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I just finished a feature for a project that uses a combination of custom post types, data imports, and updating existing posts when deleting a user (or set of users).

There’s one problem, though:

Say have you have a post that’s currently published (that is, it’s ‘post_status’ is set to ‘publish’) but, when you update the post via wp_update_post, its post_status attribute is set to ‘future.’

In order words, whenever you programmatically update a post, the status of the post is set to ‘Scheduled’ (according to the UI) and ‘future’ (according to the database column).

So what gives?

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If you’re running a business that focuses both on developing solutions from the ground-up or that focuses on implementing a custom solution in the context of pre-existing projects (or maybe both), then you’ve likely – at some point – been in the situation of inheriting WordPress projects.

Tackling projects from either handle brings its set of challenges – most of them welcome  – but it seems to be far more common place for people to complain about working with a pre-existing codebase.

It’s not that I don’t get that feeling, but I do think there’s a level of immaturity in doing that. On the one hand, yes some codebases are outright terrible. But then some codebases aren’t that bad. In fact, I’d argue they are just a little bit different from how you’d develop it.

This is a case in which standards come into play, but I digress on this for now.

So let’s say you’re inheriting WordPress projects and you’re not particularly stoked about the codebase with which you’re working. How is it that you can still enjoy the work that you’re doing without feeling like you need to critique every aspect of whatever it is with which you’re dealing?

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Last week – and this weekend – I’ve been reading the comments on Pippin Williamson’s posts about his company’s decision to adjust prices on Easy Digital Downloads (and for those who are curious, I applaud it).

That’s a conversation in and of itself, and there’s a long comment thread that I think is worth reading for anyone involved in WordPess product development, but I digress as that’s the point of this post.

Some readers have left comments throughout the comment feed discussing the notion of community-based support forums. The whole thread is worth a read but:

1. EDD used to offer community-based support forums (in addition to their other support),
2. I’ve built and worked on products that had community-based support forums

And, in retrospect, I absolutely do not think it’s a wise decision for a WordPress-based product shop to offer them. I have my reasons, I’ll elaborate, but I want to be clear that I’m constraining this strict to WordPress because it’s what I know.

I can’t speak for any other segments of our industry.

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Last week, I gave my presentation at WordCamp Atlanta on Namespaces and Autoloading. (the full title was Namespaces, Autoloading, and Improving Plugin Architecture but that’s a mouthful, isn’t it?)

Because of the nature of the talk, I’ve opted to write a post to accompany the post, share the slides, and share an example plugin GitHub to help support the talk.

So if you were in attendance, thank you(!) and here’s the post, I promised. And for those of you who didn’t attend, I hope this post still helps to demonstrate the concepts and topics I discussed at WordCamp.

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