Planned Features and Bug Fixes
(alternative title: 40+ reasons why you should become a paying subscriber to bloghorn)
This is a list of planned feature changes/additions and bug fixes to be completed before a version 2.0 release. Email suggestions and bug reports to support@bloghorn.com.
User Management:
- Add ability to self-serve create registered guest users.
- Allow administrators to change user account type (e.g. change an editor to an administrator)
- Access to self-serve management for editors and guests.
- Fix user account image icon (missing image)
Skins/Templates:
- Add ability to create custom templates other than the 5 types provided.
- Create more skins
- Allow users to publish their own skins for others to download
- Write a better template editor (WYSIWYG?)
- Fix chatterbox incompatibility
- Break apart the administrative toolbar into seperate tool buttons
- Add easier "links" management via template item
- Allow more "powered by" logo options
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Add "watchlist" template item to display updates of other blogs (e.g. "Last 10 blog updates")
Level Differentiation:
- Add advertisements for non-subscribed (free) users.
Create source licensing option
Weblog Entries:
- Allow users to specify whether comments are allowed on a post per post basis.
- Allow spaces and other non-friendly characters in subject names.
- Write ActiveX control (optional use) for drag-n-drop entry import
- Create weblog export template for exporting weblog entries to xml, csv, etc
- Create weblog import templates for importing entries from other popular blog tools
- Write a WYSIWYG blog editor for non-IE browsers
- Create email notification option for both new weblog entries and new comments
Documentation:
- Create documentation for subject feature
- Create documentation for photo album feature
- Add more documentation with examples on skin customization.
- Create documentation detailing other compatible blogosphere tools
- Create documentation on session enumeration
- Write documentation on new template tools (e.g. <BLOGHORN_LASTCOMMENTS />)
- Create documentation for "My Files" (level 50 feature)
- Improve "My Pictures" documentation
- Insert "technical notes" into docs (e.g. "how the url parsing engine works")
Pictures:
- Fix "Mark as Photo Album" on directories with subdirectories.
- Write ActiveX control (optional use) to allow drag-n-drop image uploading.
- Add "Show all Photo Albums" feature
Administration:
- Add more statistical reporting (i.e. trending, popular pages, popular search terms)
- Resolve names in session enumeration
- Create system for notifying users of new features, planned maintenance times, etc
Security:
- Create mechanism to prevent comment flooding
- Create mechanism to kick overzealous web spiders and robots
API:
- Add support for popular weblog API
- Integrate with existing client-side weblog management applications
Platform:
- Port to unix derivative/mysql/apache/php - evaluate performance
- Create binary packages to allow non-hosted bloghorn subscriptions
- More aggregate statistics (i.e. top 5 prolific bloggers, all published photo albums, etc)
