[geeklog-devtalk] Re: Geeklog 1.3.10 Modifications for consideration

[Turias]

I think it would be great to see this functionality incorporated into the
core, Blaine.  I have a couple of thoughts after reading your e-mail.

1) It would be really nice to activate and deactivate this functionality
through a config.php flag.  There are always users on the forums who don't
want their story editors to become bloated with options they never use. 
Providing a flag would be an easy way to remedy this without forcing users
to hack template files.

2) Is an auto-delete option really a good idea?  I can see people
accidentally deleting content with no good way of getting it back.  This
seems dangerous.  It's generally good practice in CMSes to never delete
content, anyway.  I think it might be better to force the site admin to
create an archive topic that is hidden to most users and then archive
everything they would normally want to delete into that topic.

3) There have been requests for two types of archiving.  First, people
have said they would like to archive content off of the frontpage.  Also,
some users have wanted to archive content from one topic to another (like
from a What's New topic to a more specific topic).  Does your modification
do both of these?  If not, it would be nice to add that for 1.3.10.

- Turias



> I would like the following modifications considered to be included in the

> nex release and am posting to get any feedback.

>

> Modification 1:

>   Extend the Story Editor to also be able to auto-expire article content

>   Stories can be optionally moved to a "Archive" topic or deleted

>   Site configureable "archive" topic

>   Able to setup a Archive themed template for stories as well

>

>   See attached image of the modified story editor

>

> Modification 2:

>    Extend the Block Editor to be able to specify Start and End Dates for

> blocks to show

>

>

> Blaine