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Following up to the wishlist for core features, I'd like to gather a list of plugins that would be nice to have for Cotonti.

Please provide ideas for plugins, with a title and a short description. I will merge new ideas into this post and keep track of discussion around specific ideas. You may post improvements/additional features on listed ideas also. Ideas listing will be alphabetical.

For inspiration:
Neocrome Seditio plugins
T3 Seditio plugins
T3 LDU plugins
BHS-D Seditio plugins
BHS-D LDU plugins

Advanced News

Modified news plugin which supports manual ordering of articles on the front page, to allow editors to determine the priority of news items on the homepage. This is the way most news agencies work.

Suggested by: Koradhil
Additional features: photo attachment to show on frontpage; define 'blocks' of content.
Kort: News should be reviewed and decoupled from date_begin and date_expire (perhaps add newsitems lifetime period to the config). Once its done, bumping news would become easy with PAGEEDIT_FORM_DATENOW.
ez: Working on a randomimg for index.
Kingsley: Page Avatar misses the option to delete the current avatar when editing a page, and the option to use an image multiple times.
Kort: modify/delete functionality is in v2 and with Siena will have the option to re-use an image.

Assets (site files)

Attach files to a page or to a page category. When linked to a category the file will show up in list view. When removing a file complain if it's in-use by a page/category. Basically it will treat files as if they are pages themselves, making for example Word documents part of the website structure and allowing for more flexible stucture/content management.

Suggested by: Koradhil
ez: Possible integration into myfiles plugin
Koradhil: myfiles plugin should maybe use structure API (work in progress for Siena, its a generic system based on existing pages structure/categories system and will be used by pages and forums module)
Kort: For pages his is already done with Page Avatar. Once extrafields are supported in lists we'll amend the plugin for lists too.
Trustmaster: There's the Attachments plugin.
Accepted solution: Use Attachments plugin, update it to contain described features (including re-using files).

Automated ranking system

If user reaches e.g. 100 posts, user moves to next group. with room to exclude groups for automated ranking, off course.

Suggested by: Kingsley
Koradhil: There used to be a plugin for this which worked with user levels instead of groups.

Award system

Users gain awards when users completely fill in their profiles, reach xx forum post, and xx pages, xx comments, (additional with a friends plug-in; reach xx friends) etc, think you'll get my drift. Maybe even with a part where users can give each other awards for stuff they do. And awards that can be given by site admin(s) to users who do something special for site/community.

Suggested by: Kingsley
Koradhil: Related plugins: user wall, karma, forumcolors, forumshop

ezStats / XsCCS

MoH/BFBC2 leaderboard from sixbitunder. Squads, games and matches displayed in users profile.

Suggested by: Kingsley

Mobile browser detection

Use different stylesheet or redirect to mobile site if visitor is detected to be using a mobile phone or tablet.

Suggested by: Koradhil

User comment rating

Allow users/visitors to rate comments and (optionally) sort the comments by rating. Useful for Q&A functionality (best answer will end up at the top). Can be linked to user kudos.

Suggested by: Koradhil
Kort: Would suggest standalone Q&A plugin.
Trustmaster: I developed "Reviews" plugin for Seditio quite long ago. Can revamp it if necessary.
Trustmaster: I have developed a complex Q&A solution based on forums (adds Q&A topics to forums), it can become public if the customer company agrees with it.