First WordPress Plugin

Posted on July 25, 2007 by Josh Kenzer

On the 18th, I released my first WordPress plugin. I basically copied the idea of the Tumblr bookmarklet and implemented it as a WordPress plugin. I love the ease of use of Tumblr but wanted the flexibility of WordPress. Tumblr doesn’t have very nice permalink urls nor does it allow comments.

This plugin also gave me the opportunity to mess around with jquery. jquery is an awesome JavaScript library that makes JavaScript, DHTML, and AJAX so easy, it’s fun to write. I used it for the tabs along the top of the bookmarklet popup and for the image preview. It added a few extra files to my plugin but the file size is still very very small.

BTW, today, I’ve fixed my first WordPress plugin bug – 7 days after posting it.

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  • Let me know if I can help. I use it in Safari when at home.
  • These are great suggestions. I will definitely work on these. My first priority is Safari support. It seems to be quite buggy in Safari.
  • Do you have further plans for the plugin? I don't see updates nor comments but it shapes as very useful. I'm even thinking of using it as my primary way of posting to WP.

    Are there any further development plans for it? I just installed and I've been playing with it and will probably couple it with Sandbox for Category-specific formats but it would be interesting if the plugin was able to link specific types of information to specific categories (in my case I'd use "quickpost" as category and "link", "quote", etc. as a subcategories).

    In the same vein, the current category listing can't show children categories as children so it's not easy to do by hand.

    Other things you may want to consider:
    -Documenting the CSS Classes (if any) that selecting specific types of data assign.

    -Give the option of not using rich text editors

    -Allow upload of images

    -Create a simple templating system for different kinds of data (I would use a slightly different quote form, with space for the quote, author, source and translation/comments)

    These are in no way demands. The plug-in looks really useful as it currently stands and I just thought I'd chime in. If there is already a place for it or if you stopped developing it because you found a better alternative please let me know.
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