Speaking of Otto, I’m really excited by the screenshot he tweeted showing the direction he hopes to go with plugin favorites in the future. Seriously, how cool would that be?
Speaking of Otto, I’m really excited by the screenshot he tweeted showing the direction he hopes to go with plugin favorites in the future. Seriously, how cool would that be?
So many people have told me that they have a sort of fixed set of plugins that they always use on most sites they create, and I thought that it would be super cool for them to be able to just install them all in one shot. Favorites gives people a way to select those plugins that they love, so something like this seems to be the next logical step to me.
I’ll probably implement this as a plugin first, to test the concept out. But before that, I need to get a proper API going to be able to pull the information out of WordPress.org itself. Working on that.
Just listened in to yesterday’s show and heard this. Very cool! Love it.
This sounds very handy.
I personally use my own TGM Plugin Activation script to do this for each project I use. I already have it pre-populated in the theme, so I once I activate the theme, I hop over and bulk install/activate all the plugins in one go. Plus, it acts as a nice little reminder to clients (by popping up the nag message) when they try to go messing with plugins they shouldn’t.
Honestly, this would be freaking AMAZING. Login to our WP account to retrieve the favorites data. Then logout once done.
I love where this is going. Been thinking about something this for a while.