This blog was spawned as a result of a post on my other blog where I asked readers for a steer on my next project. One of the suggestions I received was for a wordpress plugin generator, where you could input the things you wanted your plugin to do, and it would give you a nice handy plugin file with the appropriate functions and hooks already working.

I thought it was a great idea and so I have been working on this for a few weeks.

I still have much work to do on the plugin generator, which I have named, Fun With Plugins, but I think I have got it to a position where it is actually useful and so I am opening it up for use and comments. If I were going to be all 2.0 about it I might call it a beta.

I am hoping to get feedback on features it should have, features that could work better, how well the guidance comments work etc.

The idea was given to me by Ronald Huereca. He has been instrumental in the development of this tool. As part of the Reader Appreciation Project he gave me the idea to ask readers what I should do next, he gave me the actual idea, he also kindly tested the generator at an earlier version, provided me with some sample code, and his series on writing Wordpress plugins on Devlounge was a key source of information, although I did choose to do some things a little differently.

Still to come

Features still to come are:

• Adding CSS files in to the page header (external files or included as part of the plugin file itself)
• Adding client side scripts (external files or included as part of the plugin file itself)
• Ajax functionality
• A wp-extend readme file for added promotional power
• support for more actions and filters (Name your favourites and I will implement them first)

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