Fix Your Broken WordPress Plugins

Submitted by Don on Sun, 07/19/2009 - 12:23pm

My friends over at MaxBlogPress, the creators of the Ninja Affiliate Plugin (which I highly recommend), have launched a new service that that blows my mind: if you have a WordPress plugin that no longer works because WP has been upgraded, they will fix it—for free!
"MaxBlogPress Revived: Bringing Dead Plugins Back to Life" is their project for taking broken, unsupported WordPress plugins, fixing them, and making them available to the WordPress community. There are a couple requirements—the plugin must not be a paid product and it must have been non-working for a resonable time (to give the orginal developer a chance to update it)—but there is absolutely no cost to use the service.
Kudos to Pawan Agrawal and the team for offering this valuable service to the WP community!

WP Developers are the unemployed dregs of the world

Submitted by Michael (not verified) on Sat, 01/09/2010 - 6:13pm.

If i had a nickel for every broken wordpress plugin i'd be damned near rich enough to buy wordpress. WP developers are L-A-X.

I probably wouldn't have put

Submitted by Don on Sat, 01/09/2010 - 8:22pm.

I probably wouldn't have put it as you did in your subject, but it's true that there are a lot of broken plugins. That's a consequence of WordPress evolving; however, that's not the heart of the issue. The nature of open source software means that many of these projects are being created by developers who aren't getting paid. There may have been some satisfaction in that, but I don't see many of them continuing to update their creations without compensation. I'm a fan of Drupal (this site runs on that platform) and I see the same problem in that community, but to a much lesser degree. Developers work together, project management tools are outstanding, and there is a serious push to get the most-commonly used modules (plugins) updated to meet security threats and work with newer versions of core.