Blog

Status/RoadMap

We have basic blogs, with flexible permissions, trackback pings, RSS feeds, etc. Blogs need a bit of work on features, and a lot of work of UI & stability. Tiki articles are similar and much more flexible and powerful.

A project: Blog Revamp

TikiFestNY Notes (Jan 18th, 2010)

Open

RatingSubjectSubmitted byImportanceEasy to solve?PriorityCategoryVolunteered to solveCreatedLastModif Comments
(0) Blogs: Improve informationhman5525
  • Feature request
2022-02-232022-02-230
(0) Sefurls missing from application menuJonny Bradley5735
  • Consistency
2023-05-162023-05-160

Pending

RatingSubjectSubmitted byImportanceEasy to solve?Priority CategoryVolunteered to solveCreatedLastModifComments
(0) "Allow others to post to this blog" should be possible to omit as an option when creating blogsAl248
  • Feature request
  • Easy for Newbie Dev
2006-01-022021-10-051
Bsfez-05 Oct 21
(0) Can't remove picture ,can't turn to next page..samfc9 high872
  • Error
  • Less than 30-minutes fix
2009-07-162010-01-141
Chealer9-14 Jan 10
(0) submit new blog entry to mailinglistramack525
  • Feature request
2007-02-082007-07-090
(0) Blog comment notificationrpg25
  • Feature request
rpg2007-07-072007-07-076
coflynn-16 Aug 11
(0) Categorize individual blog postsrpg25
  • Feature request
rpg2007-07-072007-07-072
goj-06 Oct 09
(0) Make Blog Post link more context-sensitiverpg25
  • Feature request
rpg2007-07-072007-07-070
(0) Track number of reads by specific blog post IDRick Sapir / Tiki for Smarties525
  • Feature request
2007-10-232021-11-021
Bsfez-02 Nov 21
(0) Adding images to blog posts is no way as intuitive as it should beMarc Laporte25
  • Usability
2008-01-272008-10-240
(0) Blogs: Visits counter remains 0 despite actual visits.hman5525
  • Bug
2020-05-082022-02-242
natokpe-24 Feb 22
(0) Trackback spam: better protection and easier to cleanupMarc Laporte420
  • Error
  • Usability
  • Feature request
2007-04-292007-11-230
(0) Scoring feature causes intermittent blog access error in v1.9.8.3Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod420
  • Error
2008-01-222008-02-040
(0) Last blog posts title is not consistent - needs to be Bold and Underlined.Dumarest315
  • Consistency
2008-02-202008-02-200
(0) The field with the smilies does not appear in places where they should be availablezorp315
  • Usability
2008-05-272008-05-270
(0) OpenMicroBlogging specificationMarc Laporte315
  • Feature request
2008-11-082008-11-080
(0) Blog options WYSIWYCA (especially trackbacks)Marc Laporte210
  • Error
  • Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site
2007-11-302007-12-240

Closed

RatingSubjectSubmitted byImportanceEasy to solve?PriorityCategoryVolunteered to solveCreatedLastModif Comments
(0) Wiki: CODE block may not contain "$0"BillyTheChip630
  • Error
2005-06-032005-10-050
(0) Can't delete blogs or blog postsDennis W. Disney525
  • Error
2005-05-102005-10-051
omegaworks-23 Feb 09
(0) Tiki-Mailin drops email body?RobKelley630
  • Support request
RobKelley2005-10-282005-12-224
RobKelley-22 Dec 05
(0) Broken RSS Feed on post leveljhwheuer840
  • Error
jhwheuer2006-01-142006-01-140
(0) Plugins broken in Blog in 1.9.2Danny Staple735
  • Error
Danny Staple2006-04-232006-04-230
(0) RSS should have permissions checkingmrisch525
  • Error
mrisch2006-06-022006-06-070
(0) Creator text box missing when creating blog in tiki-edit_blog.phpdthacker840
  • Error
  • Usability
2006-11-262006-12-030
(0) WYSIWYG in blogs is broken in BRANCH-1-9735
  • Error
2005-04-222007-01-060
(0) Blog: WYSIWYG doesn't work in IE, ok in FirefoxMarc Laporte315
  • Error
nyloth2007-05-052007-05-280
(0) Links produced by RSS module for blogs do not work.Susan Chambless315
  • Error
2006-05-102007-07-092
marclaporte-09 Jul 07
(0) Comments: anonymous editors must input anti-bot code:Marc Laporte525
  • Feature request
sylvieg2006-04-152007-12-256
mrisch-25 Jun 08
(0) Mark blog entry as private doesn't workGary Cunningham-Lee525
  • Feature request
luciash d' being 🧙2006-02-222008-04-247
oys-25 Nov 09
(0) Users (without admin perms) are able to create blogs in other user's namezorp630
  • Feature request
  • Patch
2008-05-272008-05-291
ang-29 May 08
(0) Blogs don't show any headingszorp525
  • Feature request
2008-05-302008-06-071
zorp-07 Jun 08
(0) Users able to post to all blogs - confirming and extending previously reported bug by otherszorp525
  • Usability
zorp2008-05-262008-07-220
(0) updates to lang/hu/language.phpmstef1 low5
  • Patch
mstef2006-08-182008-10-050
(0) Blog post titles truncated after 78 chars. aprox.Xavi (as xavidp - admin)5840
  • Error
2005-09-272008-10-050
(0) New blogpost using wysiwyg editor adds a lot of empty lines to the beginning.Fragbeestje210
  • Consistency
2008-06-252008-10-051
superdave-01 Feb 10
(0) Comments that must be approved before being postedMarc Laporte525
  • Feature request
nyloth2008-02-212008-10-061
mrisch-04 Jun 08
(0) All users can post in private blogsblacklily825blacklily82007-09-072008-10-064
pkdille-06 Oct 08

