Closer To The Ideal

WordPress suffers from “plugin hell”. There are thousands of plugins for every imaginable use, most of them are buggy, most of them are unsupported, most of them have been abandoned and only work on old, out of date versions of WordPress. Every significant WordPress project involves at least a day wasted testing plugins, trying to find one that works for you.

I worry about the plugins for Symfony going down the same road. Of course, the Symfony plugin system is much better than the WordPress system, and it enforces having the correct version.

At least for now, the community of Symfony plugin developers are small. The companies that offer plugins seem reputable and ready to stand behind their plugins.

CentreSource recently released 9 new plugins:

1) csDoctrineActAsAttachablePlugin – associates various uploads with multiple models, and includes an AJAX uploading client interface.

2) csDoctrineActAsCategorizablePlugin – associates models into nestable categories and category groups.

3) csDoctrineActAsGeolocatablePlugin – integrate your model with the Google Maps API to pull in geocodes based on record fields. Supports radius and proximity searches.

4) csDoctrineActAsSortablePlugin – adds a sortable behavior to your models

5) csDoctrineSlideshowPlugin – add and configure slideshows in your project.

6) csFormTransformPlugin – give your forms a web 2.0 look within a few easy steps.

7) csGlossaryPlugin – group your models alphabetically in glossary/directory format

8) csSEOToolkitPlugin – A toolkit to improve your website’s search engine optimization.

9) sfSympalSlideshowPlugin – An advanced slideshow used for the Sympal Content Management Framework.

What I’d like to see is one blog that just focuses on the plugins, and perhaps evaluates them, to say which ones are good.

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