WordPress Extend Ideas

Move to next post from within edit screen

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:31:04 -0800

Seems I have to go from the Edit Post screen back to the list of Posts in order to choose another one to edit, even if it's the very next one in the list. Would be good to be able to move to the next Post in the list (up or down, newer or older) from within the Edit Post screen.

Area for notes in admin

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:31:04 -0800

It'd be grateful if there was a spot in the admin for plugins or editing pages that the admin can write notes to the other editor, authors and contributors members to view behind the scenes only. So if a page is to be edited only a certain way, a friendly "note" area will remind the other user to do or not do something in particular.

Will you have an over-50 Old Boy/ Masters division in the Las Vegas tournament?

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:31:04 -0800

I would like to play in this tournament, but am not sure what masters divisiona will be playing. It would be great if you could make it a little clearer what age divisiona will be represented at this tournament.

Google Search - AdSense autoprefill

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:31:04 -0800

WP is a really well optimised for Google, and a lot of traffic is coming from organic searches.

But let's face it, there is always also a good bounce rate of this traffic, and would make sense from a monetization point of view to be able to include in the post a Google Search from AdSense, that is auto prefilled with the keywords that user got on the blog.

In such a case, if he doesn't find what exactly he was looking for, he would have the option to click on search from withing the post to see more results from Google, and bloggers would also benefit from this lost traffic, as they will be paid from Adsense for search.

RSS "subscriber" list creation?

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:31:04 -0800

Hello all..

Just wondering, if someone could think of a way to "add" some php code to the RSS button on any site, that when clicked would then add the IP of that 'clicker' to a master list of subscribers?

In that manner we'd know 'where' such a click came from andhow 'many' subscribers we had, and 'when' they signed up too!

This is a rough approximation only I realize but something at least....

Jim

Plugin Stats: Per-Version Download count

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:31:04 -0800

Quite simply, it'd be nice if /extend/plugins/ showed the downloads for each tag pushed to svn, rather than just the global download count.

The existing stats makes it difficult to determine new installs vs. upgrades on the download counter.

Edit Box in "Add New Post" Sized/Styled by CSS of Theme

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:31:04 -0800

The object of a great wysiwyg editor is that what you create is as close to the final outcome as possible.

It would be great if the wysiwyg editor for creating a new post would style itself based upon the css sheet of the current theme.

Specifically, layout issues are problematic. When aligning left and right it can be difficult figuring out what size an image needs to be, or how many lines I need to have for my post to look right. Often it falls onto a lot of guess work.

Idea: Here's an idea

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:31:04 -0800

Fix your off-site authentication service!

I try to login yum-extender.org to post a message about a bug and it tells me 'ERROR: Invalid username.'; I use the http://www.yum-extender.org/blog/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword link trying to reset my password and it tells me 'bad username or email.' I come here and I can log right in (id est, after searching high and low for a place to login).

yum-extender.org is NOT the only site exhibiting this problem, by the way.

A 'preview' option would be nice, too.

Upload Abstraction Layer

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:31:04 -0800

An issue I have right now is I want uploads (image, file, etc) to go to a CDN (content delivery network). Moving static files away from the server hosting WP helps reduce load and CDNs geo-target to closest edge server. This is useful to speed up a site for heavy blogs especially for people who use WP as part of their business.

So far there are only two plugins and are specific to Amazon S3 (which uses their own API) but only works on the web interface and is optional (the user has to select it to upload to it). My bloggers mainly use Windows Live Writer which uses xml-rpc. So I had to add and modify code to core files to upload to the CDN.

It would be good to make like an abstraction layer for the uploads. This way various "drivers" can made (upload to the same server, FTP to another server or use a specific API like Amazon S3).

A base upload path should be a setting in the admin. So say if one switches from files on the server to a CDN. All he has to do is copy the same directory structure (basically the /wp-content/uploads/ directory) to a CDN and simply change the path setting. So domain.com/wp-content/uploads/ can switch to cdn.domain.com/ without any interruption or modification of posts.

Term Limits

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:31:04 -0800

Term Limits for all politicians should be voted on by the voters, not by Congress. How can this be achieved?

Implemented: Letting Users Ignore Comments From Trolls

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:31:04 -0800

Face it. Some commenters are trolls.
Would love to see an add-in where visitors could choose to ignore comments from whomever they choose and then, for those users, the "troll" comments would not appear in the comments section.

Implemented: Idea: Twiter-style + Old School

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:31:04 -0800

Do you have http://p2theme.com/, which allows you to easily and quickly add a short note in Twiter-style. But this theme does not have enough common features of your blog.

