Wordpress Official Plugins Directory Review
by David Peralty on March 27th, 2007 
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Thomas McMahon of BloggerDesign has posted his first thoughts on the new Official Plugin Directory and he is not impressed.
When I first read last week that Wordpress had launched an official plugins directory I was excited. There are lots of good plugins out there that are not in any sort of searchable database other than a search engine. However, the Wordpress plugin directory isn’t living up to my excitations yet.
I’ve got the plugin uploaded and ready to go, I think. But I have no idea what to do next or how to get it into the Wordpress official directory. The whole ordeal isn’t user friendly and I can see how quickly it’d deter plugin authors from uploading their plugins. That is unless I’m the only one who doesn’t get the whole SVN thing.
I think the official Wordpress plugin directory is a great idea, but I think it’s confusing and annoying to get a plugin listed. I’d recommend wp-plugins.net for a large database of Wordpress plugins that is extremely easy to get included in.
I haven’t tried adding a plugin to the directory yet, but so far the user side experience is not too bad. I agree with Thomas about the limited number of plugins currently listed, but I hope time will rectify that. I have said a billion times that I always thought that WordPress should have its own Plugin and Theme directories.
I tried to upload one of mine….I got sent an email saying that I’d been approved, but with no instructions on how to upload so I gave up.
guys, check out the new plugins directory at http://www.learningwordpress.com. Is a lot more organized and easy to add and find plugins compared to both the wordpress.org official directory and wp-plugins.net. Let me know what you think of it … im still fixing it up.
Well, I didn’t receive approval after submitting my request. Perhaps my plugin is too simple to make it into the directory. So I will stick to wp-plugins.net for now
Plug in…good…