Previous versions of this plugin relied on two rather fragile features:
For retrieving the items from DeviantArt, it used Yahoo Pipes. This service severly restricted usage recently, which resulted in no thumbs being shown.
Last night I attended my first jazz concert, during the third edition of the Transilvania Jazz Festival.
In PHP, you use the self keyword to access static properties and methods.
The problem is that you can replace $this->method() with self::method() anywhere, regardless if method() is declared static or not. So which one should you use?
Having a plugin with even 1000 downloads means that sooner or later people are going to come asking for help or giving suggestions. Over the last few months, I have come to realise that the comment section just doesn’t cut it.
Here are the changes from the earlier version of the plugin.
Every plugin that’s more than 100 lines of code has at least one setting stored in the database. The functions that come with WordPress for managing options are ok, but they can be used better.
Here’s how the scbOptions class makes your life easier as a plugin developer.
This little plugin still hasn’t lost it’s usefulness.
So I’m making it to work with the next release of WordPress (2.9) and onwards.
This also means that it won’t work with older versions. See why.