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Writing a Views 3.x Example Plugin

I'm posting this so I won’t forget it the next time I need to do something similar.  This is by no means a complete explanation of the new plugin architecture, it’s more of a quick list of gotchas.

1. Building a skeleton example plugin

You will need a module to implement a Views plugin.  Within that module, there are three items needed to create a minimal plugin:

Better Exposed Filters turns 1.0

Finally, a much delayed “official” release of the Better Exposed Filters module has been posted on drupal.org .  Regardless of the beta/dev designation since it’s introduction six months ago, BEF is already in use on about 1200 Web sites.  I had hoped to get this release out before DrupalConSF , but kinda blew it…