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200.000

alex.rabe — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:49:32 +0000

At the 22th Feb I posted a note that NextGEN reached the 100.000 downloads at wordpress.org, now 3,5 month later we enter the level 200.000. I’m very happy that after the release of WordPress 2.5 Gallery feature the interest is still there…

Currently the development is slowed down, but not stopped. I feel version 0.9x is still good enough that it can live for a while, so that I can refactor main parts, which are not well designed. Currently I’m creating the template pages for gallery and album so that everybody is able to create there own output.

I got the main idea from the great plugins of Urban Giraffe, which are IMHO the best pattern for a modern MVC based PHP plugin. I can strongly recommend every plugin author to have a look for the plugins structure.

100.000

alex.rabe — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:29:09 +0000

100.000 Downloads : What a magic number… Of course that’s not 100.000 web pages with my plugins, but more than I ever expected to reach with my work. One the one hand I’m very happy about the success and the positive response I got in the last year, on the other hand this plugin gets into focus of hackers… more and more. I’m not a professional programmer and I don’t know how many leaks/holes/bugs my plugins still contain, I hope to catch them always before….

Let my say thanks to all the contributors and translators which help me with this plugins, especially Alakhnor for his work at wordTube and forums moderation. And at least the 34 donators for the money, which motivated to continue this work…

Thanks Heike, that I can spend sooo much time into my hobby.