A catalog of Plugins

Remillard · 2004-06-08 23:30:20

I needed something to keep track of my plugins and then in a burst of TXP documentation frenzy, I started to extend the catalog to ones from the forum. I intend to make it as complete as possible, however I ran out of time today for it.

Anyhow, for the mass consumption: Textpattern Plugins

Maybe someone will find it handy.

nimnix · 2004-06-08 23:35:57

This is great! :)

Remillard · 2004-06-09 04:48:11

Perhaps a little more comprehensive now, though I think I’m still only back two pages in the Plugins forum. You folks are bloody prolific with plugins. ;-)

By the by, if someone has written a plugin, and I didn’t describe it well, please drop me a note, e-mail or comment, with some replacement text and I’ll get it in there. I’m just sort of banging these out as fast as I can, and so some of the text is rather short.

Remillard

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DougBTX · 2004-06-09 07:53:54

OT: in your menu, you have “XHTML 4.01 Specification” – no such thing. There is a “HTML 4.01 Specification” and a “XHTML 1.0 Specification”.

Nice list, I’ll have a read through it and see what could be added :)

Later,
Douglas

Remillard · 2004-06-09 14:22:05

Thanks. I’d gotten the fact that the XHTML spec was a version of HTML 4.01. I’ve fixed it. I think I got away with it in the Textpattern 101 essay because I didn’t put a version number on it ;-).

Remi

marco · 2004-06-09 16:04:33

This is a great start;

It was time to get something similar to the Bosxom plugin registry http://blosxom.com/plugins/;

A second page for each plugin giving some additional information would make it even better:

- description

- example

- setup

- author

- URL

- plugin version

- TXP version (i.e. what version of TXP it was tested with)

- last update

Plugin developers could post the data to the registry on a “post/update plugin page” .

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DougBTX · 2004-06-09 16:39:11

> A second page for each plugin giving some additional information would make it even better:

I’m all for that, if it isn’t too much work. Each page could go in a “plugins” catagory, then you could generate the list of them automagically using TXP. Would also give you comments per plugin, which may be useful.

Douglas

Remillard · 2004-06-09 17:00:00

I’ll consider this. It would be a lot of work, but it’d probably be worth it. At a first cut as I’ve been thinking this might have been a helluva lot better as a table. I do think it would be a good idea.

I think also, if there are to be pages with descriptions, I need authors to come up with some copy. Even just typing out (or in some places where it was appropriate and easy, cut and pasting the forum post description) the short info I’ve given has taken longer than I would have thought.

Maybe when I get a relatively complete list I’ll move to tables, and then move to the individual page idea.

In a “looking forward” sense, you might add this to your proposal for more regular Plugin forum posts. Maybe the announcement posts could read a lot like the plugin fields: Name, Contact/Website URL, link to plugin, short description, long description, and I could get the forum ID from the post.

Which brings me to another plugin request idea, though I’m not certain how it would be implemented…. oh wait, I’m getting an idea now. A custom field would probably do it. Forum post ID into the custom field, and then a form to retrieve it and put it automagically into the url… maybe. I’m not sure if I could put something in a form like:
<a href="http://forum.textpattern.com/viewtopic.php?<txp:customfield forumid="nnnn">">linktext</a>

Anyone know the answer to this one?

Remillard
(head bubbling with ideas, problems, potential problems, etc)

Remillard · 2004-06-09 17:59:42

Alright, I’ll say it’s more or less complete. I got to page four of plugins and I tried to grab them all. If folks know of one that’s missing, give me a shout. I’ll start working on a better way to display them.

marco · 2004-06-09 21:34:52

Would a a database form generator cut it/save time?

Here’s one (phpFormgen) that seems very easy to use:

http://phpformgen.sourceforge.net/

Remillard · 2004-06-09 21:40:54

Possibly for future. After I wrote the one page, it wasn’t too hard to add some extra fields and move them to individual articles (though the copy is still pretty sketchy.) I’ve got to research how to use and display the extra fields. I’ve got an idea for what I want to happen here, but I’ll have to see what resources I have with 1.19.

Remillard · 2004-06-09 22:45:22

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