[wp-forums] A Plugins Directory Heads Up

[Michael E. Hancock]

From: "Michael D Adams" <mikea at turbonet.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 8:19 PM

> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/
>
> Plugins in the directory no longer have threads of their own.  It was
> too hard to keep track of potentially many conversations/issues in a
> flat thread.
>
> Comments are now being redirected to the normal wordpress.org forums
> under the appropriate tag.
>
> Thought you all might like to know that before everyone else did :)

Michael,

Thanks for the heads-up.

When people Write a new topic, what do you think of NOT having the "Pick a
section" pulldown, and automatically put those questions in the Plugins and
Hacks forum?

Might also be interesting to see the tag used for those topics, to also
appear somewhere on the http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins page for each
plugin.  For instance, for Excerpt Editor, you are using the tag
'excerpt-editor', so somewhere on
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/excerpt-editor/ can you put a link to
that tag?  Maybe call it:  Forum Tag for excerpt-editor.

I do like that when clicking on Write a new topic for a plugin, you see the
related Codex and Forum threads.  That should help those looking for help!

Michael E. Hancock