Tim Asks:

What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything? Oh and do you have any cool WP plugins coming out?

The answer of course, is 42.  ;)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aboZctrHfK8

As for WordPress plugins, hopefully I’ll be releasing version 1.4 of WordPress Filter soon.  I think WordPress Filter is a pretty great plugin, mainly because it let’s someone tap into the simpler Plugin functionality, without having to write a full-blown plugin of their own.  Users can even swap filtersets with each other using the import/export functionality that was introduced in v1.3.

Other then that though, I haven’t really thought of any new plugin ideas lately.  I have been giving thought to writing a RSS->Blog Post plugin that will actually WORK then continue to keep it up so there is one out there (most I find either don’t work, or aren’t maintained, it’s frustrating).  Although I’m somewhat hesitant to both write this plugin and release it, since I am fairly certain it would end up being used by spam blogs at some point.

One other plugin I’ve been thinking about is a robust calendar (event calendar) plugin.  I don’t have any direct need for this, but I’ve heard several users complaining about the ones that exist either don’t do enough, or (like RSS->Post), aren’t maintained actively enough to be worth using.  I don’t really see my WordPress ’support’ going away anytime soon, so making one of these and maintaining it might be a good way to give back to the community some.

If you have any plugin ideas, feel free to throw them in the comments though.  Never know, I might get bored one night and write it.

^{Note: This is part of the Ask Matt series where you, the reader, get to post a question and have me answer it.}