I just published two plugins I developed for projects this semester on WordPress.org.

Chromeless Widgets Page offers a quick way to build and iterate on a custom page that’s external to the web portion of a site. I developed it for the USC Annenberg Digital Lounge (where I’m the WordPress Specialist), where we used it to build an events page that’s displayed on large TV screens in our physical space.

Basic Funding Tracker is a widget that displays progress toward a fundraising goal both visually and numerically. It was developed for USC ASCE‘s internal P2, where we’re using it to track sponsorship for our annual conference in April.

Both plugins were cases where the projects required minimal extra effort to write in a way that they could be used more widely. It’s well worth contributing basic plugins with minimal options and niche use-cases back to the community, even if it requires extra time to build the plugin.