Rebelic Interactive Consultancy

I was reading an article by OZH about ‘Top 10 Most Common Coding Mistakes in WordPress Plugins‘ and besides that I’m doing some stuff terribly wrong, I also stumbled upon the follow paragraph:

Compatibility maintained with deprecated versions of WordPress

I’ve seen code comments mentioning stuff like “// we’re doing this for people using WP 2.5″. This one is more a personal choice, but I think maintaining compatibility with older versions is a terrible idea.

Terrible for you: fixing bugs and implementing new features is quite a task already, don’t add to the burden with more deprecated code.

Terrible for the users: it’s nice that your plugin is going to run fine on their obsolete, insecure and already hacked blog, but it really does not motivate them to upgrade, which is vital.

I know I’ve dropped backward compat with my plugins a long time ago, and always code for the latest release available. It makes life so much easier :)

I totally agree that it is a big mistake running an outdated blog and will drop support for all older versions of Wordpress immediately. Sorry folks running version 2.5, please upload the latest version and do the upgrade! Or let me do it for you ;)

With the Twitter Publisher plugin you can send automated tweets out when you publish a new post. It will add Google Campaign variables to the URL using the new URL shortener Awe.sm or Bit.ly. For larger blogs, with multiple authors, you can include the author’s Twitter name in the tweet and individual author’s can send Tweets from their account at the same time the main account is sending them.

You can download the plugin at Wordpress.org.