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Greetings!

Am new to GL. I noticed on the Plugins download page, when I sort by DATE--only three plugins have 2006 dates? Does this mean only two plugins were added in all of 2006? How active is the community?

Depends on what kind of plugins you need. Aside from the forums plugin (to be updated with a real release soon) and the media gallery plugin (updated last fall), core Geeklog is not really missing too much "necessary" functionality. You should also look at the geeklog download area and note that core GL was just updated Dec 31 '06. Plugin devs probably held off on releasing anything during the beta and are now just getting stuff ready for release.

Core development is made up of 3-5 people. (I'm not one of them.) CVS has checkins almost every day. You have to realize that GL is used by the core devs to sell website solutions to others. They are always working on the code in some capacity.

Are you talking about completely new or updated plugins? In any case, two (or three) sounds too low. Check the Plugins topic - there's slightly more activity there. And keep in mind that not all plugin authors upload their files here but prefer to host them on their own sites.

Also, most of the older plugins should still work with the current Geeklog releases (typical problems with older plugins are that they require register_globals to be "on", and some broke when we changed the comment API a few releases ago).

Are there any specific plugins you are missing? From the forum posts, I think the only thing people are really missing is some sort of ecommerce plugin. And occasionally someone would like to see an alternative to this or that plugin. But overall, we seem to have most things covered.

bye, Dirk

Well, there was the multilingual FAQ version that was supposed to have a first fully working version without hardcoded English strings, and to be as good as Faqman plus multilingual support, but Tokyoahead never released it...

Thanks for all responses. Glad to meet ya.