Tag: WordPress plugins

WordPress plugin repositories

WPTavern covers an interesting early stage development of WordPress plugin installations directly from GitHub source code repositories.  Here is a quick video on how it works:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCV_EomzXIU]

That got me thinking.

WordPress.org provides an API for plugins checks and updates.  WordPress software allows a plugin to overwrite the location of the repository.  But it still doesn’t seem to cover all the bases.  What if I want to install plugins from several repositories now?  Say – the official WordPress plugin repository, GitHub, and my personal or corporate repository.  There might be a way, but it seems tricky and non-standard.

I’ll look more into it, of course, but I think there should be a standardized way to setup WordPress plugins (or even themes) repository, and add it to a list of repositories that WordPress checks for updates.  Something along the lines of YUM and APT in Linux.

 

WordPress plugin : Google+ Comments

WordPress plugin : Google+ Comments

This looks very interesting.

google plus comments

 

There is some overlapping functionality with Social plugin, which actually brings comments from social networks back into the WordPress installation.  That’s a bit more useful in longer term, when social networks come and go.  Social also brings in likes from Facebook, and retweets and favorites from Twitter.  However for the discussion flow, this plugin might be a better fit.  I’ll probably try it on for a few days just to see how it goes.