Google Summer of Code: wp-update
The results were released the other day for Google’s Summer of Code (Or Winter for those of us in the Southern hemisphere), And as you’ve probably guessed from the title of this post, I’ve been selected.
You can find the full list of organisations selected here: http://code.google.com/soc/, and the selected WordPress Ideas here:http://code.google.com/soc/wordpress/about.html
My selected suggestion is for a Plugin/Theme update plugin for WordPress, In a nutshell, Its a Plugin which:
- Allow Notification of Plugin/Theme updates
- Allow searching of Open source repositories
- Allow single-Click install of Plugins/Themes
- Allow Plugins/Themes to be updated from within the Control panel
- Check Requirements for Plugins/Themes before installing
Over the last few weeks i’ve been working on a few parts of my proposal in my spare time, and thought i might share some of my initial screenshots:
The Plugin Update Screen:
The Theme Install Page:
The Theme Search page:
Currently there are no public builds, or any public code available. I expect i’ll release something closer to the start date (28th May) .
Congratulations to all those accepted, Thanks Google(And WordPress!) for the opportunity, And thank you mentors for giving up some time to help the students :)