On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Alex Kerr <[email protected]> wrote:
> My question is can I expect any 3rd party Wordpress plugins to work > properly, given App Engine's restrictions on local file writes (so needing > to use Google Cloud Storage instead), and any other app engine restrictions > (e.g. Mail usage, and any others?). i.e. does the GAE Wordpress Plugin > patch Wordpress so that any random 3rd party plugin will automatically work > properly? > > If not, what can I expect to go wrong, and what can I do about it? > For popular WP addons, in general I find that they will either work on App Engine, or it's easy enough to find GAE-compatible alternatives. Specifically, the best alternatives are the addons that are written in pure PHP - keep a lookout for any projects that advertise that capability. The problem comes if you use low-use, obscure, or custom addons: it can be difficult and annoying to find alternative addons or find the original author to patch the addon. I would suggest making a list of your addons; if you have any addons that are custom-written for you, or implement unusual functionality, try to find a popular equivalent addon at https://wordpress.org/plugins/ . When I say find a popular addon, try to find an addon that's been downloaded more than 50K - 100K times from the above site. Now if you can't find an equivalent popular addon, it's frequently possible to patch a broken addon to work on App Engine. The biggest issue I find is that addons have to be patched to refer to the proper Google Cloud Storage bucket. There are occasionally some smaller issues, but if you encounter them, feel free to post again on this board :-) And finally: if you absolutely must have a particular extension, post an issue/star the issue on the App Engine tracker. For example here's an issue I've been following: https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9487 ----------------- -Vinny P Technology & Media Consultant Chicago, IL App Engine Code Samples: http://www.learntogoogleit.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
