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Re:Show HN: WP Foundry, a desktop WordPress management tool by aprilnya on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @07:56AM (#40143295)
This seems cool, but can a WP management tool really be powerful if it isn’t just embedding the actual WP admin page? Since it means you can’t configure plugins that add their own configuration and stuff…
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Re:Show HN: WP Foundry, a desktop WordPress management tool by toomuchtodo on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @01:39PM (#40147400)
Could be making the same http/rest calls?
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Re:Show HN: WP Foundry, a desktop WordPress management tool by mikeywazowski on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @05:13PM (#40149736)
Yeah this is what I plan to do, although it's not implemented yet.
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Re:Show HN: WP Foundry, a desktop WordPress management tool by aprilnya on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @05:50PM (#40150156)
Sure but adding support and UI for every single WP plugin that exists isn’t feasible
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Re:Show HN: WP Foundry, a desktop WordPress management tool by toomuchtodo on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @05:50PM (#40150165)
Only need to support the most popular ones.
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Re:Show HN: WP Foundry, a desktop WordPress management tool by aprilnya on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @05:54PM (#40150205)
There are so many WP plugins that “support the most popular ones”, depending on your criteria, either still means supporting thousands of plugins, or means it won’t support the plugins I use
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Re:Show HN: WP Foundry, a desktop WordPress management tool by mikeywazowski on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @06:12PM (#40150463)
Indeed. The extension to WP-CLI is open source so if you're seriously interested, make a PR and I'll update the UI to accommodate it.
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Re:Show HN: WP Foundry, a desktop WordPress management tool by mikeywazowski on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @05:12PM (#40149723)
Yeah that's a fair point. The purpose of the application isn't to provide fine-grained control over plugins etc yet.. However, I do intend to add settings configuration for some plugins. Which plugins I'll do this for depends on their popularity and whether they have WP-CLI compatibility built in.

In the meantime I may see if I can also embed the WP admin page so the user has quick access if they want to change anything.

Thanks for your feedback!

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