I have developed a WordPress plugin, and one of the widgets in the plugin has a spelling error in the $id_base param of the parent::__construct method called in the Widget constructor. It seems that fixing the spelling error removes any instance of the widget currently in place. Is it possible to change the $id_base for the widget without breaking current instances of the widget?
1 Answer
You can deprecate the whole function which will probably be quite hard to do in your situation but it is possible with some work:
You could check for both, but load the new one for future installs:
function badly_named() {
__doing_it_wrong( 'badly_named', 'This method has been deprecated in favor of better_named_function' );
/**
* Call the better named method
*/
better_named_function();
}
-
Thanks for the feedback @JohanPretorius. I'd prefer to avoid deprecating anything if possible. Another option I was considering was using the constructor for the widget deregister itself, and then register the new widget. I am not sure that this would work though. Commented Oct 10, 2019 at 13:06
$id_base, so you'd need to make sure they're aware of the$id_basechange (like a grace period for letting them update their code). So either keep the typo.. change it.. or maybe as the answer suggested, deprecate the old widget.