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2013-02-09, 07:28:10
I know this is somewhat of an off beat thought but I have been using the GS engine for a while and notice that new plugins and plugin updates are a rather rare happening.
I really believe that GS has potential to be on par with CMS systems like Wordpress and in my own opinion I believe GS can already do everything Wordpress can if people would just take a deeper interest in the CMS and really work on plugin enhancements that it could exceed Wordpress all together.
The biggest thing I hear from everyone is "Wordpress is so easy, its admin i fantastic and great and is the greatest thing since The Beatles went on tour". They love it because they dont have to put any effort in to the CMS because changing a design is as lazy as clicking the "Install a template of somebody elses work so my site looks like 10,000 others on the web button"
Fact is the GS admin has Wordpress already beat on ease of use. It can take days to integrate your own design with Wordpress and with GS that integration takes less than a couple hours over a lunch break. You can take a wordpress template and convert it to GS and minus the various Wordpress functions the template works like a charm.
I would simply like to see a stronger interest in developing quality plugins and extensions for the web app such as creating a blogging platform that is well integrated, seo optimization plugins that actually work, sliders, galleries and whatever else a developer could come up with and everything having complete documentation readily available without 404 not founds.
I am fully aware that everything GS is about is open source and community driven but I would like to know if a small financial incentive to contribute and grow extend would light any type of fire under plugin developers? Im not talking about template developers, those are a dime a dozen, im talking about actual useful plugins.
Im just talking about a small incentive to make the contribution. If a plugin gets popular then the traffic to that developers web site would already be a means for him/her to grow.
I was thinking of something similar to a community voting system which I would even be willing to back myself where when a developer releases a plugin the community would download and use it as normal, if the GS devs feel it that it is of quality it would get released to a voting pool where everyone at the GS site could vote on its quality and usefulness after a week or so the votes would get tallied up and if they exceed the required score then the reward would simply go out to the developer.
It obviously would not be anything major or life changing but could be based off a quality scale ranging from $10 to $75 or $100 bucks. Or maybe even holding a plugin development contest and award such amounts in the prize or something.
These are just thoughts, I dont know how viable something like that would be but I know I would like to see more than just new template releases hit extend once in a while.
I really believe that GS has potential to be on par with CMS systems like Wordpress and in my own opinion I believe GS can already do everything Wordpress can if people would just take a deeper interest in the CMS and really work on plugin enhancements that it could exceed Wordpress all together.
The biggest thing I hear from everyone is "Wordpress is so easy, its admin i fantastic and great and is the greatest thing since The Beatles went on tour". They love it because they dont have to put any effort in to the CMS because changing a design is as lazy as clicking the "Install a template of somebody elses work so my site looks like 10,000 others on the web button"
Fact is the GS admin has Wordpress already beat on ease of use. It can take days to integrate your own design with Wordpress and with GS that integration takes less than a couple hours over a lunch break. You can take a wordpress template and convert it to GS and minus the various Wordpress functions the template works like a charm.
I would simply like to see a stronger interest in developing quality plugins and extensions for the web app such as creating a blogging platform that is well integrated, seo optimization plugins that actually work, sliders, galleries and whatever else a developer could come up with and everything having complete documentation readily available without 404 not founds.
I am fully aware that everything GS is about is open source and community driven but I would like to know if a small financial incentive to contribute and grow extend would light any type of fire under plugin developers? Im not talking about template developers, those are a dime a dozen, im talking about actual useful plugins.
Im just talking about a small incentive to make the contribution. If a plugin gets popular then the traffic to that developers web site would already be a means for him/her to grow.
I was thinking of something similar to a community voting system which I would even be willing to back myself where when a developer releases a plugin the community would download and use it as normal, if the GS devs feel it that it is of quality it would get released to a voting pool where everyone at the GS site could vote on its quality and usefulness after a week or so the votes would get tallied up and if they exceed the required score then the reward would simply go out to the developer.
It obviously would not be anything major or life changing but could be based off a quality scale ranging from $10 to $75 or $100 bucks. Or maybe even holding a plugin development contest and award such amounts in the prize or something.
These are just thoughts, I dont know how viable something like that would be but I know I would like to see more than just new template releases hit extend once in a while.
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