azizpoonawalla

there’s a thread on this here:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/link-button-on-quickpost-box-is-broken?replies=16

Oh, I forgot the most important feature request: to make the quick-post box on the P2 frontpage identical to QuickPress from the Dashboard.

Hi,

given Lances positive response a few months ago, I just wanted to bump this thread to remind the devs of the feature requests. To recap:

* for the LINK button, copy the style from the QUOTE button, except instead of “citation” you’d have “URL”. The URL would be made clickable of course but otherwise make it identical to Quote, style-wise.

* add a VIDEO button, styling should be similar to QUOTE and LINK as above – main text field is for explanatory text and the “link” would be the Youtube URL. This would obviate having to use the [youtube=http….] syntax entirely.

* add basic HTML buttons (b, i, link, b-quote, code, ul, ol, li) to the main field to facilitate markup. In fact, re-use teh same code as the bbpress text input box uses – these are perfect! code reuse always best ??

If there is a more appropriate place than here to post these feature requests, please let me know. I still believe P2 is as important as BBpress and Buddypress and deserves its own Trac.

P2 *is* as important as Buddypress. Seriously. It could be the distributed Twitter with just a few more features.

Can you hint as to when the next release will be?

and – i really would like to see a Trac for P2 at some point. It’s just as important a project as Buddypress.

There are so many features that coudl be added by enthusiastic users if there were some resources devoted to organizing the project within automattic. For example, @replies, per-post thread toggle, facebook connect, intensedebate integration, and following.

Lance, how about also adding a “Video” quick link? The styling should be similar to the Link – main text field is for explanatory text and the “link” would be the Youtube URL. This would obviate having to use the [youtube=http….] syntax entirely.

Also, one last feature request. There need to be some post styling buttons on the quickpost editor as well, akin to the ones you see right here in the forum. bold, ital, link, quote, and ol/ul/li at bare minimum.

Ah. I didnt understand. I thought the LINK button would be an insert hyperlink button, not a style.

You’re going for a Tublr approach, then? In that case I’d suggest copying teh style from the Quote button, except instead of “citation” you’d have “URL”. The URL would be made clickable of course but otherwise make it identical to Quote, style-wise.

This would be the fastest “fix” since this issue is confusing many users and its better to have basic functionality rather than zero functionality.

FYI this is an old issue – older thread on the topic was closed with no resolution:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/link-button-not-working?replies=10

(bump)

anyone else having issues with the LINK button on P2?

That woudl be great – any chance of a roadmap for what you have planned for P2 ?

ok i have solved the problem and got the plugin to work. more details on the plugin are here if interested.

latest version of the plugin is at pastebin here f you want to look. i am going to be modifying it more aftfer it gets accepted to the plugin repository.

i am trying to do something similar to evardsson’s code above, in a dedicated plugin for adding tags to post titles in the RSS feed as hashtags, please see thread:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/302741?replies=1

any assistance much appreciated.

I’ve noticed that IE8 really hoses P2. “Compatibility Mode” doesn’t fix the issue. Does anyone else havethe same problem? my site is TalkIslam.info for comparison.

Normally I don’t care about IE but 25% of my users are using it (assuming they arent recurring visits bec it looks such a nightmare…)

actually the change was nearly trivial – in entry.php, the line that reads:

<li id="prologue-<?php the_ID(); ?>" class="post user_id_<?php the_author_ID( ); ?>">

should be modified to read:

<li id="prologue-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class() ?> class="post user_id_<?php the_author_ID( ); ?>">

that’s it. now you can define your class .sticky in the css file however you want.

Hello,

I was trying to style my sticky posts and realized that index.php does not support the post_class function. Can this be added in the next release? I am actually about to hack it for my own purposes, i would be happy to share my patch. where/to whom would i send it?