[wp-hackers] New plugin for plugin authors to showcase their plugins on their site

[Mike Walsh]

Any chance it can support themes too?

Mike

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Dan Phiffer <dan at phiffer.org> wrote:

> Yo dog I heard U like ... etc.
>
>
> On Jan 16, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Thomas Belknap wrote:
>
> > Dude.  So sweet. Thanks!
> >
> > On Jan 16, 2010 11:46 AM, "Mark Jaquith" <markjaquith at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Like many plugin authors here, I have many of my plugins in the wp.org
> > repository, but I also want to showcase them on my own site. Until
> > now, I've been managing them on my site manually. This has proved to
> > be a giant pain — so much so that it makes me dread updating my
> > plugins, as I know it'll involve a tedious update of their
> > representative pages on my site.
> >
> > I wrote a plugin to remedy this.
> >
> > http://txfx.net/wordpress-plugins/i-make-plugins/
> >
> > In order to make the page above, I did the following:
> >
> > 1. Pages > Add New
> > 2. Title: I Make Plugins
> > 3. Parent Page: WordPress Plugins
> > 4. Publish
> >
> > That's it! It's getting all its info from the plugin repository, using
> > the API calls available within WordPress. The info is cached in
> > postmeta, with an expiration.
> >
> > It also auto-populates the listing page:
> >
> > http://txfx.net/wordpress-plugins/
> >
> > Both pages have templates (using WP shortcodes, of course) so that you
> > can customize their layout.
> >
> > Now you can manage your personal plugins showcase just by updating
> > their readme.txt file. Hope this is of some use to you!
> >
> > --
> > Mark Jaquith
> > • http://markjaquith.com/
> > • http://coveredwebservices.com/
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