Plugin to Add DONATE Link to Plugin Description

[chipbennett]

How many times do you go back to a plugin's download page on the repo - for one you already have downloaded? Yeah, rarely.

If it's under Manage Plugins, it's in the user's backend where they presumably see it ever single time they look at their plugins list.

I agree completely. :)

I strongly suspect - for exactly the reason you mentioned - that significantly more donations will come through Manage Plugins versus Extend - which is why I thought to write the plugin in the first place.

The Extend page for any given plugin is "out of sight, out of mind" the moment the plugin is installed. Almost nobody is going to go back to the Extend page for each installed plugin, just to hunt down the Donate link.

But that's not the point I was trying to make.

The point I was trying to make was that, if a plugin author is trying to track his sources of donations, there is really no need to differentiate between Extend and Manage Plugins. Both sources are coming from users of the plugin.

And, especially since both links are free, in terms of cost and effort, what difference does it make to differentiate between them?

On the other hand, it might be useful to differentiate between, say, that Donate link and a link on the author's website - or that Donate link and a link on the plugin's settings page. Even still, every one of those links is free.

Ultimately, what's most important for any donation model, is that one such link is being used at all.

[chipbennett]

And who ever dreamed that this thread would become the #2 hottest thread in all of the Tavern?

[Jeffro]

With you and Otto registered to the same forum, any thread that is created by you or him has the ingredients to become the next, HOTTEST thread. Nice that we broke the streak of GPL threads in that list LOL

[chipbennett]

Just FYI, since the related Trac ticket was closed as wontfix, I have released cbnet Manage Plugins Donate Link plugin, which pulls the Donate URI (if it exists) from readme.txt, and adds it to the plugin_row_meta link list, for each installed plugin.

It also checks to ensure that $links[] doesn't already contain a "Donate" link; if one exists, the plugin doesn't add another one.

And Otto: the next version will include a per-author filter, so if you want to opt out of having your readme.txt Donate link displayed in this manner, the plugin will attempt to accommodate that desire.