Monthly Archives: June 2009

WordPress Plugin Pet Peeve #3: Not being extensible

So this is one that is incredibly easy to implement, and yet goes a really long way in keeping people happy with your plugin. The very reason that WordPress has a [plugin API][] is because they know that different people want different things from their blog. Some people are satisfied with just the core functionality […]

WordPress Plugin Pet Peeve #2: Direct Calls to Plugin Files

This is actually very similar to my first pet peeve of [hardcoding the path to wp-content][pet-peeve-1], in that it makes assumptions about where files are placed on the filesystem. Oftentimes, plugins need to handle certain kinds of requests, maybe for some specific protocol, or to handle an AJAX request. Some plugins will do this by […]