Gravatars are now shown on the plugin listing page. It’s a minor thing, but people like pictures and clicking on pictures. Clicking on somebody’s picture will take you to their plugin profile, showing all their plugins.
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Michael Torbert 7:04 pm on August 25, 2010 Permalink
Awesome!
Glenn 7:09 pm on August 25, 2010 Permalink
Nice touch!
Andrea_R 7:20 pm on August 25, 2010 Permalink
Very very way cool.
On multiple-author plugins, are the gravatars supposed to be stuck together, or do you think they’d look better with a wee bit o’ padding?
Otto 7:25 pm on August 25, 2010 Permalink
I stuck ‘em together intentionally cause I liked the way it looked, but I’m open to suggestion on layout there if somebody has a better one.
Andrea_R 7:35 pm on August 25, 2010 Permalink
(I liked them stuck too.)
Ipstenu 7:25 pm on August 25, 2010 Permalink
padding 1px
Rich Pedley 7:46 pm on August 25, 2010 Permalink
Wouldn’t it make sense to add the gravatar to this page as well: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/profile/ ?
Rich Pedley 7:49 pm on August 25, 2010 Permalink
oh and you messed up something somewhere, there appears to be spurious or missing tags.
Rich Pedley 7:50 pm on August 25, 2010 Permalink
that should have been: spurious <strong> or </strong> missing rags.
(my oops)
Otto 8:41 pm on August 25, 2010 Permalink
Fixed.
Rich Pedley 10:16 am on August 26, 2010 Permalink
looks a lot better now, thanks Otto.
Rich Pedley 8:11 pm on August 25, 2010 Permalink
and on my final note, will it be added for themes as well…
apologies for my poor speeling today, one of those days again.
kyleabaker 8:20 pm on August 25, 2010 Permalink
I think you should add something like this to the avatars:
border: 1px solid #999;
padding: 1px;
It looks great like this with 4 avatars per line, but the text-indent is forcing 3 per line on every row after the first. If you could get these to all line up correctly then it would look great!
Alex M. 8:50 pm on August 25, 2010 Permalink
Is the second line of Gravatars supposed to be indented?
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/
Alex M. 8:51 pm on August 25, 2010 Permalink
It’s due to the other items having the same indent if they’re too long (minimum version and such).
We can probably remove that indent I think from the Gravatars.
Otto 9:03 pm on August 25, 2010 Permalink
Yeah, you’re probably right. What do you think, remove indent and squish, or remove indent and give some padding. As long as I’m changing the CSS, might as well get it right the first time.
kyleabaker 9:08 pm on August 25, 2010 Permalink
I say remove indent and add padding. Its much easier to control and looks much better with all of the rows of avatars lining up properly.
Alex M. 9:20 pm on August 25, 2010 Permalink
Personally I think remove the indent and add a slight padding. It doesn’t need to be much, just enough to separate them IMO.
Alex M. 9:21 pm on August 25, 2010 Permalink
Or maybe as much padding as there is between rows (so it becomes a grid). I mean we have all that space to the right…
kyleabaker 9:35 pm on August 25, 2010 Permalink
This would be my take on the design..
kyleabaker 9:37 pm on August 25, 2010 Permalink
Looks like html image tags aren’t allowed
http://a.imageshack.us/img291/205/screenshotqis.png
Alex M. 2:44 am on August 27, 2010 Permalink
Here you go, kyleabaker:
Utkarsh Kukreti 11:35 pm on August 25, 2010 Permalink
I’d suggest adding authors name as the title attribute of the link, so the name shows up on mouse hover.
Otto 1:02 am on August 26, 2010 Permalink
I can’t believe I didn’t think of that. Done. Also styled.
Alex M. 1:04 am on August 26, 2010 Permalink
Looks great!
Utkarsh Kukreti 3:25 pm on August 26, 2010 Permalink
How about ” ()” instead of just the username?
