[wp-hackers] Plugin meta suggestion: demo page URL

Mike Schinkel mikeschinkel at newclarity.net
Fri Jan 15 21:08:24 UTC 2010


Hey, off topic I know, but just wanted to say that Chris gave a really excellent presentation at WordCamp Atlanta.  Kudos Chris!

Slides here: 

	http://www.slideshare.net/iamzed/youre-doing-it-wrong-wordcamp-atlanta

-Mike

On Jan 15, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Chris Scott wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Mike Schinkel
> <mikeschinkel at newclarity.net> wrote:
>> On Jan 15, 2010, at 1:26 PM, Dougal Campbell wrote:
>>> 
>>> I've got a suggestion for an addition to the plugin metadata used in the Extend repository: a URL for a plugin demo page. There are use-cases where it makes sense to have a separate page for a demo from the main plugin homepage. It would obviously be optional.
>> 
>> Personally, I think it's a *great* idea.  I often struggle to find demos for plugins; having it formalized would encourage a lot more people to do it and it would be much easier to find if so.
> 
> Agreed. Since some plugins are hard to give a demo for, screencasts
> could be used on a demo page. I know with jQuery plugins, I'm much
> more likely to look at one when they have a demo page.
> 
> --
> Chris Scott
> http://iamzed.com/
> http://hailtheale.com/
> 
>> 
>> -Mike
>> 
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