Updated my plugins – Please Read This!
Posted by james on Aug 16, 2008 in wordpress | 0 comments
I’ve updated my 3 WordPress plugins:
WordPress Generic Statistics Plugin
I fell prey to the whole “serializing serialized options”. In the words of DD32:
Ahah! One of those people who insist on passing serialized data to update_option()…
Honestly: update_option() serializes any non-string data thats passed to it allready, get_option() will unserialize on return as well, In some cases you can end up with PHP double-serializing the string which while your code works fine with, it can create higher load on PHP..
My advice to all plugin developers: Just pass the data in and let the API do the serializing…
(Nothing really negitive towards you meant by this message)
(That wasn’t directed at me, but I did learn from it)
So, please update.
Warning
BUT! And this is a BIG BUT!
This upgrade will corrupt any previous settings you had. I’m really sorry about this. And believe me, any pain you go through because of this, I’ve already felt. I just had to upgrade 12 blogs, and manually re-add the settings that were removed. 
