January 8th, 2009

Help Me Decide On A Project For This Month

As mentioned in my new year resolutions post, I am going to complete 12 projects this year, 1 a month. What this means is that I better get cracking with my first project for January. I have decided that this month I will develop a new WordPress plugin. I have had a few ideas over the past few months for various different plugins, but still cannot decide on which plugin to develop. So, I though I would ask for your feedback.

Here is a list of potential plugins that I am thinking of developing. Some may even already be available or do something similar to an existing plugin. I am also open to new suggestions!

  • Complete Monetization Plugin. This plugin would do everything you need to monetize your blog including click tracking, adding of affiliate datafeeds to posts, managing ad blocks etc etc.
  • Lifestreaming Plugin. Yes, there are a few available already but I want something that does more than the current ones available. Including a few custom themes similar to the sweetcron theme.
  • Caching Plugin. I have also wanted to develop a new caching plugin that extends on the current plugins available but has much better support for working with other plugins than the existing WordPress caching plugins have.
  • Automatic Plugin Updater. Thanks to Marcel_Perform for this suggestion. This plugin would automatically update all your plugins automatically without the administrator having to do anything. Perhaps using a cron job or something like that. Very cool idea :)
  • Your Plugin Here. I would love your suggestions before I make my final decision.

There we have it! Let me know what you think and if any of the above plugins tickle your fancy.

6 Comments


6 Comments

  • Joel Osborne, January 8, 2009:

    I would have to vote for either the Automatic Plugin Updater, since I can’t be bothered to update the plugins myself :) , or the Complete Monetization Plugin.

    Either one of those would be helpful to me.

  • Matt, January 8, 2009:

    Thanks for the feedback Joel!

    Thats 2 votes for the Auto Updater and one to the Monetization Plugin :)

  • StevenMcD, January 8, 2009:

    I’d like the Lifestreaming Plugin. Thanks mate

  • Adrian, January 9, 2009:

    Just left you a comment at http://iarematt.com/mobilepress-enable-the-mobile-web/ about my personal experience with mobilepress… I think it would be great if you could coordinate with Donncha to make wp-supercache work with mobilepress, instead of rewriting yet another wordpress plugin… just my 2 cents!
    cheers

  • Megg, January 9, 2009:

    I vote for the Automatic Plugin Updater…it would help me a lot! and you, I guess, lol. Save you some time as I don’t do it in any case!

  • Marcel, January 10, 2009:

    I suggest that the Automatic Plugin Updater sends an email when a plugin has been updated, or a log of which ones were updated, for security reasons.

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