Got an idea for you. Since I can not figure out how to create a plug-in… maybe you can.

On my homepage and blog, there are several different styles of Progress meters/Percent markers designed in CSS. I come up with so many fun designs. But …

I wish there was a way for it to be a plugin, so when you need to update your progress. It’s two clicks in the admin panel and not in the master php file.

It would help the less techy alot.

Thanks

random header image
a plugin where you set a folder as headerimages folder and the plugin then shows a randomly selected images from that folder in the header of the blog. i know there are some themes that do this but to have it as a plugin would be nice.

show category icon
it would be very nice if you could link each category to a little icon and show these categoryicons for each post.

custom pseudo-template
as i’ll use wordpress’ new page function to administer an internal part of the site where only static pages are requiered, it would be nice to have a quicklink button for new posts that inserts a predefined structure into the textarea. (eg. i defined a table structure once and can insert the empty table with the click of a button)

reverse engineered xml data for blog
let’s say i have an application to administer dates for events and bookings for dj’s playing on these events and i now want to publish that info on my blog. instead of reading the info out of the db and displaying it with a custom sql query and custom html wouldn’t it be nicer to have a plugin that reads out whatever table or query i give it, shows me the result and let’s me define what is the title of the article and so on. that way the plugin would then generate a static xml file from my data and my blog would then use this xml file to show the data. that way i wouldn’t have to do a dynamic db driven page. (hope i’m not to confusing here….) and as a sideeffect i could publish the generated xml file as a feed as well.

hope this gives you some first ideas about writing new plugins. if only they don’t exist yet and i simply haven’t found them. ;)

cheers marc