[wp-forums] Sending up the bat signal with needs-dev

[Sergey Biryukov]

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Andrew Nacin <wp at andrewnacin.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Sergey Biryukov <sergeybiryukov.ru@
> gmail.com> wrote:
>> There are some people with this problem on local support forums too.
>> I've put up a plugin to restore json_encode() and _decode() from 3.1.4
>> on those hosts which have them missing even in PHP 5.2.4+. Is it worth
>> submitting to WordPress.org directory until 3.2.1 comes out?
>
> Not sure what we plan to do yet. If we were to do a plugin, we'd make it
> official from wordpressdotorg. Of course one problem is that they can't
> install (or activate) the plugin, so it needs to be a mu-plugin.

Looks like this error doesn't block access to the admin. One of those
users has somehow managed to activate the plugin, and the error was
gone. I haven't yet fully tested this myself, as I currently don't
have a PHP 5.2.4+ host without json_encode().

> What hosts are they on?

Two of them are on http://www.nic.ru/en/.

Sergey