Exciting Typo patches in the works

Scott Laird is doing some exciting work on patching up new features for Typo. I’m especially interested in the new sidebar plugin work he’s doing.

He’s been making it simpler to package up sidebar plugins for Typo – such as the available Flickr, Tadalist, or delicious integration. The current stable release of Typo hard-codes these into the main layout template and sticks the helper code inside Typo. He’s making it easier to just drop a plugin package in and, under the admin inetrface, drag and drop them into your sidebar. This way you can enable or disable them via WYSIWYG rather than hacking the rhtml.

Editing the rhtml to enable plugins really isn’t a big deal for techy geeks who grok Rails and HTML. But for bloggers who just want to post articles and skin a website – they won’t really want to be editing templates and copying and pasting code into controllers and helpers.