This plugin is not supported anymore

Marcel, I would be happy to take over support (and further development) of your Shortcode Exec PHP plugin if you are willing to have me do that. You can reach me via email at [email protected] to discuss this possibility. I find your plugin very useful and would like to assure that it continues to be developed and supported. Thanks! will

e-mail sent.

To prevent spam it would be better to remove your e-mail address here.

There are lots of great plugins and their Authors dropping off.
You can only work so long for nothing and have no one appreciate your efforts. Understandably, no one seems to want to burn their bridges with The WordPress Organization, but when some begin to open up, we may understand.

Thanks for your concern, Marcel, but my email address is already in so many public places that a little more spam from here will barely be noticed! *;-)

In fact, though, I’ve got some very good spam controls on my incoming email and very little ever actually gets through any more.

I have contacted Will Zachmann as asked above and I have good news: Will is going to take over support and development of the plugin. We have agreed to the following simple conditions:

• The plugin stays open source under the current license
• There will never be any money asked for the plugin, meaning no advertisements, no pro version, etc
• My name as original author will keep being mentioned

Will is free to accept donations for his work, but this should be entirely voluntary.

For the time being I will back Will up by answering any questions he has.

Three hurrays for Will. Hip hip hooray!!!…

Funny that you Marcel, are tired of the treat by WP world, but want to keep your name like plugin author. I suppose you both will appear as authors, which is good anyway.

So, welcome will to this world. Thank you for the kindness of taking charge of this fantastic plugin.

And Marcel, thank you for four good years of good open source development. As you said, 10/200.000 downloaders have the kind to rate positively the plugin. And that’s a lot considering this plugin is used for very specific and uncommon purposes by busy people with almost no free time to take and come to congratulate. But I think that taking that time to greet a developer is a good way to encourage the continuity of open source things. I do spanish translations for the plugins I love, free, and for the masses, and I know very well that a “thank you” from time to time would be nice, but people simply have no time to do that. I’m happy knowing that my job is useful to thousands of people, sometimes the stats are the prize :). So… A big thanks to you buddy!

I am pleased to be able to step in and lend a hand, taking over ongoing support and development for Marcel’s excellent plugin! As Marcel said, it will remain open source under the current license, without charge, and recognizing Marcel as the original author who has, in fact, done 100% of the work so far. It will be a long time before my contribution will be even a small fraction of Marcel’s. But I do want to make sure that Shortcode Exec PHP continues to be supported, updated, and enhanced.

It will take a little while before I am fully up-to-speed with Marcel’s code, so please bear with me for these first few weeks. But if anyone has any issues, ideas for new features or capabilities, or other suggestions, please feel free to let me know. I will do my best to get good recommendations into the dev pipeline as soon as possible.

Great news. The very first thing to do is to take a peek on what new features will come up with WP 3.9, which has a planned release for mid April.

TinyMCE will be more than embedded, so studying what it implies is the first TO DO thing.

Count me as a betatester. I’m using the plugin in 5 websites to do very small and specific micro tasks, but tasks that couldnt be done otherwise.

I have added a message about this plugin not being supported anymore to the description again. The reason for this is that this plugin needs to be updated for WordPress 3.9.

@will Zachmann: of course you can remove this message after updating the plugin, but please note that TinyMCE integration doesn’t work anymore with WordPress 3.9.

Marcel, I am not at all clear with what it is that you say is not working. I’ve just (re-)checked one of the sites where I’ve got the plugin installed and, so far as I can tell, everything is working just fine. Can you please tell me exactly where you see something that is not working correctly?

The site I refer to, by the way, has Tiny MCE Advanced installed.

FYI, because I have been extremely busy with work for various clients and with preparing my US Federal and State income taxes over the past couple of weeks, I have not yet been able to get caught up learning the details of Marcel’s (quite excellent, by the way) code for this plugin. I expect to be able to do so, however, over the next few week and to work out some priorities for further development and maintenance of this very useful plugin.

Inserting shortcodes with the icon [ ] in the toolbar of the standard WordPress editor (=TinyMCE) does not work anymore.

Ah! Indeed it does not! I’ll fix that as soon as I am able to pry enough time free to figure out what’s wrong and what needs to be changed to correct that.

For the moment, though, folks can still make it work by simply typing in the square brackets and the appropriate name. That still works just fine, it seems. But I’ll get the automatic insertion fixed as soon as I can.

Thank you Marcel for an awesome plugin and thanks to Will for taking your hardwork going forward.