WordPress.org Plugin Support Is Awesome

I’ve built two apps for the Android Play market.   Both function pretty good, but my code is terrible.  I’m not a java developer.  I learned enough to build those apps and use google to find functionality I need.  When I submitted them to play they were live immediately.

WordPress reviews every plugin submitted.  This can take days to a week+.  Each time I’ve submitted they’ve given me a detailed reasoning why it can’t be accepted yet.  Then they go so far above and beyond explaining why and what some solutions would be.  I always learn something here.  At google I continue to write pretty shoddy code because it just gets released no matter what.

Here is what I learned today:

Don’t use url’s to the plugin directory based on the site’s root.  I always thought the site url included any subdirectory it may be installed in so site_url() . ‘/wp-content/plugins’ would always point to the plugin’s directory.  Nope.

And the best thing I learned, they told me if my plugin is going to upload/create content you should never store that in your plugin’s directory.  It can be deleted when the plugin is upgraded.  It’s best to store in a custom sub directory under wp-content, something like ‘wp-content/your-plugins-name/’ or, even better, wp-content/your-plugins-name/uploads’ if you want it to work better with multi-sites.  That’s so awesome! I’d never have known or learned that if it weren’t for the awesome review team over at WordPress.org.