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I don’t often use prototyping tools, but I have many clients and colleagues that swear by Balsamiq.
So, to make everyone’s lives a lot easier, here is a free pattern for developing WP admin panel wireframes in Balsamiq.
Get it here:
http://blog.shaneandpeter.com/2010/05/11/wordpress-admin-balsamiq-patterns/
I was doing some housekeeping on a bunch of sites I maintain and noticed that I don’t really have any plugins that I ALWAYS use. There has been some talk of canonical plugins in future releases of WP and I was curious if anyone out there installs any specific plugin over and over again on every site.
Anyone have any suggestions for next month’s meeting?
Do you want to go to the brewery again?
I’ve been keeping up with the 3.0 progress (especially the Woo Nav integration), so that’d be cool to discuss.
If no one suggests a different meeting place over the weekend, I’ll schedule the March meeting for the brewery.
Thanks to Erik and CloudBurst Consulting for giving me the opportunity to release this.
I know, I must be bored today.
I remember someone at the meeting last week mentioning to me about wanting a plugin to send email notifications to the admin when plugins needed updating. Well, I’ve written the first version of that plugin and will publish it to the repository shortly. It allows the user to set multiple recipient email addresses and the interval at which to check the plugins and WP core status. I’m working on building an RSS feed for the data too, but I’m not quite there yet.
5 hours of sleep gave me the energy I needed to finish the RSS feature of this plugin. This will prove useful if you’d like to subscribe to feeds across multiple sites that you manage and forgo the individual email notification entirely. I will post the link to the plugin once WP sends me the svn info.
Since I’ve been adding a lot of new features to the site I’ve noticed that my functions.php file is getting a little hairy, so I’m putting all of this code together into a new plugin. I’m sure that there are existing plugins that do some of this stuff already (custom avatars, social network links, listing of site users), and then there’s always BuddyPress, but creating this new stuff as a plugin will help me keep things nice and tidy. I am having a little problem though. I built a shortcode to display the site’s users but when I add it to the end of the page I want it on, the output is showing up before the content. Anyone have the solution?
I would recommend that each discrete bit of functionality be put in its own plugin. This will make it much easier to maintain, debug, reuse, and (possibly even) release the code.
This one’s pretty small though. I don’t think it can be more than 250 lines. Just adding extra user meta, hooking into the gravatar function, then calling everything into a list with a short code. Trust me, I’m way too lazy to have this become a headache for me in the future. That’s good advice in general though.
btw, we didn’t see you last week. do you not like beer or something?
I’m in Chicago now, so its a bit harder to pop down to the meeting. I should be back in April for a little while though.
- WP 3.0 and 2010 theme progress.
- Upcoming WordCamps
The brewery is good by me. Always open to other suggestions though.