This has been a recent trend in WordPress (fringe, casual) development which I think should come to peoples’ attention. Ever since the start of the MT fiasco (and now the TechTV::G4 publicity), there has been a very large amount of interest in WordPress and consequently in the development of hacks and plugins for WordPress. This increase of interest and manpower is more than welcome but an unwanted side effect of this has been the problem of overlapping code and ideas. There are a couple of very potent examples I can think of. The comment registration/email comment authors idea, followed by the trackback/comment seperation plugins and many others come to mind. These are all great additions and are slightly different in their own ways. I believe that this energy could be used in better ways. The suggestions here are my personal opinion and do not represent the WordPress dev team or […]