I have written a few plugins that I am testing, but I am not sure they are for the general public. Plugins are habit forming. I don’t like it when they get long and complicated, but I am having fun with some of the trivial ones.
1. ShortCode Grab Bag – Lists active shortcodes on the post/page edit form so you can copy and paste them into your code. I have 6 shortcodes that I have written for other projects included as a shortcode bonus. I will add some more. (give me ideas!) The form is ugly and I am struggling with the styling. I will release this in a week or two.
2. MU Global Options plugin- lets you make some blog options global across all blogs. Works well with Akismet and many other plugins. Lets you set preferences such as default theme once and have it be global to all blogs. It is a little dangerous as you can make some things global that break blogs. I might release it eventually.
3. YouTube Feed widget – uses YouTube api calls to search YouTube and put results in the sidebar. The world might have enough of these. I am not sure if I should release it.
4. Slush Management Plugin – adds a way to upload manuscripts and put them through a workflow to choose good manuscripts (only partially done).
5. Automatic Roundup Plugin – Creates a new post every week or month with a summary of the posts from that period. Since it is an autoposter of sorts, WordPress won’t host it. It needs some work. I probably won’t release this.
6. Submit to BoingBoing submiterator widget – I am not using this, but I should go test it a little and make it available.
7. Random Lyric Widget – I generalized my Blue Oyster Cult Widget. I made it so it can do any of the lyric libraries that I have. It is a violation of copyright laws, so I can’t submit it to anyone, but my test blog now has Blue Oyster Cult, Led Zepplin, Black Sabbath and Bob Dylan random stanzas appearing in the sidebar.
If you absolutely need one of these or are just curious, let me know and I’ll email you a URL for downloading. I may have to finish the readme file so you know how to use it. I hate documentation.