For the past few weeks I’ve been working on a WordPress plugin. One of my goals was to have fancy and relevant error messages. I contemplated writing my own error manager, and even began a very basic one. I experienced hurdle after hurdle, and finally I thought to myself, “Wouldn’t WordPress have its own error manager also?” So I did a quick source-code search and came across the WP_Error class. One of the hurdles I ran into in creating my own error manager was error localization. The WP_Error class makes localizing error messages extremely simple. Adding Error Messages To add an error message, the first thing you’ll want to do is instantiate your own instance of WP_Error. $myErrors = new WP_Error(); The next step is to add in your error messages. $myErrors->add('access_denied', __('You do not have permission to do that.',$myLocalizationName)); There are a few things to notice here. There is […]