P2 Post Form: Update Coming?

  • dennybot

    (@dennybot)


    14 years ago

    Hi all. First off, I believe I’ve read all the threads related to this issue.

    It would seem that one of the most sought-after modifications to the current P2 theme (1.2.2) is the addition of a category picker for the “Blog Post” post type in the post form (post-form.php)

    A valiant effort was even made to reinvent the front page post form by omarvelous here: https://github.com/omarvelous/p2_two.

    While I love what omarvelous (P2_Two) did with the category picker, many things in that particular build were missing, such as post types (the ‘status’ post type especially), and an image uploader for the post form. Also, some bugginess was introduced in the ‘theme style’ options.

    SO, my question is this: Does anyone know if we might expect to see a P2 release that adds a configurable category picker to its front page post form, but keeps all the other funtionality (post types and image uploader)?

    I thought I’d found exactly what I needed with the omarvelous release, but then found some things missing that were there in the last P2 release.

    To recap, this is what I’m looking for for the front page post form:

    1. Configurable post types. The default 4 from P2 (status, link, post, quote) would be fine for default, as long as some caould be removed)

    2. Category picker for the “post” (Blog Post) post type (would not want a category picker for the ‘status’ blog type). Perhaps we could have an toggle option to show or not show a ‘category picker’ for each post type!

    3. Media uploader (present in P2, not present in P2_Two). Ideally we could turn off media types we don’t need (audio, etc). Mainly this is to insert an image into a post… that’s likely what most would use it for.

    4. Tag field

    Anyone else agree this would be a nice update?

    I’d pay for something like this for sure.

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  • Nobble

    (@nobble)

    What you are calling post types, P2 actually defines as categories, ie. the status type is just a normal post with the category of ‘status’. Now we have post formats in WP 3.1, it would be intuitive to adopt those for p2 instead of defining the types as categories. Doing that however, means changing a lot of code for the theme devs behind p2 – but that is my best bet as what the next logical step is for p2.

    One thing that might hold them back doing major changes with p2 is the fact that the planned improvements to quickpress would make life easier, but that isn’t scheduled until at least 3.2.

    I’m with you with your suggestions, there’s quite a decent demand for further options and flexibility so I hope the P2 theme devs let us know what’s in their roadmap for p2.

    I’d pay for something like this for sure.

    do you mean as a commercial theme or as customized theme that meets your personal requirements?

    noelsaw

    (@noelsaw)

    @dennybot I’ve been working with my developers on updating Templatic’s GTD which was mostly based on the P2 theme.

    I just updated my version a second time here:
    https://wpverse.com/2011/02/gtdp2-reloaded/

    GTD already supports tags.

    Please contact me through @WPVerse or the contact form on the website if you want to collaborate more.

    Thread Starter dennybot

    (@dennybot)

    Thanks for the info, Nobble.

    To answer your question, I was thinking along the lines of a commercial P2 theme that had a bit more flexibility and function on the area of the front page quickpress. I’d really not want to spend too much time and money on a customized theme, as that really only lasts until the P2-style themes come of age a bit more. Know what I’m saying?

    I’m considering a solution of adding my specific categories to the quickpress form on the latest P2, replacing most of what they have (Blog Post, Quote and Link) and keeping Status.

    That would hold me over for now.

    I’ll try to figure that out for myself, but I am only “familiar” with the WP PHP structure and functions.

    I think there is enough in this forum to get me there. (thanks all!)

    That said, I might need some help. ??

    Thread Starter dennybot

    (@dennybot)

    Hey, noelsaw…

    Just checked out P2 Reloaded.

    Lots of good stuff there… but it’s still definitely missing the front page quickpress functions/flexibility I’m looking for, like category picker and media uploader.

    In short, here’s my wish list. I tend to think others would greatly benefit from it too…

    1. Two types of posts: “Blog Post” and “Status.” If a user picks status, the form would have a title, post and tag field, plus an image uploader for inserting an image into post. If user picks blog post, the form would have a title, post and tag field, along with a category picker and the image uploader.

    2. As for the “notify” functions I see in GTD, I’m looking forward to taking advantage of it but would like to be able to toggle it off. Not a huge issue though.

    Thread Starter dennybot

    (@dennybot)

    I’m a bit curious about something…

    In many of the P2 “modified” themes I notice that the ‘Theme Options’ tab under ‘Appearance’ is dead. It’s ahppening with P2 two 1.0.4.1 and GTD/P2 Reloaded 2.5.

    Thread Starter dennybot

    (@dennybot)

    So, I’ve got some issues getting the category buttons rigged up in the P2 quickpress form. I’ll post a new topic on that to see if anyone is willing he help. Thanks for the honest replies!

    noelsaw

    (@noelsaw)

    @dennybot,

    1.) Those are good ideas.

    2.) I could never get the email notifications working with GTD and it was sending a strange 0-byte attachment with each notifications. Both issues were fixed in P2 Reloaded.

    3.) My theme options seems to work for me. Screenshot:
    https://img.skitch.com/20110302-t91c9uqbs5j88qxi15ursd4uee.jpg

    Thread Starter dennybot

    (@dennybot)

    @noelsaw, that’s really odd.

    When I activate the P2 reloaded theme, and click the same place you show, the page seems to merely refresh the main content I’m already looking at. Perhaps there’s an installation glitch.

    Here’s the url it’s calling onclick of the options button:

    https://10.73.10.52/wordpress/wp-admin/themes.php?activated=true

    Which is the page I was on when I clicked it.

    I’m wondering whether it has to do with multiple P2-type themes I have installed, and am switching between looking for the perfect one.

    Unfortunately for me, there is no perfect one, as I find myself wishing for elements of all of them. ??

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