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by jcr 3981 days ago
For feedback, you want "Show HN" rather than "Ask HN" so it will get listed under "show" in the HN top menu. The rules for doing a "Show HN" submission are here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

I don't use WordPress, so I won't be able to help much. One thing I did notice on your site was the use of the word "opinionated" to describe your plugin. (i.e. "Pluginator is an opinionated scaffolding tool"). I know what a scaffolding tool is, but I do not know what an "opinionated scaffolding tool" is. The term "opinionated" tends to have an aggressive and negative connotation/association that you might be better off avoiding.

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> The term "opinionated" tends to have an aggressive and negative connotation/association that you might be better off avoiding.

Opinionated in software is not negative to me. You know going in the author designed the ___ to fit his preferred workflow/goal/stack. For example, opinionated might mean: Doctrime ORM, LESS, and Bootstrap. If he left out the opinionated part I would assume it works with many various things where I could pick Doctrine, Eloquent, Propel etc and choose between LESS or SASS and Foundation vs Bootstrap.

This is much like yeoman: http://yeoman.io/

> Through our official Generators, we promote the "Yeoman workflow". This workflow is a robust and opinionated client-side stack, comprising tools and frameworks that can help developers quickly build beautiful web applications. We take care of providing everything needed to get started without any of the normal headaches associated with a manual setup.

Thanks Chrisan
We updated the title from "Ask HN: Product feedback & advice for a WordPress tool, WP Pluginator".
Thanks sctb
Thanks jcr. Newbie here.