REQUIREMENTS: new BLOG features & criteria - PLEASE REPLY
Hi tikiwikers,
the blog feature of tikiwiki is powerful and has a nice integration to the other components like wiki. But to succeed against the large number of compeditors in the open source and the commercial market, we need a lot more "killerfunctions" within the blog-component and the whole tikiwiki-system.
Now I want to try, to mention some important features and criteria for a blog system. In my opinion it's important to give these functions to admins and users.
PLEASE REPLY to this topic if you have additional features, you mean they are needed and reasonable. If you (mostly developers of tikiwiki) know or mean, that a function / feature is implemented yet or can be realized throughout customizing, please reply too. THX.
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1.b categories for posts (assign, search, group by)
1.b navigation by categories (within a left/right module)
1.c trackback per categories
2.a viewing of comments (collabse) of a post within the list-view, depending on personal preferences (open, close, possible or not)
3.a custumizable ranking of posts (1..5, very nice - bad,...), the ranking idea must be define by admins
3.b nice reports about the ranking of posts (like surveys) per blog, for all blogs, for categories,...
4.a add a userdefined comment and the trackback URI by send a post per e-mail
5.a define the charset (utf, iso,...) per RSS-Stream / blog
6.a calender per blog (as left/right) to navigate time-dependent
6.b choose a timeperiod and view all posts of a / more blogs within this time-frame
7.a last changes per blog / all blogs (within a left/right module), customizable (per count, rank,, date,...)
7.b recent / last posts with the first x characters of the text in a module (per count, rank, date)
7.c last comments per blog / all blogs (within a left/right module), custumizable (per count, rank, date,...)
8.a censorship of words (for all blogs, certain blogs), admin defines the groups of words
9.a integration of a poll or a more complex survey in a post
9.b reports of polls / surveys of a blog
10.a reviewed and tested use of tools like w.bloggar (international too)
10.b interface to tools like Radio Userland
11.a mobile blogging (posting) per cell phones (WAP,SMS), PocketPCs,...
11.b posting per E-Mail to a Blog
12.a support of weblogs.com ping
13.a store posts as drafts and publish later (important if use a workflow to publish a post)
14.a store posts and define the timeframe to publish this post (like articles)
15.a easy use of predefined templates (HTML, CSS,...) from other systems like MoveableType or Radio Userland
15.b a template editor
16.a if viewing a blog the search should be always for blogs (exept a "complex search" or other predefined per admin)
17.a implementation of a blog-pilot (auto-pilot, remote control) (similar to a slideshow, automatic navigation, foreward, rewind, pause, play,...)
17.b admins and users can define a blog-pilot-route (depending on rights)
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I hope this will help to push your / our efforts in the right direction. More criteria will come in the next days.
Looking foreward to your feedback and extension.
paulap