Posts Tagged ‘repositories’
So Wordpress silently approved my plugin after all!
Written by Arnan on September 14, 2008 – 11:34 amUsually when you submit a new plugin to the repositories you get an email after a few days telling you it’s either approved and thus added or not.
If it’s approved they also send the required information to me to upload the thing and where to stick the files. I never got such an email for the last plugin, Secrets, and since it silently was removed from the “add your plugin” page i assumed it had been denied.
I saw no reason for denying my plugin so i went on to re-submit it. But got an error it was already in use… Looking up the name told me there was indeed a Secrets plugin and it bore my name…
Why didn’t they tell me!!
Anyway, without further ado, here is Secrets:
http://meandmymac.net/plugins/secrets/
A plugin to remove certain filters and actions from Wordpress or add them to it.
Currently there are only 2 “secrets” but you can submit usefull additions:
http://forum.at.meandmymac.net/forum/secrets
And with that make the plugin completely awesome.
A flaw in the wordpress repositories?
Written by Arnan on July 28, 2008 – 9:12 amIt’s a cheat and unfair! So don’t try this at home, or anywhere…
To bump your downloads and possibly the rating too… Just increase the version number every week or so with the message “improves stability and minor bug fixes” or whatever. Something cryptic about what you didn’t do or just anything that justifies the “new” version.
People will believe you because they don’t know any better or it’s true. And thus download the plugin again. This in turn bumps up the download count and thus the popularity of the plugin raises. Making you rank higher and be listen more prominently.
Huzzah!
(No, i didn’t do it!)
Tags: cheat, plugin, repositories, wordpress
