Admin

1. Customizable Color Schemes
WordPress 2.5 allowed users to change the color scheme of the admin area. This was a great change, except it gave you two options: the old colors, and the new ones. Give us a way to set the four main colors with a cool little AJAX color picker. What would be even better is if it supported PNG files from ColourLovers.com, where it automatically detects the colors in order and puts them into the scheme.

2. Cleaner Admin Source Code
The admin source code is disgusting, with its table-based structure and un-semanticness. Please clean it up and make it easier for us code ninjas to customize.

3. Login Form Tabbing
This will probably change soon, but something is screwed up with the admin login form tabbing - at least in Safari. You can easily tab from username to password, but the next thing it goes to is the address bar. Looking at the source the tab indexes are 10, 20, and…90?! Both “Remember Me” and “Login” are completely missed.

4. Add Hovers to Admin Tabs
I hate having to load a new page to access the subpages in the admin area. Just make them appear below on hover.

5. Plugin Installation and Options
When I install a plugin that has an options page, take me directly to it. Make the plugin options pages third-level so they don’t clog up my settings screen.

6. That ****ing WYSIWIG Editor
I’ve had enough. That WYSIWIG editor WordPress comes with has to go. It screws up my HTML, de-paragraphs my paragraphs, and twenty other things I don’t care to name. Believe it or not, some WordPress users are actually HTML ninjas, so let us talk in geek when we want to. For some reason, turning off the visual editor doesn’t seem to do much for anyone.

7. The < code > Tag
While on the topic of the WYSIWYG, let’s make the < code > tags tell WP to ignore the code inside them so they work like they should.

8. Better Theme Editor
When I am forced by a client, friend, or my brain’s password memorization sector to use the theme editor instead of FTP, at least try and make it a somewhat pleasing experience for me. I guess making the tab key usable for semantic gurus isn’t a reality, but maybe make the text slightly smaller and add a quick-save option or something.

9. Customizable Login
This is somewhat related to issue number one, which suggests color palette functionality. Much like 37Signal’s Basecamp software, it’d be nice to have a way to edit the login screen to add your own logo and customize colors.

10. Dashboard Customization
The Wordpress Dashboard still sucks. I don’t care about the latest comments, community news, or what theme I’m running. I’d love to see the Dashboard become more useful, with additions such as a quick post form and a bulletin board available for higher-level logged-in users.

11. Admin Bulletin Board and Private Messaging
I think the bulletin board is such a good idea it deserves its own number. It’d rock to have a way to post notes and stuff to other users. A private messaging system would also be sweet to have so you could easily communicate with other admins.

12. Admin Options When Logged In
There’s a few plugins to do this, but the “admin bar” should be standard with the next version of WordPress. This bar is located at the top of the page that, when logged in, gives the user admin-related options such as posting, managing comments, etc. right from the page.

13. Quick Posting from Mobile Phone
It’d be nice to see a mobile-friendly page for WordPress that lets you write and edit posts, approve or delete comments, and perform other administrative options over your site. Matt Mullenweg’s mentioned it, so let’s see it come into reality.

14. Where’d the IDs Go?!
What happened to the IDs in the manage panel?? They used to be there, now they’re gone. Let’s catch the ID monster…

Themes

15. Theme Library API
This larger feature suggestion is 100% my original on-the-spot idea. Develop an API for the theme library. The current theme respiratory for WordPress is full of crap templates that are great for blogging about your 2001 expedition to a remote area somewhere in Asia and sharing it with your grandparents. With an API, “premium” theme websites, such as WPDesigner’s Theme Club, PremiumThemes.net, and iThemes.com can let subscribers add their site to the WordPress admin for quick browsing of awesome themes. Granted, these themes obviously won’t be able to be modified since they aren’t on your server, but hey, for five bucks over at WPDesigner, what do you expect?

16. New Default Theme
This is something I’ve heard a lot of users comment on. Kubrick - the default theme shipped with every copy of WordPress - has been around for a while and by now it’s outdated. Replace it with a sandbox-type theme, with admin options for less experienced users. ThemeShaper.com has gathered some nice ideas for a new sandbox theme.

