[wp-hackers] New plugin for plugin authors to showcase their plugins on their site

[Dan Phiffer]

Yo dog I heard U like ... etc.


On Jan 16, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Thomas Belknap wrote:

> Dude.  So sweet. Thanks!
> 
> On Jan 16, 2010 11:46 AM, "Mark Jaquith" <markjaquith at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Like many plugin authors here, I have many of my plugins in the wp.org
> repository, but I also want to showcase them on my own site. Until
> now, I've been managing them on my site manually. This has proved to
> be a giant pain — so much so that it makes me dread updating my
> plugins, as I know it'll involve a tedious update of their
> representative pages on my site.
> 
> I wrote a plugin to remedy this.
> 
> http://txfx.net/wordpress-plugins/i-make-plugins/
> 
> In order to make the page above, I did the following:
> 
> 1. Pages > Add New
> 2. Title: I Make Plugins
> 3. Parent Page: WordPress Plugins
> 4. Publish
> 
> That's it! It's getting all its info from the plugin repository, using
> the API calls available within WordPress. The info is cached in
> postmeta, with an expiration.
> 
> It also auto-populates the listing page:
> 
> http://txfx.net/wordpress-plugins/
> 
> Both pages have templates (using WP shortcodes, of course) so that you
> can customize their layout.
> 
> Now you can manage your personal plugins showcase just by updating
> their readme.txt file. Hope this is of some use to you!
> 
> --
> Mark Jaquith
> • http://markjaquith.com/
> • http://coveredwebservices.com/
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