As I’m sure you have all seen at least one time, each plugin at the wordpress plugin directory has a “stats” page.
The stats page tells you the statistics of the plugin downloads, how many downloads have been today, yesterday, this week and all times. It also displays a cool graph with all the information in it.I don’t know why but I just have this feeling that says I “must” click the stats tab and check the numbers out.
After looking at many stats of many plugins I noticed a similar pattern in the graphs. There is a wave action that looks like this (if you want you can see it for yourself in the popular plugins section):
Then I did some research on the dates that the waves began and I realized that those waves are happening every time an update is released.
That’s pretty cool and all but It got me thinking, If every download counts, even the update downloads and every big plugin has 4+ updates that means that the “All Time” download counter is 6 times or more (plus people that download the plugin to check it out and then delete/disable it) the actual number of websites using it.
I just want to let everyone know that the download counter is really far away from the plugin users number/the number of blogs using the plugin. Next time try to say download count instead of plugin downloads.
I want to thank everyone who sent feedback and feature requests for the post editor buttons plugin.
Because of you I have released 3 more version of mainly bug fixes to the plugin.
The feedback was send through comments on the blog and email messages to me, if you have something on your mind, do not hesitate.
Now you can download and use version 1.3 that works perfect.
By the way if you have an idea for a brand new plugin – contact me :)
My No Meta WordPress Plugin finally got his own WordPress dot Org page.
Now I’m waiting for my Mass Custom Fields Manager to get approved.
I always wanted to have my own plugin page :). It just makes me proud to be an owner of an open-source plugin.
Howto get a WordPress plugin page
In order to get a plugin page at WordPress.org (like http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/plugin-name-here) you need to do a couple of things as described below:
- Think about a good idea for a WordPress Plugin.
- Develop the plugin yourself / hire a developer to code the plugin for you / contact me and ask me to code the plugin for you.
- Register as a member at WordPress.org
- Ask WordPress to host your plugin.
- Grab yourself some cookies & milk and wait until they send you an email saying they approved your plugin (Usually within one week). If you receive an email saying that they didn’t approve your plugin then… Well I have no idea because I never got one.
- The email will say that you will receive access to your SVN within the next hour so this step is just more waiting :(.
- Once you got your access, read this tutorial on How to Use Subversion to upload your plugin (=get a plugin page), and upload your plugin files to the
/trunkfolder. If you encounter any problems with this step like I did (this is the toughest step), contact me through the contact page or by leaving a comment and I’ll get back to you + Update this post with the solution so it helps other people as well. - Wait up to fifteen minutes (WordPress checks for updates every 15 minutes) for WordPress to create your plugin page and then use the WordPress plugin search to find it.
- Be pround of yourself and comment here to let me & other people know that this tutorial works.
Frequently Asked Questions
- No questions yet :).
I hope this guide will help some people to get started with WordPress plugin developing, because it’s just amazing what you can do with it. The way that WordPress was built lets you change virtually anything and tweak the system in any way you want.
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