Title: [Plugin: WP-EMail] Serious Problems With Coding Quality — Warning to Developers
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: WP-EMail] Serious Problems With Coding Quality — Warning to Developers

 *  [evolvingweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/evolvingweb/)
 * (@evolvingweb)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-email-serious-problems-with-coding-quality-warning-to-developers/)
 * However, it has serious compatibility issues with other plugins (in my case XLanguage).
   I am used to dealing with this, and am usually not afraid to get my hands dirty
   with code. However, what I expected would be 30-60 minutes of finding a workaround
   turned into many hours of bug hunting. The code of this plugin is undocumented
   and at times obscure. I’m not sure if the things I struggled with are bugs, but
   that by itself means the code should be largely rewritten.
 * This is just a warning that to other developers that the code wasn’t written 
   to be read by anyone except the author. It’s probably not worth your time. I 
   don’t know if there are any other plugins for WordPress that are simpler and 
   are easier to debug. Next time, I’ll just use Drupal, which has quite a few stable
   ones to pick from.
 * That being said, this plugin is quite ambitious, and when it works, it’s great.
   The author has clearly put a lot of work into it, and I’m grateful for his contributions
   to the community.

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 *  [Lester Chan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamerz/)
 * (@gamerz)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-email-serious-problems-with-coding-quality-warning-to-developers/#post-907656)
 * The code has been there before even WP was borned, it was ported from b2 and 
   hence it is messy, I don’t have the time to rewrite it.
 * I don’t have the habit of documenting everything because it requires time. Even
   for WP, the documentation comes from 3rd party.
 * Bare in mind that this is a free plugin and I am the only one doing it and this
   is one of the 14 plugins that I have.
 * My aim is to make it works. There are too many plugins out there till the point
   I can’t really be bothered with plugin compatibility. I know most of my plugins
   have problem with language plugins because of the static templates used.
 * You may want to consider ShareThis as an alternative to the emailing function.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Lester Chan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamerz/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-email-serious-problems-with-coding-quality-warning-to-developers/#post-907656)
 * Status: not a support question

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