Working On My WordPress Plugins

Posted by Jacob Santos on June 16, 2009

I’ve been working on several of my old WordPress plugins for the past couple of days. I’m also developing a new plugin. Well, I have plans to develop two or three more, but I’m going to focus on just the one and the old ones for now.

  1. Alternative Mailer

    I developed this plugin to work with Swift Mailer and replace the old (at the time) PHPMailer class. However, it sort of just feel to the wayside and I haven’t worked on it for a long, long time. I’m going to go back and add in TLS and SSL support as well as attempt to automatically pull out the attachments and put them in Swift Mailer. This will probably be a couple of days before I complete it.

  2. Auto Scheduler

    This will auto queue posts after a certain number that is set by the administrator and, or editor roles. After I do this, I might work on a stack, where the first post is moved up the schedule and the recent post is moved to the front. I think the FIFO is what most people will want. I’m planning on adding it to my web site and I’m thinking of adding another feature to where it doesn’t block certain categories or tags.

    This plugin should only take about a day (4 hours) to complete. There are only going to be about three or four options. First option will be to enable the plugin (by setting the number per hour, per day, or per week. The next will be the amount of time to offset the posts schedule. So basically, if you have a number per hour, the offset will be for the next three posts within the next hour. So if you set the offset for 10 minutes, then the next 3 posts will be on the hour, 10 minutes after the hour, 20 minutes after the hour and if another comes in, then it will be the next hour on the hour.

    So on and so on. If the limit is 3 per week, and there are 12 written in that week, then posts 4-6 on week 2, posts 7-9 on week 3, 10-12 on week 4. If the offset is 2 days, then one will be on Sunday, the next on Tuesday, and the final one on Thursday. I’m going to also base the weekly on the start of the week. So if the start of the week is Monday, then it will be Monday, Wednesday, Friday.

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