Recommended extensions

February 16, 2011 · by Arnstein Teigene

We recently introduced a section called Recommended which now acts as the default landing page for extensions. This makes the home page of the catalog more dynamic and it allow us to showcase more of the brilliant extensions we keep receiving.

To give everyone a fair shot at becoming recommended I thought I'd share some of the things we are looking for when deciding whether to showcase an extension or not:

The extension must be really useful for it's intended audience
It shouldn't be buggy
A clean icon
Clear screenshots showing how the extension will appear to the user and how to use it
A concise description covering a) what the extension does and b) how to use it
High rating

Here's a nice example of an extension we recommended.

Readers' comments 7

Left under the original article, as archived.

tomassplatchWednesday, February 16, 2011 5:24:40 PM
some extensions appear twice (different language versions) in the "recommended" section, which looks wierd...
t7yangThursday, February 17, 2011 2:02:01 AM
Originally posted by tomassplatch:

some extensions appear twice (different language versions) in the "recommended" section, which looks wierd...

+1

This should be improved
Arnstein TeigeneThursday, February 17, 2011 8:39:57 AM
@tomassplatch, @t7yang: Language filtering is coming soon
tomassplatchThursday, February 17, 2011 9:25:44 AM
thanks, good to know. keep up the good work!
Manuel Andreas KuhnSaturday, February 19, 2011 8:36:19 PM
If the extension is recommended and there is an update submitted, is the update automatically recommended too?
Arnstein TeigeneTuesday, February 22, 2011 8:39:53 AM
Originally posted by timmi:

If the extension is recommended and there is an update submitted, is the update automatically recommended too?

Jup, as long as it's okey'd by the moderator
MyOpera team, please fix this!Sunday, February 27, 2011 11:05:09 PM
Are there any blogs or plans for blogs concerning the extension api itself and core changes affecting that? I was hoping this blog would be that, but the focus seems to be on talking about completed extensions.

I want to hear about the next steps for extensions and the api.