Ideas for plugin development:
- Related posts: Adds a list of related posts to the bottom of a post. User would choose the related posts from the post form while editing from the admin.
- Home Page chooser: 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. From the admin, user should be able to choose an already created page as the main "landing" page when the reader goes to the index. User should also be able to choose if any page should contain the blog/index page.
- 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.
- Comment moderation: This should probably be rolled into the core features, but until then, a plugin that sets all comments as not approved and lets the admin approve them from the admin.
Pod plugins
- Calendar
- Plain content. A plugin that will output any content the user enters via the admin. This can be used to output html/js provided by other sites, such as social networking sites, badges, or other.
- Twitter. A plugin that will show latest entries from a Twitter user.
Anti-spam
- Honeypot: integration with the Honeypot service
- CFFormProtect: Integration with CFFormProtect to prevent spam bots from exploiting the comment form
Have an idea? Write a comment with the plugin description at the bottom of this page.
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/