Today i was working on some things for my AdRotate plugin. Then a sudden lack of documentation hit me. People on IRC who know nothing. And endless, not working, examples from a million websites made me get highly annoyed, frustrated and very unmotivated to do anything with WordPress.
As so often with WordPress the documentation was lacking. It gave so pointers and an example. Vague explanations as to what the variables to call this or that function could be. Right below the example there was a note that this example was just that and that it should not be used for a real website. Yay! Useless example! No clue as to how it should be done otherwise then!
Soooo, fuck php and WordPress for now! Enough useless non-productive evenings for the time being. Staring at a blank wall would get me further in life i’m sure.
If anyone knows how to properly implement a function (or bunch thereof) to make custom rewrite rules work in WordPress, let me know.
I want to use the $wp_rewrite class of which WP provides an API for plugins.
In the meantime…
*Resumes playing games and doing things that work! Like reading a book.*
by Andy Liguori
26 Apr 2010 at 17:16
Hope you get back to working on that soon…I’d leave you a big PayPal tip if you could find a way to integrate category inclusion/exclusion from the AdRotate front end.
by Arnan
27 Apr 2010 at 01:15
How do you mean category inclusion/exclusion?
by Caciano Gabriel
29 Apr 2010 at 22:33
Wow, that sucks.
I was trying to apply support to internationalization languages in Adrotate by myself and fail miserable too…
by Arnan
30 Apr 2010 at 16:03
yes that’s a tricky one too.
by Jon Kristian Nilsen
04 May 2010 at 08:14
I was actually thinking about adding language support to AdRotate, what’s the big hole in the road?
by Arnan
04 May 2010 at 08:48
Mainly poor software support on osx to maintain it.
by Jon Kristian Nilsen
04 May 2010 at 08:53
I see that there’s already some sort of preparation made for localizations, if you want me to I could finish that for you, just want to know if you have worked on it further than the current release.
by Arnan
04 May 2010 at 09:07
I’m not aware of any published attempts.
by Jon Kristian Nilsen
04 May 2010 at 09:11
Well, adrotate-widget.php has what it needs. I’ll continue this and send it to you:) If you want…?
by Arnan
04 May 2010 at 09:21
Oh yes but that is a very small part if the plugin. Also those lines are not inthe adrotate textdomain.
Additionally I’m working on a new version already. Using old (current) files for this is not handy.
When I find a way to make it work so I can maintain it on osx I’ll include I myself .
by Jon Kristian Nilsen
04 May 2010 at 09:34
Ok, let me know if you want any help:) Btw, you can use add-textdomain.php to add the textdomain, but you probably knew that:)