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What is your strategy to find a high-quality plugin that solves your problem? I hate re-inventing the wheel, but I also hate wading through dozens of vague plugins descriptions that don't tell me whether the features I need are included, without deprecated methods or PHP or even security errors.

Do you have tips to get more out of the plugin repository? I made this question community wiki, so you can give one tip per answer and let the community vote the best to the top.

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I do not really look for good plugins. I look for plugins by good developers I know.

This approach ensures:

  • plugins are maintained
  • I have past experience with code by developer
  • in some cases plugins from same developer share good chunk of codebase or framework, which makes things much easier
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Interesting! How do you do this in practice? I assume it can't be a long list, or how do you keep up to date with new plugins your favorite developers write? Is your list published anywhere? – Jan Fabry Sep 13 '10 at 16:09
If plugins are in repository it is easy enough to bookmark all plugins by developer there. Otherwise generic RSS subscription to blog. :) It's not large or clearly defined list. Developers whose code I use most are Justin Tadlock (I am making child theme on his Hybrid framework) and scribu (solid and flexible OOP code, good shared framework inside plugins). – Rarst♦ Sep 13 '10 at 16:15
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