Here’s a radical idea, let’s go all Y-combinator on the plugin competition and list some WPMU plugins we’d like to see!
For example, I can think of a heck of a lot of ‘front page’ plugins that would be popular (widgets displaying overall site data) and as for a fully functional plugin allowing user to edit their CSS (safely and securely)… well, I imagine that would go down a treat!
So… what’s your WPMU plugin wishlist?
I’d like a recent post plugin that uses the display format of the theme. So if a theme displays the most recent post in a ‘featured section’ and then displays the remain {insert#}posts according to how the theme structure. That would allow Mu users to use themes like revolution as blog_1 themes without all the distress and hacking. there is a sitewide tagging solution which might make this possible, but I haven’t gotten it to pull avatars.
Brrt. Reminds me again to check my custom-css plugin into WordPress Extend. I suppose I had better do that!
@Jeff And extend it to work seamlessly with WPMU of course :)
Nice request Curtis!
Extend?! That was a basic tenet of the design! :-)
(All my plugins are designed to work with WPMU because I work with both platforms all the time.)
Site-wide tags that actually work well
Site-wide categories that actually work well
Site-wide related posts
kind of site-wide post rating with best post or something like a digg plugin to publich the best post on the homepage
I would like to see a plugin that makes it easier to allow non-WPMU subdomains. It would have a config page where all you would have to do is type the name of the subdomain, and it would write the .htaccess rules so that WPMU would ignore that subdomain.
@eric: i’d settle for a decent guide/tutorial to all that .htaccess voodoo.
@Curtis Earl
I’m probably the last person who should try to explain it, but this Codex page and this Forum post have gotten me through some tough times.
We are working on an Inline CSS editing plugin. It will display a widget on your site that administrators can use to style their sites without having to go into their admin page.
@Jeff Waugh – would you be keen to work with us on this one?
@curtis should I get writing then? ;)
@Andrea – yes, lady, that would be wonderful
Blog Categories Plugin – Allow someone to easily add blog categories to both the sign up page and as a sidebar widget.
Just had another WPMU plugin idea. I have hacked my new blog signup to send me the activation email as a step in avoiding splogs. The one issue with this method is that sometimes, the activation will go to my spam folder. I regularly check my spam folder, but each day I have between 300 and 800 spam messages to scroll though. As you might imagine, it’s a pain, especially if I have to skip a day.
So, how about a plugin that puts all new blog signups into a que in the WPMU Admin area for approval, just like comments.
Possible?
@IndieLab: With an RSS feed so you can subscribe to new blog signups? :)
A plugin to automatically disable / delete inactive accounts …
@Enseignment: hey, i got one of them already. maybe someone here wants to do something with it. hit me at my email addy if you want it.
@Barry – He’s getting the email *before* the blog is activated. It will not show up in the feed until after activation.
@Indie – Yes, that would be quite doable. Let’s see if anyone is up for it.