"Hey everyone! I'm curious—if you could have any WordPress plugin that you wish existed, maybe added functionalities for popular plugins like woo commerce and others, but currently doesn't, what would it be?
The one that tells me what the user actually did to cause whatever problem they want me to fix vs having to Dr. House my way through troubleshooting.
The one that makes clients pay on time and not change scope halfway through the project.
The one that explains to non developers that they are in fact non developers.
Something to add “reactions” to forum posts or posts… something that gives a visitor the ability to select items such as “informative”, “Exciting”, “amusing”, “Insightful”, etc… Scribophile offers these in their forums and I think it’s an engaging feature.
Something to synchronize media between sites (ie staging -> prod). Not just copy the uploads folder but synchronize media ID references. Would likely require some alternative way of referencing IDs but if someone can figure that out , would be great.
I already wrote a plugin to push any single post from one site to another via WP REST API, just media is left out of the process because the id references (and discrepancy) between sites cant easily be synchronized.
Let me know when the plugin is ready! XD
I wish the pages were an actual hierarchy sitemap, and all the relationships and ordering were controlled there. This is something ConcreteCMS does exceptionally well.
Find, and optionally delete, unused media. It’s damned hard to find which media files are unused on a site, and therefore safe to delete.
The one that could magically give ideas to other plugin developers that have none.
Something that lets me edit the settings in the plugin section rather search for it hidden in the left menu
A plugin that allows me to automatically publish my WordPress posts directly to my WhatsApp channel.
Delicious Brains tried to do a sort of DB version control/sync a few years back (was called MergeBot) and it didn’t work out because it’s such an insane lift, but that would be incredible.
A plugin that change the way the Media Library works to more like an FTP, so it’s easier to override files with the same name/location. Is there a plugin that can do that ? It’s a pain to have 30 versions of pdf files because it got updated.
The plugin that’s detects what plugin is not in use
Not like active or anything
Like if you ever build any section with it, so you don’t mess up your site by deleting it
A plugin to stop people from installing plugins
Something that can provide my whole website with the same banking type security that don’t even allow a screenshot from a smartphones.. No right click exist but no total screenshot like some banking websites have, im looking for
May be just paste a link and build a design inside WordPress from that page
Capitec, fnb, or even the website tour app that takes user’s on a tour through my website when its busy in the tour you cannot take a screenshot it says privacy mode.
The one I am too lazy to write/develop.
Definitely a better designed, modern and flexible event management plugin. Preferable one that has good integration with Elementor. The current options just never seem to be up to the task and always seem to either have conflicts with other plugins or have major styling deficiencies.
A truly flexible custom post types, fields builder & management. UI is easy to use. Price should be affordable like $20 per year per site.
Something that let’s me clear Woocommerce sort order, setting it back to alphanumeric. And for the different parts of woo.
Without running a SQL script that resets everything…
Like a button on the list page…
A dropbox, of sorts. We just started looking into this, so maybe there’s a solution we haven’t found yet. We need to share files a lot, we’d like one page where we could drag and drop files, they’ll be uploaded to the server and a short-ish URL will be returned to download the file. Ideally there’d be an index page that would show all files uploaded in a pretty way, that would allow us to scp files to the server if that was more convenient.
Someone’s fishing for a business idea lol
An awesome booking plugin that supports multiple locations and has many customization options
A plugin to fully automate mgmt of wordpress thru simple prompts like “put these ads on upper right corner then resize it to autofit available space” or prompt anything no code or other plugins needed. I know there are AI website builder already but there is no AI wordpress plugin that can do this yet
Something akin to Drupal’s Views plugin. A flexible backend interface for building complex queries to retrieve and display content in various formats such as tables, grids, lists, pages, and more, all without requiring a single line of PHP code.
A plugin that allows to use any action from WP or any plugin to trigger an automation to do anything in WP or any other plugin, and also to create programmable functions to to something/anything in the backend.
And also it should be able to record my actions, show them as a script which I then can edit with variables, logic arguments etc. to be performed.
Like a programmable slave for the administrator…
A plugin that reliably finds and deletes all users who a) never set their password b) never logged in c) never posted any comment or forum post.
I’m managing a site that allows to comment posts and post in a BBPress forum only for registered users but registration is quite easy – one Email confirmation to set the password and the account is active.
Filtering and blocking Spam comments & posts is working fine with hCapcha and Stop Spammers. Bots often succeed to register for an account, but around 49.9% fail to activate and 49.9% fail to bypass the spam filter. So I rarely have to delete a Spam comment, but now after years the site has thousands of unused and inactive Spam user accounts.
Better Moderation
Does simplistic pattern matching on comment words, IP, handle, and/or email address and moderates if a match. NOT GREP or AWK.
A plugin to change all page builder code to blocks. It’s a major pain to have a site with hundreds of pages where someone has used some page builder and wants to switch to a block theme for performance or other reasons.
Google Adsence A.I. to make blogs compliant to Adsence rules, since Google bots and Google humans do not help with the confusing and changing rules.
