Looking for ideas for new WordPress plugins… any suggestions?

ACF, Wordfence, and Rollback do most of what I need, but some developer tools would be cool, though I’m not sure exactly what those would be.

Drew said:
ACF, Wordfence, and Rollback do most of what I need, but some developer tools would be cool, though I’m not sure exactly what those would be.

Query Monitor is a great tool for developers.

I’d love a post ratings plugin that works with custom post types, like products, and limits each visitor to rating once based on cookies or IP.

Remington said:
I’d love a post ratings plugin that works with custom post types, like products, and limits each visitor to rating once based on cookies or IP.

Really? Something like this doesn’t exist yet?

@Lior
It does: https://wpulike.com/

Remington said:
I’d love a post ratings plugin that works with custom post types, like products, and limits each visitor to rating once based on cookies or IP.

Why would you want visitors to rate posts?

Interested in collaborating? I’ve been wanting to improve the Media Gallery UI for a while. I think it needs faster search, better tagging, and folder-like organization for files. Plus, better handling for non-image files like PDFs and SVGs. If you’re up for it, let’s chat.

@Jesse
We use Real Media Library, and it’s decent. I’d still like to see your design ideas though.

Export to Drupal.

Jem said:
Export to Drupal.

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Jem said:
Export to Drupal.

Haha, good one.

Jem said:
Export to Drupal.

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I need an event scheduler that doesn’t hook into everything and can schedule by the hour without slowing down my site.

Cai said:
I need an event scheduler that doesn’t hook into everything and can schedule by the hour without slowing down my site.

I’ve been using ME Calendar, and it’s great. It doesn’t have all the bloat of others, and it has schema markup built-in.

@Blayne
Thanks, I’ll check it out!

Cai said:
I need an event scheduler that doesn’t hook into everything and can schedule by the hour without slowing down my site.

What do you mean by ‘hooks into everything’? What are you using now, and how is it affecting your site?

@Lior
I use The Events Calendar, and it started out great, but now it’s become a huge system with ticketing, venue management, and a lot of unnecessary ‘optimizations.’ It used to let you throttle event creation, but that’s gone now. I’m running an hourly schedule with events changing every 1-5 minutes, and it’s killing my backend.

@Cai
How do you guarantee hourly events run on time? Doesn’t WP-CRON only check when someone visits the site?

Jesse said:
@Cai
How do you guarantee hourly events run on time? Doesn’t WP-CRON only check when someone visits the site?

These are scheduled posts, not cron jobs. The issue is how the plugin handles recurring events—it creates a post for every instance in the future, which clogs up the system.