Plugin Ideas for the WLTC Plugin Competition

[johnkolbert]

Hey Everyone,

As I'm sure you all know, WLTC is sponsoring another plugin competition, descriptively titled the WordPress Plugin Competition 2009.

I want to enter this year but am plumb out of ideas. So anyone have any great ideas for a plugin? Go crazy, be as creative as you want. What have you always wished WordPress had?

Hopefully others can use this thread for inspiration as well!

[redwall_hp]

Sorry, but I only have one idea at the moment, and it's the one I'm going to use. :)

[Jeffro]

LOL that was just wrong redwall :P

Here is my idea from last year which no one capitalized on,

When it comes to exporting, WordPress already does a wonderful job with it’s support to export posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags. However, there is a problem. The WordPress exporter lacks granularity. What I mean by this is that, the exporter covers the entire blog instead of being able to select certain categories to export. I’ve searched the WordPress Plugin database high and low to look for a plugin that would specifically export categories and I could not find one. I did manage to come across two techniques though that get the job done.

This is taken from an article I wrote exactly one year ago, the irony!
http://weblogtoolscollection.com/arc...ng-a-category/

[Mark McWilliams]

Sounds like a good idea that Jeff!

I too have an idea (Even though I can't code!), but I know someone who can,
so I better go speak to him and see if we can get this idea going! - It would
actually kick-start my WPKid.com site, and maybe some backlinks at the same
time! LOL

Take care people, and if I come up with any other ideas, I'll let you know!

Thanks
Mark

[andrew]

I have a couple of ideas you are welcome to.

The first is to make WordPress export to an open standard. For example, BlogML.

The other is to take a good look at workflows. I have a post in the making on this but I think WordPress's draft and reviewing processes need a lot of work to be useful for serious CMS use.

[andrea_r]

Oh hey, Ron wrote a partial export plugin... unreleased tho. We've got a ton of stuff that needs tidying up and releasing.

[redwall_hp]

LOL that was just wrong redwall :P

LOL, I know. :)

If I come up with any spare ideas, I'll post 'em here. I think I may have had one before I fell asleep last night, but I don't remember...

[troop50webmaster]

I would love to see a drupal-wordpress bridge, reason, my troop's website is running drupal but our blog's use wordpress (we have 2 right now). I would like the ability to cross-post and have single sign-on.

[spamboy]

I'd like a plugin that helps manage post *ideas* in an easier format than drafts. Over time, I accumulate one-line synopsises for stories I'd eventually like to write. However, if I were to use Post Drafts for these (which I currently do), it can lead to a ton of clutter -- and clutter often prevents productivity. Something that allows one to maintain a list of ideas, then check them off when complete, would be nice.

Another idea is a plugin that does for Post Custom Fields what CForms ][ does for drop-in forms -- that is, provides the user with the means to develop powerful/flexible ways to manage input of custom fields without the clunky structure of key + value. Permitting radio buttons, multiple selects, etc.

Of course, some of these ideas may already be implemented -- I just haven't been able to find them. :)

[Idealien]

A while back I posted some thoughts on a deployment strategy plugin idea that I would love to see made - would also be willing to share thoughts and help with testing if someone does want to run with it. The jist of it was to provide a way to improve the corporate viability of Wordpress when compared to high-end CMS like Red Dot, Interwoven, etc that out-of-box support multiple environments (dev, staging, production)

It's a rather ambitious concept to find a way to identify the changes between two different Wordpress environments - both file and database. Are changes in the comments tables b/c someone added new comments since the last copy of prod was brought back to staging or b/c a plugin that has been tested and themed in staging has modified the tables and so all should be updated.