Wordpress Plugin Compatibility Can Be Hairy
Has anyone noticed lately the plethora of plugins for Wordpress? And with the recent release of Wordpress 2.7 the frequency of plugin updates has skyrocketed! Issues including namespace collisions, public and private classes, etc. can cause real problems with a plugin like WPMarketer, which is indexing and replacing keywords in the Wordpress Content Loop with code to produce your affiliate links … dynamically when you enable the Auto Link feature. Please understand the complexity of code this operation requires. This is not Hello Dolly.
We have spent more hours testing compatibility with other plugins than any almost any other aspect of shaking down WPMarketer since releasing version 1.0.0 just 10 days ago now. Thanks to comments and feedback from our users we have been able to debug several issues reported and continue to work on compatibility with as many other plugins as possible. Obviously we are focusing on the more popular plugins and can not possible test all of them; nobody in the Wordpress plugin development community probably can at this point unfortunately.
The other challenge we have faced is the question of PHP 4.x compatibility. After much testing and deliberation, we have decided not to make WPMarketer backward compatible with PHP 4. While we understand this means some people will simply choose not to use the plugin, we feel that the added Features and potential of using classes that only work in PHP 5 is more important.
Basically, since PHP 4 is basically at end of life, if your hosting provider can not upgrade your server to PHP 5 you should switch to another provider. You will soon find that not even Wordpress will run on PHP 4; rumor has it that 2.7 is the last version that will be PHP 4 compatible. Also, a growing number of plugin developers will also be arriving at the same decision not to support PHP 4 any longer.
Please keep your comments and feedback coming so we can make WPMarketer more useful. If you make money or want to make money in Performance Marketing we think it will become a must-have tool for anybody who wants to move beyond Adsense monetization into affiliate marketing and direct advertising revenue streams.
This seems like a GREAT project, and it’s refreshing to see the amount of effort and support you are putting into it.
I did a search here and didn’t notice if there were any issues identified in using WPMarketer in conjunction with the WP-SuperCache plugin…
I’ll be trying out WPMarketer on a few low-volume WP sites we manage and look forward to letting you (and your readers) know about how it goes.
Thanks again!
Hey there,
Trying to install the plugin but i keep getting this error:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /home/content/p/a/u/paulteitelman/html/toronto-health/wp-content/plugins/wpmarketer/tabulator_navigation.php on line 5
Any ideas on how to fix would be most appreciated looks like a great plugin!!
I’ve been using WPMarketer for a while now and find it very useful. Especially the auto link feature for when I imported a blog with about 500 posts. Are you still working on a pro version ?
Thanks, Rob