I’ve been looking at the differences between the published version of the WordPress plugin WP-UserOnline and my hacked implementation of it, and boy did I go to town! I even modified the database table the plugin created so I could add the ability to show visitors’ useragents as well – I remember doing it using mysqladmin. Definitely not a casual hack, although I could probably publish how to modify the installer to do the same thing.

Unfortunately, I can’t even post my own versions of the files without sorting through and publishing a new readme file – in my version, I changed the way the plugin accesses the underlying WordPress database tables. So I’m looking at a lot of nit-picking work just documenting my hacks. I have to wonder whether it’s more efficient to just start my own plugin. I guess I’ll wait for the masses to weigh in on that issue.

Posted by Greg in My Website, Programming

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