17. Easy Plugin Integration
There are hundreds of great plugins out there for WordPress. There are also thousands of themes, and I’ve seen some that are made to work with certain plugins. Why not add a way for theme developers to package free plugins with their themes?

18. Theme Live Preview
It’s sad we’re taking this example from MySpace - and their version of this feature really sucks for advanced customizers - but the ability to preview your site with a new theme before activating it would surely be welcome.

General Suggestions

19. More Flexible Post Display Options
One of my favorite things about Expression Engine is how much flexibility you have when listing posts on a page. The query_posts function isn’t a very good option because it ruins pagination. Things I’d like to see include post count (number of posts per page), category and particular post exclusion (including its date, category, etc.), and filtering options. The less PHP needed to do these, the better.

20. Multiple Weblogs
WordPress doesn’t do it at all, and the multi-user version doesn’t do it well enough. Just the simple ability to manage multiple weblogs would make WordPress an excellent option as a CMS for a simple website.

21. Fix the Freaking Blogroll
The typical WordPress sidebar includes a list of categories, archives, latest posts, and a list of links, which with WordPress is known as the Blogroll. Why in the world is the Blogroll always formatted differently? The categories and archives always list so nicely, but with the< ?php wp_list_bookmarks(); ? >function, you can’t seem to get rid of that title list item (which incidentally is wrapped in an < h2 > instead of < h3 >) and the formatting of unordered lists is different than the rest. The widgets seem messed up too - please make all of the sidebar functions a bit more uniform.

22. Universal Date/Time
I am not a PHP guru, and therefore, I do not have all the date functions memorized. Instead of making us look up the PHP date/time functions each time we’re displaying a date on the page, just make the option in the admin set the default date and time format, so every time is used, it’ll be the same every time. The date formatting option is there, it just doesn’t expand into that particular tag.

23. Burn My Feed.
The first thing many serious bloggers do after starting a new blog is burn their feed at Feedburner. Even when that’s done, the theme assigned to WordPress is still the default feed URL that comes with the site. Either enable feed burning from the admin or provide an easy way to change the link to your feed without entering the theme editor.

24. Built-In and One-Click Caching
For those of us who’ve been hit by the Digg effect, we all know what it’s like to lose your site to thousands of eager readers. There’s a caching plugin out there, but this should be built in and allow one-click caching of individual posts to avoid losing your site to heavy traffic.

Comment System

25. Comment Notification
Beginning with version 2.0, Askimet, the popular comment spam filtering plugin, was shipped with the system. Of course, spam comments still float through my various blogs, so I keep the e-mail notification on for new comments, whether they’re up for moderation or not. This may be a bit nit-picky, but please, don’t send me an e-mail about a new comment after I’ve just moderated it myself. I’d like one when there’s a new comment from a trusted author, but not after I’ve already clicked, read, and approved.

26. Auto-Run Askimet
What’s up with the developer code that’s needed to activate Askmet? This thing should begin running as soon as you install WordPress with no activation needed.

27. Comment Subscriptions
There’s an excellent plugin to do this, but this should be built in.

28. Threaded Comments
There’s another good plugin for this, but it’s another feature that should just be built in.

29. AJAX Commenting
This would be freaking awesome - built-in comment posting with AJAX. It shouldn’t take a whole lot of work, really.

30. Cleaner comments.php File
Right now it’s a little hard to find your way around comments.php - the code is poorly organized. Please, clean it up.

JSGallery is a very nice AJAX image gallery built with Mootools.

Look & effects of the script is configurable. It supports browsing with keyboard between images and also pages.

