vBulletin Blog: Feature Request List Thread

[Grover]

Is this how it is supposed to behave? I would expect the entries to be completely invisible: really fysically deleted. Since you as the blogowner are in fact the Moderator/Webmaster of your own blog, you would maybe expect the same functionality that you have with forumthreads/postings : a non-fysical deletion or a fysical deletion, so you can undelete the item in the future if you wished to.

I just reported a bug. I also can't seem to find a way to soft-delete entries / comments, but it should be possible somehow, reading other people's post inside the bugtracker.

Okay, new functionality for this is considered now : see this (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/project.php?issueid=22854) bugreport.

I think we need to add another permission. Right now, blog owners can only soft delete their entries. We need to split the "Can delete own entries" into "Can Soft Delete" / "Can Physically Delete".

Great!

[Grover]

Further testing the blog from a user perspective... :). I do not know if this has been suggested before, but I noticed the following when I clicked on 'Advanced Search' and then wanted to fill in a username in the field 'Blog Posted By:' :

- there is NO 'ajax' autosearch (or whatever it's called) on that field. So you don't get a handy list of username(s) like you do when you want to PM someone for example.

Wouldn't it be a good idea to include such functionality (which is really very handy throughout the vBulletin product) here aswell?

You see when you fill in 'Freddie' in that field vBulletin says : 'Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms'. But when you fill in the complete name 'Freddie Bingham', you do get a result. Well... the benefits of an ajax autosearch/list are known.

[Grover]

Okay, regarding my suggestion above I tried to fill in 'Freddie*' in the field 'Blog Posted By:'. I tried using a wildcard (you never know ;)) and that resulted in the following message:

---------------------------------------------------


The following errors occurred with your search
Invalid User Specified
You must enter some valid search criteria.---------------------------------------------------

1: Alright, point taken. ;)
2: Okay, but what ARE valid search criteria? If you (vB) say it's not valid, then please explain to the user what IS actually valid. That is -again- more userfriendly.

Well... all this becomes less important anyway if the field would support ajax autosearch lists of usernames. :p

[Ohiosweetheart]

I don't know if this has been stated, but the ability to make each blog entry private, viewable to all, or only viewable to friends, like MySpace does.

Also the ability to choose colors for your blogs, like background colors, heading colors, and background image (once again like MySpace does).

Yes thats the ultimate one ive suggested also.
We've all been asking for this.

[Grover]

Testing the user-experience continues.... :)
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I just realized this :

- I go to someones blogentry,
- I write a comment using the Quick 'Reply/Comment' editor but I realize I need the advanced editor during writing so....
- I click on [Go Advanced] to continue writing my comment.

The problem I experience is this : when you write a comment using the quick editor, you see the blogentrie above you so you can see the text you are replying/reacting to. No problem there. But when you decide you want to use the advanced editor.... you can NOT see the blogentrie anymore! The advanced editor takes you to a new screen where the blogentrie is not visible , so you loose context. Often I find myself using the advanced editor and wanting to go 'back' to the blogentrie to see what I am reacting/replying too.

IMHO I believe this can be improved. It's not so 'advanced' that you loose the visibility of the source you are reacting too when you click on [Go Advanced]. :)

[Grover]

Another suggestion is this:

I want my members to purchase paid subscriptions in the future (if vBulletin ever supports the great iDeal for the dutch market that is). So I need ways to stimulate my members to purchase them.

What I think would be a great thing, is if we had the possibility to limit the functionality of the Blog. I want to encourage my members to use the Blog. So do I offer them the Blog by paying for a site-subscription? So only paying members can have a Blog and all the others can't?

No. I want to encourage all my members to use it, so I will offer it to all of my members for free. But... ofcourse I also want to encourge them to financially support the site. The chicken and egg thing. ;) So I was thinking... wouldn't it be a solution to have the option to limit the use of a blog to a certain amount of blogentries? So a user can post 5 blogentries and that is it. If he/she wants to post more, he/she needs to purchase a paid subscription! That way we let people 'taste' the possibilities of the Blog so you encourage them to use it... and after they have tasted it and like it... you encourage (may I say force :p) them to pay for it!

