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bradyvercher / gistpress

WordPress plugin to add Gist oEmbed and shortcode support with caching.
GNU General Public License v2.0
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gistpress in WordPress plugin repo #47

Open sudar opened 10 years ago

sudar commented 10 years ago

Just did a search in WordPress plugin repo and it seems that this plugin is not available there. Any specific reason why this plugin is not available in WordPress repo?

bradyvercher commented 10 years ago

It's not in the repo mostly for some of the reasons outlined in this blog post about a different Gist plugin: http://srcmvn.com/blog/2012/12/19/embedding-github-gists/

sudar commented 10 years ago

Some background. I am the author of the wp-github-gist plugin, the one which is very similar to embed-gist and gistpress.

I just realized that some part of my plugin is broken (again) because of changes done by github. I was going through the same emotions as that of the author of the blog post and was thinking of abandoning my plugin. But before I abandon it I wanted to point my users to a plugin that works and my search let to gistpress, which seems to be the only plugin which works as of now. I did a search in WordPress repo and it was listed, which let me to ask the question.

GaryJones commented 7 years ago

While there might be advantages to methods mentioned in the linked blog post, I do think that GistPress offers the convenience for users who don't care to add in their own levels of code highlighting - if they cared about such thing, they'd be doing it as their own plugin anyway.

The Gist API seems to have been more stable of late, and we've been relatively quick to update and release when changes have happened. Our use of caching means there's often a trickle of users who might experience broken CSS that we can quickly fix, instead of it breaking for everyone on Day 0 of the API change.

There are some changes I'd really love to get done to GistPress in general (I want to make more use of it on my site), but I'd be open to having it on the WP.org repo.

@bradyvercher ?

bradyvercher commented 7 years ago

It could definitely use some attention, but everything has been pretty stable on the API front for awhile, so I'm not opposed to releasing it on WP.org.