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Where did my plugin go? (8 posts)

  1. muskie
    Member
    Posted 7 months ago #

    I wrote a plugin, it wasn't the world's greatest plugin but it worked, someone even wrote me asking if it worked with WordPress 3.2.1 so I upgrade my personal blog, make sure the plugin is working fine and low and behold I now can't find my plugin in the plugin directory.

    Why would it be removed? It functioned. It was minimal.

    As is apparent from the link, my biggest ongoing problem with WordPress is the conditionals don't return the expected results. I don't know how many editions this has been ongoing on my website for, but I'm just not inspired to upgrade to the latest supposedly greatest WordPress anymore as it broke the conditionals in my sidebar a while back and now the plugin I wrote has disappeared.

    Lately I've been using WordPress.com as it isn't worth the hassle of setting up web hosting for little hobby projects. I've been using WordPress since 2005, why am I so alienated by a product and codebase I put so much effort into using and promoting.

    Ditto for upgrading plugins. I use less and less of them because they generally break something if not each other, I upgraded six of them and I'm not even sure I'm using the related post one anymore, it conflicts with Disqus or Simple Tags. My plugin was truly simple, it didn't conflict with anything and when I upgrade WordPress it kept on ticking, but no one can use it as it was removed from the plugin directory...

    Whatever... unlikely to write any more WordPress plugins or tutorials.

  2. Mark (podz)
    Support Maven
    Posted 7 months ago #

    Not sure what happened there. Looking into it.

  3. muskie
    Member
    Posted 7 months ago #

    I remember submitting it. I had to get the rights to access some code repository. I even got a special app just to use that system. I'm not sure where it went, but I couldn't find it by searching keywords or through my account once I reset my password. I should be able to re-upload it easy enough, but it seems to me the bigger the WordPress codebase has got, the less well it has worked, see my conditionals difficulties. That has persisted through so many updates and it isn't consistent, some updates change the behavior, but it never behaves as per the documentation.

    I ended up writing little printfs to prove I wasn't crazy.

  4. Mark (podz)
    Support Maven
    Posted 7 months ago #

    http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-random-quotation/trunk/readme.txt

    The readme has a few blanks:
    Requires at least:
    Tested up to:
    Stable tag:

    If the stable tag can be the same as the version you have in the plugin file then the plugin should be generated.
    Give that a shot?

  5. muskie
    Member
    Posted 7 months ago #

    I tried to make changes, I had to do some fiddling with my Subversion client, that might be the issue. Here is the error I got:

    Commit failed (details follow):
    access to '/!svn/ver/397556/simple-random-quotation/trunk/readme.txt' forbidden

    This should be the changes required:

    Requires at least: 2.2.0
    Tested up to: 3.2.1
    Stable tag: 3.1

  6. Mark (podz)
    Support Maven
    Posted 7 months ago #

    This is usually a username/password error.
    These are case-sensitive when using SVN - could that be it?

  7. muskie
    Member
    Posted 7 months ago #

    In the last four months or so WordPress.org reset my password. I cut and pasted it into the app. I'm using Version for Mac OS X if that matters. I tried several times. I can get a slightly different error sometimes...

    I tried checking out then updating as well.

    Well what do you know, it worked today. Maybe it took a while for my changed password to filter down to this system.

    Let me know if all is well in plugin land? My sidebar still does behave correctly as is_tag among others does not return the expected value, but I've lived with this bug for many versions now...

  8. Mark (podz)
    Support Maven
    Posted 7 months ago #

    I can see a commit has been made so at least that bit is solved :)

    For the code problem I suggest posting details to the Code forum:
    http://wordpress.org/support/forum/hacks

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