Hi team, we have four blog entry plugins that we deactivate by default
in our roller.properties file, meaning not many even know about them.
(Three we do keep active: smiley plugin, convert line breaks plugin,
obfuscate email plugin, seem all good to keep.) I'm inclined to remove
three of them from Roller trunk:
a) GoogleLinkPlugin: allows user to use a non-HTML syntax for a Google
search within his blog entry
b) WikipediaLinkPlugin: allows user to use a non-HTML syntax for a
Wikipedia Link within his blog entry
c) Bookmark Plugin: Automatically hyperlinks within the blog entry
every time a word matches an entry in a blog roll.
For (a) and (b), people so infrequently hyperlink to Google Searches and
Wikipedia (together they might amount to two percent of all blog
hyperlinks) that I doubt most people blogging in raw HTML would take the
effort to find out the specialized syntax for the plugin, and instead
just type up a <a href="http://....";>...</a> as they unthinkingly do for
all the other hyperlinks. And that's for people using the plain text
editor, the rich text editor has a graphical icon for adding HTML links
anyway.
(c) has similar problems, when you multiply the % of bloggers aware of
this plugin by the % maintaining a substantive blog roll by the % who
would want to use it (some would be concerned about false positives, its
inability to work when the blogroll text is "Matt Raible's Blog" and the
blog entry says Matt or Matt Raible, or that they just don't hyperlink
to the blog roll main page that much, as opposed to permalinks within
the blogs), we probably would get pretty close to zero.
WDYT?
The source code for these are here:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/roller/trunk/app/src/main/java/org/apache/roller/weblogger/business/plugins/entry/
.
Regards,
Glen
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