Grouping of plugin types

[jgmac1106]

Currently the plugin types match the user base fine.

However grouping plugins by category and allowing plugin creators to choose a category maybe more user friendly then alphabetical order:

Thinking off top of my head :

• Basic (default on)

  • static pages
  • status updates
  • photos
  • bookmarks
  • reactions
  • text post
  • (comics never made sense to me its a photo, unless you give pagination and serial features)

• Controlling Privacy

  • webmentions
  • native comments
  • Askimet or some spam solution

• Community

  • multisite
  • event, rsvp

• Syndication

  • silo stuff until APIs die off
  • Maybe add a token or badge to value aligned sites

• Quantified Self (collapsed menu)

  • food,
  • watch
  • read
  • listen, etc

• Advanced (collapsed menu keep IndieWeb building blocks default on)

  • anything code, you know what goes here

[cleverdevil]

Cool idea @jgmac1106. It would be nice to allow plugins to declare a category for themselves, from a list of recommended categories, or to define an alternate category. The default could be "Other" or something.

[benwerd]

+1 to this. Over time this would also help third-party plugins be discovered and more easily installed.

[cleverdevil]

Related, it might even be nice to have a plugin directory integrated on this page... Nextcloud has such a thing, and I find it to be very useful!

[jgmac1106]

I actually changed the word choose and add a few times. Worried about cluttering the UI which is the goal but also hate that apple chooses my podcast categories for me, other might be best solution

[jeremycherfas]

+1 to Greg's original suggestion and to cleverdevil's addition of some sort of directory accessible from the page.

[mapkyca]

Possibly related, but not really. If I had a Wishlist I'd like to look at some sort of dependancy tree based boot process for plugins.

This will hopefully mitigate some of the problems we had with elgg related to multiple template overrides when building applications using the framework.