Comments on: WLTC Plugin Competition: Live Blogging Plugin

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By: Chris Northwood

Chris Northwood — Sun, 17 May 2009 19:01:35 +0000

Hi there, thanks for reviewing my plugin!

The plugin does what it was intended for just fine, but I get the impression that it is a plugin that was built for a specific use and released, rather than a plugin that was intended to be released.

Yes, that’s a fair assessment. I knocked it together in a week and then after the event I put some further polish on it for release, but I’d rather release it than sit on it, isn’t that the beauty of open source :D I’ll admit it’s not completely polished yet, but the core functionality is there. I possibly rushed it to release a bit too early, I’ve not tested it on the default theme (probably a major oversight) and I’ll investigate the other bug you identified and also test it on WordPress 2.8. Meteor also isn’t trivial to set-up; our site runs from a VPS, but I can’t see shared hosting ever working with Meteor. AJAX polling is definitely something that I’ll add in the future.

The tool is definitely something for “power” bloggers who have a large readership. Our live blogs do attract lots of readers – we averaged out at 150 (peaking at 220) connected to Meteor and we were in stiff competition with a rival site providing the same coverage, and I wanted the “push” technology to give us the edge over them.