I think this is a brilliant idea, if I may say so myself. ;)

[Michael2]

I think having them pay for additional entries would backfire. This is the way I look at it... most people have blogs and if they don't they can get a better blog elsewhere. They're basically doing you a favor by adding content/pages/ad impressions.

[Grover]

I think having them pay for additional entries would backfire. This is the way I look at it... most people have blogs and if they don't they can get a better blog elsewhere. They're basically doing you a favor by adding content/pages/ad impressions.

In the Usergroup Permissions of vBulletin we can set all sorts of limitations on the vB functions, so we can use Paid Subscriptions to give paying members more functions. Which is a great feature. I assume the only Usergroup permission we are going to see with vBlog 1.0 is : [Can Use Blog : Yes/No].

But when you look at the vBulletin forum-permissions, you can control things more in depth. For example the Private Message Permissions. You can set the Maximum Stored Messages: If you set this to 0 users from this usergroup will not be able to use private messaging.
So you can disable it completely for a certain usergroup, but you can also set an amount for the stored messages allowed.

I know PM's are a whole different system then a Blog, so maybe you are right about backfiring, I don't know really. What I do know however is that the majority of my members does not have a blog on the web. That's why I am a little afraid if they will even use my vBlog actually, but ok. But imagine my vBlog will be a success and people want to use it in favor of a personally owned blog elsewhere on the web. And when they also want to financially support my non-profit health-organization it (having a setting for maximum amount of blogentries) could prove to be a working thing.

That's why I request it as an option. If it doesn't work for your particular site, you can turn it off.

[Grover]

Okay, a new vBlog version is now running on vbulletin.com (I found out thanks to a blogentrie from Floris).

It's seems that this (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1402643&postcount=251) functionaility is in now. There's now a clear indication that you are Soft-deleting an entry or comment. But apparently it is not possible at the moment to Physically delete a blogentrie or comment? I guess those permissions are not available on vbulletin.com but we can set it on our own sites.

And another thing is the fact that I can Undelete a soft-deleted comment, but it is not possible to Undelete a soft-deleted entry : why is that?

[Wayne Luke]

I assume the only Usergroup permission we are going to see with vBlog 1.0 is : [Can Use Blog : Yes/No].

One should really learn not to assume. Since when have we provided such lackluster permissions as above?

Blog General Permissions
Can Manage Blog Comments
Can Send Pingback/Trackback
Can Receive Pingback/Trackback
Can Search Blogs
Can View Own Blog
Can View Other's Blog

Blog Post Permissions
Can Post New Blog Entries
Can Edit Own Blog Entries
Can Delete Own Blog Entries
Can Upload Attachments
Can View Attachments
Follow Blog Moderation Setting
Allow Smilies
Allow BB Code
Allow [IMG] Code
Allow HTML

Blog Comment Permissions
Can Post Comments to Own Blog
Can Post Comments to Others' Blog
Can Edit Own Comments
Can Delete Own Comments
Follow Blog Comment Setting (moderate if no)
Allow Smilies
Allow BB Code
Allow [IMG] Code
Allow HTML

Plus you can still add your own permissions using plugins and vBulletin's bitfield system just like you can for other aspects of vBulletin.

[Grover]

One should really learn not to assume. Since when have we provided such lackluster permissions as above?

Dear Wayne,

I didn't meant it the way you perceived it. But I understand that you did, since I didn't make it clear enough. I just meant to say (with the example) that we could propbably only control the access to a Blog and not set a limit on the ammount of blogentries. Ofcourse there will be different ways to control the access (like you have showed now): so my example to express what I meant was a little unhandy indeed. Sorry for the confusion.

Thanks for showing the actual permission we will have at hand,

(and although my example was a little confusing... my believe is that people have the right to make assumptions on anything btw)

[---MAD---]

Another suggestion is this:

I want my members to purchase paid subscriptions in the future (if vBulletin ever supports the great iDeal for the dutch market that is). So I need ways to stimulate my members to purchase them.

