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bbPress as a WordPress Plugin

Gautam — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:46:25 +0000

There have been developments in the bbPress Trac in recent days, the plugin branch is now there (but of course not ready for use). JJJ and PeteMall have been working on it. And what more, I received my first props for the plugin .

Another thing is that now I would be rarely updating/adding plugins for standalone version (v1.1 or below) as it would be waste of time, instead I would spend my time on improving the bbPress plugin (v1.2 and above).

There are also some heated discussions going on in the bbPress forums about having another name for the plugin or having its version number as 2.0.

Also read: WordPress integration (official blog post)

Blogging @ Speed of Light!

Gautam — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:49:26 +0000

You might have noticed that I have changed my blog theme’s to P2, which is simple and clean. Though I really liked all those fancy features of Mystique theme, but I thought that blog was getting cluttered and the content wasn’t getting more attention. I have also removed ads (also the in-text ads) from the content area – now they are only in header, sidebar and footer. I’m currently trying to add a menu bar in this theme..

Scr.im Email Saver Plugin for WordPress v0.1 Released!

Gautam — Mon, 31 May 2010 09:33:20 +0000

Recently, I had released Scrim Email Saver Plugin for bbPress and Stef asked me if a WordPress version existed for the same. Today, I am releasing Scrim Email Saver Plugin for WordPress which filters your blog’s comments for Email IDs and converts them into Scr.im links so that your users’ Email IDs do not get picked up by bots and they receive less (if not zero) spam.

What is Scr.im?

Scrim is a service made by Ozh. To scrim is to protect your email address before sharing it so that only real people will use it. You can read more about scrim on its about page.

Screenshots

Plugin in Action

A Preview of the scr.im Page

Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/scrim-email-saver/

bbPress will be a WordPress Plugin

Gautam — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:53:55 +0000

So it is decided I guess, bbPress will finally be a WordPress plugin, most probably a canonical plugin. In the IRC meetup on 30 December ’09, Matt said that bbPress will surely become a WordPress plugin – not so soon, maybe after the release of bbPress 1.2 or so.

Here are the messages by Matt (from the meetup):

[21:26] photomatt: bbPress will definitely be a WP plugin
[21:26] photomatt: but don’t want to change the data structure decision until 1.2-ish
[21:26] photomatt: we owe users improvements before we rewrite data structures

Wait wait.. by the way, what are canonical plugins?

Quoting from the WordPress Blog:

Canonical plugins would be plugins that are community developed (multiple developers, not just one person) and address the most popular functionality requests with superlative execution. These plugins would be GPL and live in the WordPress.org repo, and would be developed in close connection with WordPress core. There would be a very strong relationship between core and these plugins that ensured that a) the plugin code would be secure and the best possible example of coding standards, and b) that new versions of WordPress would be tested against these plugins prior to release to ensure compatibility. There would be a screen within the Plugins section of the WordPress admin to feature these canonical plugins as a kind of Editor’s Choice or Verified guarantee. These plugins would be a true extension of core WordPress in terms of compatibility, security and support.

Well, if you ask me, it doesn’t matter whether it will be a plugin or a standalone. I just want to see the progress of bbPress going on and on.

So what is your opinion on this topic? Let us know by typing in your suggestions in the comments form below!

Canonical Plugins