WordPress 2.7 and my plugins!

Written by Arnan on November 9, 2008 – 3:22 am

So I installed WordPress 2.7 today to see if my plugins work with it. It seems most functions remain usable. But due to WP’s upcoming Dashboard changes many features in Events and Adrotate will either be hard to find or collide with other functions and forms.

This is being worked on. And me and a buddy came up with the following:
Starting with WordPress 2.7 I will be adding a new plugin to all existing plugins. This new Plugin. For now named ‘AJ Suite’ Will handle all menus from then on.

This means that all my plugins will be gathered in one menu starting with WordPress 2.7. Here is a quick mockup:
As you can see it’s not a mess. The red circle are the Settings for the plugins. If there are any, it will be in the Settings menu. The blue circle however, is the actual plugin and as you can see i am testing this with the EasyBan and Events plugin at first.

Basically what AJ Suite does is create a new menu for other plugins. Preferably mine.
I encourage other developers to create a setup like this. Especially if they have multiple plugins. A more detailed set up/proposal will follow later. This will include some examples and ideas for others to be inspired by.

More updates will follow later once i have all plugins prepped.
One con though about all this is that due to the many changes in WordPress Dashboard all support for older versions of WP is dodgy at best. And therefor will not be supported anymore! So make sure you upgrade to WordPress 2.7 once it’s out. The other way around it’s the same, the updated versions of the plugins will most likely not work well with WordPress 2.6 or older and will also not be supported on those versions. However, since the AJ Suite plugin aims to be backward compatible i expect little trouble there.

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2 Comments to “WordPress 2.7 and my plugins!”

  1. -JC- Says:

    November 10th, 2008 at 10:07 am

    So, if I do understand correctly, you and a mate cleaned up the mess that occures when using WP 2.7?

    The 2 of you should ask money for that! :-)

    That is…if i do understand it correctly…..

  2. Arnan Says:

    November 10th, 2008 at 10:30 am

    More or less, yes. With the removal of the “manage” menu it became a lot harder to properly insert custom menu’s for plugins. Not very thoughtfull of them