Are you still supporting plugin?

@aum001 – Absolutely. We actually have a few addons ready for release but due to the current support loads from other plugins haven’t had the time to get a store up and running. I have updates coming and we are looking at just moving to use Freemius instead of running another store.

Also been working on updating my main plugin Popup Maker to require less support over the last few cycles which is starting to pay off as well.

Anything you need in particular? If you just want to know its active then yes, otherwise let us know what you need.

PS with so little time it is hard to always prioritize a plugin with 30 installs over one with 80k. But this plugin started over 4 years ago with https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/cooked/ and got a full rewrite and huge upgrades when it became Recipe Manager this last year. ~2.5 full time months of dev were done in second half of last year.

Thanks… I understand the development load you have and priority of your other plugins. Your plugin looks great but I may use Cooked just because I know it’s being supported at the moment. I need to know it will be supported through the lifecycle of my site.

– M

@aum001 – If you mean the Cooked I linked, that one was outdated. If you mean the one on CodeCanyon, I haven’t personally tried it, but it looks good and I actually just recently sold my cooked branding to him. He is pretty attentive. I appreciate you giving us a try, and though this one is on the back burner its not off my radar. That said it is open source, so if you would like to contribute with some small patches here and there we would love to get them in. If you have any specific pressing issues for usage I would love to hear them, is there any particular items besides the current slow development cycles that are holding you up?

Hi Daniel,

I was looking at CodeCanyon Cooked which is the same developer as the one at wp.org that’s outdated. It’s quite similar to yours. I have installed your plugin and it seems to work for me but it’s the development cycle that worries me. I want to be careful and not commit to a plugin that might become outdated and then have to migrate/reenter my recipes to a new one.

I intend on using a recipe plugin for my new vegan website. Is there a way to upload multiple images for each recipe in addition to the featured image? It would be nice to be able to mix the images through the content of the recipe. Such as in each of the phases?

Thanks,

– M

@aum001 – We do have an addon that was partially developed already for this type of thing. I would need a week or 2 to get it to a state of usable, but the concept is there already. Current list of finished not yet for sale addons include:

• User Bookmarking
• Recipe Likes
• Printable Recipes
• Meal Cards (display a collection of recipes as one recipe, can collapse ingredients into one shopping list)
• Bulk Add Tool (copy / paste recipes from other sites, it parses them automatically into our formats)
• Labels** (Easyily change the labeling to suite usages of non food based tutorials/stepped guides
• Extra Taxonomies** (Adds cuisines, cooking method, difficulty taxonomy capabilities)

The ones with ** are planned to be free releases here on www.ads-software.com.

These are all pretty much ready for final testing, documentation & release, but those things take a great deal of time when it means setting up a new store, new accounts for payment processing etc. Definitely doable with a week or 2, but hard to justify that use of time given only 30 installs currently.

We just implemented a great deal of changes with Popup Maker to reduce support load over time, and released a few new extensions to quash constant requests for doing this or that. This will hopefully lead to me being able to pull my support & doc staff to work on the new plugins.

As for planned future stuff we have a trello board full of nearly 30 additional ideas including ratings/reviews (I made this), cookbook builder (that will allow you to create using pages & recipes an exportable cookbook in multiple formats), recipe bookmarklet to quickly add recipes from anywhere, alternative ingredients (mayo = egg & oil), as well as front end submission so you can let users submit recipes.

But I completely understand if you opt to go the other way. I will leave you with this though. A plugin that does everything in one can often end up as something you look to migrate away from later. This is mainly because they eventually hit walls, where they have added so much that a new feature would simply conflict. They also tend to be less flexible, less extendable/customizable beyond the options provided. In our case everything can be filtered, overwritten, customized etc. Even if we ended support today, any decent dev could customize this for years to come, where a bloated plugin without support means things start breaking quickly as core wp changes, 3rd party services change their apis etc.