Comments on: WordPress Plugin: Plugin Info

By: Vasily

Vasily — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 23:55:57 +0000

Looks like Smart Sliding Notes uses something called Plugin Update Checker to check for updates to itself, which references a class named PluginInfo … that’s probably what was causing the error.

By: Vasily

Vasily — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 23:23:40 +0000

Thanks … I should have thought of that. Duh. The plugin activated fine when all the others were deactivated. However … I reactivated all the plugins one by one and they’re all working fine, as far as I can determine, with no errors generated. I think I’ll download all my plugin source and grep for PluginInfo and see what turns up.

By: John Blackbourn

John Blackbourn — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 21:17:05 +0000

Sounds like one of your other plugins has a class named PluginInfo. Try deactivating all your other plugins, activating Plugin Info, then reactivating your other plugins one by one to find the culprit.

John

By: Vasily

Vasily — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 21:12:20 +0000

I’m unable to activate the plugin – I’m getting the error:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class PluginInfo in …/wp-content/plugins/plugin-info/plugin-info.php on line 22

Running WP 3.6, iThemes Builder Acute child theme.

By: John Blackbourn

John Blackbourn — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:12:54 +0000

BandonRandon: No, but you could try WP Plugin Data which is a fork of this plugin allowing you to do so. It hasn't been updated in over two years though, so may or may not work with the latest version of WordPress.

By: BandonRandon

BandonRandon — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:33:05 +0000

Is there a way to display two plugins on one page?

By: socrates

socrates — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:23:33 +0000

Thank you very much for sharing this wordpress plugin. It pretty much helped me exactely with the site I needed it for.

By: Condicioner

Condicioner — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:29:12 +0000

good code, professional work buddy. keep it up

By: Denzel

Denzel — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:59:42 +0000

Hi John,

Just to contribute some information on how to add the meta box to custom post type.
For example custom post type wp-plugins

//Check if class from plugin info WordPress Plugin is being installed and activated.
//if yes, extend it and show meta box in custom post wp-plugins.
if(class_exists(‘PluginInfo’)){
class wp_plugins_info extends PluginInfo{

function PluginInfo() {
add_action( ‘admin_menu’,array( &$this, ‘admin_menu’ ) );
}
function admin_menu() {
add_meta_box(
‘plugininfo’,
__( ‘Plugin Info’, ‘plugin_info’ ),
array( &$this, ‘meta_box’ ),
‘wp-plugins’,
‘side’
);
}
}
$dd_wp_plugin_info = new wp_plugins_info();
}

Hope this can help other people using this plugin with custom post type.

Thanks,

Denzel

By: John Blackbourn

John Blackbourn — Fri, 21 May 2010 16:27:04 +0000

Hey Denis, what problem are you seeing with the plugin in WordPress 3.0?

John

By: Denis Polishchuk

Denis Polishchuk — Mon, 17 May 2010 08:19:42 +0000

And the version 3.0 plugin does not work: (when will update the plugin?

By: photowork

photowork — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:02:37 +0000

Thank you for a great plugin. Iâ€™m very appreciate it. Cheers!

By: John Blackbourn

John Blackbourn — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:50:29 +0000

0.7.6 is out.

* Addition of a new plugin_info() template tag for displaying plugin info outside of your posts. Based on code by Melvin Ram.
* Various code improvements including caching improvements by Matt Martz.

By: John Blackbourn

John Blackbourn — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:13:48 +0000

Thanks for the heads up Dougal, much appreciated. I’ll check it out once we get a 3.0 RC.

By: Dougal Campbell

Dougal Campbell — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:39:33 +0000

I was going to try it out under WordPress 3.0 (svn trunk), but it doesn’t appear to be saving the plugin slug info from the meta-box. Of course, the New {Post/Page/[custom-post-type]} stuff is still in flux right now, so it might “fix itself” later in the WP dev cycle. Just thought I’d give you a heads-up, though.

By: Hugh Johnson

Hugh Johnson — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:15:38 +0000

Hi,

I have also upgraded to 2.9.1 but the problems with the Latest Change, FAQs & Other Notes sections are still present as described in my previous comment (https://lud.icro.us/wordpress-plugin-info/#comment-5687 ).

Regards,

Hugh

By: Denzel Chia

Denzel Chia — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:22:21 +0000

Hi,

I have upgraded to WordPress 2.9.1 and the plugin is working now.
You are right that it is a WordPress Cron bug

Thanks!

Regards,

Denzel

By: John Blackbourn

John Blackbourn — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:47:39 +0000

Hi Denzel,

There is a bug in WordPress 2.9 which means the WP-Cron system may not be working properly, which will cause this plugin to not update periodically. There is also an outstanding problem with the WordPress API which I have yet to find time to look into.

Stay tuned and I’ll post an update this week. John.

By: Denzel Chia

Denzel Chia — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:55:46 +0000

Hi,

Please help. The plugin info doesnâ€™t update for my site for quite sometime.

I had tried deactivating and reactivating plugin as well as deleting and reinstall, but it still doesn’t work. Clearing my wp_super_cache plugin also doesn’t help.

I am using 0.75 version of plugin info and WordPress 2.9

Thanks.

Regards,

Denzel

By: Melvin Ram

Melvin Ram — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:47:38 +0000

Okay, so it is possible to use the plugin_info plugin outside of the content block. Here’s how:

http://pastie.org/754165