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
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- 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).
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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:
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.