In a blog, you can create post, but there is no possibility to make small quick notes.

I think it will be convenient to combine these functions. To publish a Twiter-style post, make it as a http://p2theme.com, directly from the main page of my blog (if authorized). And if necessary, to create a full note, go to wp-admin/post-new.php and do it!

Implemented: Idea: "save" button on top of edit themes code page

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:31:04 -0800

Good evening everybody,

I usually change wordpress themes and plugins, and when I edit code the "save" or "update" blue button is always below the scroll, and I always have to scroll down the page...
Well, it would be great if the button could be repeated at the top of editing window...

I don't know if there's some layout plugin that yet have the ability to do this, but I'd like it very much.

Miles

The ability to age gate a post with a tag or category

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:31:04 -0800

The ESRB and other organizations require age gates to check and see if the person is 18 for some content like M-rated games and R rated movies. It'd be nice if there was the ability to add a category or tag to an article and make it so it asks the user's age and they enter their birthday and if it's above 18 they get in if not they are redirected. Naturally it'd need to use sessions or cookies so that once they did it once while they had their browser up they wouldn't need to do it again til they closed their browser.

Canonical Idea: Repo management

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:31:04 -0800

First of all I apologize for going idea crazy lately. I plan on getting into the core development soon, I am just finishing up setting up my local dev environment.

Anyway, my idea for maybe solving a part of the Canonical issue is adding repository management to the WordPress admin for plugins/themes. Maybe the current theme and plugin repos are the "general" repo entries, while the canonical plugins/themes are hosted on an entirely different svn server/group/user/uri ... something.
I am thinking kind of the way linux uses apt-get, yum, or up2date they are rpm repo managers. They are simply built overtop of the entire rpm system managing where that particular linux distro can look for and pull packages from.

This concept is used to separate out lets say core packages, supported packages, and unsupported packages. So that even though there are thousands of GNOMEs or KDEs, we know that the Ubuntu GNOME came from the Ubuntu repo and we shouldn't look for the Ubuntu GNOME on the Fedora repo. Helps with hosting, searching management, and open source distribution in general.

I am simply seeing it as an admin page that allows an administrator to add, remove, or edit svn repository locations that the built-in plugin and theme browsers use. These entries could also have meta to provide an identity to each location such as provider, location, logo (icon), license of authenticity ... whatever.

Extra options such as role management on per repository entry basis.
This way if a repo entry is categorized as an administrative only repo, that entry is not used by the plugin browser (no plugins from that repo are found) if another user with "edit_plugin" rights browses from within the WordPress admin.

And finally last but not least, color coding (along with the icon meta) could make the plugin and theme browsers much more searchable and controlled in terms of your average WordPress admin.

On another note: This may also be totally against WordPress policy, and I am sorry for not being sure before I say it. Essentially this could allow developers to host their own plugins and manage their own updates which would show up along side the WordPress repo plugins and so on. Or maybe there could be a warning if a user is using one of these repos, and to get rid of this warning a system admin could submit some sort of application to WordPress to become an authenticated plugin/theme host.

Ideally this idea could also be looped into the core updating beta testing system.

Idea: Enable or disable pages & links from summary page

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:31:04 -0800

When viewing the summary page of links it shows them if they are visible or not. It would be could if these can be changed on this front summary list rather than having to go and edit them individually.

The same could be said for various other fields/options that are highlight on the summary page, plus also being able to change to the categories etc...

It's all about click management - Keep the number or clicks to a minimum.

I guess the main jist of this post is to make as many options available to each post/page/category from the summary list without having to go into the full scale editing form

Great program by the way....

link tags

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:31:04 -0800

linking tags

If i tag "Obama", it also shows the post when I select the tag "Presidents" (but not the other way around)

If I tag a post sunshine that it also shows up in the tgs list of weather.

a bit like categories and subcategories, only that tags coukd have several ancestors instead of just one.

Application to monitor plugins/theme/Wordpress versions

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:31:04 -0800

As a person who has multiple Wordpress sites, I sometimes won't look at a site for a couple weeks (i know, bad me) only to find that 7 plugins need updating or I am a couple versions behind on a theme or Wordpress itself!

I am sure this is not a new idea, but somehow I would love to either go to a website, or launch an application that will reach out to all my Wordpress sites and give me a report of what is out-of-date.
I could then click a link/button and start my updates, either one at a time, or if I am feeling brave, all in one action.

It could even be extended to allow to do backups before doing the update?

That is my dream.