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A Simple Fix for “Simple Tags”

August 09, 2008 By Hel :: Posted in Plugins :: No comments

I am not an official Wordpress tester, but to keep up with the latest changes and to make sure my own plugins are always compatible with upcoming versions of Wordpress, I run Wordpress development version on this site.

There are several plugins installed on this site that end up also getting tested for compatibility with upcoming versions of Wordpress, although that is not my intention. Wassup, cFormsII, Bad Behavior, and Akismet all run successfully on Wordpress 2.7 development version . One plugin that failed was Simple Tags version 1.5.7 by Amaury Balmer. This plugin produced an error because of a test in the code that rejects unrecognized versions of Wordpress.

Fortunately the fix was simple. It only required that the version test be replaced by one that tests for current or higher version of Wordpress. I modified the code myself and now “Simple Tags 1.5.7a” runs on 2.7-dev. Read the rest of this entry »

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