The WordPress 4.1 release is close, very close. The WordPress Core team hopes to ship WordPress 4.1 on Tuesday, December 16. That’s 5 days from now. If you’re the author of WordPress plugins and haven’t tested them yet for WordPress 4.1, be sure to do so before 4.1 is released.
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I’m very happy to tell you that since last Friday I’m the new owner of Download Monitor! Mike and I talk daily and one day he talked about how busy he was with his other project and that he simply didn’t have time to maintain or support it. We had a chat about it and last week I officially adopted Download Monitor.
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The other day I got a support question on Related Posts for WordPress that said “My website is in Hebrew, your plugin does not support my language.” I have to admit, at first I had no clue what he ment by “does not support my language”. The plugins finds related posts based on the language your content is written in so how can it not support your language?
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Security should be one of the (if not the) most important aspects of your plugin. Ironically it’s also one of the most difficult parts to explain. There’s no ‘quick fix’ to writing a secure plugin. There are so many aspects to writing a secure plugin and on top of that it’s an ever changing game. Luckily there are some tips that can help make your plugin more secure and one of them is disabling direct file access to your plugin files. Please note that solely preventing direct access to your files doesn’t make your plugin secure but it does help in making it more secure.
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Developing a WordPress plugin? Nice. You’ve probably already read about how to find a hook, the importance of WordPress coding standards and how you can make sure your plugin’s performance is top notch (If you haven’t, you should). But do you have a good changelog? Having a good changelog is important and will not only benefit others but you as well.
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