I’m releasing the first of what I hope are many plugins for Wordpress. All of the details are at the new “WP Plugins” page here at wooliet.
If you’re reading this on the wooliet main page (with multiple posts listed), you can see it in action by clicking the link below. If the is the “single post page” display then..well….there’s nothing to see! Just go to Wooliet and find an entry with a link to more content.
(Updated with official WP plugin link)
I’ve tried to make it a very quick and easy plugin that can easily be thrown in and activated on any standard Wordpress installation. Another goal was to keep it ‘unobtrusive’ in that, once deactivated, there would be no trace left behind in the Wordpress database. Of course, at some point (if enough people use it), additional options might be necessary and beneficial. But we’ll see.
I’m still in the process of getting it listed and hosted with the official Wordpress plugins repository, but at the moment, the new subversion area for the code doesn’t yet seem to be available (anyone know how long that should take?). It took three days for the Subversion path to become active. The plugin should be available at the official location, which is right here.
As an aside and helpful tip for anyone else considering submitting their plugin to the official Wordpress listings: they have a “readme.txt” validator you can use to verify the correct syntax and content of the required “readme.txt” file. It was extremely helpful for me.
Congrats! It’s such a simple concept that you’d almost expect it to be the default behavior for WordPress. Maybe if you’re plugin is popular enough, it will be.
I can’t wait to see the next one.