ToDo List 1-10-06

[Yankidank]

Here's the latest todo list that I have come up with. I have ordered it by what is needed most and what's the quickest to implement. i will probably make a few edits to add items to this list, but here's a good start for what needs to be done. If you are interested in taking on one of these items and developing it on your own please let us know so we can organize who's doing what. Please do your best to take care of the items higher up on the list first.

1. CSS and Image Updates, including a new logo. Perhaps additional default templates to choose from.
2. Edit language options via a browser (options menu). Feel free to use the CSS design provided with the install script. I would also like to be able to change templates via this menu.
3. Threaded Comments
4. Tagging (Folksonomy), must be able to enable/disable this from the options menu.
5. Ping Blog Aggregators
6. Better Search Capabilities (by category, parts of words)
7. Ability to physically delete stories, rather than discard
8. AJAX PliggSpy
9. Firefox Pligg Plugin
10. BlogIt! Feature
11. Weighted vote system with karma

[SpyMy]

I hope you guys keep up the good work and iron out all the bugs (like for example you can still submit with every field empty and it freaks out trying to look up the Title).

And the mysterious "1" trackback issue, I think you've fixed that already.

My additions todo list:

1) Fully move to CSS/Smarty templating and extract all HTML/CSS from the php files making it fully skinnable (Almost there I think) - Includes removing all code & images 'borrowed' from Digg.

2) Totally remove all labels from the php files so new language files can just be dropped in lang.en.conf lang.be.conf lang.jp.conf etc which specifies character set and all the labels in that language. People are always happy to help with translations.

3) Remove all references to meaname.net, things like the RSS are still using meaneme.net and the RSS description is in Spanish, all these things can extracted to the language file.

4) Search capability doesn't seem to work at all for me, so that needs improving, you can look at the way phpBB implements searches for ideas, it takes up more Database space (As it indexes words against posts/titles whenever you submit) but it makes for a very fast and accurate search.

5) Prevent multiple voting from different users with same IP address (More than a certain threshold anyway, perhaps set in admin panel - take into consideration NAT).

6) Decent FAQ - I can help with this, have already done quite a bit.

7) Tidy the code up generally, including structure, make it more modular and easier to customise/understand.

8) Karma system for comments implemented

9) Negative voting system implemented and effects published articles (too many negative votes will remove than to "Bad Articles" section or back to Queued.

10) Implement the friends system (There is already a table for it in the database)

11) Show who voted for the article, not just how many votes

11) More robust forms etc (Don't allow submission with an empty form)

12) Chicklet and code to allow people to put on their blog site (Pligg this article) which auto submits.

13) Correct RSS for correct page - e.g if you add RSS bookmark on Queued news page you still get Published news RSS

14) Auto generated Meta Description, from title of article or except from article and options in Admin to set Sitewide Meta Keywords and Index Description

15) Add Adsense management into Admin panel so you just put your code and it generates adds, options for adlinks at top, ad unit at top (banner or rectangle) and side bar.

16) Implement category deletion (Implement a default category, when a category is deleted all its posts are moved to default category) and allow article management so you can change category etc (Admin can't do this now, I think you already fixed it though).

17) Aswell as Top Stories and Top Users also have a Latest Comments page which shows all the latest comments grouped by Article.

18) Top Stories RSS currently isn't any different from the Published stories RSS

19) More search engine friendly URLs if possible instead of http://www.spymy.com/story/63/ http://www.spymy.com/story/Name_of_article same for categories and custom pages, you can see how wordpress does this as an example, they do it very well.

20) Store number of views for each article

21) Order 'Top Stories' page by Most Votes, Most Views or Most Comments

22) Have a 'Most Interesting Article' page where articles are ranked by a combination of votes, comments and views.

23) Built in version tracking something like phpBB so when you go the admin panel it checks if your version matches the latest Pligg and tells you when you should upgrade.

24) Store IP addresses for commentors and submitters against the posts that only admins/god can see.

25) Add ban feature by username/wildcard username/IP address

26) Show who's online and where in the admin panel.

27) Public users online feature, at least a count displayed.

28) Built in contact form, options for e-mail address etc in admin database (I've already done the contact form and can give it to you guys).

29) Add image verification for submissions aswell to stop bots being able to do it

30) Avatar for users! Can also integrate Gravatar that would be cool

31) When viewing a users posts etc "sent new" tab shows "unpublished news" at the last tab, while other tabs show "voted news" at the same position when you click it, it's a bit weird as of now.

32) Some counters that can be placed around in the templates/side bar like; Number of articles, number of comments, number of members (Optional published articles, queued articles, discarded articles etc, average karma whatever is cool)

I'm prediciting its going to be a headache for me for a while, upgrading to the new versions, until it's in a more modular state, then it'll be easier for everyone

This is more like a wishlist anyway to make Pligg perfect.

Some are very easy to implement some fairly difficult, hopefully with some time we'll be able to do them all.

[cryptkeeper]

Spymy, that is a very informative and consice(sp) writeup. I'm sure the developers will take your opinion into serious consideration.

[jackdaw]

Originally Posted by SpyMy

9) Negative voting system implemented and effects published articles (too many negative votes will remove than to "Bad Articles" section or back to Queued.

Bump. A working negative voting system is all that is left, for me to feel ready to publicly launch my site. The warning header in Digg, as seen here, is the one thing that makes me take that site seriously. So please, make the negative system work again

[savant]

nice todo list spy

just a note:
15) Add Adsense management into Admin panel so you just put your code and it generates adds, options for adlinks at top, ad unit at top (banner or rectangle) and side bar.

would this be google adsense or yahoo and the others.
best way would be to make something generic. if it can't be made. people can create installable modules so they can choose which one they need.

spymy: when you finish doing a feature, just post it in the forum, so every one can test and get it implemented into pligg. (you were going to do that anyway )

[DeathfireD]

Originally Posted by savant

nice todo list spy

just a note:
15) Add Adsense management into Admin panel so you just put your code and it generates adds, options for adlinks at top, ad unit at top (banner or rectangle) and side bar.

would this be google adsense or yahoo and the others.
best way would be to make something generic. if it can't be made. people can create installable modules so they can choose which one they need.

spymy: when you finish doing a feature, just post it in the forum, so every one can test and get it implemented into pligg. (you were going to do that anyway )

it would be nice to just have an input box where you can place your own ad code and it displays it in the middle top (under the banner) and an option for a second ad code box to display on the right nava bar. That way if your using yahoo or google all you have to do is copy and past in w/e code you choose then click apply and it ads the code to the right spots. If the box is empty then just not display anything at all.

[3dKiller]

Jackdaw,

Shakk posted his code for vote up/down awhile back. Here is the the forum link: http://www.pligg.com/forum/showthrea...highlight=vote

~3d

Originally Posted by jackdaw

Bump. A working negative voting system is all that is left, for me to feel ready to publicly launch my site. The warning header in Digg, as seen here, is the one thing that makes me take that site seriously. So please, make the negative system work again

[jackdaw]

Thanks 3d. But it is not so much the arrows up/down that I'm interested in, as a function that visibly warns users of questionable articles, and maybe even unpublishes these, or moves them to another section (nice thought... a 'questionable category'... will probably become the most visited )

Does Shakk.Us's patch provide this, or 'just' the up/down icons ?

[tiggman]

Ping Blog Aggregators

Is this in Pligg Beta 7? I can't locate it anywhere.