Which banner plugin is this? [closed]

That would be revslider http://codecanyon.net/item/slider-revolution-responsive-wordpress-plugin/2751380 Warning, last year there was some information about it having a vulnerability on wordpress websites. The 2 websites I had it pre installed on via themes have also broken due to a update in rev slider requiring me to go in and amend the rev slider code to disable it. … Read more

Uninstall, Activate, Deactivate a plugin: typical features & how-to

There are three different hooks. They trigger in the following cases: Uninstall Deactivation Activation How-to trigger functions safely during the scenarios The following shows the right ways to safely hook callback functions that get triggered during the mentioned actions. As you could use this code in a plugin that uses plain functions, a class or … Read more

Updates for a private plugin?

Looks like the applicable code is in wp-includes/update.php, wp_update_plugins(): $to_send = (object) compact(‘plugins’, ‘active’); $options = array( ‘timeout’ => ( ( defined(‘DOING_CRON’) && DOING_CRON ) ? 30 : 3), ‘body’ => array( ‘plugins’ => serialize( $to_send ) ), ‘user-agent’ => ‘WordPress/’ . $wp_version . ‘; ‘ . get_bloginfo( ‘url’ ) ); $raw_response = wp_remote_post(‘http://api.wordpress.org/plugins/update-check/1.0/’, $options); … Read more