Comments on: WordPress Wednesday News: WordCamp Hamburg Success, Automatic Upgrades Coming, $5,000 Bounty, Prologue Theme, and WordPress Wins Again

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:34:51 +0000

@Jacob Santos: Ah, well, you can't win them all. :D

By: Jacob Santos

Jacob Santos — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:45:15 +0000

I was hoping it would stay broken, so that my plans to rule the world would not be thwarted. Thus I retire both slightly satisfied and somewhat resigned.

By: Ryan Boren

Ryan Boren — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:34:19 +0000

Jacob, we worked around that widget problem. Such widgets will still work in 2.5, although nesting the functions like that is indeed not preferred.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:28:34 +0000

@Jacob Santos: This is not the place to post this, and much of the code was stripped by the comments anyway. I can only assume that you're reported this to the appropriate people such as through the Bug Report and on the WordPress Support Forum?

By: Jacob Santos

Jacob Santos — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:13:29 +0000

I will say, that since I’m not available to send you an email that this Wednesday it might be worth talking about the destruction of all WordPress widgets and their untimely deaths.

All widgets that use the following form factor will FAIL in WordPress 2.5:

function myplugin_widget_init() {


function myplugin_widget_display() { }
function myplugin_widget_control() { }

}

and must be converted to the following form factor to prevent bringing down WordPress when the widgets suddenly goes up in smoke.

function myplugin_widget_display() { }


function myplugin_widget_control() { }

function myplugin_widget_init() { }

The Dashboard is being converted to using widgets, which will cause fatal duplicate function definition errors for WordPress Widgets that use the first form factor.

All widgets should be using the second form factor anyway, but meh, can’t prevent what one popular widget does and gets duplicated.

By: colbert

colbert — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:59:32 +0000

Great post. I found a lot of useful plugins today.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:47:10 +0000

@Jeffro2pt0:

Yes to the later, and huh to the former. I’ve never looked at the comments – didn’t even notice them as I’m always digging into the code. I’ll let the author know and maybe we can get that cleaned up. Thanks.

By: Jeffro2pt0

Jeffro2pt0 — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:23:44 +0000

Lorelle, Awesome post as always. You really do help to keep me in the loop with one concise post. I figured it was worth mentioning that the Get Under the Hood of WordPress: site does show some of the source code for files, but the comments are unusually rude with claims that the site has been hacked and quite a bit of derogatory words being thrown about. Not sure if you want to continue linking to them or not.

Anyways, just a heads up. Thanks for doing such a wonderful job.

P.S. If someone is doing a WordPress centric podcast, would that person have to email you the details in order to be included in the community news?

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:31:05 +0000

@Joost de Valk: Thanks for the clarification!

By: Joost de Valk

Joost de Valk — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:01:51 +0000

Hi Lorelle,

RSS Footer actually allows you to choose to insert the content at the top or at the bottom :)