Why Movable Type will be the death of me, I swear.

I love Movable Type. Why? Because when Movable Type doesn't do exactly what I want it to do, it is crazy-easy for me to extend. When Movable Type lacked a good user interface for managing lists of books, CDs, DVDs, and more, I built BookQueueToo. Then when I wanted to write reviews about those books and CDs I upgraded BookQueueToo and created Media Manager. When I found an awesome set of templates to make incredible looking Photo Galleries, but then discovered that setting up the templates was cumbersome, I wrote a plugin to automate the process. And finally, when MTAmazon got so antiquated that new users could no longer use it, I upgraded it.

And if Movable Type wasn't so easy to extend by giving me a framework for building custom objects that can be automatically stored in all of the databases that Movable Type supports, if Movable Type didn't give me hooks into the user interface without the need to hack HTML, if Movable Type didn't come equipped with the tools necessary to save me from having to write complicated CGI applications, if Movable Type didn't make everything so easy, I would have stopped long ago.

Plus, the more plugins I build, the more I learn about Movable Type, about Perl, and about extensibility. And the more plugins I build the more fun I have, and thus the more plugins I build. It is a vicious cycle that will one day catch up with me. But in the meantime, I am curious... what plugins do you want to see added to Movable Type? And maybe, just maybe, someone will build it for you!