Enhancement Plans

Many Thanks to all who have made suggestions through our Enhancement Suggestions page.

This page provides a summary of status of these suggestions as of 17-Aug-2023, removing enhancements that have been implemented to date.

Currently under investigation –

    • Provide bloggers or all site users with stats on usage – add other users with rights to view stats page in Google Analytics and customise to provide report by blog author. Alternatively see of Jetpack statistics can be exported. Or create a report that can be exported.
    • Add advanced search – Relevanssi maybe too database size and compute intensive for our hosting platform without moving to a more expensive option. To be tested.
    • Richer comment editing – a potential solution needs further testing and maybe customisation for compatibility with our current comment editing plug-in. Meanwhile a Commenter Tips page has been added.

To be investigated –

    • Allow approvals of comments on their posts by authors. This currently gives a permissions error
    • Provide notifications on comment edits
    • Mark comments as read/unread

Suggested but not being progressed –

    • Post/comment “likes” – plug-in tested and rejected by members of the community
    • Add login using social media accounts – doesn’t fit with our User Registration plug-in and site design
    • Create a mobile App – too hard
    • Change all _lj users approval status to denied – not worth the effort
    • Investigate Dark mode options for colouring of text in blogs – needs some complex coding or a paid-for version of the plug-in we use.
    • Allow multiple avatars and swapping between them on a post-by-post, comment-by-comment basis retaining the choice for each post comment. This is a major undertaking!
    • Provide the ability for personal messaging between community members. Not being progressed due to privacy and security concerns
    • Add comment “title” – requires replacing comment editing with another plugin and is not appropriate for the majority of comments on the crossword blogs
    • Make blog title a hyperlink for refreshing the blog page (as Livejournal does) – not worth the coding effort
    • Prevent edit of a comment after it has been replied to – requires reengineering comment editing plugin
    • Allow collapse/expand of comment sub-threads – requires significant development
    • Add time edited to edited posts – interferes with post scheduling most edits are pre-publication
    • Add Previous and Next links at top of post as well as bottom – requires more coding than it is worth
    • Remove closure of old posts to new comments – would cause errors in comment notification for migrated posts. Also would make spam commenting easier
    • Add site feed subscription options – can’t get code to work
    • Add email subscription option – needs customisation
    • Dedicated page for the SNITCH – leave as link to SNITCH site
    • Move reply button away from left to avoid accidental presses when scrolling on a phone – not in line with our selected theme

All further suggestions welcome… as are offers to help implementing them! Please use our Contact Us page.