Features of this AJAX gallery:

• nice transitions for page change, image select, etc.
• supports easy to build no-script version
• preloads images with separate indicators (optional)
• a bunch of options to change the default styles and bevaviours
• visibility of prev/next handles is controlled by mouse distance
• use the arrow keys to go to previous/next image
• use number keys to go to a certain page (beginning with 1)
• prevents too fast change of images (ugly effect interruption)

• Filed under: Gallery, Goodies, Other License

Kaspersky Anti-Virus & Internet Security 2009 8.0.0.357

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- New wizards ? Security Analyzer and Browser Configuration facilitate the
scanning for and elimination of security threats and vulnerabilities in the
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- Kaspersky Lab now reacts faster to the new threats due to the use of Kaspersky
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- New System Restore wizard helps fix system damages after malware attacks.

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Every month we take a look around and select some of the most interesting web-development-related web-sites. We read articles, check out tools, analyze the advantages of new resources. Below you’ll find useful references, tutorials, services, tools, techniques and articles we’ve found over the last 30 days - an overview of web-sites you shouldn’t have missed in April 2008.

All images can be clicked and lead to the sites from which the screenshots have been taken.

Best designs and Tutorials of April 2008

UPDATE: And now it’s back. Thanks to Mash readers lubos, Philip, et al. for spotting the reboot!

Web video fans, we have some news to share, and you may not take it so kindly. YouTube is down. Yes, the copyright-infringing clips and the homages and assaults on the now infamous Miley Cyrus housed within Google’s all-powerful meme machine are evidently inaccessible.

You may panic.

First highlighted by Allen Stern at CenterNetworks, the outage seems to have stretched the globe, with reports from people spanning the US, the UK, Estonia, and places elsewhere. A few simple requests by yours truly for YouTube clips via Google Search this morning return links to unresponsive pages. (The Australian site is down too, by the way.)

Not good, not good. Maintenance gone wrong, is it? Who’s to say? Google’s not talking, neither on the company blog or, more specifically, on the official Youtube Blog. (Which is also down.) And heck, why would they? Only if this crash doesn’t get cleaned up in reasonably short order (what’s the metric for that, anyway?) will Sergey and Larry and Chad and Steve come out with a were-so-sorry and some sort of technological excuse. All we know is that YouTube devotees are likely none too happy with the cold-turkey cutoff.

Right now, it’s likely best to share some alternatives to the pixelated archives of GoogTube. Alright, alright, think, think. There’s Vimeo, Veoh, iTunes Podcasts. Yahoo Video is another. DailyMotion is a good choice. The Onion News Network, too. Those come immediately to mind. Give those a go.

Or you can put this Current TV clip of Mashable bossman Pete Cashmore on repeat. A great choice, actually, regardless of YouTube’s vital stats.

Let us know how your efforts to get into YouTube

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Of the 23,160 Facebook applications, I use about 5, but I probably wouldn’t notice if someone randomly removed all of them from my profile in the middle of the night. Kids these days. I used to play BlockStar, but haven’t used it since it changed to Tetris (formerly BlockStar) and haven’t played Scrabulous since my 1,000,000th consecutive loss. What Facebook applications do you use (or not use)?

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IAC reported first quarter earnings this morning, and broke out the financials of what the new IAC would like after the pending five-way breakup of the company is completed. (A March court victory against dissenting shareholder Liberty Media clears the way for the spin offs). What’s clear from the financial statements is that the new IAC very much owes its 22 percent jump in revenues and 15 percent jump in operating income to the $3.5 billion, five-year deal it struck with Google last fall to hand over all search advertising on Ask.com and other sites to the search overlord.

In the Media & Advertising division—the new IAC’ largest and most profitable unit which includes Ask.com, Citysearch, and Evite—revenues increased 28 percent to $216 million and operating income skyrocketed 192 percent to $31 million. This was largely due to better revenues per search query due to the Google relationship, and a slashing of marketing costs. (Those annoying and expensive TV commercials finally got canned). Ask has been able to hang on to iits No. 5 spot in search market share (4.7 percent in March, according to comScore) and showed the biggest percentage gain (12 percent) in search queries of any search engine

These numbers show the benefits, at least in the short term, of handing your search advertising over to Google—something Yahoo is learning itself through its limited test with Google to do the same thing. The question is what happens in the long term when market share erodes and Google does not have to pay so much for the privilege of taking away the search advertising business from its fading competitors.

