Big things here! Approaching our 10 years celebration (september 28th) Pixline is kinda having a new life both online and offline: after a long “forced” pause I’m finally able to start again, more news in the next months.
First step in this new direction will be the restyle you’re looking at, it will help us migrate to the next Pixline; next steps are about our WordPress plugins, most used ones: Category Page and Gengo.
Category Page (aka page2cat) really amused me: it had several lifes besides its own, everyone forked out or even built upon it but no one asked to mantain it :-) Maybe it’s too complicated or just people don’t like open source a lot, who knows?
To date we can find several version on the web, the major one by John P. Neumann. This one is actually available on SVN trunk and I hope to make it public very soon.
John has received full permissions on the plugin, given its contribution and his complete conformance to the open source spirit that empowers WordPress.
Fire up your SVN client and test it:
svn co http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/page2cat/trunk/page2cat/ page2cat-trunk
Gengo‘s story is slightly more bitter.
As you may know Gengo was built from Jamie Talbot who ceased its development with WP 2.1; as a user I started a collective project to collect and apply fixes and patches by the Gengo community. Later on Jamie gave me full access to the plugin, we merged with Gengo and I found myself as maintainer of a well-known WP plugins without even understanding some parts of it…
My bad feelings did grow every subsequent WP release: each upgrade used to mean many changes and new bugs, my localhost had five or six different Gengo versions in active development, and no one was able to help with coding. XKCD prophecy was here to stay:
Fast forward. You can now found in SVN trunk the patched version for WordPress 2.7 made by Julien Viard de Galbert. I can’t estimate a release at all, I’m not even sure it will be released.
You can found also an experimental branch based on custom post types in SVN branches/wp-gengo; promising but limited and in need of patches.
# Gengo 2.7 -- Julien Viard de Galbert edition svn co http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/gengo/trunk/ gengo-trunk # Gengo 3 alpha -- rewrite / proof of concept svn co http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/gengo/branches/wp-gengo/ gengo-3
I just don’t know if there are still Gengo-based websites. This question was quite mainstream these days.
Jamie thinks that WPML is having a big time and he decided against his contribution in this new collective process. For different reason Leo Germani started Multi-Language Framework, we’ll see if we can join forces.
WPML is probably the king here, even if many users was disappointed when it turned commercial.
For sure people asks for multilanguage abilities in WordPress, and I think that Gengo should have a role in this scenario. It’s up to us.
(This should be true as well for ANT Widget, Paypal shortcodes and Upload+…)
