TIDEngine News/Blog Manager

[yojoe]

Thank you for response. I will try to solve your doubts.
You add directly to page content over Admin Page, not directly in template. I did not make it that way.

I don't follow.
Invoking <?php tide_show_news(return_page_slug()); ?> shouldn't be done in template ?
All chars like "<" are changed to entities by ckeditor, thus I didn't believe that pasting php code will work just like that

This should not be problem. I add user to choose SEPARATOR. This was SEO solution all news in document root.

Could you elaborate a bit about "separator" option ?
Can't find anything about that.

There are no problem with dates as far as I know. All looks as version 1.2 ????

I might just mislooked the date. Dates work fine on mine theme page.

btw. after I renamed the page, to which I already added couple news, they disappeared in news management panel. I had to manually change the name of the directory in which files were saved, and - I don't remember if I had to - but open resave the news again.

Mate This should include changing GetSimple core, and I'm not Core Dev. I could find other solution.

Maybe already mentioned idea with categories assigned ID would solve that ?
Where directories would just be created with something like news-categoryID, and all settings about them could be taken from xml file.

Is it already possible to invoke the function with parameters to format outputted data in the way I like ?
For example showing in a box last 3 entries, formatted in the way: header, date, excerpt, read more, and a link to the page with all news at the bottom ?

That is not problem.

AWESOME !

4. hooks to other plugins
I've noticed that non of most popular plugins doesn't work with tidengine.
It would be great if news plugin allowed to use i18n gallery, and search (this one has an api).

I will do that must check a little. I try for now to make Stable Plugin.

awesome again

Considering most of above points, this would be a base to allow multilingual, dynamic articles.
It surely needs some tweaks for a custom url structure along with rewriting links.

Url structure is not problem (to implement your idea). My concept was different, but I will add your ideas.

Please, be more specific. Plugin description mentions only about features and usage.
A short roadmap or changelogs would shred more light on things you plan to make with your plugin

5.
the design part
Since news summary isn't stripped from html tags, it allows adding thumbnails.

Wht that sould be a problem you have CKEditor. Or you means fixed News thumbnails???

mmmm..I didn't even think about dedicated option for news thumbnails.
It could be a great feature, but should definitely offer image resizing.

And about creating categories. Binding them to pages, and then choosing categories from dropdown list during news creation, would be fantastic. If a website has >30 pages, choosing the right one from dropdown might be challenging

Means multiple Categories on one page. That shouldn't be a problem.

I didn't thought in that way, but it's a great idea !

Thanks for your Response. I will try to improve most things. More response are welcome. If I know users needs I will write better code.

no prob
I just like the concept and realization, especially news management, as it seems to be clear and simple.


Today I wanted to test tidengine on my BB theme demo page, and stepped in several other problems with this plugin.
Firstly I forgot to backup .htaccess file before installing tidenews.
After I realized that and looked inside the .htaccess, I enountered a complete mess.
I had additional, custom rewrite rules,a nd tidengine added its own rewrite rules 3 times in diffetent places.
This saying plugin should make a backup of htaccess file before adding own rules, or inform the user to manually add rules and list them. Whereas a checkbox "do not add rewrite rules automatically" would be also great, because not everyone will have FURLs enabled. From the other hand, advanced users may have custom rewrite rules like me, and an unpleasant surprise might await them.


One thing I forgot to mention was socialnetwork share functionality.
You implemented sharethis but there's no way to customize the media, thus all popular are being shown as a default option. Options to customize it would be great.
I'm also not sure what is the purpose of twitter settings inside tide options ?