…Who’s with me? :)
I’ll be participating in CSS Naked Day on April 9th, So to those of you who think your browsers stuffed up, Its not :)
You can find more information over here: http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/strip-down-your-blog-css-naked-day/ and Annual CSS Naked Day
PS. If you missed it: http://dd32.id.au/?naked (Or it hasnt arrived yet :))
(Its a shame my theme has the sidemenu’s before the content… I need to design myself a new theme..)
Following on from the Plugin upgrader, I feel it would be beneficial to also allow plugins to be installed from the wordpress web interface directly from WordPress.org
I propose to extend the API on wordpress.org to allow for plugin querying(select a list of plugins based upon tags, plugin name, and/or search term, as well as select featured, popular, or recently updated which are currently availale via a RSS feed)
As well as adding a “Plugin Install” tab on the Plugins page of WordPress.
Part of the work has been quickly scratched together on the Trac ticket by myself: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6015 however was only Proof of concept, and only works with plugins which are currently delivered by a RSS Feed.
I intend on working on the ticket and submitting patches to the WordPress core code for 2.6.
I invision the plugin installation page having a set of tabbed headings accross the page(Or as a side menu) to select the area to grab plugins from, Eg:
| Featured | Popular | Recently Updated | Tagged | Search |
And a table similar to the plugins page listing a page of plugins which matches the criteria.
I would expect the page to be Paged to 50 items or so to a page to allow quick skimming of lists, as well as not having too many pages to filter through.
The Tabs would be hookable, So a plugin can add an extra plugin source, or remove a source depending on the blogs intended uses.
See Also:
Wp-hackers: Idea for a GSoC project http://groups.google.com/group/wp-hackers/browse_thread/thread/c759db798b244121/b8451c1d7b670085?lnk=gst
Plugin Homepage: http://dd32.id.au/wordpress-plugins/add-from-server/
WordPress.org: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-from-server/
After some feedback i’ve made some changes to the plugin, I’d suggest that all users upgrade to it either manually, Or via the new Automatic Upgrader in WordPress 2.5.
If anyone has any problems with it, Please contact me with the details: http://dd32.id.au/contact-me/
Cheers :)
Changelog (for 1.2):
No, Sorry, This isnt a release :(
dDeviantart 1.0 is in the works and will be 2.5 compatible only, I’ve had to make the choice as i’m completely rewriting it, and would like to take advantage of some of the functionality offered by WordPress 2.5.
Much of the problems which have been reported with the previous version will hopefully be solved, The portfolio Pages issue will be gone for once and all(Possibly replaced by WP 2.5′s gallery functionality).
Caching issues will hopefully be gone with a rewrite of the caching functions, Infact, Most of the code is getting a rewrite, A New options page will debut which will hopefully fit in with 2.5 better (And it’ll not require javascript which is a step forward)
Hopefully i’ll release it in a week or so, Time permitting.