Snap blog launches
find more posts in: internet, wordpress, workThe Snap blog has launched and pretty much all hell has broken loose. Anyone who signs up can post to the blog with their “launch idea” and it will automatically get posted on the front page. Then other users can vote on the best ideas, and the winner gets $5,000. How could THAT go wrong?
I wrote several plugins for the blog, and it seems like the company is excited about releasing them to the public. This is pretty much the first significant stuff I’ve done with PHP and I really got to dig around in the guts of Wordpress to add some cool features:
Simple Vote
Adds a Digg-style vote box to posts from a certain category. Only registered users can vote.
Simple Post
Allows any user to post to the blog from a watered down interface, regardless of their privileges. Crazy, right? This way we can let users post to the blog without giving them access to anything in the admin interface.
Easy Author Info
Easily grab any author’s information. For example, you could print out any author’s “About me” text like this:
echo get_easyauthor_attr($author_id, "description");
These scripts need to be cleaned up and made more configurable before they can be released, but hopefully that should be pretty soon.
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Joey, Is it possible to get those plugins, they seem to be quiet useful. Or is it that they are not released in public domain.
Thanks in advance.
- Vinay
Joey -
Are you releasing the voting and simple post plugin’s any time soon? Been waiting for a couple weeks now!
hi guys,
i hope to be able to start releasing some plugins soon (i’ve already written a few more that i think will be useful). simple vote will need a lot of work before I would be comfortable releasing it, but simple post is basically ready to go. this is something i really want to work on, but it might take a while. i’ve already moved on to other stuff at work and i think a lot of this plugin cleanup will be on my own time.
Great! Please keep us updated. The vote plugin is the best I’ve seen thus far.
Really looking forward to this plugin, any eta?
bump ;)
Hi joey,
is there a way to contact you via e-mail? Very interested in your plugins.
Simple Vote sounds great. There is a demand for a plugin of this type. See http://wordpress.org/support/topic/77064. Please make a big announcement when it is released.
Any word on the Simple Post plugin? I don’t care if it breaks my website. I’ll try to figure it out. WordPress is bloated.
Hey Joey, any chance I can get the Simple Vote plugin?