The plugins management page has been overhauled to better match other management pages. There are status filters for All, Active, Recently Active, Inactive, and Update Available. There’s also search and paging with a screen option for setting the number of plugins to show per page.
Latest Updates: plugins RSS
Ryan
New API that allows plugins to add sections and fields to settings pages and register new settings along with sanitization callbacks. add_settings_section(), add_settings_field(), register_setting(), unregister_setting()
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Ryan
The new API is more for adding to the default settings pages. You’d still use add_options_page() to add a new page. Right now the only docs are the inline phpdoc, which needs to be fleshed out more before release.
Ryan
The first cut of the plugin installer is in trunk
Mark Jaquith
With the help of AaronCampbell, the shortcode HTML issues have been fixed in a flexible way. Now add_shortcode() takes a third (optional) parameter that allows you to have your shortcode be expanded after wpautop() and texturize() are run. Default is before for compatibility with 2.5. For “block-level” shortcodes, you should probably make them run after. For “inline” shortcodes, you should probably make them run before.
Update: We went a different way with this, for the time being. Now everything runs at 11, but shortcodes with a buffer line separating them from other content will be recognized as block level and won’t get paragraph-wrapped.
Ryan
TinyMCE, media uploader, and plugin updater fixes along with a slew of smaller bug fixes.
Ryan
Mike landed the Plugins dashboard widget.
Ryan
Committed automatic plugin upgrade. We’ll see if we can stabilize it in time for 2.5. If not, we’ll move it to 2.6.
Ryan
Trying to get automatic plugin upgrades in good enough shape to commit before feature freeze kicks in.
Is there backward compatibility with the old API? (add_management_page and add_options_page)
Where can plugin authors find out more about these changes?