[wp-hackers] Two new, long-overdue plugins to make your wordpress life a little easier...

[Rick Maltese]

That sounds good Chrstopher.

Are you saying there is a procedure for custom post types
or a plugin called "Custom Post Types"?

Rick Maltese
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Christopher O'Connell
<jwriteclub at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > I do have a third wish and that is a plugin that handles user pages
>> that does not require the dashboard access.
>
> I used to have a plugin (pre-3) to do this. However, I've stopped
> distributing it because 1) There were some security issues I didn't want to
> fix and 2) It seemed like Custom post types made this easy, so why bother to
> do a plugin which would have 100s of feature requests, when it is fairly
> easy to just set up custom post types and a couple of forms (if you want to
> avoid the dashboard) to do it.
>
> ~ Christopher
>
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 17:45, Mike Schinkel <mikeschinkel at newclarity.net>wrote:
>
>> On Oct 28, 2011, at 8:29 PM, Rick Maltese wrote:
>> > I was merely suggesting other plugins that would be useful. Perhaps
>> > this is not the thread for it.
>>
>> No problem (for me anyway), I just didn't understand what you were asking
>> and I was interested to know.  We might write such a plugin.  How would you
>> want to see the results accessed and/or delivered?
>>
>> > I was thinking that a plugin would be useful that lists the various
>> > changes to the default settings something like windows system info
>> > use to do.
>>
>> You mean something that lists the changes in wp_options from default, or
>> something more than that?
>>
>> > The second point is that if someone wants to make registered users
>> > posts easy to do without using the dashboard I would like to see a
>> > plugin for that.
>>
>> Ah.  Kinda like Gravity Forms?  There are probably others that are free
>> too.
>>
>> > I do have a third wish and that is a plugin that handles user pages
>> > that does not require the dashboard access.
>>
>> Okay. Have you looked?  I'd be surprised if there were not plugins that do
>> that already.
>>
>> I know BuddyPress does, but of course that's overkill for most use-cases.
>> :)
>>
>> -Mike
>>
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