recommend plugins through developers admin plugin interface
i was thinking about updating plugins the other day and thought itd be a good idea if you could update straight from the admin panel ala wordpress style.
even short of this, i think another cool idea would be to enable recommending plugins by your own admin plugins panel (albeit needing to login somehow to the elgg community).
This would engage alot more recommendations of plugins i think (in my limited perspective).
i read on a thread one developer saying that people by nature r very selfish and cbf to help out in the process. but i think more plugin recommends would occur through the developer's own interface as they learn the workings of their plugins, which ones they like and dont. i think alot of people find a plugin they might find useful and go use and develop it (away from site) and dont remember to comeback and recommend. so i think its half a workflow problem not just people being selfish.
- Brett@brett.profitt
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- Ray J@RayJ
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You must log in to post replies.We've talked about this with Srokap, who has written a basic plugin that does this: https://github.com/Srokap/srokap_plugin_installer
This plugin does exactly what you're discussing. We're reluctant to pull it into core because of the security concerns that arise when users have an apache-writable plugin directory. There were some alternative approaches discussed, but nothing has been implemented yet.
Breet, how about my update services plugin? I developed with Cash and the plugins notify about new releases.
Its safe and help the admins to keep the site up to date.
Ps.: Cash talked about turn our plugin a core plugin, one year ago. But we never talked again.