Undefined Variable "Error"

Hey all! First of all, thank you so much for using my plugin. I really appreciate it.

I want to talk about all of the forum posts about ‘Undefined Variable’ “Errors.” This is not actually a PHP “Error,” it’s just a notice. I am aware of these notices and it will not affect the way the plugin functions at all. It’s not breaking your site or making anything else on your site not function. I will fix these notices in the next release.

Warning, dev speak ahead
The notice results in not initializing a variable before attempting to get its value.

What I did:

if ($variable = 'hello') {
    //do something
}

What I’ll do to fix it:

$variable = ' ';

//do lots of cool stuff here

if ($variable = 'hello') {
     //do something
}

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