Everything you need to know about Mango pods - Part 2: Plugin Pods
In part 2 of Adam's series on how to create pods for your Mango blog, Adam explains how a plugin can show a pod. Using plugins for pods allows you to add as many pods as you want, and those are not dependent on the theme's built-in template pods.
Creating Mango pods - Part 1: Simple Template Pods
Adam has written a guide on how to create Mango pods. In this first part, he covers simple template pods. Those are pods that must be added to the skin template. A must read if you create your own skins.
Plugin development in Mango 1.3
Mango 1.3 includes some new features that will come in handy when developing a Mango plugin. The key new features are auto-installation, auto-copying of plugin assets files (scripts, images etc.) and a BasePlugin component (which you will have to include in your plugin folder to be able to extend from it).
You can read the details at Seb's post: Plugin development in Mango 1.3
Admin page layout in Mango 1.3
As part of release 1.3, Seb Duggan cleaned up the layout of the administration forms. If you develop a plugin that needs to show forms in the administration, you will find his post to be of interest. He explains how you need to structure your forms so that they will look good and be consistent with the overall administration style. Read more at Seb's blog post.
Ask a Grokker: Creating a Lightbox Slideshow
Adam Tuttle wrote a tutorial on how to use the Lightbox plugin and how to take advantage of Lightbox Slideshow feature.
Finding the current DB type in a Mango plugin
Adam Tuttle has written a very informative post explaining how you can find the database type of the current Mango install when developing plugins. Knowing that would be important if your plugin wants to store data in the database or retrieve data stored by Mango itself.
Ask a Grokker: Why can't I activate an inactive Plugin in Mango?
If you ever encountered this problem when activating or inactivating a plugin, Adam Tuttle explains a solution.
