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

I’m making a WordPress plugin. What are typical things I should include in the uninstall feature? For example, should I delete any tables I created in the install function? Do I clean up my option entries? Anything else? There are three different hooks. They trigger in the following cases: Uninstall Deactivation Activation How-to trigger functions … Read more

Updates for a private plugin?

If I write a private plugin, is there any way to use the WordPress auto-update mechanism to update it? I want to encapsulate the functionality, but it’s specific to my own 5 or so blogs, so it’s not a good candidate for the public plugins resource. But I love the easy-updating mechanism. Is there a … Read more

Tips for using WordPress as a CMS? [closed]

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Best collection of code for your ‘functions.php’ file [closed]

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