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25 May, 2004

Project List

Posted by: Jennifer In: Announcements

Just a side note about my plans – here's a list of what I plan on attacking and when.

1) Comment Subscription
This is an important enough feature I have here, (I think, anyway) that I feel warrants delaying my official move to WordPress until I have it working. Especially since the comments can sometimes be more important and informative than my actual posts!

Once that's done, I think I'm safe to transfer the blog to WordPress. All the other "simple" tweaks are done. Here's my plan for afterwards:

2) Comment show/hide
This will be a modification/add on to my existing "show/hide more" plugin.

3) Pagination-extra
Someone commented that they would like more flexibility about where the navigation for the pages go – so I'll probably make a second plugin that will allow you to do that. There will be a bit more code you'll need to add to your template to do that – but hopefull not much (maybe a line or two more)

4) Comment Hi-lite
This is strictly for my own personal use… as I said before, sometimes the comments here are more important than the post. And there are some comments that are more important than others. I want the ability to have certain comments (that I indicate) hilighted in some fashion, so it's easier for users to find when they're looking through page after page of comments.

I'll add on to this as I come up with more things or get more requests. Keep in mind that that first one is a DOOZY. LOL! There's a lot of layers to it – especially with users managing which posts they're subscribed to, and being able to maintain a "do not mail" list – so that I comply with the whole "can-spam" stuff. So it will probably take me awhile before I can move off that first step. But I figured I'd post the "project plan" in case you were interested.

7 Responses to "Project List"

1 | Mike

May 26th, 2004 at 3:46 pm

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Comment Highlighting

I have noticed a few sites have implemented some sort of comment highlighting for various reasons — mezzoblue.com's recent redesign and addition of comment highlighting has sparked some interesting comments. As a user, I do not find the practice to be beneficial in terms of locating these "special" comments. I suppose the benefit is relative to the number of comments visitors have made, but when we are talking about a hundred or so comments, even highlighted comments seem to get lost in the fray. Have you considered creating a “sticky section” or “hot comments” area where you can group all of the comments you feel are above the fold?

2 | Jen

May 26th, 2004 at 6:30 pm

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Woohoo, you know I'll be waiting for the comment show/hide! :)

It's seriously one of my favorite features on my site and the one that impresses the most people who like how much easier it makes browsing the comments.

Just keep remembering to eat once in awhile, in between all this great work you're doing. :)

3 | Trevor

May 28th, 2004 at 2:51 pm

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WordPress lets you have feeds for your comments on any entry – that's kind of like comment subscriptions, so I thought I'd mention it.

4 | Mark J

May 30th, 2004 at 4:03 am

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Jenn,
I've got expandable/retractable comments working on my site. Basically, I just modified my wp-comments.php file to do some logic. If the comments section is being called from an individual archive, the comments are displayed regularly. If the comments section is called from the main index or from an archive, the comments are displayed in a hide/show script. I'm using your plugin for displaying my entries with hide/show, and I just used that same JavaScript for my comments.

You can use the $single variable to do that testing, but what I've done is harnessed the unused $withcomments variable. At the beginning of my index.php file, I do some logic to determine if we're looking at the main index, a monthly archive, a category archive, etc… and then I can turn $withcomments on or off for each. If it is on, comments are displayed with hide/show JS, if it is off, you just get a comment link that goes to the permalink page.

Jenn, are you planning on writing a "subscribe to comments" script all by yourself? Unfortunately I had to drop that when I made the move, but I'd like to get it back, and I was planning on writing a script myself, when I have some time. But if you were going to do it, I trust your PHP skills more than mine. 😉

6 | Mark J

May 31st, 2004 at 8:55 pm

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Uh oh… don't tell Jenn. 😉

7 | Jason Stare

June 2nd, 2004 at 9:35 pm

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How about a wordpress plugin that'll delete unapproved posts x days after being submitted?

May sound a bit lazy, but it would help against mass spammers.

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