[Plugin: WP-EMail] Serious Problems With Coding Quality — Warning to Developers

  • However, it has serious compatibility issues with other plugins (in my case XLanguage). I am used to dealing with this, and am usually not afraid to get my hands dirty with code. However, what I expected would be 30-60 minutes of finding a workaround turned into many hours of bug hunting. The code of this plugin is undocumented and at times obscure. I’m not sure if the things I struggled with are bugs, but that by itself means the code should be largely rewritten.

    This is just a warning that to other developers that the code wasn’t written to be read by anyone except the author. It’s probably not worth your time. I don’t know if there are any other plugins for WordPress that are simpler and are easier to debug. Next time, I’ll just use Drupal, which has quite a few stable ones to pick from.

    That being said, this plugin is quite ambitious, and when it works, it’s great. The author has clearly put a lot of work into it, and I’m grateful for his contributions to the community.

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  • The code has been there before even WP was borned, it was ported from b2 and hence it is messy, I don’t have the time to rewrite it.

    I don’t have the habit of documenting everything because it requires time. Even for WP, the documentation comes from 3rd party.

    Bare in mind that this is a free plugin and I am the only one doing it and this is one of the 14 plugins that I have.

    My aim is to make it works. There are too many plugins out there till the point I can’t really be bothered with plugin compatibility. I know most of my plugins have problem with language plugins because of the static templates used.

    You may want to consider ShareThis as an alternative to the emailing function.

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