The eagle-eyed among you might have noticed a few tweaks to WordPress.org plugin pages the last twelve hours or so. As it turns out, Matt Mullenweg (who you might have heard of him) announced on the WordPress development blog just moments ago that plugin developers now have control over custom headers on their WordPress.org plugin pages. Plugin pages have also seen small design tweaks to allow custom headers to work in the layout.
To add your own header image to your plugins, follow Matt’s instructions on the dev blog. Images must be 772 by 250 pixel JPEG or PNG files. And no animated GIFs, kids.
Matt gave Hello Dolly as the example, which is pictured above. We’ll keep a running list of the plugins that we spot that have added custom headers. If you see one (or update your own plugin’s page, I suppose) drop a note in the comments so we can check it out.
Super fancy plugin pages we’ve seen so far:
- bbPress
- BuddyPress
- Cachify
- Campaign Monitor Ajax Forms
- Contact Form 7
- Custom Field Bulk Editor
- Custom Login
- Debug Bar
- Dynamic To Top
- Foxyshop
- Gallery to Slideshow
- Get Snarky
- Hello Dolly
- Hotfix
- HyperDB
- Impostercide
- Jetpack
- Login Logo
- Meteor Slides
- Mini Loops
- ReciPress
- Reliable Twitter
- SEO Ultimate
- Sidebar Login
- Simple Facebook Connect
- Simple Google Connect
- Simple Image Sizes
- Simple Twitter Connect
- Transparent Image Watermark
- Transposh
- Typekit Fonts for WordPress
- Tweetable
- Widgets on Pages
- WooCommerce
- WordPress File Monitor Plus
- WordPress Move
- WordPress SEO
- WP-Facebook applications
- WP-Grins SSL
I like the update, but can’t help but think that time spent updating the plugin detail page could be spent on really highlighting the plugin Authors, who spend countless hours on free plugins to help WordPress and the Community.
Lots of other changes coming too. This is just something that was quick and made it look nice.
That’s great to hear Otto! Any attention WP.org gets is a good thing haha
bbPress page has also been “fancied”
Thanks David, just updated the list.
Considering that Hello Dolly was the “inspiration” for my first public plugin, I had to take a quick break at work and add one to mine: Get Snarky. Seemed only fitting.
Awesome, I’ll get the list updated.
I was eagle-eyed enough to spot something happening!
I like it too, one of many improvements I’m sure we’ll see over the coming weeks and months!
This is awesome, I just hope it isn’t abused with ugly or spammy graphics!
I tried it out on my plugin Meteor Slides with a banner I doodled, works great.
It sounds like banners will be monitored for bad stuff, same as anything else. So that shouldn’t become a problem.
Although, ugliness… yeah, that could probably happen.
I’ve just put a quick one up for Widgets on Pages… what a great idea.
Gives us code-monkeys a chance to break out the *GIMP too
* Yeah, I’m cheap.
I’ve taken to using Acorn (Mac) for some image editing, particularly because I’m not going to spring for another copy of Photoshop for my laptop. It’s neat, if you’re a Mac user I’d recommend trying Acorn out.
Great update! It is good to see the plugin repo gettign some attention. Hopefully the flow of updates will continue! It’d be great to see the profile pages getting some love as well in my opinion!
And since you asked… I gave it a try with my plugin as well
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-facebook-applications/
Nice one Jeremy. And it does sound like updates will continue to happen to WordPress.org, which is definitely exciting.
The Cachify plugin has a really nice and subtle implementation.
I really like that one, good catch.
Shame the version number wraps – guess thats incentive to push out an update :p http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/woocommerce/
I just started messing with this a little bit today, took me a few minutes to figure out how to add the assets directory to the SVN, but I got it working eventually. Here is a link to a few more tips everyone may find very helpful that I learned in the process and a link to one of my plugins with the custom header image applied…
http://mywebsiteadvisor.com/2011/12/update-your-wordpress-plugin-header-image/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/transparent-image-watermark-plugin/
Loving this new addition, having some fun too:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gallery-to-slideshow/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dynamic-to-top/
Good ones Matt.
Nice addition by Matt Mullenweg, we must say. Little opportunity to plugin authors for branding, Its looking awesome.
Have a look at rtSocial Plugin page http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rtsocial/
Got mine up yesterday for all of my plugins which can be found at http://profiles.wordpress.org/users/austyfrosty/.
My most popular plugin was first: Custom Login but Comment Validation Reloaded might be my favorite!
Great idea of Matt & the WP.org team!
I’ve added my plugin “Genesis Layout Extras” to the list
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/genesis-layout-extras/
…all my other plugins will follow in the next days
Here is our yet another plugin with cool custom header image http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/blogger-to-wordpress-redirection/
Cheers!
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WP E-Commerce. Boom!
Nice!
We added header images for our MaxButtons and MaxA/B plugins. Check ‘em out at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/maxbuttons/ and http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/maxbuttons/.
Woops, copy-paste fail. The link for MaxA/B is http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/maxab/.
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We added a header image to one of our plugins: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/velvet-blues-update-urls/
New plugin, and of course, had to add the header! http://j.ustin.co/xguKiW
We recently launched a plugin called Title Split Testing and added a header image to this.
Here is the link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/title-split-testing-for-wordpress/.
We had some trouble getting it to display, but it turned out that the x in the image file name was a multiply symbol and not the letter x. They look the same but are not! Silly mistake, but worth trying for anyone else having difficulty getting it to show up.
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Hi Ryan,
Just wrote a post about WordPress plugin banners and drilled down into the details about how to get the design to correctly accommodate the plugin name. And I linked back to this post as a reference.