Featured Plugins

I would like to suggest adding featured plugins to the plugins section. Currently for a new user to find the best plugins requires a big deal of research.

Sites like Firefox addons is a perfect example for this:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

Sections are Popular / Recommended / Latest

Regards,
Uddhava dasa

  • http://community.elgg.org/mod/plugins/world.php

    Can be filtered by most recent and most popular.  Could you not find this or do you think it's inadequate?  Or should be more prominently featured?

  • I think there should be the more sections like most commented, most rated. And one more thing, can some one explain be how are the choosing the "Featured plugin".

    Thanks

  • Featured plugins are plugins that the core dev team have examine and believe fills a popular need.  While there's no official guidelines, some of the things we look at are usefulness, code quality, popularity, authors, and history.

  • Hello Brett,

    Thanks for your kind reply. The popular filter doesn't really reflect top plugins. Because of two main reasons:

    • Many plugins don't get so many download counts but they are really good.
    • The counts are not acccurate for plugins who release several versions (which discourages the really good programmers seeing their plugins die).

    The problem i see, is that such a page, would require lot of maintenance, but again it is very valuable for new users. If it is a concern on how to capture new visitors, this would be a huge improvement for them.

    Another solution would be to create a package of featured plugins for download. Any of these require work and dedication to keep it up to date though. Someone interested in business could add such a plugin pack in the plugins section too.

    Regards,
    Uddhava dasa

  • Perhaps something community driven in this respect would be good. Why not take advantage of Pages?

    Create a group - invite-only - and ask for those most interested in helping out with this (probably plugin developers...) to join up. Then create a Page for "Community Featured Plugins" and set it's write access to that group, and have it edited wiki-style by the group as needed, with a link to it on both the plugins page and in the plugins box on the community main page. Tada?

  • That sounds like a great idea Dagorath. Hope Brett gets to see this.

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