Comments on: WordPress Plugins

By: mdawaffe

mdawaffe — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:35:56 +0000

Actually, the “start times” and “update” times for the plugins are calculated from the initial checkin dates and most recent checkin dates from the subversion repository, respectively. So plugins which have been in the repository for years have an old start time.

True, there will be an influx of new plugins over the next weeks, but there will also probably be a lot of plugin updates to improve readme files

By: JB

JB — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:27:12 +0000

Thanks for the reply — I’m really impressed that my (somewhat terse) feedback was noted. I really like that plugins are now available right at the WP site.

I guessed correctly at what the column headings meant… I was playing devil’s advocate with the fact that the feature is new, so *all* the plugins getting added would be both “New” and “Recently Updated”. Once there’s some depth of time in the data, it’ll be less inviting for me to pick on.

Thanks for my accepting my suggestion on the Validator. I hope it helps other users, too.

By: mdawaffe

mdawaffe — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:46:11 +0000

1. “Most Popular” plugins are the ones that have been downloaded the most. “Newest Plugins” are the ones that have been most recently added to the repository (and hence the plugin directory). “Recently Updated” are those that have most recently… been updated: the ones who have seen a new version come out most recently. Obviously, there will be overlap between “Newest Plugins” and “Recently Updated” unless we specifically prevent such overlap (which might be a good idea for the front page, but would be a bad one when we implement feeds).

2. You definitely should have gotten feedback; you found a bug! Thanks for letting us know. Unfortunately, the bug was such that your information did, indeed, go nowhere. Could you resubmit your requests? (sorry)

3. We felt it was better to release a plain looking Validator rather than no validator with the launch of the Plugin Directory. We hope to get it looking like the rest of the site soon. But that’s a fantastic point about its interface. I’ll set that up straight away.