Eric Lorentz, aka UnholyKnght, has done us all a big solid. He updated the Videopress and vPIP plugins for the latest version of Wordpress (currently working with WP v2.8.4)

http://unholyknight.com/VideoWrangler/

As we have new energy and rejuvenated enthusiasm for the videopress Wordpress plugins, we thought it best to start fresh with features we'd like to see added.

VideoWrangler Recent Videos - Add Recent Videos as a Widget in WordPress or manually through use php code.

• I'd like the ability to show the recent video thumbnails in relationship to the video being seen. Ideally, if it would display the "X" number of videos before and the "X" videos after the specific date of the current entry. If a user watches a video from Aug 5, 2007, ideally I'd like to show them links to the videos recent to that date.
  
  • [Eric] Functionality like this is easy to accomplish. I'll consider this the top priority on the recent videos plugin.
• More output options. Let's put the power in the hands of both the experienced web designers and the novice videoblogger. (see below)

VideoWrangler Related Videos - Related Videos must be customized and defined for each WordPress entry that you want to have Related Videos for.

• Allow for a Recent Videos list to be generated from content in the same category or from content with similar tags. (Eric has already indicated this as a future enhancement)
  • [Eric] Generating related videos based on category is simple, but generating based on tags is something this will most likely come a little later after the category relation option is completed.
• More output options. Let's put the power in the hands of both the experienced web designers and the novice videoblogger. (see below)

VideoWrangler Video Archive - Activated by Widget, code or as stand alone page.

• Allow complete redesign of the output. Ideally make it both new user and designer friendly. Grid, column and row.
  • Cheryl adds: I think making column output both "new user friendly" and "experienced designer/coder friendly" are conflicting goals, or at least potentially problematic for the plugin author to cope with and maintain. "New user friendly" likely means putting the output in a table based on how many columns a user says they want. Or it means having some kind of responsive CSS file - user input would change the CSS. "Experienced designer/coder friendly" means a simpler output that gives a LOT more flexibilty in terms of how your page can look, but one where writing custom CSS to control the appearance MUST be done by the site owner. Maybe we need to settle on an approach. Best practices in web development tell us to separate the content from the way it's presented, and that's how I'd really like to see this go. If we do that, as a designer I'm happy to create multiple themes that work with the plugin and give people a jumping off point for the appearance of their site. If we're going to go the "make it easy for every skill level" route, I don't see a way around ending up with fewer choices for how your info is visually presented. And if that's the approach we settle on, or if we keep trying to combine both, I think I'm out - I would rather put my energy into designing a unique way for my site to look, and pursuing whatever I need technically to make it happen.
    • [Eric] It looks like the best way to do this is going to be simple and advanced options.  The simple option will output the data in table format however you want (similar to how it works now).  An advanced option can be created to return the list of entries as a list or as an array for you to do with what you please.
• Output with just thumbnails - although Kenya has already recoded to allow this (in use at http://vlog.mikemoon.net ) , it would be better without users having to go into the php to adjust.
  • [Eric] This option will be available in the next release.
• Reverse chronological list options. Show the oldest video first.
  • [Eric] This option will be available in the next release.
• Show page numbers at the bottom. Be able to have <prev and next> buttons.
  • [Eric] I'll have to look into this, but it is doable.  It may not make it into the next release, but it'll come within a few versions.
• Have output of Wordpress catagories, tags and searches to output with thumbnails, titles etc.
  • [Eric] I'm not completely sure what you guys are wanting to accomplish with this.  Maybe give me an example of what would be output to the page or elaborate a little more for me?

vwPIP- Working with latest Wp v2.8.4

• Make Default Flash player JW player.
• Automatically fill with information provided within each Wordpress entry. I'd like to see this added for a couple reasons.
  • 1) I have blip.tv add the entry to my site and then after I manually fill in the vpip requirements.
  • 2) This would allow users that are using other video plugins the ability to switch to videowrangler 
• [Eric] I'll take a look at using JW player for flash playback.  Automatically filling in videopress with data from within the wordpress post is something I'm not sure how to approach.  I'll see if I can't find a solution for that.

VideoWrangler Random Video - Randomly displayed from the archives

          Although this hasn't been created yet, I'd like the ability to have a random video(s) listed with their thumbnail. Perhaps 1 video or better yet, output options like the other VW plugins with use as a widget or separate code. I'd love the ability to show a whole row or column of random video choices for the visitor.

• [Eric] A random video would be easy to do.  It would be the most effective (I think) to have it work in a similar way to the recent videos and related videos plugins where you specify a number of random videos to fetch.  This way you won't get the same random videos more than once each.

Output Options:

• Cheryl suggests:
  • If Eric is asked and says yes, it would be best if he could just

output it as either a definition list (with dt the post title and dd

items for thumbnail image and description) or an unordered list with

other semantic tags wrapping things like the post title (heading) and

description (paragraph) and a styling class for a thumbnail image.

Then designers who know CSS could concoct all manner of display

options. We could control the number and width of columns or provide

single-column display, and we could share basic templates with each

other. I wouldn't want to see any specific number of columns

hard-coded in. Just a list, so we can decide how many columns to

display based on individual taste/what fits for our sites.

• Ideally, have the output controls also be configurable within WordPress' admin panel so novice Wordpress/CSS designers can also manipulate the layout.
• Currently, only one output of the data is available at once. Could the code be adjusted to allow multiple uses of the output? Page style, column style, row style all being able to be used independently.
  • Row (quantity)
  • Column (quantity)
  • Grid size X by Y

     

 Please feel free to add to this list.