Sunday, June 28 2026

Month: March 2022

For developers, what do you do when it’s your plugin that’s getting the dreaded “Update failed. The response is not a valid JSON response.” message? While I was developing my WordPress plugin, I occasionally found that I was encountering the enigmatic “not a valid JSON response” message when I was trying to update my test pages. As you

In December of ’21, I wrote my first WordPress plugin for something other than my own use. That plugin was “PetPress”, a plugin connector for PetPoint and WordPress. In January I submitted it to WordPress.org for inclusion in their catalog, and after a little back-and-forth (described below), it became the first and only plugin of