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WordPress launches plugin directory
One of the appeals of just about any blogging service, especially one you can install in your own hosting space, is the ability to really make it your own. Whether you have to hack and slash through PHP by hand or you can enjoy the luxury of a vast plugin community, it just feels a little more like a (digital) home when you can put your spin on your own blog. WordPress has just such a booming plugin community, but until now, they've never had their own true resource for posting and downloading plugins. Thanks to the new, official WordPress Plugin directory, the days of aimlessly googling for a plugin to do this or that are a thing of the past. Granted it has a ways to go before it can be called 'comprehensive,' but this is exactly what WordPress has needed for quite some time now. Three columns on the main directory site tell visitors which plugins are popular, fresh out of the oven or recently updated, with a Featured Plugin area front and center to host the flavor of the day. Plugin authors can easily add their plugins to the database via this form, and all the WordPress crew ask is that plugins be GPL Compatible. The only gripe we have so far is that there's no RSS feed for the plugin directory itself. Kind of ironic for a blogging engine, no?[via digg]
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Sergio Gandrus said 12:32PM on 3-17-2007
It'a very good news.
I hope in a WP review as the Joomla "editor pick"
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Len Steinmeier said 6:47PM on 3-17-2007
I was really happy to see this. I was originally a WordPress user, and for various reasons (none of them really good) I moved to different platforms. I'm now back to using WP, and am very happy with the developments of the platform (including the Plugins). The WordPress Codex (http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins)is another really good place to find plugins for WP.
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datter said 10:43PM on 3-17-2007
I've always used wp-plugins.net
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octagon said 9:39AM on 3-18-2007
am i not understanding something? because it seems like there's absolutely no 'index' or list of plugin categories or any other sort of organizational directory... just a search box and a handful of featured/new plugins? frankly, i never really felt like i had to 'aimlessly google' for a plugin that did what i wanted - the codex.wordpress.org plugin list (among others) has always provided at least a breakdown of plugins by category... and isn't the codex wordpress' own site? if 'wordpress has never had its own central plugin directory,' and that this makes this new plugin page big news, what does that make the codex site?
but anyway, the new plugin directory actually DOES make me feel like i'm doing the equivalent of aimless googling by making me search for whatever i want, rather than browsing an organized list. tags are a good supplement to categories ("navigation plugins," "admin plugins," etc.), but not a replacement. with a categorical breakdown i.e. wp-plugins.net/the codex plugin site, you can easily find plugins whether or not you know what you're looking for. if you're just looking for something fun to dress up your site, you can just browse and always know what you've already seen and what you haven't, and if you know you're looking for a plugin that does something specific, you can just click the category it falls into...
but maybe i'm just a big ditz and i haven't noticed some key feature of the new site. feel free to enlighten?
/feeling dumb...
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