IAC’s other businesses did not do so well on their own. Match.com saw a 10 percent jump in revenues, but a 13 percent decline in operating profits. And the other businesses are just a mish-mash of underperforming assets.

Description

ddmenu is a simple MooTools-based script to create you’re own context menus.

Features

• The Menu Appearance is adapted to the System Content Menu behavior.
• Crtl-Switch: Press the Crtl-key and right click to switch between ddmenu and browser default context menu.
• Shift-Switch: Press the Shift-key and right click to open ddmenu beside the browser default context menu.
• Fully customizable: Menu styling can be easily defined in external stylesheet.
• Cross-browser: Full A-Graded browsers support (Opera is supported through Ctrl + Left Click)
• Fade-in (settable)
• Two tricky functions to enable/disable menu items

Specification

• Requires: < mootools 1.2 beta 2
• Tested browsers: Firefox 2, Safari 3, Internet Explorer 6/7, Opera 9 under Windows. Firefox 2, Safari 3 under Mac OS X
• Last modified on: 1/1/08
• Latest version: 0.2
• Author: janlee

Demos

• Right click anywhere on a page to bring up a menu. Use “Ctrl + Left Click” if you’re Browser doesn’t understand right clicks.
• mooeDit - A This experimental HTML-Editor uses the ddmenu in a Textarea

How to use it

1. Download moo.ddmenu.0.21.js and ddmenu.css. Include them in your page

   <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/ddmenu.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
   <script type="text/javascript" src="js/mootools-beta-1.2b1.js"></script>
   <script type="text/javascript" src="js/moo.ddmenu.0.2.js"></script>

2. Create the menu-HTML width the items and they’re IDs

   <div class="ddmenu def" id="ddmenu2" style="display:none">
   <ul>
   <li class="title">Menu Title</li>
   <li class="item" id="menu_item1"><a href="#">My item 1</a></li>
   <li class="item" id="menu_item2"><a href="#">My item 2</a></li>
   <li class="item" id="menu_big_item"><a href="#">This is a oversized item...</a></li>
   <li class="sepline"></li>
   <li class="item" id="menu_item_with_icon1"><a class="objects" href="#">Another item</a></li>
   <li class="item" id="menu_item_with_icon2"><a class="letter" href="#">Disabled item</a></li>
   <li class="item" id="menu_item_with_icon3"><a class="umbrella" href="#">With icon</a></li>
   <li class="sepline"></li>
   <li class="item" id="menu_spec_links"><a href="#">Enable on Links</a></li>
   <li class="item" id="menu_spec_texts"><a href="#">Enable on Texts</a></li>
   <li class="item" id="menu_spec_images"><a href="#">Enable on Images</a></li>
   </ul>
   </div>

3. Initialize ddmenu class passing the options. This example calls console.info when a menu item is clicked. (Take a look in the JS-Source for more informations)
   

   function iniz () {
   pagemenu = new DDMenu ('ddmenu2', document, { //document can be the whole page,
   //an element or a parent of elements
   onOpen: function (e) {
   this.enableItems(true); //enable all
   this.enableItems('menu_item_with_icon2',false); //disable menu_item_with_icon2
   },
   
   onItemSelect: function (act_id, act_el, menu_bindon) {
   console.info("menu action -> item id: \"%s\" from: %o in %o", act_id, act_el, menu_bindon)
   }
   });
   }

Version history

• v.0.21 [2/08]
  • Fixes for MooTools 1.2 Beta 2
• v.0.2 [1/08]
  • Correct positioning
  • Scroll-save
  • Ctrl and Shift Switches
  • Fade In
  • CSS-Styles reworked and adapted
• v.0.1 [11/07]
  • Initial Version with a basic menu script structure
  • Event-calls and enableItems() functions
  • Ajusted the when-menu-is-opened events on the system context menu behavoir