Ron 12:45 am on August 26, 2010 Permalink
Saw this earlier today. Love it.
hakre 8:57 am on August 26, 2010 Permalink
the sidebar get’s crowded. Maybe placing into main content under authors?
Otto 2:45 pm on August 26, 2010 Permalink
Some other changes are coming to the sidebar soon, actually, so it won’t be as bad.
Matt 3:23 pm on August 26, 2010 Permalink
I expected the gravs to be smaller, and inline with the “Authors:” list.
Otto 3:26 pm on August 26, 2010 Permalink
What, just like a tiny picture on the left of each name in the list? Seems like that’d look strange to me. Easily changed though.
Matt 3:27 pm on August 26, 2010 Permalink
Let’s try it out, and axe the sidebar one. Like how avatars show up on Trac.
Otto 3:37 pm on August 26, 2010 Permalink
Trac uses 24 px icons. If I make them that big, it looks pretty strange. But if I make them smaller at 16, then they’re almost too small to see.
Otto 5:42 pm on August 26, 2010 Permalink
After some review and such, this whole thing is getting changed much more extensively. Expect gradual updates over the next day or two.
Alex M. 11:10 pm on August 26, 2010 Permalink
A link to the plugin’s homepage is missing.
James 7:22 am on September 16, 2010 Permalink
Are there any plans to bring back to “Plugin URL” and “Author URL” links that used to be near the top right of the page?
Thanks
Otto 9:18 pm on September 16, 2010 Permalink
James: No. If you want to link back to your homepage, add the link into your description area. The markdown for links looks like this: [http://example.com](link text).
w3prodigy 6:08 pm on August 26, 2010 Permalink
Not sure if this is a bug, or you guys doing your thing – (going based off of my plugins) if a plugin does not have a readme file then no author name shows up
Rich Pedley 7:27 am on August 27, 2010 Permalink
If the plugin doesn’t have a readme, why is it there? I thought it was a requirement for the plugins to have a readme?
Jay Fortner 12:55 pm on August 27, 2010 Permalink
“To make your entry in the plugin browser most useful, each plugin should have a readme file” – I always took “most useful” as a recommendation to create a readme file, not a requirement.
Since the plugins would still function without a readme, I generally don’t create the readme file until my plugin reaches a stable version – this is a better development cycle for me… clearly though, if the plugin directory is changing and now explicitly requiring a readme to display properly, I’ll add it. I was simply noting the differences between the previous way the plugin directory functioned and how it functioned after the recent changes.
Otto 1:30 pm on August 27, 2010 Permalink
Several things probably have to be clarified but:
a) Readme’s are not really optional. All plugins must have a readme.txt.
b) The Contributors line in the readme should contain a list of the authors, using wp.org usernames only.
This is how it’s going to be. If you give it bad input, you’ll get bad output.
Jay Fortner 1:50 pm on August 27, 2010 Permalink
Thanks for the clarification Otto, looks like I have some readme’s to write.
Otto 2:46 pm on August 27, 2010 Permalink
It’s been pointed out that I should clarify the above.
A plugin will go into the repo just fine without a readme.txt file. However, without the readme, then several pieces of the plugin’s webpage won’t display. The authors (contributors) is one of these pieces. So is the description and everything else. That listing in the plugins page is built mainly off the readme.txt file.
So while’s it optional in practice, it really should be there. The plugins/about page makes it a point to say that you should upload your plugin with a readme.txt file.
Otto 9:17 pm on August 29, 2010 Permalink
@Jay:
I’ve noticed that a lot of people aren’t putting valid author info in the readme file (they should be wp.org usernames, but many are not), so there’s a change I’m working on for that.
Still, you should have a readme. It’s not needed for WP, but it is really needed for a good plugin page entry.
Otto 3:10 am on August 27, 2010 Permalink
Like I said, after my conversation with matt and the upgrades, lots of things are changing. Gimme a day before suggestions, because what you see now is temporary.
Rich Pedley 7:09 pm on August 27, 2010 Permalink
I’ll make a list…