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Should The Admin Bar Have A ‘More’ Menu?

Also… if all plugin authors just added an “Action Link” to their plugin on the actual Plugins page, admins wouldn’t have so much trouble finding the new Settings screens. At the bottom of the article I linked above (I won’t link again) there is a link to a different — slightly outdated but useful — article showing how to do just that.

» Posted By Stephen R On November 18, 2011 @ 11:12 PM

I posted about exactly this concept back in 2008. Briefly stated, I think it’s a bad idea. Why? Because well-designed plugins should not scream “I’m a plugin!”. The best designs are integrated into the interface in such a way that, if you hadn’t just installed the thing, you’d never guess it wasn’t part of the core software.

In other words, the plugin should put its interface page wherever it makes the most sense for that… whatever… within the menus.

My original post is here: http://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia/2008/06/on-plugin-design/

» Posted By Stephen R On November 18, 2011 @ 11:07 PM

What Is The Weakest Link Of WordPress?

Dan Philibin and Jeremy: Please see the “Custom Post – implementation specifics” thread on wp-hackers. If you’re not subscribed, it should soon show up here on the web: http://lists.automattic.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2009-December/thread.html

Oh, and yeah, put my vote in for “Make it more robust for non-blog sites”. ;-)

» Posted By Stephen R On December 3, 2009 @ 12:08 PM

The Only Two Letter .ME Domain In The World

Just for the record, it appears that now Facebook has fb.me — so that makes two.

» Posted By Stephen R On December 19, 2009 @ 3:55 AM

Plugin Style Settings – Database Or CSS?

In my JavaScript Pull-Quotes plugin I have a folder of CSS files within the plugin directory. The admin page allows the user to select a style from a drop-down list.

I’ve also integrated some error checking — for example, if that folder goes missing it falls back to a copy of the “default” stylesheet kept in a different part of the plugin file.

Finally, if there is a file names “pullquote.css” in the theme directory, that overrides any other setting. Thus: a few options for the point-&-click set, and the ability to completely customize (via theme directory) for the power users. Down the road I may also simply allow the user to specify a styles directory so they can keep the folder that populates the drop-down in a completely different location.

» Posted By Stephen R On April 20, 2009 @ 5:58 PM