Having now developed a few dozen websites using Wordpress as a back-end, I’ve come to find myself installing the same plugins over many of those installations.

Initially finding those plugins was often quite a challenge though. While I often sing the praises of Wordpress, the plugin area of their site is honestly an embarrassment to the platform, if only because there is no way to sort through plugins. Thus one of Wordpress’s biggest benefits – the massive community – becomes a huge problem due to the sheer number of plugins. Without a way to filter or sort, you’re left with a massive list of plugins, the vast majority of which haven’t been updated in years.

During a recent website revision, a client mentioned that they needed a disclaimer on every one of their product pages. Normally, if the product pages were all set to a certain template, it’d be easy enough to just add that disclaimer into the template. Unfortunately, there was no need to make those pages a special template, so they were all just the default template.