Better utilization of favorite plugins

  • I believe that favorite plugins is a functionality that has some potential and could be used with various different ways to better organize our plugins. Some ideas might include:

    1. On a plugin’s page on www.ads-software.com, show how many times this plugin has been favorited and use it as an additional signal of its quality (e.g. when ordering search results)
    2. On the WordPress backend, on the plugin install screen you can view your favorite plugins alright. The problem, though, is that their order seems to be random each time you visit the list. It would be nice if it was based on the number of times that you install them (your personal most popular first) or, at least, keep some consistent logic (e.g. alphabetical). Also, a find-as-you-type search would be great.
    3. When you create a new site there is probably a bunch of plugins that you want to install at once. Currently you have to do it on a one-plugin-at-the-time basis. It would be nice if you could check multiple plugins among your favorites and batch install them with one click.

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  • Especially concerning number 3 what we do is have a test installation with all our necessary plugins pre-installed and which we constantly keep updated. This installation is used as a bootstrap for new projects.

    Also you could consider a solution like https://tgmpluginactivation.com/.

    And then there are automation tools like https://wp-cli.org/.

    Thread Starter Giorgos Sarigiannidis

    (@gsarig)

    Hi and thanks for the reply.

    I am familiar with those tools and more or less this is what I usually do too.
    The thing is, though, that the list of the absolutely necessary plugins needed for every installation can’t be extensive, since each website has its own requirements.

    Anyway, the suggestion was more about improving and evolving a native feature that already exists in WordPress (the favorite plugins) and, in my opinion, has the potential to evolve into something much more interesting than it currently is.

    For example, in the future you could even have your favorite plugins organized in custom (private or public) lists like for example “plugins for a small eshop” or “plugins for a Greek-language website” etc. Other users could rate entire lists or add them to their own favorites etc. The possibilities would be many.

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