WordPress – Sharing A Base Class Amongst Plugins

Introduction The new series of MoneyPress plugins that is coming out in the next month is going to be based on a common foundation.  This allows us to maintain consistency, share new features across the product line, and provide an improved quality product that gets out to the consumer. However, during the migration to this new shared platform we uncovered some problem areas deep within the bowels of WordPress.  Yes, even with the recently released 3.0 version.   However we don't blame this on WordPress.   Far from it.  WordPress is  a well engineered application, it's only fault is being tied into archaic versions of PHP... which means anything prior to PHP 5.3 when namespaces were finally introduced.   There is a reason many languages have had namespaces for years, but that is a discussion for another post. One of the more nagging problems was ...

HTTP Errors When Uploading/Connecting in WordPress

Having problems browsing themes, uploading plug-ins, or doing just about anything that "talks" to the outside world via Wordpress? We have had a development server buried deep in our network behind several routers and firewalls that had a similar problem. Whenever we'd log into the dashboard we'd get various timeout error messages on each of the news sections. We'd not get our automatic update messages whenever there was a plugin update or a Wordpress update (3.0 is coming soon!). Well it turns out that we needed to fix 2 things to help speed up the network connection. Fix #1 - DNS Resolution We run this particular development box on Linux.   That meant updating our /etc/resolv.conf file to talk directly to the DNS servers. If you use DHCP configuration or go through a router this file is often ...