Software Engineering in WordPress, PHP, and Backend Development
Posts introducing, updating, and covering various projects to which I’ve contributed or that I maintain.
Yesterday, we released Easier Excerpts 1.1.0 into the WordPress plugin repository.
In short, this update includes a lot of updates to the code of the plugin without a lot of user-facing functionality. But it does lay the foundation for future updates to this plugin along with how we’re going to be building plugins that we’ll be releasing moving forward.
Pressware Plugins is something that I’ve been talking about in a few different posts before this one. I’ve spoken of the project in the following posts:
And I’ve also talked about the first, free plugin we’ve launched: Easier Excerpts.
As of today, Eric and I have officially launched the Pressware Plugins storefront, so I thought it’d be a good idea to talk about what the purpose of the project is, what you can expect, and what’s in the pipeline of work.
Easier Excerpts for WordPress is a simple plugin, the first for Pressware Plugins actually, that we recently released.
When you think about combining the tediousness of blogging couple with the proverbial low-hanging fruit, this seemed like a natural choice for a first product. Plus, it falls in line with our goal of trying to help make a better blogging experience.
But if you’re like me, then you like reading some of the back-stories that go into projects like this. So here’s some more information on the plugin, specifically for you bloggers, and then a back-story as to why we chose it, how we chose it, and what’s up next.
Pressware Plugins is something that I talked about at length a few weeks ago.
Maybe this goes on too much promotion for it, but we’re finally getting ready to launch the site – I’m excited – and I want to make sure that I’ve taken all available opportunities to share things on which we’ve been working.
The short of it is this:
We’re going to be launching the site later this week, and we’re going to be contacting everyone who has subscribed to the mailing list about it first.
If you’re interested, head over to the site and sign up.
Creating a better blogging experience with WordPress can mean different things to do different people.
I think experts, developers, etc., have a leg up on the rest who want to have a streamlined workflow for how they draft content, respond to comments and generally, work within WordPress more so than the average blogger does.
Maybe I’m way off base. But when I see plugins like Postmatic who are aiming to improve commenting within WordPress and I see projects like Stuttter aiming to create single, useful tools for people who use WordPress, I can’t help but wonder:
I believe something about WordPress affords having a better blogging experience. But what might that look like?
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