Update the "Most downloads" and "Most recommended" section in the Plugin Section
By rjcalifornia
Is it possible to update the "Most downloads" and "Most recommended" section in the plugins section? Currently that section looks like this:
Some of those developers are no longer active here. Even worst, most plugins have not been updated in 10 or 11 years!
Is it possible to have plugins from the most recent supported version, such as 2.3(LTS) and 3.x?
It could help beginners to find the most useful plugins, and besides that, it makes elgg look really bad.
Any thoughts on that?
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You must log in to post replies.Let's start that these are cool plugins here.
Thank their authors for that.
"Downloads' and "Recommended" sections are mostly important for us (as developers).
It's an Elgg history.
And I don't support the idea of putting it away.
It's must be there.
But we can make a number of different categories for plugins depending on Elgg versions.
It's an idea.
@rjcalifornia
Let's me make a modern Elgg community based on Elgg 3.x and your and many users requestes.
Of course, at the time those were really awesome plugins. Now, those are dead plugins, without a developer behind them
Yes, they helped made what elgg is today. However, those are not working anymore.
Also for new people. They see the most recommended, download it and realize that it no longer works anymore. For example, WordPress has a neat featured and popular list (up to date):
https://wordpress.org/plugins/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/browse/featured/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/browse/popular/
That's an interesting idea. However, if we are following and recommending the elgg docs for the latest version, why is there such an interest to keep the old ones in most recommended/downloaded?
I'm afraid that is gonna take a long time, there are more important issues at hand:
https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/issues/13242
https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/issues/13243
I support the idea of updating the addition, as it gives Elgg a lot of capabilities and makes it better, and there is also a lot of addition that did not happen since a big period. For example, version 3 does not have a little to add, even though it is the latest version, and it is assumed that it is the best and it is about to end and issue another version He still had a little bit of extra plug-in. I remember before, there was a lot of add-on 2 and a lot of updates. This made Elgg better.