What I think would be a great thing, is if we had the possibility to limit the functionality of the Blog. I want to encourage my members to use the Blog. So do I offer them the Blog by paying for a site-subscription? So only paying members can have a Blog and all the others can't?

No. I want to encourage all my members to use it, so I will offer it to all of my members for free. But... ofcourse I also want to encourge them to financially support the site. The chicken and egg thing. ;) So I was thinking... wouldn't it be a solution to have the option to limit the use of a blog to a certain amount of blogentries? So a user can post 5 blogentries and that is it. If he/she wants to post more, he/she needs to purchase a paid subscription! That way we let people 'taste' the possibilities of the Blog so you encourage them to use it... and after they have tasted it and like it... you encourage (may I say force :p) them to pay for it!

I think this is a brilliant idea, if I may say so myself. ;)
Nah thats pointless in my opinion.

[Grover]

Nah thats pointless in my opinion.

I am interested to know why you think so?

[Grover]

I just realized this : I wanted to move a bunch of blogentries to another category. When using the forum, this is easliy done by inline moderation : just select all the posts/threads and select 'move' and choose the forum you want them placed in. Works great.

But not so on the Blog. You have to manually edit all blogentries to change the category they're in. Not so userfriendly.

The only inline moderation currently available to blogowners is (and no, I am not assuming things this time....;)): Delete Blogentry. Please add 'Move Blogentry' aswell. I am convinced this will come in handy when your blog grows and grows.

[Onimua]

I just realized this : I wanted to move a bunch of blogentries to another category. When using the forum, this is easliy done by inline moderation : just select all the posts/threads and select 'move' and choose the forum you want them placed in. Works great.

But not so on the Blog. You have to manually edit all blogentries to change the category they're in. Not so userfriendly.

The only inline moderation currently available to blogowners is (and no, I am not assuming things this time....;)): Delete Blogentry. Please add 'Move Blogentry' aswell. I am convinced this will come in handy when your blog grows and grows.
I brought it up in the beta forum; Freddie made a note of it.:) Not sure if it will be there or not.

[Wayne Luke]

Might have to do with the fact that a blog entry can be in multiple categories. ;)

[Grover]

Speaking about categories : I just stumbled upon this error message in the Blog:

The following errors occurred when this message was submitted:

Are you M. C. Escher? A category can not be a parent to itself.
:)

[Grover]

I brought it up in the beta forum; Freddie made a note of it.:) Not sure if it will be there or not.

I just found out Mr. BugReporter himself (a.k.a. Mazinger) suggested this earlier (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1391085&postcount=370) aswell.

[Grover]

I am testing the user-experience further on catergories. I came across this:

I have created a parent category and several child-categories and child-in-child (how deep can one go with this?! :eek:) categories, so in the end it looked like this:



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Cat 1
Child cat 1A
Child cat 1A-A
Child cat 1A-A-A
Child cat 1A-A-A-A
Cat 2-------------------------------------------------------

I was curious to find out what happened when I deleted Cat1. So:

- I clicked 'Edit' on Cat1,
- I checked the box at : 'To delete this category, click this box and press the 'Delete' button' and pressed [Delete].

BAM.

No confirmation-message at all. My parent Cat1 and all of it's 4 child-in-child catergories were promptly deleted.

I know, deleting categories is nothing major compared to deleting threads/post or whatever, but I think an deletion-action deserves a confirmation regardless. Add something like 'Are you sure you want to delete parent category Cat1 and it's child categories Child cat 1A, Child cat 1A-A, Child cat 1A-A-A, Child cat 1A-A-A-A'? Or something like that.

This is especially a welcome addition because it's very time-consuming to re-create the categories (when you made a mistake) and then place all the entries back into the appropiate categories, because you have to do it manually (inline moderation doesn't support moving to categories) for each and every entry , like pointed out above by several people.

