — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:38:26 +0000

It’s been about 8 years since I’ve done any “serious” coding, so please bear with me.

I remember you mentioning that PHP is an object oriented program, so when this code runs, is $myclass now an object of type MyClass() in your plugin? If so, could you create another MyClass() object, called, say, $yourclass?
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By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:28:55 +0000

Not even going to try and guess; mostly because at the sight of code my mind’s gone off into C++ mode and actually wants to play with code. Cruel person.

Interesting though, never really got into webcoding beyond the basics but it doesn’t look so bad here.
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