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Ticket #848 (new enhancement)

Opened 1 year ago

Last modified 10 months ago

Admin feature for making a "featured blog"

Reported by: ageller Assigned to:
Priority: normal Milestone: 1.1
Keywords: Cc:

Description

So we've built in recent posts feed. I think it would be really really nice for the admin to change -- from his/her interface -- a "featured blog."

So this enhancement comes in two parts.

1) Create a spot on the template for "Our Featured Blog" or something like that. Make some code that pulls the most recent one post from this blog. Only hitch, the blog it pulls from needs to be defined as featuredBlog or something special like that. Of course, you know this.

2) Create a dropdown list of blogs on the admin interface. When the admin selects a blog from the list and clicks "submit" that blog becomes defined as featuredBlog.

Oh yeah... if the admin selects "no feature" then that should not show on the portal anymore.

I think this might be one of the simpler "crazy" things I've invented lately. Maybe even able to make it to 1.0? C'mon, you know it /is/ simple.

I think this feature is nice because it allows the admin to easily change the featured blog without needing to edit code for portal.php each time. AND this is definitely community-minded.

Change History

10/02/07 18:36:11 changed by ageller

  • summary changed from Admin feature for making a feature blog to Admin feature for making a "featured blog".

10/07/07 14:59:01 changed by jjb

  • milestone set to 1.1.

11/27/07 19:15:13 changed by ageller

this would also be useful for making a blog that serves as the "site blog"

thus, the title of this "featured blog" section should be able to be set in the admin panel in a form field. then it could be called the "site news" section or something else without having to modify portal directly

this would solve a problem presented by Katz in emails a month ago

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