[Assim]

Is there an option where you instead of showing the blog post poster's profile pic, his avatar should be shown.

[---MAD---]

Regarding the edit by bit mentioned here http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/blog.php?b=788:

What about having a small image appear next to the report comment / blog when the blog / comment is edit, and when you hover over you can see the details? If you click it you can see even more details (not even necessary to be clickable).

[Michelle]

Are staff members actually reading these suggestions or are we rambling at ourselves?

[Fusion]

Are staff members actually reading these suggestions or are we rambling at ourselves?
They read every suggestion but may not always comment on what's suggested.

[Floris]

Are staff members actually reading these suggestions or are we rambling at ourselves?
Yes, we read them. :)

[Michelle]

Yes, we read them. :)
Nice. :)
I have nothing to add, everything I wanted is already said, but I would like to ask... Why don't you use the built in feature of the project tools for feature suggestions, instead of having a chaos thread or a chaos forum (in the case of vBulletin)?
It would help to keep them more organized and also we could see what you think (from their status) and how many want them implemented.

[Wayne Luke]

Nice. :)
I have nothing to add, everything I wanted is already said, but I would like to ask... Why don't you use the built in feature of the project tools for feature suggestions, instead of having a chaos thread or a chaos forum (in the case of vBulletin)?
It would help to keep them more organized and also we could see what you think (from their status) and how many want them implemented.
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1407788&postcount=11

[Reeve of Shinra]

I would like to request (possible for vb 3.7) the option of "combined" thread/blog subscriptions.

It would be great if we could have a page which showed ALL subscriptions mixed with an option to display either blog / forum / third party subscription denoted by plugin.

- Thread
- Thread
- Thread
- Blog
- Blog
- Thread

edit:

Reason is that I want to simplify the forums and make content more accessible.

Navbar

[tab: Forum Listing] [tab: Subscribed Threads] [tab: New Posts]

[Grover]

Has anyone reads this (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/blog.php?b=546#comment1781) ? :

You'll get more customization options in v1.2


Great to hear! Can't wait to find out what he means by that...

[Grover]

I don't know if this is common in the blog-world (I just stepped into this world a week ago ;)), but what I like about forums like vBulletin is that you can refer to an individual posting inside a thread. I use this very much on my own site and overhere at vbulletin.com

You know... referring to a single post inside a thread : like this (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1385164&postcount=74).
And referring to a post in the context of a thread (mostly I use this): like this (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1385164&postcount=74).

I noticed this is not possible with a blog. Well... it is possible to use the Permalink, but that only accounts for the initial Blog-entry. It does not apply to individual comments. So it is not possible to refer to a single comment in a blog-discussion and -likewise- it's not possible to refer to a single comment in the context of a blog-discussion.

(...)

And you know... every vBlog buyer owns vBulletin. So I expect a real integration of those 2 products really. Wouldn't it be nice if our users could refer to a specific comment inside some blog by putting a referring link to it inside a posting on the forum?

Well...I just realized that it is already technically possible at the moment to link to a blog-comment:

- Go to http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/blog.php
- On the right you see the Recent Comments
- Click on those and you will be taken directly to the specific comment.

And those comments have an URL like this:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/blog.php?b=546#comment1781

Great!

So why aren't those links visible/accesible inside the blog-comments? Why not introduce comment-numbers (like post-numbers) and let us use those comment-numbers as a link.

I understand from Kier you guys (the developers) don't want to let the Blog look like the Forum (why exactly, I wonder ? : the forum-postings offer much functionality that I really miss inside blog-comments. I mean, the Blog is a vBulletin product after all... it's not a standalone thing), but this is just basic functionality that IMHO needs to be in.

[Dream]

Just saw this in a blog entry

Updated Jul 8th 2007 at 12:16am by bill (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/blog.php?u=430) (add category)

I don't think readers want to know if a category has been added to a blog entry.

