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Wordpress Plugin Dependency Checking

July 27, 2009 – 1:07 pm

I use the excellent NextGen Gallery to manage the images in several web sites. But it uses javascript to display the individual full-size images, and that’s no use for search engine optimization, so i’m writing a plugin to produce a templateable HTML front end for it.

That plugin obviously requires NextGen Gallery to be installed – or, at least, for its database tables to be available – but WordPress’s plugin activation system doesn’t have any built-in way of checking dependencies. … Read more »

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