Journal (Community Blog)

[DB8 MissingLink]

Here's an example of the user-interface.

[sabret00the]

oh i should be able to integrate something like that for 1.2c of the blog release

are there any other features you would like to see.

[spence2]

Yes, please .... if I am correct, your journal list displays the first 25 ... could you alter that to display them alphabetically and link to the next batch of 25, 25, 25, etc.

And the ability to alter it to display more or less than 25 per batch would be really great as well!

[sabret00the]

i'm actually redesigning the journalhome completely so i doubt you'll get that, however i'll try and work in something so that it will call up a complete journal list.

[DB8 MissingLink]

One more feature that would be nice. Some bloggers like to input entry for dates after they pass - so if you're away from the computer for a weekend, you can retrogressively upload the weekend's entries.

This would be pretty easy to implement, I think. Have the default setting be date-now, but have the option for the user to input their own date (maybe as a write-in, maybe as a drop-down menu).

here's what it looks like at live-journal. The values you see were auto-populated from the server, but they can be changed.

Thank you very much for doing this!

[spence2]

Originally Posted by sabret00the

i'm actually redesigning the journalhome completely so i doubt you'll get that, however i'll try and work in something so that it will call up a complete journal list.

Thanks! Any chance the list will be paginated in some form?

[DB8 MissingLink]

Hey, I'm sorry to keep nagging, but I'm thinking of more features which could make this one of the best hacks here.

If you could somehow set it up so that each users' blog could be accessed at a simple, unique url that would rock. I don't know if this is easy, but something like:

www.yourdomain.com/journal/username

which would point to their journal, probably just as a redirect page. This would make it easier for them to point other browsers to their blog, and build their reciprical link.

Ideally, admin could toggle this off and on, since they may want to direct traffic through their central forum to get to the blogs.

jEd

[memobug]

Originally Posted by DB8 MissingLink

Hey, I'm sorry to keep nagging, but I'm thinking of more features which could make this one of the best hacks here.

If you could somehow set it up so that each users' blog could be accessed at a simple, unique url that would rock. I don't know if this is easy, but something like:

www.yourdomain.com/journal/username

which would point to their journal, probably just as a redirect page. This would make it easier for them to point other browsers to their blog, and build their reciprical link.

Ideally, admin could toggle this off and on, since they may want to direct traffic through their central forum to get to the blogs.

jEd

That sounds like a simple task for mod_rewrite, not something you'd need a hack to do. I have done this to create dedicated URLs for user galleries and keywords, so I know it's possible.

Regards,

Matt

[sabret00the]

theirs a chance lol, i'll see gotta upgrade my forums (which will be this week) before i start working on this stuff.

[trackpads]

Any luck?

Thanks again for your work,

-Jason