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Here is a plugin for plugin developers!

Tired of the tedious work-flow needed when writing and checking the help section of your plugins?

Use this plugin to slash this work-flow…

• Edit in your code editor.
• Compile the plugin.
• Copy and paste the compiled file to the plugins upload textarea and hit ‘upload’.
• Scroll to the bottom of the page and hit install.
• Locate your plugin in the plugin list and click on the ‘help’ link.
• View your textile formatted help file.

to this…

• Edit in your code editor.
• Compile the plugin.
• Copy and paste the compiled file to the plugins upload textarea and hit ‘upload’.
• Scroll to the bottom of the page and hit install.
• Locate your plugin in the plugin list and click on the ‘help’ link.
• Hit refresh to view your textile formatted help file.

That’s quite a reduction!

This plugin also knows how to extract the straight HTML help section from ied_plugin_composer formatted plugins.