Tag Archives: Plugin

Clean Options Plugin Release Candidate

The first version of the Clean Options plugin became available in April of 2007. Since then there have been a few bug fixes, a few enhancements, a few version compatibility updates, and couple of minor tweaks.
Two issues still remain that could, and will most likely, be handled differently, but it is believed that the current [...]

Buttonsnap Hack

During the upgrade to WordPress version 2.5 I got a "Fatal Error" while trying to activate a plugin. My first thought was that the plugin was not compatible with the new version, so I went to the plugin's page to look for an updated version Subscribe2. But it was compatible. Others had posted comments about [...]

Clean Options RSS options

The Clean Options plugin lists options named "rss_(hash value)" and "rss_(hash value)_ts". Where do these options come from? Wordpress uses the fetch_rss function to get content from RSS feeds. For example, the dashboard uses fetch_rss() to get incoming links, dev news (wordpress.org/development/feed/), and planet news (planet.wordpress.org/feed/).
The fetch_rss function uses Magpie to cache the feed contents [...]