Opened 7 years ago
Last modified 7 years ago
#42879 new defect (bug)
Invent a “Recommended Tools” section
Reported by: | johnjamesjacoby | Owned by: | |
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Milestone: | Awaiting Review | Priority: | normal |
Severity: | normal | Version: | |
Component: | Administration | Keywords: | 2nd-opinion |
Focuses: | administration | Cc: |
Description
We have recommended plugins and themes, and while most tools are just plugins in disguise, the importers have had the limelight for a bit too long.
There are a bunch of handy WordPress tools that deserve some attention, and a dedicated box/page/something under the Tools menu in WP Admin would help bring attention to them.
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7 years ago
Personally I don't feel like these deserve a dedicated 'section' such as tools, and treating them as anything other than what they really are, plugins, feels a little weird to me.
I personally feel that this would be better surfaced through what was termed "Plugin Categories", perhaps with a more curated listing rather than purely plugin author tagging
For example,
- The 'Development' category would include Debug Bar, Transients Manager, WP CLI, Query Monitor, etc.
- The Site Management category might have WP CLI, User Switching, etc.
- The Widgets category would have a range of plugins which add widgets
- The Editing category would have a bunch of plugins which add Gutenberg blocks, Sliders, Ad blocks, etc.
That all said, If there were say a Widgets category, you'd expect that you'd be able to quickly get into that 'Add plugins from the Widget category' view from the widgets screen somehow.
Here are a few ideas:
In my imagination, this section would be hidden behind the same
install_plugins
capability, or maybe a mappedinstall_tools
cap if there isn’t one already.