Rolling Zem's Redirect Pro into Core

Logoleptic · 2008-01-11 00:24:58

Back when Alex took his position at Automattic, he mentioned that he’d be working with the dev team to possibly release Redirect Pro and other unfinished plugins. Considering the new “canonical URLs” feature in WP 2.3, I’m wondering if the features of Redirect Pro might make their way into the Txp core soon. If not, what are the chances of the plugin being released to the public?

iblastoff · 2008-01-11 01:03:30

interesting that its a new feature in WP now..i wonder if alex had a part in that.

seems like the plugin has been released to the public as i’ve seen threads of people passing it around. if anyone reading this has it, pass it my way :)

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Mary · 2008-01-11 03:56:19

As I understood it, Alex works on wordpress.com, not WordPress itself. It doesn’t look like it’s his stuff.

I’m wondering if the features of Redirect Pro might make their way into the Txp core soon. If not, what are the chances of the plugin being released to the public?

Alex has sent me a copy of it, and informed me he is fine with either, he’s simply unable to support it. I’m not sure (one way or another) that we want it to become part of the core, but it looks like someone is free to adopt the plugin in any case.

hakjoon · 2008-01-11 04:58:23

The redirect to support articles changing sections using /section/title and /section/if/title schemes would be nice to have in core. That’s a pretty useful feature.

iblastoff · 2008-01-11 05:33:03

just a sidenote to this thread but damn i just had 5 people send the plugin to me. thanks to you all! this community is amazing.

swf · 2008-01-11 14:52:08

could someone send it to me as well? Or maybe someone should just submit it to textpattern.net since it seems to be freely available if you know where to ask?

sthmtc · 2008-01-11 15:18:32

swf wrote:

could someone send it to me as well? Or maybe someone should just submit it to textpattern.net since it seems to be freely available if you know where to ask?

here

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Logoleptic · 2008-01-11 21:48:31

Thanks for clearing up the plugin’s status, Mary. I found a downloadable copy while I was looking for more information on the plugin, but I didn’t feel like it would be right to use it without knowing Alex’s stance on that kind of redistribution. Are there any pending changes in 4.0.6 that might make the current 1.2 version of this plugin stop working?

I agree with Patrick that redirection for duplicate URLs (as with WP canonical URLs) and changed/moved articles would be a great core feature, but anything more ambitious than that is probably best reserved for plugins like gbp_permanent_links.

sthmtc · 2008-01-11 21:57:52

Logoleptic wrote:

[…] but I didn’t feel like it would be right to use it without knowing Alex’s stance on that kind of redistribution.

Alex stance is pretty clear: he released the plugin under GPL license so redistributing it is perfectly legal.

Logoleptic · 2008-01-12 00:55:53

sthmtc wrote:

Alex stance is pretty clear: he released the plugin under GPL license so redistributing it is perfectly legal.

I saw that once I installed the plugin and got a look at the code. Still no docs, but someone familiar with the plugin could take care of that in a “zem_redirect_reborn” release.

ruud · 2008-01-13 18:20:30

Whatever you do, DO NOT call it zem_redirect_reborn :)
People still don’t know the difference between zem_contact and zem_contact_reborn.

thebombsite · 2008-01-13 18:56:22

If there are not going to be any major code changes I wouldn’t bother to rename it at all.

ruud · 2008-01-13 19:58:01

Yeah, if Alex doesn’t mind if someone takes over plugin maintenance, then no name change would be needed.

Logoleptic · 2008-01-14 01:06:30

ruud wrote:

Whatever you do, DO NOT call it zem_redirect_reborn :)
People still don’t know the difference between zem_contact and zem_contact_reborn.

Heh, I hadn’t considered the potential downsides of that naming convention. Thanks for the tip-off. I don’t think I have the time to adopt zem_redirect myself, but I’ll keep your plight in mind for another adopted plugin that I have waiting in the wings.

When it comes to documentation, I only have one question: how does the template tag work? I could puzzle it out by looking at the source again, but I’m really supposed to be working on a site diagram for a client right now…

Somewhat off-topic: Alex also mentioned handing some unreleased projects over to the Textpattern dev team. I vaguely remember an automated anti-spam system being one of the things he was working on, and there’s probably more that he never announced publicly. Would the developers consider tossing these out on the plugin development forum to see if anyone wants to take them on?

Mary · 2008-01-14 07:40:46

We don’t have any other stuff of Alex’s.

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