Quick reality check: time to stop scattering my poor overworked brain over 2000 different pet projects.

It ain’t gonna be pretty in the end.

Actually, it’s starting to show: WPPM hasn’t been properly updated in months now (only quick bug-fixes) and it’s badly bursting at the seams. It started as a very nifty project, with hundreds of cool ideas for improvement. But currently, it’s looking increasingly like that aging self-conscious hipster, surfing the wave of a long faded glory and barely tolerated by most, on account of its past coolness… In short: it’s creating more trouble for users than worth (and all apologies to those who downloaded that very broken version I just uploaded a few days ago, in a misguided attempt at doing some sort of damage control).

The latest version of WPPM has been removed from the download archives. I could probably roll it back to the old version, but frankly, I am not that much more comfortable with people downloading it: sure it does the job OK, but under the hood, things aren’t that pretty. If you are still using it and happy with it, though, not a reason in the world to change.

Assessing the situation in a nutshell:

• WPPM is not permanently discontinued. Actually, depending on some external ongoing development efforts, it might come back as early as this week. Or later if I need to wait for the time to take care of it myself. But it will come back in one form or another (and likely in a better form): you have my word.
• This doesn’t affect wp-plugins.net in the slightest. As both a developer or a user, you can still enjoy all the advantages of the plugin repository over there. And when WPPM 2 comes up, you’ll instantly have access to any plugin listed on the website.
• For those who have been following my recent whining with regards to WordPress matters and Spam Karma 2, this decision has nothing to do with it. And I do want to make it clear absolutely nothing…

OK, you know what… That last point? In fact, maybe it does. In a very indirect way. In that it has increased the amount of time I had to dedicate somewhere else and forced me to stop spreading myself thin, which isn’t such a bad thing. But the core issues with WPPM are mine from start to finish: a very hasty and downright shoddy programming job (as is typical with this kind of project, it grew out of a very dirty “temporary” piece of code, that was never meant to last past a short “proof-of-concept” stage… yea right…), a dire lack of time resources, not enough efforts to collaborate with interested parties or other similar projects (must. stay. on the. humble. path… gnnnn… no finger pointing… gnnnnnn… ok. good. I think it’s gone. Moving on) etc. etc.

Anyway, sorry for the very needlessly tragic dimension this announcement has taken. It seems I cannot manage to do so much as turn on my computer without throwing grandiloquents monologues these days. Must be hormonal or something (damn, am I pregnant again!?! sure hope not). After all, we are merely talking about a bunch of zero’s and one’s that stop occupying a spot on the world wild intarweb, and presumably not even in a durable way… More meaningful things have been known to happen about every milliseconds in all corners of the planet…

Come back later for an update, and in the meantime, feel free to check out all the other cool stuff we have to offer on this digital loveboat of a website.