I don't use these plugins, so I'm +1 for removing them.
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 7:34 AM, Glen Mazza <glen.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > >
