WordPress Plugin Competition
A few days ago the winners were announced for the WordPress Plugin competition and I thought I would let you all know who won and what I think of them.
Consolation Prize
The consolation prize winner is Ozh for Who Sees Ads. The plugin lets you control who sees ads on your blog. I’ll tell you something very interesting about this plugin, I’m using it right now and their is actually an ad that displays over this text right here. The reason you can’t see it is because I’m using this plugin and, Who Sees Ads? no one sees ads.
Third Prize
The third prize winner is Keith Dsouza for WordPress Automatic Upgrade. I don’t know anyone who would trust this plugin because upgrading WordPress is already scary enough let alone letting some plugin do it for you. Just spend the 5 freakin minutes to upgrade your WordPress installs people, it isn’t that hard and I’m tired of seeing people with out of date installs.
Second Prize
The second prize winner is Barry for MyDashboard. Don’t use this plugin. I’ll tell you why, even though it is an intersting idea iGoogle and Pageflakes do it sooooooooooo much better (I used extra o’s to emphasize my point, isn’t that coooooool?).
Grand Prize
The Grand Prize Winner of the Wordpress Plugin Competition is Anirudh Sanjeev for his OneClick Plugin. Thats pretty cool, It’s like having FTP built into your browser, oh, like FireFTP. Except it is ONE CLICK, OH MY! Ok so installing plugins and themes with one click is kinda cool but why have one more plugin that you need to keep up to date when you already have an FTP client?
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Why do you need an plugin to install another plugin, when you can always download the zip file, unzip it, connect and navigate to the right folder and then login. Try doing this for more than one plugin in a row.
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I have done this for more then one plugin in a row, many times. It isn’t that big a deal to highlight multiple zip files, open them all at the same time, open FTP, navigate to the folder, then highlight all the plugin to upload and then drag them to your server. Even if I installed this plugin I would never use it. I only install plugin about once a month and that’s just to keep them up to date. Maybe if you were installing a plugin on a daily basis but I don’t think anyone should be doing that.