Comments on: Warning Message For Self Customized Plugins

By: Anthony Galli

Anthony Galli — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:04:36 +0000

The simplest ideas are always the best...

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Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:15:57 +0000

[...] Warning message for self modified plugins [...]

By: Brad Touesnard

Brad Touesnard — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:16:29 +0000

I usually add "10." to the plugin version so that the notice to update never comes up. For example, if the plugin is version 2.1.2 I would change it to 10.2.1.2.

By: James John Malcolm

James John Malcolm — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:03:23 +0000

Excellent!

By: ovidiu

ovidiu — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:07:08 +0000

nice.
for wpmu use is_site_admin instead of is_admin though

By: Heiko

Heiko — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:10:23 +0000

@scribu: plugin/theme modification detection is still one thing i'm latently working on (with lower priority). This is necessary not only to avoid such cases Frank descibed, but also useful to detect modified plugins and/or themes hacked from outside using unknown exploits.
If this is reliable enough, i'm sure, i will publish it.

By: Peter Kahoun

Peter Kahoun — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:04:11 +0000

Interesting. Wouldn't be simpler to put the message into plugin's description.

(My way: prefix plugin's version with 666. so updates are not offered and I still know what version I use... And of course, modifications in code are properly marked to be able to upgrade as simply as possible. In my experience, adding actions or hooks instead of mod. a plugin's own code is rarely possible.)

By: scribu

scribu — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:53:02 +0000

I simply add (MODIFIED) to the plugin name, as a heads-up.

A plugin that automatically detects customizations to plugins before updating them would be interesting.

By: Wallace

Wallace — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:48:26 +0000

it would be better display automatically the modify date and time as well.

By: Stephen Cronin

Stephen Cronin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:14:10 +0000

Nice tip - I've been caught by this before.

Having said that, I'm trying to be clever about this and create a companion plugin which uses filters (or even JQuery) to manipulate the output of the original plugin, rather than customise the original, where possible (not always possible obviously).

By: Valentino

Valentino — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:06:19 +0000

woah! that's great! I really hate when I accidentally subscribe a customized plugin...