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

[Jean-Nicolas Kuttler]

This plugin is great, but I seem to have a small encoding problem: I save my readmes as unicode and non-ascii characters seem to break somewhere between the repository and the plugins_api() call. 

I think the problem is somewhere in class WP_Http, although this is a little over my head...

Any ideas? You can probably verify this by trying to pull the "move wordpress comments" readme (unicode in changelog, near Tobias).

Nicolas

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 11:46:03AM -0500, Mark Jaquith 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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Nicolas Kuttler
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