Searching for best plugins
discovering plugins
How to discover & find plugins?
Search for a “block plugin”:
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Plugin directories
- A Better Search Engine for WordPress Plugins PluginSearch.com defunct in 2022
- Source code search: WordPress Directory Searcher - WPdirectory still working in 2022, but it is more like grep
- Search packages on WordPress Packagist is closest to what I need
- Addendio is dead & defunct as of 2019
- WP Plugin Directory seems unmaintained. Article about it
- Advanced Wordpress Plugin Search Engine & Plugins Directory is dead and defunct.
- I tried to use search from: WPCore.com
- WPMeta not I’m not sure how updated this is
- WPSeek.com - A WordPress-centric search engine for devs and theme authors; hooks and such
- List of all WordPress hooks: hookr.io | The WordPress Hook/API Index
- List of all WordPress hooks: WordPress › Reference
- johnbillion/wp-hooks; amazing author; WordPress Hooks Reference as JSON
Example: search for new blocks?
- Google magic?
Find on Github?
- How to Install WordPress Plugins Directly From Github – WordPress Tavern
- File Header « WordPress Codex
- How to Find and Install WordPress Plugins from GitHub
- site:github.com “Plugin URI:” infile:php - Google Search
- Github Plugin Search - Google Search
- How to Find and Install Hundreds of Free WordPress Plugins from GitHub - WPMU DEV
Interesting is this plugin: pdclark/github-plugin-search, but it seems unmaintained. Code blocks to analyze are here github-plugin-search/class-search.php
Plugin Review sites:
- Wpplugincheck – In-depth WordPress Plugin Reviews
- Tidy Repo - A curated list of the best WordPress plugins
- Top Frameworks for WordPress Plugin & Theme Developers
Find related Plugins / find similar plugins
- Perfect tool: Related Plugin Search / Similar plugins
Plugin: Plugin collections & bulk installation
Winner: WP Favs as it’s free and working somehow.
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WPCore.com is the first service with it’s accompanying plugin. WPCore is very good, but has one problem: it’s not free at all. There is a limit of up to 2 collections and 18 plugins per collection.
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WP Favs is much less popular and also has accompanying plugin After your first login, you will get another email with your new generated API Key that you can use along with the plugin, but API key is displayed all the time at this page. Whole administration is on Wordpress - not too professional. But it’s free.
Search Engines Source Code
searchcode | source code search engine on most repository platforms Search Engine for Source Code - PublicWWW.com
Similar: NerdyData.com - Search The Web’s Source Code for Technologies
Wp Favs - WordPress plugin manager for easy and bulk plugin installation WP Hive - A Better WordPress Repository WP Plugin Directory | The Best WordPress Plugins PluginArchive - Wordpress plugins and Magento extensions archive
Možda napraviti neki svoj search engine?
Perfectdotexe/WordPress-Plugins-List: Wordpress Plugins List
How to search Githib for Wordpress plugins?
We are searching .php files only in root folder with specific plugin header:
"plugins_api" "Plugin Name:" AND "Plugin URI:" AND "Description:" extension:php in:file path:""
Now there is a beautiful plugin for that: onigetoc/wpgit, the plugin to Search thousands of Wordpress Plugins, Themes and Widgets on Github, and demo of it here: WPGIT