Interested community members

LoginFull NameInterested in features LastModif
thessTed HessBrowser Compatibility
Wiki (page view, edit, history, rename, etc)
Blog
MyTiki
Category
All / Undefined
Comment
Menu
Date and Time
Inter-User messages
Content template
~Backup
Dynamic Content
Custom Home Page and Group Home Page
Debugger Console
Group
Permission
Profile Manager
Perspectives
28 May 10 18:58 GMT-0000
ametteAlexander MetteBlog
All / Undefined
External Authentication (LDAP, AD, PAM, CAS, etc)
Performance / Speed / Load / Compression / Cache
TRIM
21 May 10 19:07 GMT-0000
sylvieBlog
Calendar
09 May 07 19:45 GMT-0000
eclvvinBlog
Trackers
Calendar
Forum
Spreadsheet
Friendship network (Community)
Task
Performance / Speed / Load / Compression / Cache
Tags
Group
Tell a Friend / Social Bookmarking
Contact (address book)
Workspace
01 Feb 10 22:16 GMT-0000
luciluciash d' beingWiki (page view, edit, history, rename, etc)
Blog
Image Gallery
Comment
Theme: Look & feel, Styles, CSS, Theme Control Center
WYSIWYCA (What You See is What You Can Access)
WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get)
Wiki Plugin (extends basic syntax)
Accessibility
i18n (Multilingual, l10n, Babelfish)
Meta Tag
Site Identity
22 Jul 06 19:19 GMT-0000
CyrilCyril GallantWiki (page view, edit, history, rename, etc)
Article
Blog
Trackers
MyTiki
Category
Comment
Menu
Theme: Look & feel, Styles, CSS, Theme Control Center
Wiki Plugin (extends basic syntax)
Modules
Site Identity
Search engine optimization (SEO)
Wiki Syntax (text area, parser, external wiki, etc)
Group
Permission
Workspace
Perspectives
11 Nov 10 21:43 GMT-0000
changi67Jean-Francois B.Database MySQL (MyISAM)
Blog
File Gallery (elFinder or standard UI)
i18n (Multilingual, l10n, Babelfish)
Gmap (Google Map)
Logs (system & action)
07 Sep 09 11:37 GMT-0000
JyhemJean-Marc LibsBlog
Trackers
Accessibility
25 May 12 00:21 GMT-0000
ShowCaseSupport@projectashenfire.orgArticle
Blog
MyTiki
Image Gallery
Forum
PDF
Mods
Accessibility
Modules
Database independence (Non-Mysql, ADOdb Postgres, Oracle, etc)
HTML page
Notepad
Custom Home Page and Group Home Page
Admin Interface (UI)
Edit interface (UI)
Accounting
Addons
Scheduler
Packages
08 Apr 19 06:17 GMT-0000

Other notes


Nelson Ko once wrote:
I don't have time right now to do something detailed. But to get the ball
rolling, these are the features that are needed:

1) Users must be able to be designated as individual blog owners.

2) Blog owners must be able to admin blogs that they own but they are not
necessarily global blog admins.

3) Other users (i.e. tiki groups I suppose) must be able to be set by the
blog admin (whether global or individual blog) to have different
permission levels at the individual blog level (i.e they can be author in
one blog, but moderator in another blog).

4) Blog commenting should be a separate permission from wiki commenting
etc... all other commenting, and should be able to be set at the blog
level as well.

5) Blog moderating is necessary. Something like the article moderation
system but for blogs. This must respect individual blog ACL, see no. 3
above.

6) All of the above must be enforced using something other than the Tiki
category system, because the category system is still needed to categorize
blogs in the normal way.

7) Free tagging must be available for blogs. This includes tagcloud. This
is to be separate (i.e. in addition to) Tiki categories. It will be nice
to enable personal tags (i.e. creation of tag cloud that compose of only
one's personal interests) as well.

8) Spam protection, not just Captcha but something backend based on IP,
repeated posts/whatever algorithm should be available to handle both
trackback and comment spam. See http://akismet.com/

9) Blogs should support XHTML, microformats, and allow structured
blogging. See http://structuredblogging.org/

10) Something like reblog will be nice. See http://www.reblog.org/


Ricks99 added:
Thanks for asking! Many of mine are the same as what you've already got:
- Better CAPTCHA support for anonymous postings/comments. Also need a better way to manage Trackback Ping SPAM.
- Automatic submission/ping support for major sites (Technorati, Feedster, etc.).
- Structured blogging support
- Assign polls to Blog entries (for rankings, like in wiki pages). Or some other rating system. Something similar to Digg.
- I like the permissions suggestion. I see three blog-level permission settings: Admin (Tiki admin/controls everything, Owner (Admin a specific blog), Contributor (Can post to a blog).

My biggest concern, though, is that the blog interface (both contributor and reader) is u-g-l-y. I know that everyone has their own opinion when it comes to "what looks good" and Tiki has unlimited theme flexibility, but IMHO, the default blog interface (http://tiki.org/tiki-view_blog.php?blogId=26 ) looks bad and is confusing to use.

I'll be the first to admit that my initial redesign attempt (http://www.keycontent.org/tiki-view_blog.php?blogId=1) isn't great either. Better themes (http://themes.tiki.org/tiki-view_blog.php?blogId=1) help, but it is still....I don't know.... "messy" looking. Does that make sense?


Adding an image in the blog should use the new "pick from file gallery feature" and the old way should be discontinued


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