Is there any way to test if a function running only on plugin update is successfully running? Yes. Background When you update a plugin, WordPress does several actions behind the scenes. Download the new version of the plugin Deactivate the old plugin version Delete the old plugin version Extract the new version Activate the new … Read more
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Actually an assumption I made in the question was wrong; The update button doesn’t only change when the output of the save function changes. It also changes when the attributes are changed. However I found a small bug, which you can’t really see it in the provided code. In my BlockSettings component I was using … Read more
1) The attachment_fields_to_save filter does not get applied, even though I can see the echo’d text inside the media-upload.php window. I know this because the _imageTop meta only gets written to the database when I comment out the if(isset) check Try to exchange $_GET with $_POST and see if it works. If so, you need … Read more
I think the best thing you could do is to take a look at others people WP plugins and themes. WordPress codex has a lot of info on developing plugins using ajax: http://codex.wordpress.org/AJAX_in_Plugins For the backend side of things, I think the best approach would be to use a custom post type for the portfolio … Read more
To start with you could use the following code. For security you could also add some nonce check and even use the settings api. Here plugin-test is your plugin folder name. $file = stripslashes(‘plugin-test/style.css’); $plugin_files = get_plugin_files($file); $file = validate_file_to_edit($file, $plugin_files); $real_file = WP_PLUGIN_DIR . “https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/” . $file; if( isset($_POST[‘plugin_test_settings’][‘newcontent’]) ) { $newcontent = stripslashes($_POST[‘plugin_test_settings’][‘newcontent’]); … Read more