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Opened 11 years ago

Last modified 6 years ago

#26895 new enhancement

Deprecate recently_edited option

Reported by: yaniiliev's profile yani.iliev Owned by:
Milestone: Priority: normal
Severity: minor Version: 3.8
Component: Options, Meta APIs Keywords: dev-feedback
Focuses: Cc:

Description

recently_edited option is being set when a plugin or a theme file is edited by the builtin Editor.
A search, in the WordPress 3.8 source code, tells me that the option is never being read.
I suggest that we deprecate that option and replace it by an action where plugins can hook and get the value of the edited file.

Change History (5)

#1 @nacin
11 years ago

I think keeping this is potentially useful information we may wish to use at a later point, and something that core probably could use, too.

#2 @DrewAPicture
10 years ago

  • Component changed from General to Options, Meta APIs

#3 @maximinime
9 years ago

At least fix the option so that the paths it contains are relative to the install folder rather than absolute for the local file system.

#4 @MikeHansenMe
9 years ago

@maximinime can you comment on the benefits there will be if this is changed from absolute? I was trying to figure out the pros/cons and I am thinking the main time this would change is if you switch hosting providers. In that case I was thinking it may be a good thing to know which file was changed(before or after).

#5 @maximinime
9 years ago

I'm not a fan of storing absolute paths when it's not required. Given that this option always contains a file that is in or below the web root, it makes sense to refer to the same file when migrating servers, rather than having a potentially invalid path.

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