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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.

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18 responses so far

  1. Mark Aplet, on May 27, 2008 at 11:29 AM said:
    Would like to have the TinyMCE pop up for links and photos to include the advanced tab set options like class names, titles, descriptions, rel, etc. They are included with the original download however the version that comes with mango has them disabled.

    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.
  2. Mark Aplet, on May 27, 2008 at 11:38 AM said:
    A few plugins that are common that could be automated through the admin would be

    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 :(
  3. Mark Aplet, on May 27, 2008 at 12:09 PM said:
    Something that I have started to develop was a download manager tracker. I have started a standalone download counter that tracks what files are being downloaded, how many times, the dates and by whom. I started this so I can tell when clients download files so I can either remove them from the server or know if someone is lying when they say they hadn't downloaded a file.

    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.
  4. Mark Aplet, on May 30, 2008 at 1:17 AM said:
    Another idea I had for a plugin is some sort of automated sitemap tool. I know there is a plugin already that will create an xml version for search engines. However I think a sitemap page using the generic.cfm page and outputing an ordered list of pages and subpages would be the best solution for sites with lots of content pages.
  5. David Crowther, on June 2, 2008 at 12:35 AM said:
    "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."

    I second that!

    ~David
  6. Mark Aplet, on June 2, 2008 at 8:09 AM said:
    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.
  7. Mark Aplet, on June 4, 2008 at 9:01 AM said:
    Something else that I have needed in the past is a polling system that could sit either in the sidebar when needed or in the blog post it's self.
  8. Mark Aplet, on June 7, 2008 at 10:22 AM said:
    Another item I think lacking from mango is a sidebar calendar module.
  9. Sami Hoda, on June 8, 2008 at 3:59 PM said:
    What about a simple feedburner add-on, which allows you to change the url of your feed?
  10. Mark Aplet, on June 8, 2008 at 4:44 PM said:
    I was just thinking the same thing earlier this week. :) Excellent idea!
  11. Laura, on June 23, 2008 at 12:54 AM said:
    Just to let you guys know that I've created the "Home Page chooser" plugin to be able to set a mango page as the main page.

    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)
  12. Mark Aplet, on June 23, 2008 at 8:39 AM said:
    Awesome! I know this will make many people happy for sure!
  13. Mark Aplet, on July 3, 2008 at 7:48 PM said:
    Something else I thought of that would be a neat addition is a download counter plugin. I built a custom solution for my site but it would be great if a plugin was available that would allow you to insert a download link in your post or page. The downloader would force a download of any file regardless of file type. In addtition, it could update a counter table that you could choose to display file downloads. I see this in wordpress blogs all the time where icons or other items have a line that reads "xxxx downloads so far" Great tool for hyping up downloadable products.
  14. Mark Aplet, on July 4, 2008 at 12:00 AM said:
    I think another great plugin for mango would be a sIFR module. Take a look here if your not already familiar with it. http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/sifr
  15. Joy M., on July 9, 2008 at 10:38 AM said:
    I would also love to see a sidebar calendar.

    It may also be helpful to be able to approve a comment first before it is posted.
  16. Adam Tuttle, on July 24, 2008 at 8:32 PM said:
    I've created a FeedBurner plugin, and posted it here: http://fusiongrokker.com/post.cfm/burnt-mango-mango-blog-feedburner-plugin

    Feedback welcome!
  17. Mark Aplet, on August 5, 2008 at 8:52 AM said:
    Thinking about CAPTCHA and how much it annoys me and others, I was wondering if there can be a plugin add to the "Remember My Informaion" plugin that would not display a CAPTCHA if the user was remembered as an OKAY poster. Or maybe it's not a new plugin but a mod of the existing one.
  18. Laura, on August 5, 2008 at 11:42 AM said:
    Hi Mark,
    Yes, I agree. I was also thinking that a plugin that uses this library would be great too: http://cfformprotect.riaforge.org/

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