Plugin ideas
Ideas for plugin development:
- Emoticon: Adds emoticons to posts and comments when user writes colon and parenthesis :) or other text representations
- Sitemap: a plugin that will output a site map with an ordered list of pages and subpages for sites with lots of content pages.
- Post review: setup a specific user(s) to receive notifications of a new post made by a user and then have those posts reviewed and eventually published. It could work like this: if the user that enters a post is of certain role, then the post is set as draft (and perhaps marked for review in a custom field). The plugin will make sure that the user does not see the publish status by modifying the post panel. Then users of other higher role will see posts to review in a pod in the dashboard.
Pod plugins
- Calendar
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While thinking about tinyMCE, I would like to have an option to insert swf files. An enhancement to the editor would be to use SWF Object to play the videos. see http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/ for documentation.
This ties back to the JW FLV Media player http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Player that would allow you to upload your video files to play within your blog without having to use an outside service like youtube. I know my wife will not allow me to post our family videos on youtube as she is concerned about privacy issues.
1. Flickr plugin - Similar to current google analytics plugin
2. Twitter - Similar to current google analytics plugin
3. Lightbox (I have one started) Please see forums for alpha download
A few other ideas.
1. ability to set a mango page as the mainpage. This would be great for designers wanting to use mango for extended uses. Not just a blog
2. Ability to add [code] to your post or page without having to disable javascript :(
I also found this useful in my blog when I wanted to see how many times a photoshop brush pack or any other file had been downloaded.
This could be tied back to an even larger mango stats monitor. Like tracking views on pages or articles that would allow templates to include a "Most Popular Topics" category in their sidebar.
I second that!
~David
You can download from http://www.mangoblog.org/downloads/homeChooser_and_updates.zip
In addition to the plugin itself, you need a small update in PageManager.cfc, a file that I've included in the zip. I also included other updates, that are not needed for the plugin, but I thought it would be nice to have (part of version 1.2)
It may also be helpful to be able to approve a comment first before it is posted.
Feedback welcome!
Yes, I agree. I was also thinking that a plugin that uses this library would be great too: http://cfformprotect.riaforge.org/
Would love to know if anyone knows anything about such a plugin.
Steve.
1. Post and page counter. I believe wordpress already has this and I know it's not a huge task to create but it would be great if mangoblog would count each hit a post received and maybe display it in the list view of the admin.
2. Alert or site wide notification manager. Sometimes you need to broadcast a special bulletin across all your pages. Adding a special div to to the template is easy enough for most people but is sort of a headache if you do not have access to your sites code. Having something like that built into mango blogs admin would be a great utility when you really need it.
That said, I don't think adding a configuration point for the from address would be a bad thing.
That default email address, and server username and password can be configured in the config.cfm file. All email will be sent using that address and server information. However, that address can also be changed for comment notification in specific, from the settings page. The only email that uses the commenter's address is the blog author notification. If you don't like that, you can replace the SubscriptionHandler plugin with your own.
Its important to differentiate meta data for each page on a site or search engines see it as duplicate content and penalize it.
Thanks!
Mark Aplet on June 02, 2008
This may not be as much a plugin as much as it is a request for a new feature. Keywords and other popular metadata should be included in the admin under settings. That would be a great feature and keep people from having to carry over that code from template to template.
Please advice.
If you like to see opensearch plugin please visit.
http://www.thecfguy.com/page.cfm/mango-opensearch-plugin
I have submitted calendar for sidebar. Hope you like it.