Wishes for future versions of CuteNews (Page 2 of 13)

Get some understanding of the cutenews license GPL, then copy everything you damn well please, provided you follow the instructions given in the license. (Basically, any improvements you make to the codebase should be submitted back to cutenews, and the GPL license has to be included in your script with reference to the cutephp name, author(flexer) and url.)

Things I would like to see in CuteNews.

Visitor Stats.  I love graphs and numbers.  It would be neat to see this stuff.

Scheduled publishing.  <-- I think there was some talk about this, but can't find in the forums now.

Basic image/file uploader/ manager.  <-- I have a separate one but it would be nice to have it as a plugin.  If I read correctly this is going to be in the next version. 

Audit system.  < table showing who is making changes to what and when. 

Edit login pages <- I have seen a tutorial around.  But would it be possible to edit all the pages CSS. 

I think these should be modules/ extentions/ plugins (how ever you want to call them).  CuteNews is great because its so customizable.  Its a small upload and can build it with plugins for more advanced features.  I think that is great. 

Just my thoughts and ideas.

1. Cutenews has visitor stats.. stating how many articles you currently have, how many archives, comments, users... etc ... So much to choose from.  This is available as a seperate file on http://www.cutephp.com/cutenews/addons/

2. Scheduled posting is also referred as "Prospective Posting" which I and eruin have both slaved over hammer and tongs, him coding, me testing, and he has a system in Aj-Fork that can handle if you make a news post on monday for example, it won't appear on the website until Thursday at 6pm ... so its already in cutenews, but the Fork.

3. A new image manager is in place in AJ-Fork allowing greater use of the program, you can create directories, paths, you can even EDIT the image online! Minor adjustments like size, ratio, filesize etc...quality.

4. Dont like the idea of this

5. When eruin has 168 up he has customised "some" of it to be expandable with CSS, soon it will be 100% or close to that mark.  Depends on what the future holds mate.

*for more addons.. http://willyps.com/willyps/files/cutenews/

Possibly, although, when the admin section is complete people will NEED to learn CSS before they can tackle changing it, due to the fact its such an extensive tool and INCREDIBLY time saving

No problem @ The replies mate.  I prefer to give people a lot of information rather than a little...unless its a question thats been answered hundreds of times, then I give them a link to a corresponding post in the forum

Eh?

Sorry, I didn't read all three pages...

I manage a website for Boy Scout Packs, Troops and Venture Crews there are over 2000 active scouts attached to our District.

It would be nice to take my mail list down from yahoogroups or at least not use it unless someone finds it that isn't familar with our site. anyway I would like to to import/create a mail list for each catagory, we currently have only 4. This list would include email address of each person attached to the "group" i.e. Pack, Troop Crew and once the editors post a NEW news article there was a "send email" check box that would take the subject line and send it alnog with the "short story" to my Scouts and a link to the refering news page.

If this is hard to follow I am sorry my brain is dead this morning :blink: , bad salad last night.

check out http://www.cutephp.com/cutenews/addons/ for some hacks for cutenews 1.3.6 (some for aj-fork) and also http://willyps.com/willyps/files/cutenews/ for some more hacks.

I think the wordfilter is at willyps.

flexer didnt say you couldnt do it

if you do it and make a mysql version im sure lots of people here would like ya
as per the previous names of the cute news branched (aj-fork and p-fork) you might consider naming it sql-fork or something

i dont know sql AT ALL, but im going to consider writing some form of a better functions.php to work nicer when writing files and such

Not sure if this feature already exists, but I would like to see a 'sort-by' option, where by on a category specific basis, you can decide to arrange posts by:
date, reverse date (as we can do already)

and then in addition:
alphabetical (AZ/ZA)
by # views
by # comments
by average rating (if incorporated within ratings plugin)
by # referrals

plus:

you could open a popup, view all existing posts in this category, and place the new post you are creating in between any two current posts, by way of numbering perhaps.

bws: I think if you make CN db backended, you lose what it has in appeal, if I were comfortable with Sql and the likes, no offence, I would be using something like MT or Wordpress.

That would be nice. Editing templates is not a big deal but editing the admin etc sure is. Maybe cutenews can borrow the language thingie from Aj-FORK?