Planning My First Plugin
Post on December 24th, 2008
WordPress plugins open the doors for advanced features and functionality. Some of the plugins on my site now include:
- NextGEN Gallery — which creates these beautiful photo galleries,
- Google XML Sitemaps — which creates a dynamic site map and notifies the major search engines of site changes, and
- Wordbook — which makes a note on my facebook every time I write a post on my site.
WordPress creates a set of “hooks” that can be used by scripts–”plugins”–to interface with the site.
My plugin is going to be a Project Management Tool that will allow teams to use the wordpress admin console as a center for their project task lists. With no further ado I created a dossier reviewing the planning phase of the plugin:
See the PDF: Project Management
Best of luck with the plugin… I’m searching for something like you’ve described. The only alternative I’ve found thus far is WP-Project… but it lacks a lot of the fields I need. I’m sure you would have a strong following if your plugin idea comes to fruition. Best ~ PJ
Posted by PJaxon on February 17th, 2009
What’s the point of modifying a blog (or as it is more popularly used, a CMS) engine as a project management tool? There exists many, many project management tools such as Basecamp (http://www.basecamphq.com) and Copper (http://www.copperproject.com)… Just to name two of the more popular, online project management tools that you can buy off the shelf.
Posted by Andrew on March 14th, 2009
Do you have an update on this plugin? I am very interested so please do let me know how far along you are with it.
Thank you! Elle
Posted by Elle on April 11th, 2009
Thanks for the useful info. It’s so interesting
Posted by JamesD on June 11th, 2009
5 star article brilliant. I am new to blogging and you used a langauge I can understand
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