Title: Bad development practices
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Bad development practices

 *  [dsifford](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsifford/)
 * (@dsifford)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-development-practices/)
 * Hi there,
 * I don’t need support. I just wanted to mention to you that, when deciding to 
   change the name of your plugin, you should HIGHLY consider letting people know
   who already have it installed.
 * Your decision left someone’s site stuck with a dangling version 1.0 of the plugin
   without any warning.
 * I’m certain that this person was not the only one who was affected by this.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/disqus-notify-content-author/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/disqus-notify-content-author/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Janne Cederberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcederberg/)
 * (@jcederberg)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-development-practices/#post-8524440)
 * Hey, thanks for the heads-up! I would’ve done that had I understood that it was
   needed. I guess I subconsciously thought a plugin has an ID that is independent
   of the name.

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 * Last reply from: [Janne Cederberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcederberg/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-development-practices/#post-8524440)
 * Status: not resolved