Plugin Info Extraction for WordPress Online Tool Launched

Oct 30, 2009 // by Hackadelic // WordPress // 9 Comments

Ever needed a list of your plugins for pasting it into an email or a document? Or into an (Excel or Word or OpenOffice) table? I did, and with all the plugins I have installed, I concluded that writing it all down manually would seriously suck.

I did a bit of research, but found no plugins that do just that. Sure, there are plugins that can insert a plugin list into a post or a widget, but even if I could live with their output,¹ the whole procedure» would be absolute overkill.

So I decided to implement this little tool right here on this website:

The WordPress PlugIn List / Table Generator

It is super-simple to use. Just visit the tool’s page and follow the instructions there.

Have fun!

installing the plugin, creating a post with a shortcode/tag where the plugin infos would be inserted, previewing the post, selecting the text and copying it to the clipboardPowered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.5

which I really couldn’t for my purpose [↩]

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9 Comments

DLKeur February 21, 2010 at 5:49 am

“…would seriously suck.” Boy you got that right. I love your work, your perspective, and your humor.

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- Hackadelic February 21, 2010 at 11:31 am
  
  Haha, DLKeur, thanks! I do have my moments
Gravity January 4, 2010 at 10:53 am

I came back to update my sites’ list, created with two of your lovely addons. Noticed this tools is not in your “I implemented” list, where it should be!

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- Hackadelic January 5, 2010 at 1:39 am
  
  Hey, thanks Gravity!
Gravity November 17, 2009 at 6:27 pm

Great idea. Strangely, didn’t work for me; gave an error of “Supplied text does not seem to contain WordPress plugin information.”.

I use google chrome, so select-all might perhaps take text elements which your input did not expect.

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- Hackadelic November 17, 2009 at 9:29 pm
  
  I’m checking it out, Gravity. Thanks for your input.
- Hackadelic November 17, 2009 at 10:59 pm
  
  Should be fixed now
ovidiu November 12, 2009 at 1:39 pm

just to let you know, the “plugin central” plugin provides similar lists of used/installed plugins

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- Hackadelic November 13, 2009 at 3:41 pm
  
  Ovidiu, I know “Plugin Central”. I used it prior to WP 2.8. But thanks anyway.
  
  The thing is, (a) it only provides a simple list, and (b), I’d hate to install a plugin only to obtain the list every now and than. It would be sitting there consuming resources for nothing 98% of the time. That’s why I figured an external tool would be the right answer.