[Loco.M]

One could make a category called "digital media"
and tag an entry as "tv" or "movies"
and then sort entries from digital media based on popular tags..



that would be pretty handy :)

I think "tags" would be great, like wordpress :D

It would also be nice if the rep icon was in the blog post, shouldn't be hard should it ?

[Pirate45]

I would like to see top categories being added by the site (admins) for all to use. Since most forum sites are topical, all users may be adding blog posts relating to what the site is about. Visitors can then click on "Peanut Butter" to get all posts about peanut butter, rather than each user having to create his own category.
View counters are a must. We converted from vBlogetin and many bloggers are fueled to add content by watching their view count skyrocket. It tells them they have an audience.
Need to be able to get rid of the side columns and get that stuff at the top (and/or) the bottom. Fixed width forums (like ours) don't look good when users post large images. We use add-on software to downsize them but the size that works on the forum is still too big for the blog (with the left hand column).
Blog Description needs to be in a table with the same background color as the posts. If using a background image, that text looks bad.
So far, my users can't find the Blog Directory link. There needs to be a BIG link of some kind for that.
A setting to cause new blog posts to show up (or not) on active topics would be good. I am using the RSS posting feature to do this now but that will get a blog entry a lot of extra views.These are just my initial thoughts. Thanks for the opportunity to have input.

[orban]

I actually only have one suggestion:

Private Entries (only viewable by your friendslist)

Most requested feature, everything else is peanuts.

[johnange]

- Users should be able to change themes (user interface and design), like wordpress - this is very very important

- Should be able to setup easily identified URLs for blog, e.g. blog.domain.com/user and user.blog.domain.com

[Jose Amaral Rego]

- Users should be able to change themes (user interface and design), like wordpress - this is very very important

- Should be able to setup easily identified URLs for blog, e.g. blog.domain.com/user and user.blog.domain.com

Been suggested several times....

[johnange]

Left column with Blog statistics, Options, Search, Calendar etc. should be moved to right position as in Wordpress.

This should be default behavior, because entries should be in primary focus, not UI.

[diettalk]

Left column with Blog statistics, Options, Search, Calendar etc. should be moved to right position as in Wordpress.

This should be default behavior, because entries should be in primary focus, not UI.

I agree. I would like to see the blog look more like a blog than a forum.

I would also like to have an option on who can see private messages. Right now, admin and mods can see private messages, I would like to see an option where only admins can... just to make the messages more private.

I would like to see the private messages be shrunk, so you can't see the message without clicking on it (if I'm not the intended viewer)... similar to soft deleted messages in the forums.

[joomlajon]

Left column with Blog statistics, Options, Search, Calendar etc. should be moved to right position as in Wordpress.

This should be default behavior, because entries should be in primary focus, not UI.

I to agree, that would indeed make it look more blogish.

[Lizard King]

Left column with Blog statistics, Options, Search, Calendar etc. should be moved to right position as in Wordpress.

This should be default behavior, because entries should be in primary focus, not UI.
You can do that with a very eash template edit
http://www.ayyas.com/blogs/

[joomlajon]

You can do that with a very eash template edit
http://www.ayyas.com/blogs/

If one knew how to.

And as soon as you modify you will get the "vbulletin does not support..." and that would make the support useless.

So then it is up to the consumers to demand it native, so it get done in the quality wanted by vbulletin and the support is still valid. :)

/j

[Reeve of Shinra]

There were some issues with images breaking and stretching the layout when the blocks were on the right side... the solution was to move it over to the left.

[johnange]

There were some issues with images breaking and stretching the layout when the blocks were on the right side... the solution was to move it over to the left.


Images should be limited to some width then.

Menu column must be on the right side. Never seen the blog with menu on the left.

[Wayne Luke]

Menu column must be on the right side. Never seen the blog with menu on the left.

This is really personal preference. I mean go to http://themes.wordpress.net. They have 29 pages of themes with left sidebars. 15 themes per page.

Really shouldn't be that hard to change the position of the sidebar though. It is simply floated left with CSS while the main content is floated right. Heck, with a custom profile field and a plugin, you can probably make it a user option easily enough.

