November 6, 2007

This blog was spawned as a result of a post on my other blog where I asked readers for a steer on my next project. One of the suggestions I received was for a wordpress plugin generator, where you could input the things you wanted your plugin to do, and it would give you a nice handy plugin file with the appropriate functions and hooks already working.

I thought it was a great idea and so I have been working on this for a few weeks.

I still have much work to do on the plugin generator, which I have named, Fun With Plugins, but I think I have got it to a position where it is actually useful and so I am opening it up for use and comments. If I were going to be all 2.0 about it I might call it a beta.

I am hoping to get feedback on features it should have, features that could work better, how well the guidance comments work etc.

The idea was given to me by Ronald Huereca. He has been instrumental in the development of this tool. As part of the Reader Appreciation Project he gave me the idea to ask readers what I should do next, he gave me the actual idea, he also kindly tested the generator at an earlier version, provided me with some sample code, and his series on writing Wordpress plugins on Devlounge was a key source of information, although I did choose to do some things a little differently.

Still to come

Features still to come are:



Wordpress feature image page?
24 comments on page 1065

Addsettingsfield?
3 comments on page 793

Shorter link?
4 comments on page 1190

Shorter link?
4 comments on page 1190

Cssimageforlogin?
no comment on page 128

Cssimageforlogin?
no comment on page 128

Get featured image url wordpress?
24 comments on page 1065

How to clear wpcache?
9 comments on page 1310

Photo gallry code html5?
6 comments on page 1305

Wordpress get image size?
24 comments on page 1065

Sitecouk wptheme?
2 comments on page 1376

Wordpress chat disqus?
no comment on page 1308

Howtocreategoodsizelayout?
4 comments on page 1026

Friend connect profile?
6 comments on page 1364

Get medium image from post?
24 comments on page 1065

Tabbed widgets wp?
no comment on page 333

Wordpress pictue cache lschen?
9 comments on page 1310

Wordpress plugin post separator?
no comment on page 1371

Display photos html 5?
6 comments on page 1305

Fun wordpress themes?
2 comments on page 1376

Wp featured image without size?
24 comments on page 1065

Wordpress get url global?
4 comments on page 1190

Wp unlimited?
3 comments on page 1141

Html5 image gallery?
6 comments on page 1305

Wordpress exif plugin?
12 comments on page 230

Css login screen?
no comment on page 128

Htlm 5 photo gallery?
6 comments on page 1305

Css login screen?
no comment on page 128

Comments by intensedebate?
7 comments on page 1175

Image gallery html 5?
6 comments on page 1305

Wordpress andrew rickmann?
2 comments on page 1376

Wordpress medium large?
24 comments on page 1065

Fun with uninstallation wordpress?
53 comments on page 100

How to clear wp cache?
9 comments on page 1310

Photoshop frameworks?
3 comments on page 296

Html5 gallery?
6 comments on page 1305

Html 5 photo gallery?
6 comments on page 1305

Login screen css template?
no comment on page 128

Html5 photo gallery code?
6 comments on page 1305

Wordpress post multiple images?
24 comments on page 1065
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 Amit Bhawani

Hey, just posted about your plugin generator here – http://www.amitbhawani.com/blog/wordpress-plugin-generator-at-fun-with-wordpress/
Amit

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 Andrew Rickmann

Jonic, I have added the wp_footer hook.

I have a few people suggest letting people add their own content in different ways. While it certainly makes sense I think that one of the advantages of this is that you can download a plugin that, in theory, should just work. This gives a great baseline and means it is easy to test what is broken.

If people could add their own content that may cease to be the case and it may be difficult sometimes to figure out if there is a bug in the generator or in the content they have typed in.

I haven’t ruled it out, but I am considering it very carefully.

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 Jonic

Great work man, I can see this being really useful for plugin developers…

I’d like to nomiate the wp_footer hook, or give the user the option to type in a hook/filter of their own. I’m subscribing to your feed to see how this turns out. It seems to be working out great so far :)

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