Thank You and Sorry to My Plugin Users

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So in the last six months or so I’ve gotten much worse about answering the frequent comments left on this site regarding my three WordPress plugins, PDF Creation Station, Easy Edit Links and Post List. I want to thank everyone who has left praise for my creations and say that I’m thrilled at the lack of complaints considering what a learning curve they have and the fact that they’ve actually got a fair number of little bugs that I’ve never taken care of because they don’t affect me  when I use them on my own website. I can’t believe Post List and Edit Links are both at a five star rating as of this post.

And I just remembered as I was writing this, that Advanced Post List exists. This is a plugin that someone developed that is based off my Post List code. I remember he contacted me a year or two ago and asked my permission to do this, which of course he didn’t need, but was just being polite. I tried out his version and it didn’t work and I told him that if he got it working and he hadn’t removed any notable features, I’d officially deprecate my Post List plugin and send all my users to his. Then I never heard from him again and figured he’d abandoned the project. Turns out he just did a release earlier this month and has far exceeded my user base and still has nearly a five star rating.

So I need to get my local development version of WordPress up and running so I can install his plugin and make sure it works properly, then replace my plugin with a pointer to his, then I will be done with Post List support forever but the functionality will live on. The best of both worlds. One of the beauties of the open-source arena.

And I know I said I’d get back to working on Creation Station as someone pointed out a bug with disappearing images that I was able to reproduce on my own site, and the PDF engine, TCPDF, has probably come out with updates that need to be added. But frankly, I just have other priorities. I wish someone else would take my Creation Station code and start calling it their own. As far as I know it’s still the best PDF plugin for WordPress and it’s sad that it’s not being developed or actively supported anymore.

And I abandoned Easy Edit Links a long time ago because the WordPress core came out with a solution that solves the same problem… even though Easy Edit Links works better.

So anyway, I’m going back to work on my latest novel, so I’m sorry everyone who has asked a support question and is waiting for a reply. I will probably get back to you at some point, but I may start going through them in batches once a month or so, so I apologize for that.

But I must say, it has been pretty great doing these plugins. Definitely one of the proudest moments of my career, even though I don’t think I made more than two hundred bucks in donations total between all three of them. Most of the code I have written professionally was, in one form or another, designed to get money from people, so it feels good to have supported a community like WordPress.

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1. EkoJr says:

   January 4, 2013 at 2:32 am

   Nope, I never did quit or abandon the plugin.

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