News Manager

[Angryboy]

This baby has come a long way, and its impressive that it can do what it does with such clean and concise coding. Well done, my good man.

Since you've been so good at filling out that last request (which did everything perfectly, might I add), I have a few other suggestions that you may consider adding if you have the time (but these needn't affect the final product you have now; everything at the moment is fine).

Pseudo-Slug Capabilities
If people want to rename their xml files, they do so manually. Granted, it'll be the more experienced (and more pedantic) user who'll be doing this, but perhaps a function can be added that acts like a page slug, so it doesn't need to be done from the back-end all the time. However I would understand your possible reasoning that in doing this it'll essentially be the same as a normal page.....hmm.....

Avatars
A small text-field that you enter the url for, and the output would give the avatar link within img tags. A simple tick-box field would enable/disable this function per-article, so it isn't a necessity on each page. This could be written in so simply, and the fact that other news/blog plugins for GS don't have the feature means that you could set this thing out with something unique yet desireable.

.htaccess-ibility?
Not sure how this one would work, but it would be a way of encouraging users to write their own htaccess rules. Sorta like how the settings page for the main site allows you to change things over to pretty-urls, it'd be cool to have a main 'Roog's News Manager Settings' page that lets you define the link structure from within GS. Again, don't even know if this'd be feasible, but I'm just putting it out there as a concept.

Thanks again for the work you've put in and I hope to see more great plugins from you in the future!