People keep asking for features to be integrated into the TDO Mini Forms plugin that are actually already implemented by other WordPress plugins. Sure, I could make some attempt at implementing these features but I’d only be diluting TDOMF and they would never be as good as the stand-along plugins. Which is why I’m normally very resistant to do so.
So I’d like to know from TDOMF users, what existing plugins would people like to see “integrated” in some fashion?
The important thing to remember with TDOMF is that it generates actual WordPress posts. If you install a plugin that modifies a post content, it’ll also modify posts from TDOMF. If you install a plugin that adds new tags, those tags can also be used in TDOMF.
In the long run, I’m going to look at allowing admins to add their own quicktag buttons to the post content which would make integration of wordpress plugins much easier for admins. Right now, to add a new quicktag requires modifying code yourself.
Also worth remembering that some plugins can be replicated easier than integrating by using widgets, such as the “comment policy widget”.
Some that are currently on my mind are:
YouTube Video support is a popular request. There is a excellent plugin called Viper’s Video Quicktags that adds new tags to posts to embedded youtube and other online web video sites. It would require adding a new quicktag to the form to allow users to embed the youtube video in the post content area, but nothing very difficult.
I’ve thought about support for Polls for a while. I’ve yet to see a WordPress poll plugin that allows you to generate a poll within a post. Most poll plugins require polls to be created separately from creating posts. So to do this would require a separate form to generate a poll that can be embedded in a post (perhaps as a rather complex widget in itself). This would require some core changes to do and would probably be better to wait till multi-form support is done.
deuced suggested on the forums wp-postnotes which sound like a great idea for user submitted posts. They allow users to add “notes” within the post content that do not get displayed when the post is published. This would allow submitters to add notes about their content for moderators to see but will not be seen by readers. Again, like Viper’s video quicktags, this would be fairly simply extension to the quicktags.
Up until WordPress 2.3, I considered integration with the popular ultimate tag warrior plugin. This could be easily done by creating a widget that uses UTW instead of the built-in tags.
I was also considering creating a new privacy plugin, however I came across disclose-secret yesterday which does practically everything I had intended my plugin to do. This plugin allows you to set privacy settings per post (and per category) based on roles, capabilities and users. If integrated with a plugin like this, you could allow submitters to make posts viewable only to specific users or roles. For example, you could have TDOMF form with no moderation (posts are published automatically) but that sets the posts to private to admins. Your admins could then use the RSS feed to see these posts and communicate with the submitter using comments but without publishing the post publicly. Or perhaps you have several groups of users (controlled by roles or capabilities) and submitters could make submission to those groups of users only. However disclose-secret doesn’t work on WordPress 2.3 yet, so maybe in the future. This would be implemented using a widget.
Any other plugins or features worth integrating with TDOMF?
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