[wp-hackers] Improving Plugin (and Theme) metadata

[Jennifer Hodgdon]

I say: +1 on Westi's suggestion, reluctantly, since I like having just 
one plugin file with all the info at the top.

However, since I didn't fully understand what Ryan was talking about 
in his latest comment on the Trac ticket, Ryan -- does this satisfy 
your concerns?
    http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3089#comment:20

     --Jennifer

ps: One correction to your solution is that you need to call 
__('text','domain') in the plugin metadata file. Also, the other 
submitted patch to that ticket also gettexted the URL, author name, etc.

Peter Westwood wrote:
> Possible Solution:
> 
> 1. Plugins have to be stored within a folder under PLUGINDIR.
> 2. All plugins have a metadata.php file.
> 3. metadata.php file is included by the admin plugin page (not in global
> scope to keep it clean) as a way of discovering the available plugins.
> 
> Example metadata.php file:
> 
> <?php
> 
> load_plugin_textdomain();
> 
> register_plugin( plugin_filename.php,
> ~                 __('Description'),
> ~                 __('Plugin Name'),
> ~                'http://example.com',
> ~                'Joe Bloggs',
> ~                 'http://joe.bloggs.name'),);
> 
> //The End


-- 
Jennifer Hodgdon

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