Basecamp-Like Plugin for WordPress
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 1:15 am
WordPress has a lot of buzz right now. If you make a plugin for it, people will try it out. If you try to sell a theme or a plugin, it seems to get interest in the market. Some have even hired employees because the business got so good with it.
Anyway, I had this idea of leveraging that market. One person recently tweeted on Twitter that he used WordPress instead of Basecamp. My idea, instead, would be to make a plugin for WordPress that provide a kind of Basecamp/ActiveCollab kind of system for WordPress.
I wanted to collect your opinions about it:
- Do you think it should be one WP install, one project? Or one WP install, supporting multiple projects?
- Would you envision functionality integration using the Posts and Users tables?
- Would you envision functionality integration using the Pods Plugin with some pods with that instead of using WP's Posts and Users tables?
- Would you envision functionality integration going it alone with its own exclusive tables inside the WP database?
- What other kinds of things would you like to see in such a project?
- How would you implement private areas in the system where only non-clients could interact in privacy?
Just note that somehow I have to build it on top of WordPress to leverage that market spin. I could just as well build a standalone app, but then it doesn't leverage the marketspin.
Anyway, I had this idea of leveraging that market. One person recently tweeted on Twitter that he used WordPress instead of Basecamp. My idea, instead, would be to make a plugin for WordPress that provide a kind of Basecamp/ActiveCollab kind of system for WordPress.
I wanted to collect your opinions about it:
- Do you think it should be one WP install, one project? Or one WP install, supporting multiple projects?
- Would you envision functionality integration using the Posts and Users tables?
- Would you envision functionality integration using the Pods Plugin with some pods with that instead of using WP's Posts and Users tables?
- Would you envision functionality integration going it alone with its own exclusive tables inside the WP database?
- What other kinds of things would you like to see in such a project?
- How would you implement private areas in the system where only non-clients could interact in privacy?
Just note that somehow I have to build it on top of WordPress to leverage that market spin. I could just as well build a standalone app, but then it doesn't leverage the marketspin.