Wordpress Plugin Ideas
November 8th, 2004Some Wordpress plugin ideas I’ve been considering:
- Server load indicator - Allow you to display a bar indicating how heavily loaded (load average, mem usage) your server is. This one is probably only easily done on a Linux server (/proc filesystem would be instrumental).
- Visitor origins - Like this one just more customizable (can use a custom map image). The only problem with this idea is I have to get the geographic IP data from a source that probably will charge money. I’ve already investigated Maxmind’s GeoIP City and Geobytes GeoSelect.
- Flickr photo gallery - I’ve already begun work on this one. I’m tying into Flickr’s API to get a list of a Flickr user’s photosets and photos. You can see my progress so far here. I still want to add human readable URL generation and Flickr comment integration before I feel it is ready for primetime.
Update (11/27/2004): After some thought I’ve come to the conclusion that the server load indicator really isn’t a WP plugin (it doesn’t interact with WP at all). Depending on how it was implemented the visitor origins one might not interact with WP either.
November 18th, 2004 at 11/18/2004 5:22 pm
Ray, what you have implemented so far w/ the flickr plugin is incredible. Exactly what I’ve been looking for. Esp. if it pulls the exif info from the picture and loads it into the site automatically. Do you have a release yet or are you still working on it? Thanks for spending time on such a great idea!
November 18th, 2004 at 11/18/2004 5:50 pm
Ian, I’m getting really close to a release. There are just a couple more features I was hoping to implement like more human-readable URI generation and more navigation options. I also need to write some documentation (installation and customization guide).
Everything should be ready by Saturday. I’ll shoot you a note when it’s ready or you can just check back then. I’ll be sure to publish it on some of the plugin sites also.