A Page builder like Elementor will all of this capabilities but using Gutenberg blocks.
The one that tells me what the user actually did to cause whatever problem they want me to fix vs having to Dr. House my way through troubleshooting.
The one that makes clients pay on time and not change scope halfway through the project.
The one that explains to non developers that they are in fact non developers.
Something to add “reactions” to forum posts or posts… something that gives a visitor the ability to select items such as “informative”, “Exciting”, “amusing”, “Insightful”, etc… Scribophile offers these in their forums and I think it’s an engaging feature.
Something to synchronize media between sites (ie staging -> prod). Not just copy the uploads folder but synchronize media ID references. Would likely require some alternative way of referencing IDs but if someone can figure that out , would be great.
I already wrote a plugin to push any single post from one site to another via WP REST API, just media is left out of the process because the id references (and discrepancy) between sites cant easily be synchronized.
Let me know when the plugin is ready! XD
I wish the pages were an actual hierarchy sitemap, and all the relationships and ordering were controlled there. This is something ConcreteCMS does exceptionally well.
Find, and optionally delete, unused media. It’s damned hard to find which media files are unused on a site, and therefore safe to delete.
The one that could magically give ideas to other plugin developers that have none.
Something that lets me edit the settings in the plugin section rather search for it hidden in the left menu
A plugin that allows me to automatically publish my WordPress posts directly to my WhatsApp channel.
Delicious Brains tried to do a sort of DB version control/sync a few years back (was called MergeBot) and it didn’t work out because it’s such an insane lift, but that would be incredible.
A plugin that change the way the Media Library works to more like an FTP, so it’s easier to override files with the same name/location. Is there a plugin that can do that ? It’s a pain to have 30 versions of pdf files because it got updated.
The plugin that’s detects what plugin is not in use
Not like active or anything
Like if you ever build any section with it, so you don’t mess up your site by deleting it
A plugin to stop people from installing plugins
Something that can provide my whole website with the same banking type security that don’t even allow a screenshot from a smartphones.. No right click exist but no total screenshot like some banking websites have, im looking for
May be just paste a link and build a design inside WordPress from that page
Capitec, fnb, or even the website tour app that takes user’s on a tour through my website when its busy in the tour you cannot take a screenshot it says privacy mode.
The one I am too lazy to write/develop.
Definitely a better designed, modern and flexible event management plugin. Preferable one that has good integration with Elementor. The current options just never seem to be up to the task and always seem to either have conflicts with other plugins or have major styling deficiencies.
A truly flexible custom post types, fields builder & management. UI is easy to use. Price should be affordable like $20 per year per site.
Something that let’s me clear Woocommerce sort order, setting it back to alphanumeric. And for the different parts of woo.
Without running a SQL script that resets everything…
Like a button on the list page…
A dropbox, of sorts. We just started looking into this, so maybe there’s a solution we haven’t found yet. We need to share files a lot, we’d like one page where we could drag and drop files, they’ll be uploaded to the server and a short-ish URL will be returned to download the file. Ideally there’d be an index page that would show all files uploaded in a pretty way, that would allow us to scp files to the server if that was more convenient.
Someone’s fishing for a business idea lol
An awesome booking plugin that supports multiple locations and has many customization options
A plugin to fully automate mgmt of wordpress thru simple prompts like “put these ads on upper right corner then resize it to autofit available space” or prompt anything no code or other plugins needed. I know there are AI website builder already but there is no AI wordpress plugin that can do this yet
Something akin to Drupal’s Views plugin. A flexible backend interface for building complex queries to retrieve and display content in various formats such as tables, grids, lists, pages, and more, all without requiring a single line of PHP code.
A plugin that allows to use any action from WP or any plugin to trigger an automation to do anything in WP or any other plugin, and also to create programmable functions to to something/anything in the backend.
And also it should be able to record my actions, show them as a script which I then can edit with variables, logic arguments etc. to be performed.
Like a programmable slave for the administrator…
A plugin that reliably finds and deletes all users who a) never set their password b) never logged in c) never posted any comment or forum post.
I’m managing a site that allows to comment posts and post in a BBPress forum only for registered users but registration is quite easy – one Email confirmation to set the password and the account is active.
Filtering and blocking Spam comments & posts is working fine with hCapcha and Stop Spammers. Bots often succeed to register for an account, but around 49.9% fail to activate and 49.9% fail to bypass the spam filter. So I rarely have to delete a Spam comment, but now after years the site has thousands of unused and inactive Spam user accounts.
Better Moderation
Does simplistic pattern matching on comment words, IP, handle, and/or email address and moderates if a match. NOT GREP or AWK.
[https://wphive.com/plugins/better-moderation/](https://wphive.com/plugins/better-moderation/)
A plugin to change all page builder code to blocks. It’s a major pain to have a site with hundreds of pages where someone has used some page builder and wants to switch to a block theme for performance or other reasons.
Google Adsence A.I. to make blogs compliant to Adsence rules, since Google bots and Google humans do not help with the confusing and changing rules.
A Page builder like Elementor will all of this capabilities but using Gutenberg blocks.