Want a Wordpress Plugin?

Posted in Ars Pro Bono, Plugins, Wordpress by Elliott Back on January 12th, 2007.

I don’t have any great plugin ideas recently, so I thought I might post a drop-box here on the blog for you to leave plugin requests. If there’s a plugin or feature you wish you had in Wordpress that you don’t have, leave a comment! Be specific in the requirements you have.

I’ll release any plugins I implement from the suggestions here as GPL plugins for the entire Wordpress community to enjoy.

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Alpesh 1 year ago 1 point
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Hi,
Your lovely asides plugin... would be great :-)

Cheers!
Alpesh

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http://alpesh.nakars.com/blog

mr nice ash 1 year ago 1 point
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This is a great idea and I'd love to have that asides plugin too.

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http://dhost.info/mrniceash

Icaterus 1 year ago 1 point
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You could make a plugin for a screenplay progress bar.

Here's the link of what I mean: http://www.davidanaxagoras.com/2005/04/16/track...

It's some pretty simple CSS that makes a bar of your progress percentage for writing a movie script. And it could possibly be used for a lot of other different things that have measured progress..? Like other forms of writing, or maybe even coding plugins (I'm not sure)?

Adding it by CSS is alright but it gets annoying to update and even more annoying when you want it on more than one place. A plugin that has easy options to set the progress percent, change the color and style etc, would be fantastic.

At the moment I've seen this on a bunch of screenwriting blogs, there's an example on the home page of that blog I gave the link to. But, I'm guessing there could be a lot of other innovative uses for a progress bar on a blog??

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http://www.nzprotag.com

Elliott Back 1 year ago 1 point
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Hi Icaterus, that plugin looks like a good idea. I could make an admin panel to let you create and adjust progress bars, pick a color for them, and give you html code snippets you could then paste wherever you wanted them.

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Kisakookoo 1 year ago 1 point
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Hi! Why I can't fill my info in profile? Can somebody help me?
My login is Kisakookoo!

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Eleni 1 year ago 1 point
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I have a plugin request that a lot of us have been requesting forever at Wordpress.org (since version 1.5).

Wordpress has a nifty option inside 'options => general' that lets users register themselves on the blog. However there is absolutely no way to moderate this process. In other words, users will freely register and become members without any moderation or approval from the admin.

As of right now, WP admin can turn off that feature and register each member manually (which is time-consuming) OR turn on that feature and let anybody/everybody register themselves (too automated). By having a plugin that allows moderating/approving the user self-registration, it would become partly automated and partly controlled by the admin.

What do you think?

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Mark Wegner 1 year ago 1 point
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Comments for the main page, category views, and tag pages. That way people could leave comments on views like http://www.thediamondgames.com/tag/serving-games/ and tell me what they think about that tag. So essentially extending comments to not just be associated with a post, but also with index pages.

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http://www.thediamondgames.com/

Mark Wegner 1 year ago 1 point
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I'd like a way for guests/users to be able to submit posts from a form like the comment form but also has ratings for a few different categories. I'd like even guests to be able to submit these posts of the special 'Reviews' category to encourage unique content. I want these posts to show up in a special RSS feed and also be associated with an existing post. That way a user could write reviews about posts (games) I have on my site and be able to have their own review section similar to this: http://www.thediamondgames.com/author/meryl/.

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Kim 1 year ago 1 point
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I second the progress meter plugin! I have several quilting projects going on and would like to make a page with the journaling of each project - and show a progress bar in the page - possibly a widget that shows a listing of the projects that can link to the page. Geeze, I am not wanting much, am I?? - but seriously - anything would be nice!

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http://peachquilting.com

Icaterus 1 year ago 1 point
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Yea that would be so helpful if you could make a progress bar plug in. I forgot about this comment... it was ages ago I suggested it lol. =

Having something in the admin panel would be great. I think the part that would make it the most useful is if I could change options in the admin panel and it'll update the bars on my blog automatically without having to edit in some html code.

It'd be awesome if you could make that plug in :). I know I'd use it.

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http://www.nzprotag.com

Jeremy David 1 year ago 1 point
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I would say make a plug in that automatically formats into proper screenplay form.

Here is some CSS I found that would be a good start:

code>

EXT. FOREST / ELSEWHERE - DAY
Susan is on a cell-phone call. She smiles at Melissa, who walks by with two cups of coffee.
SUSAN (V.O.)
Right now, this is probably our top pilot. But things change.

Here’s the CSS code that does the job:

.screenbox {
list-style: none;
width: 420px;
background: #eee;
border: 1px solid #333;
padding: 5px 14px;

}

.screenbox li {
font: 12px/14px Courier, fixed;
}

.sceneheader,
.action,
.character {
padding-top: 1.5ex;
}

.action {
padding-right: 5%;
}

.character {
margin-left: 40%;
}

.dialogue {
margin-left: 25%;
padding-right: 25%;
}

.parenthetical {
margin-left: 32%;
padding-right: 30%;
}

/* special case: dialogue followed by
a parenthetical; the extra line needs
to be suppressed */

.dialogue + .parenthetical {
padding-bottom: 0;
}

.transition {
padding-top: 3ex;
margin-left: 65%;
padding-bottom: 1.5ex;
}

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http://www.jpony.com

Valerie 1 year ago 1 point
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Not sure if there's a plugin that does this, but I'd like to be able to automatically add a link at the bottom of posts that would allow readers to subscribe to the rss for that post's category. For example, I'd like to subscribe to the rss for your wordpress category but would have to manually figure out the link I guess.

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http://www.robcomm.net

Architects India 1 year ago 1 point
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asides plugins...lovely is pretty much he right word :)

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http://www.i-chaney.com

Matt Homewood 1 year ago 1 point
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I second Eleni's comment. A moderation plugin (similar to the current comment moderation option) for new user registrations would be easier to manage than the current user registrations on or off scenario.

Thanks!

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http://www.myhappymedium.net

Miguel 1 year ago 1 point
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Hi Elliot I would love to see an updated version of WP autoblog one that does not cause errors with category creation in the newest version of WP that would be awesome

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http://www.paginadeinicio.com.mx/blog

Miguel 1 year ago 1 point
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sorry for the double post but I was reading above someone said it would be great if ussers could submit content I would love this plugin only it would need a approve or dissaprove before posting if it had all that , I think that would be a killer plugin

and another plugin I have looked for and not been able to find is a simpler way to organize categories for example lets say I have 300 categories this slows down the site but if there was a plugin where I could make lets say 15 main categories 30 sub categories and 100 sub sub categories sort of like a directiry type deal so that on any 1 page a limited number of categories will show up and this way things can be organized alot neater pages load alot faster less strain on the server easier for a surfer to find what it is he or she is looking for without having to read over 300 categories anyways these two plugins and an update to the one above would be great

p.s.s I don't see a post here from you elliot in a while is this WP plugins request even still open or possible or does anyone else know who can do these plugins or if ones has been made already if so you can contact me at Miguelmateos69 @ gmail . com

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Chad 2 weeks ago 1 point
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How about something that requires readers to sign up after a certain number of pageview or else that can't continue to read the content.

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