Feature Request: make it so that the "next" button does not show up if it's the last page of videos, and then get rid of the "that's it" error message
Feature Request: add a "back" button (but not that first one). right now we just have a "previous" (or next) button.
basically we want a "back and forward" functionality in the Visual Archive.
Feature Request: at the bottom of the page, show me how many pages are in the archive so i know how big an archive im dealing with, and I can skip to the page I want.
Feature Request: Can the presentation that the Visual Archive creates be applied to "search results" and "category results"? we really love the way the Visual archve has a thumbnail and a text excerpt.
Ryanne says further, "want to have Category Archives display as Visual Archive if they contain video posts - what about a checkbox "include Visual Archive in Category pages" and it would be cool if there was an option that lists site Cats & lets you choose which ones to represent w/ Visual Archive"
Feature Request: The Titles need to link back to the original posts when displayed in the Visual Archive. Currently only the thumbnail takes you back to the original post.
Feature Request: Currently the plugin output creates a table. I would like to see the output as a definition list - that would offer much more in terms of styling options and layout control - it might necessitate a checkbox for "styled" and "unstyled" options, and choosing "unstyled" would mean I can add my own CSS. I will try to make a mock-up for demonstration but it will be a week or two before I can do it (Cheryl)
Old stuff. Not sure what is still relevant.
- Need default image for any post that was not assigned a thumbnail - document location or provide other manner for users to customize and make sure it has "alt" text for standards
- and maybe another checkbox "customize alt text for image displayed if no video thumbnail is found" + text entry field
- on WP 2.3 we had a problem where Related Videos would not activate - it gave a fatal error. We edited Line 81 in the plugin as instructed by Steve Elbows on the SIAB group (subject "Related Videos - Fatal Error") and that fixed the problem. so that fix needs to be added to the next release ASAP.
- Default Link Format option for "Archive URL Options" needs to be changed to "videoarchive" to avoid potential confusion with default WordPress numerical permalink option that generates site.com/archives/123
- the plugin needs to be modified so that if the user defines a blog URL different than the wordpress install URL (in Options > General), the mod rewrite (user-friendly) URL will still work
- make Video Archive use page.php as its page template - it needs to know that it's a "page" so that it highlights when you're on that page
Feature request: would it be possible for that video archive plugin to open the videos
themselves instead of the posts and have them open in the thickbox with the grayed out screen? that would be pretty much a gallery. might be nice.
Action: Rudy says, What we have for galacticast and on my blog is the assumption that a
post with a video has an associated thumbnail and preview image. So I
use standard wordpress query tags to loop through the last posts, and
then I use a special template tag from the plugin I developed (not
released publically) to output the image for each one.
Which is great for those of us who know how to call template tags.
Now what we would do next is that on top of that we build some other
tags that does that automatically as a widget. We would agree on
standard div syntax and class names so that you beautiful designers
can float left, position absolute, etc etc whatever to your hearts
content.
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Feature request: Can the results for Category pages be seen like the Archive page? List of Thumbnails plus short descriptions.
Action: Cheryl was able to change the number displayed by going into the code(?), but it would be nice tohave an interface to make it easier
Feature request: Can the results from the Search results show like the Archive page? List of Thumbnails plus short descriptions.
Action: Cheryl was able to change the number displayed by going into the code(?), but it would be nice tohave an interface to make it easier
Issue: Video Archive displays a "Prev" link at the bottom of the archive page, even if it will go to an empty page that just says "That's it.
You're at the end of the video archive." How about instead, it just not have a "prev" link if the next click would display nothing? and get rid of the "That's it..."message?
Action: Charles?
Issue: when you hover over the thumbnail image for each video on the Video Archive page, the 'tool tip' reads: "$v['title']>"
Action: Charles?
Issue: The markup generated by the Video Archives page uses html tables for layout, violating webstandards and locking themers into one certain look for this page that does not match any of the specs for the rest of the site. It would be better to use XHTML + CSS to create the layout, and do as little as possible as far as styling the headlines and body text, so that the page picks up whatever specs have been set for the rest of the site.
Action: This will probably not get changed before our first release since there is a lot to do. Also, it would be helpful if the theming team could write up sample markup and styling to accomplish this, even hacking up the .php page with the changes for Charles' review.
Issue:
Right now, Video Archives generates a page that using html tables to lay out the content. It would be better to use a containing <div> with a unique ID and use classes, like one of the following setup examples (each html element could have a class to help hang styles on):
Option 1
<div> a container to hold an individual post's info, then
<img> the thumbnail
<h2> post title
<p> the description
Option 2 - definition list
<dl> contains the archive list (with a class)
<dt> post title (with a class)
<dd><img> thumbnail (with a class)
<dd><p> description (with a class)
We've got CSS ninjas to write styles that support these plugins and we'll make the display look great.
Designers! To Do: Make a fake archive list from a few posts so we can test styling and make recommendations on which option works best.
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