[johnange]

Really shouldn't be that hard to change the position of the sidebar though. It is simply floated left with CSS while the main content is floated right. Heck, with a custom profile field and a plugin, you can probably make it a user option easily enough.

Sure Wayne, I already did it that way, but the idea is to have this option officially supported.

Hope user themes will be supported soon, like in Wordpress site you are mentioning. Thanks!

[Pingu]

Posting another feature request here in this thread. Our members are quite fond of the Reputation system. It's their preferred way of showing appreciation (or dislike) privately. They really miss this feature in the Blog system. Is it possible to integrate this?

I searched for an earlier request like this but haven't found it in this forum (to my surprise).

[Pirate45]

Is it just me of does the lack of view counters discourage people from posting?

[akoj]

Posting another feature request here in this thread. Our members are quite fond of the Reputation system. It's their preferred way of showing appreciation (or dislike) privately. They really miss this feature in the Blog system. Is it possible to integrate this?

I searched for an earlier request like this but haven't found it in this forum (to my surprise).
My users are begging/complaining about this too.

It would also be great if the latest blog was in the postbit.

[legar]

my members are all missing 1 thing, and its asked for a couple of times allready;

stats :)

how many times has a blog entry been viewed, referring urls etc, just some basic stats/visitor tracking

thanks!

[kafi]

Navigation

I do not think that it is good idea to read someones blog entry and have left menu "options" where you can find

Go to my blog
along with "subscribe to this blog" or "Mark this blog" etc.

It is quite confusing when I read someone's blog and the first option under his name is "go to my blog"
It sounds like he is inviting me to his blog not to really go to "Mine" blog.
It shoudnt be kept together: Options for someones blog and for mine too.

[Dream]

Go to my blog
along with "subscribe to this blog" or "Mark this blog" etc.

It is quite confusing when I read someone's blog and the first option under his name is "go to my blog"
It sounds like he is inviting me to his blog not to really go to "Mine" blog.

That's a good point, never thought of it that way.

[---MAD---]

That's a good point, never thought of it that way.
Yeah same but it makes sense.

[---MAD---]

You can do that with a very eash template edit
http://www.ayyas.com/blogs/
That looks so much better - I guess that would have to wait till something like 4.0 when the whole style will be redesigned.

[TMM-TT]

I've been searching a bit for this, but I can't find anything about it:

A function for RSS-feeds to choose separate categories in a blog.

[ragtek]

i would love to see a popup like i'm using it
i'm sure jelsoft would code it better then i^^
http://www.ragtek.org/tutorials/newsbox.htm
Since most people will access their Blog (and all other board-functionality for that matter) through Forumhome (your Forumindex) I was wondering if the 'welcome-block' in the upperright-corner of the forum will get enhanced when the Blog module is released?

You see we need an area where vB indicates if we:

- have new private messages (already available)
- have new friends/buddies invitations (I am expecting the new SN-part will provide this functionality ofcourse)
- have a friend who celebrates her/his birthday (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1396658&postcount=32) in a few days,

Stuff like that. So why not move this block below the navbar and enhance it with more information? Since we are getting the Blog and SN modules I vote to personalize the forum entrance aswell and include the user's avatar/profile picture inside this welcome block. This was already suggested earlier overhere (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=159004) in the now closed/invisible 'Under Consideration'-forum.

I really want to see a more tighter integration of the Blog, (SN) and Forum. I think that is the KEY factor actually. Why would people diss their Wordpress or whatever Blogs and step over to vBlog? What vBlog should set apart from all other external blogs, is the fact that it's internal : it should provide a tight integration with vBulletin. A lot of external, dedicated blogapplications like Wordpress offer sophisticated functionality which vBlog does not at the moment (custom pages (instead of blog-entries), uploadable/custumizable styles, custom blocks, widgets and the list goes on...) but they can never offer vBulletin-forum integration. Okay, third-party vBulletin plugin-products do offer this, but the benefits of Jelsoft software are obvious. So I hope vBlog -in combination with the SN-module- will gives us a real, usefull integration of all.

