Potential EE add-ons: What would you like first?
- Categories:
- ExpressionEngine, Macintosh, Personal
- Tags:
- add-on, development, expressionengine, extension, os x, widget
- Published:
- 2:56pm on Tuesday 9th February, 2010
Partly because I really don’t know, but mostly because I haven’t got anything else to write about this week for Project 52, here is a list of potential ExpressionEngine add-ons I plan to build—and I’d like you to tell me which to do first.
Of course, it’s entirely possible that someone has already done any or all of these and I just haven’t found them yet… in which case please point me in the right direction and save me a ton of unnecessary work!
Related fieldtype dropdowns
If you ever have a client with thousands of pages (or products or whatever) that wants to use related entries, the default dropdown format isn’t very useful for them. This add-on will replace some or all related fieldtypes with those snazzy “search as you type” Ajax-powered search fields. Neato!
Ree-Categorize
Can’t make an ExpressionEngine add-on without a double-e pun, right? This idea is an extension to the current way categories work when you delete one that has entries; instead of just leaving a bunch of orphaned entries, it will prompt you to re-categorise them.
Category Image URL Fieldtype
Hopefully a simple one, this—lets you use a helpful file manager fieldtype for the Category Image URL field. At the moment it’s just a text field, which is not exactly helpful for non-technical clients. Replacing it with something like the nGen File Field file upload tool would be very handy if you rely on category imagery.
Mac OS X Dashboard Widget
Okay, this last one isn’t exactly an EE add-on, but I find it very handy. It’s a dashboard widget for Mac that just lists all the latest comments on any of your pages, and lets you click through to edit or delete them. It’s very useful if like me you don’t get to see any ‘new comment’ emails until you get home but want to stay on top of comment spam. I guess it could also be used to keep a count of things like caught spam or Akismet’s tally too.
Cast your vote now
Alright, I’m not actually taking votes, but I’d be interested to see what people think of these potential add-ons, and if there’s a clear winner I’ll make that my priority for development. Tell me what to do, please…
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b,i,em,del,ins,strong,pre,code,blockquote,abbr. URLs or email addresses will be automatically converted into links.Anton Peck at 3:28pm on 9th February, 2010 #
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