Who had read anything here before, would probably answer „predictably“. :-) WP.org team is collecting users' opinions of most wanted features. This is how I'd like to see the next big version of WordPress.
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How did I vote in “Prioritizing Features” survey
Published: On Friday, December 26, 2008
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Please, don’t force us to download plugins’ screenshots
Published: On Sunday, December 14, 2008
Can anybody tell me what is the sense in including plugin's screenshots into its main ZIP archive? Does anybody need this, has anybody ever appreciated it?
My opinion is directly the oposite. Not only that I have never appreciated this feature yet, but also it's quite uncomfortable to me – regularly.
- more files in plugin's directory make it less clear
- these screenshots can mean hundrets of kilobytes to download/upload
Until managers of WordPress official plugin repository decide to fix these unnecessary inclusions, I'd like to please plugins' authors to spend a minute with optimizing size of screenshots. Remember. JPG is better for photos, PNG/GIF (8-bit) is great for screenshots. Wrong. Wrong.
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On 2.7 and growing in general
Published: On Monday, December 1, 2008
New major Worpress' version is going to be released any moment and I must react with „WTF“ again. Again – because a few months ago when 2.5 was fresh and hot yet, I wrote down some similar impressions. That time, the most unpleasant thing were not-too-smart feature additions, if I do remember correctly. Today it's about the same thing, adding features or possibilities conflicting with my personal (WP) development philosophy:
It's no reason to code something hard, when there's the way to do it as a plugin.
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Applying Custom Field GUI plugin to Pages as well
Published: On Saturday, October 25, 2008
The Custom Field GUI plugin:
… enables the automation of creation of form element user interface for entering Post' custom field.
With this great (but long time not updated plugin) you can manage only posts' custom fields. But what if you'd like to use it for Pages too?
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Comment Feeds Comments Count, a plugin
Published: On Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Oh, how I like creating names for my code-pieces!
By default, count of comments in comment-feeds is same as the count of posts in post-feeds (which you can set in Administration → Settings → Reading). But this principle seems very illogical for me. For my purposes, it's often appropriate to agregate about 3–5 articles (posts) but for comments is this count too small. I need to „feet“ about 10 comments, because RSS feed with comments is the way I watch for new feedback. This disballance of human's needs can't be solved without… wait for it…
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Raven’s antispam, a plugin
Published: On Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Description
Raven's antispam is a WordPress plugin, powerful and invisible fighter against comment spam. It works on a priciple (afaik) invented by Jakub Vrána: visitors with enabled JavaScript see nothing – no annoying questions, no captcha, nothing. Just (visually) untouched comment form.
Users with disabled JS see an additional text-field
and a word that must be rewritten into textfield. (If it's not, then an error
page is displayed.) Simply clever. (original
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Dashboard skip, a new plugin!
Published: On Tuesday, July 8, 2008
You actually may not need the dashboard page in WP administation. It may be useless, for somebody. This plugin allows to remove the dashboard from menu and prevent it from loading anymore. You can choose any other administration page for default.
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What’s the next step after automatic plugins update?
Published: On Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Update: only some time after publishing this article I learned about existence of this perfect plugin: One Click Plugin Updater. Although WP 2.7 is going to provide features mentioned in the article, there is no need to wait for future.
Well, that's pretty obvious, isn't it? The one-click plugins installation.
It's easy to imagine and it's not too complicated to code. I think we will not wait more than a few months and the idea becames reality. Plugins for Wordpress so easy and fast to install… like add-ons for Firefox. No more hand-made unpacking and uploading via FTP clients.
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Admin Bar Space Saving Extension
Published: On Saturday, June 28, 2008
Before and after. Click to enlarge :-)
What a crazy name for a plugin! Actually, this is a plugin for a plugin for Wordpress. Admin Bar Space Saving Extension is an extension for Viper007Bond's Admin Bar. Viper's plugin reduces nicely the admin-navigation into a bar. My plugin extends Viper's plugin this way: it hides the header in administration (that is IMHO practically useless) and compensates the missing View site link by adding it directly into the bar.
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NanoCache: reduce queries, save time, cache
Published: On Sunday, June 15, 2008
NanoCache is a very simple piece of code that'll help you with caching small pieces of content.
Let's see this example: Function
wp_list_authorsis (in some occasions) able to make incredible amount of db queries. You can wait until your hosting provider says „you are a problem!“, you can rewrite the whole function to be more efficient (and upload it back to WordPress SVN – sounds right) but there is also an easier way: to use this simple caching script.Note: of course, problems like this probably don't touch you if you use a caching plugin like 1BlogCacher or HyperCache
