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Wish List#

Due to wiki spammers, this wiki now requires username and password -- it's not the best place for a wish list anymore.

If you'd like to request a new Roller feature, please do that on the Roller JIRA issue tracker:
http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/roller

You might also want to take a look at the IdeasAndProposals page.

• Forgotten my password functionality.

• Spell-checking on Comments.

• There should be a way for visitors to list all users.

• Account owners should be able to allow visitors or other members to post in specific folders.

• • Each blog should have an owner with the ability to add users with either post and or edit rights. These users should not need to be full users with their own blogs in the system. Also having an option for posts to be reviewed by a user with edit rights before they are made public would be good.

• When other members post a comment, their entity information should be filled in comment form

• Comment could be disabled based on an entry in addition to folder setting. Implemented in latest version. -Lance

• Navigation by date should be implemented. In the main page it list entries in last 15 days, for the sake of easily browsing there should be previous-next buttons to go to past. Fixed in Roller 0.9.9

• Add ability to edit comments. This wasn't implemented because it makes it possible for the blog owner to put words in the commenter's mouth. -Lance

• Add ability for users to have full control over turning on/off e-mailing of comments

• When making a new page, it should not be plain but instead be a default page for that look and feel. This means that all themes need to have a basic page.

• Velocity macros should contain only structural markup. ul, li, p, span. Should not contain br's, and should not contain div's. Br's should be replaced with ul's, or p's, while div's should only exist at the Page level. This can be done by allowing the theme to be built from various includes.

• User should be able to control includes through the web interface. Themes should be created using includes (allows new pages to automatically fit the theme).

• List feature. There should be support for the classic "I am currently reading ..." lists. These are basically blog categories that do not appear as a part of the main blog feed. Otherwise they can be the same. Comments should even be allowed. So some kind of hidden category feature that would then be hard-coded into the user's front page.

• CSS manual. Need a comprehensive list of all CSS elements in the basic setup (not the themes, though the default themes should all use similar names if possible). Why would this be useful if you are not talking about the themes?

• Remove all style attributes from velocity macros. These should be defined in a CSS sheet.

• Add ability to use Wiki Syntax while composing/responding to a roller blog. You can use either JSPWiki or Radeox syntax. -Lance

• Implement the MetaWeblog API. This is implemented, see here. -Lance

• Threaded comments.

• A few improvements to be good web citizens and aid import/export

• • Entries with 'names', keywords or slugs. Please elaborate. WhatAreSlugs

• • Allow for plugging in different URL schemes, i.e. mpt friendly URLs.

• • Entries should have an 'external-id' column to use in the <rss:guid /> and <atom:id /> fields. Charles Miller has an entry explaining why this is important