[wp-hackers] Reviews for Plugins

[Ryan Frankel]

> I like the idea of having rating option say on the plugin listing row. But then again if I manage half a dozen sites I don't want to be bothered to rate a plugin on each site. You can see how this would exponentially cause issue as well as possibly false ratings. 

That is true and brings in an issue that I hadn't thought of.  I am guessing the UI would have to be as soon as you clicked to review you would have to sign in with your wp.org un and pw.  That way, you couldn't vote on things many times even if you had it on multiple installs.  Again, stealing from the Apple UI (I'm not very creative =).  

Ryan


On Nov 1, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Paul Menard wrote:

> +1 for this in theory. 
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> I like the idea of having rating option say on the plugin listing row. But then again if I manage half a dozen sites I don't want to be bothered to rate a plugin on each site. You can see how this would exponentially cause issue as well as possibly false ratings. 
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> the one good thing I like about it is potentially when the user rates the plugin then the 'hook' would know what version of WordPress they are running. Many times I get comments about my plugin not working on some latest WP version. Only after contacting the reporting user do I find out they did select the correct WP version when providing the rating. 
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> On Nov 1, 2011, at 1:51 PM, Mike Schroder wrote:
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>> I really like this idea in theory -- although I don't know enough
>> about the API to say how doable it is.
>> 
>> The only immediate issue I can think of is that all plugins don't
>> necessarily come from the WordPress plugin repo, so those you wouldn't
>> be able to directly rate.
>> 
>> I'm unsure about prompting for feedback (I find that annoying in
>> iPhone apps that do it) -- but having a star system for rating
>> directly in a row within the installed plugins page sounds awesome.
>> 
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>> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Ryan Frankel <ryan.frankel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I am not sure if this is the correct list for this but I have an idea that would be REALLY helpful to the review system for plugins (and probably themes too).  One of the things I have noticed is that while tons of people download and try plugins the feedback mechanism for coming back and putting a start-review is poor.  Most users, when the plugin works correctly, simply never come back to add their vote.  I was wondering if WP put a star system right on the 'Installed Plugins' page if more people would use it.  This would be similar to how the Apple review system works.  Another option would be if someone has had a plugin installed for X days they would get a reminder message to review or vote on the plugin.
>>> 
>>> I just feel like some system to encourage and promote rating plugins directly from the back-end of WP would be a great deal of help to everyone.  I know this isn't something that would happen quickly but I am just throwing it out there to see if anyone else has thoughts on this.
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>>> Ryan
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