It has been about two months since I started using wordpress and I have released 5 plugins and am getting ready to release my biggest and best one yet. I have been working on this mailing list manager for about 4 months and it is definitely some of my best coding work I have ever done. I can see this plugin making it hard for any other mailing list plugins that are released as commercial products to stay commercial. Why would someone buy something that you could have for free? I will offer support, updates, and bug fixes for all of my plugins through my forums. So if you are getting ready to spend some dough on a mailing list plugin I would wait about a week or two for my release of WP-Mail-Man. The plugin is currently being tested on a few blogs so I can make sure everything is working good. I don’t like releasing things that are not stable, but sometimes you just can’t know about some things until you release to everyone. I would be great if everyone would have the same server configuration, MySQL, and PHP versions as me, but unfortunately that will never happen.

I have been getting some bug reports from people running php on windows servers. Sorry but I don’t test or do I ever plan on testing any of my code on any windows boxes. I can do without that headache, thanks! Plus, how the hell can there be syntax errors on a windows box that aren’t on my linux box. I don’t get that. If anyone would like to clear this up for me please do. I don’t plan on researching it. One of the bugs I got was an unexpected } . If that were true then my script shouldn’t work on anything. I don’t suppress any errors or anything on my dev server so who know. Unless the person that sent in that bug was changing things in the code. In that case your on your own for fixing it. My suggestion would be to download the latest version of what ever plugin you decided to change and just overwrite the entire thing.

So here is my goal for my wordpress plugins. I want to make a complete resource of plugins that you would normally find to be commercial and release them all for free. Like the mailing list one. I haven’t been able to find a decent mailing list plugin that didn’t cost money so I am fixing that problem. I would say in a year or two there shouldn’t be anything you can’t accomplish with wordpress without spending your hard earned dough.

Fortunately there is already some great scripts out there that are open source, but not in the form of a wordpress plugin. Those will be pretty easy because I can pretty much just use the main classes and build a wordpress plugin around them. If you have looked at any of my code you will see a main class that pretty much does anything the plugin needs to do. That is just my style of coding and for me it is the easiest and most efficient way of doing things. So feel free to let me know what you are looking for in a wordpress plugin. Some of the things I plan on releasing are; mailing list manager, ad rotator, and a detailed stats plugin with a lot of visual graphs. Let me know what else you want and in what order you want me to make those plugins.