Morgan Carey's Blog: Blog Planning

We need to make the pageview counter work so that each time a post is viewed the counter ups by one. Read Full Post

The way the comments are posted it is newest on top, this makes no sense, I need to reverse the order in which comments are posted so they are more readable and users can follow them. Read Full Post

We should have it so that users need to leave an email address for replies to their comments. This would encourage more commenting in the blogs. Read Full Post

the image uploading is WAY to complicated for the end user, need to adapt some of the features or remove them to make it much more obvious. Read Full Post

We really should limit the amount of posts that show up in the mainpage - of course there should be some sort of archiving function for each category as well so that the category sections dont get full to. Perhaps we could do it by date with a timestamp or something, even still what if a category gets more than a 100 entries in a month? Perhaps we could pageinate the listings in the monthy archive so that there is proper spiderability. Read Full Post

I am not even sure If I want to have the external links now that we have the post specific links - but for now we should keep them and be able to edit them. Perhaps that we be a good place to list other REW blogs. Read Full Post

We should be able to show or hide the blog categories in the blogs. By default the categories should be set to show but there should be an option in the category manager to "hide" a category.

This being said, these categories and the posts within them still should be spiderable - thus we need to create some sort of sitemapping or archiving system so that search engine spiders and users can still find the category posts. Read Full Post

We need to have the ability to post unique links on each post made in our blogs - these links should be able to be added during the post, or added later and we need to be able to edit them whenever we want.

To add a link, there should be a text field for title, url and description. Read Full Post