[Shelby]

Really shouldn't be that hard to change the position of the sidebar though. It is simply floated left with CSS while the main content is floated right.

Here's the code to change the column from left to right. Edit the template BLOG.

#content_container {
width:100%;
float:$stylevar[left];
margin-$stylevar[right]:-206px;
background: $stylevar[page_bgcolor];
}
#content {
margin-$stylevar[right]:206px;
background: $stylevar[page_bgcolor];
}
#sidebar_container {
width:200px;
float:$stylevar[right];
background: $stylevar[page_bgcolor];
}

[NeutralizeR]

A link for "Deleted Blog Entries" just below the "Deleted Threads, Deleted Posts" at User CP.

[Eternal_]

I would suggest - Integrate the blog as part of the member profile page area.

[Onimua]

I would suggest - Integrate the blog as part of the member profile page area.
What do you mean? There's already a blog tab in the member's profile page.

[El Burro]

Get Images sorted so they are don't break out of template margins it looks so ugly.

Just integrate blogs completely with the forum, stats, RSS, etc

Oh yes and make it free, it not worth $50 ... its just not that good

[bigsoccer tech]

The ability to "roll up" multiple blogs intoa master blog. I currently do this using vbadvanced and some custom modules....for instance, if three guys want to write a blog together, they currently can't.

[EWGF]

A general blog.

[lifanovsky]

Is it possible to have threaded comments in blogs?

[induslady]

Is it possible to add in the "statistics" tab a section that has...

1. Total Blog Entries
2. Total Blog Comments
3. Find all entries by Induslady
4. Find all comments by Induslady

This is very similar to what is already there for the forums. While a tiny feature, it is quite helpful to several members. We have it for project tools, but not for blog:) Thanks.

[lifanovsky]

3. Find all entries by Induslady
4. Find all comments by IndusladyWouldbe great, if possible...

[King Kovifor]

3. Find all entries by Induslady

This is "technically" possible. (3.7 instructions)

Visit Users Profile -> Blog Table -> View X's Blog

This shows the users blog where all the users entries should be located. If group blogs are integrated, I could see a need for this.

And I might create a "Find all blog comments by..." modification.

[volcom5799]

OK this is SWEET just a few feature to make it the best!

More customization for blogs style, color, and features!!!!!

[IncubuRs]

Ability to make private social groups really private .. means hidden

[Trevster]

This is already on Freddie's 'todo' list in some shape or form but worth adding here too:

- Ability to turn off rating system by usergroups
- Ability to turn off rating system via main AdmnCP
- Ability for users to turn rating system off/on for their own blogs

[xfaethorx]

I don't know if this has been stated, but the ability to make each blog entry private, viewable to all, or only viewable to friends, like MySpace does.

Also the ability to choose colors for your blogs, like background colors, heading colors, and background image (once again like MySpace does).

After just buying vbblog i was tbh expecting it to have private entries and I'm a little saddened to find that the only way do to this is using the draft as a cludge.

I'd dearly like to see private blog entries , i've moved over the years from vbjournal to zoints and now to vbblog and both myself and my users have entries that are deliberately kept private from each other.

Can someone say if this will ever be a feature or not?

[moonclamp]

Apologies if these have already been requested, but I haven't got the time to go trawling through everything.

I've just bought the blog after using the vbjournal addon in previous installs. I've imported all the entries via IMPEX, but there are several features missing that make the new system almost unusable for our needs.


Pardon me if anything here has been implemented and I've missed it, I would like to suggest the following ...
The ability for a moderator to close or delete an entire blog.
The ability for a blogger to make private entries only available to certain people that they choose (and moderators).
Blog buddies - seperate from the contact list, a group of people that can view (and comment on) private blog entries.
Easy admincp options like "make all blogs private", "turn the blog system off" etc.
The ability for an admin/supermod to change blog cp settings for other users
Adding blogs to the profile access masks
Thank you :)