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I Make Plugins

Description

This plugin is for WordPress plugin authors, not users. It showcases your plugins on your WordPress blog, using the WordPress.org plugin repository as a source. It generates both a directory listing page, and the content of each plugin’s page. All you have to provide is the title; the rest comes from the repository. You get to control the markup of each type of page using intuitive WordPress shortcodes.

Installation

  1. You’re a plugin author. I really hope you know how to install plugins.

FAQ

Why isn’t my plugin pulling information from the repository?

The default is that its page “slug” must match the “slug” of the plugin in the repository. But if you want the slug to be something else, you can edit the placeholder page for that plugin and enter in a custom plugin slug in the “Plugin slug” meta box.

I’ve updated my plugin’s `readme.txt` file. Why aren’t the changes showing?

Be patient. The API responses are updated once an hour.

How do I show something if a particular plugin field is *not* available?

Use: [if_not_{shortcode}] ... [/if_not_{shortcode}]

Reviews

September 3, 2016 1 reply
Unfortunately, not the first plugin by a WordPress lead developer to be abandoned. I guess Twitter is more important.
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Contributors & Developers

“I Make Plugins” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

1.2.3

  • Bumping compatibility.

1.2.2

  • Fixed a self-removing hook which could lead to some breakage.

1.2.1

  • Fix a bunch of PHP Notices
  • Blank out the description for non-repo pages, instead of showing “No description” text.
  • Kill double serialization in postmeta storage to work around some odd serialization errors in some plugins.

1.2

  • Reorganized plugin code
  • Fix unserialization bug (props: sivel)
  • Add [implist_zip_url], [imp_screenshots], and [imp_other_notes] (props: sivel)
  • Add [implist_template] for manual placement of the plugins list (can now wrap content around it)
  • Add [if_not_{shortcode}] tests for negation (props: sivel for the idea)
  • Add hooks, so people who store plugins in a CPT don’t have to modify the plugin
  • Add [implist_banner-772x250] and [imp_banner-772x250] for banner URL output.
  • Update plugin info in the background, with wp-cron

1.1

  • Added [implist_version], [imp_min_version], [imp_tested_version], [imp_slug], [imp_downloads] shortcodes
  • Added optional advanced loop structure for FAQ, using [imp_faq], [imp_faq_question], [imp_faq_answer], [/imp_faq]
  • Added optional advanced loop structure for changelog, using [imp_changelog], [imp_changelog_version], [imp_changelog_changes], [imp_changelog_change], [/imp_changelog_changes], [/imp_changelog]
  • Allowed any tag to have a conditional wrapper counterpart by adding if_ to the front of its shortcode, e.g. [if_imp_changelog]
  • Better inline documentation
  • Moved donation suggestion box to the bottom of the options form

1.0

  • Initial release