Plugin Improvements

[Fenn-CS]

Thank you awesome developer of this plugin! I choosed your plugin over RainLab.Blog because of the news letter ability and simplicity with which the variables are made available on the page. Also I personally prefer it's interface simple and better. However advanced users may find the plugin incomplete for the following reason

1. post.user not available? Authors of posts should be available as a key feature
2. Things like post.next and post.prev and a pagination for posts (The pagination code on rainlab.blog seems to work on indikator.news though) as those are traditional requirements in blog iterations
3. It's not particularly clear on how to go about email settings like changing default messages and all.
4. Despite the simplicity of Rainlab.Blog hundred of developers have built extension plugins for it so developers are likely to choose to save some time. For example there's a Blog Views counter for RainLab.Blog which counts page views and produces a component for popular posts this is (or was not available for Indikator.News) I however created a copy of Blog Views for indikator you can find it here : https://github.com/Fenn-CS/newspageviews works exactly the same way it would work on RainLab.Blog.
5. Since a lot of developers are building on RainLab and not Indikator I think it has to ship with a lot of tools out of box to make it more appealing.

Available to help if need be, just like newspageviews I would be building (or copying if you want) more extensions for Indikator.News but please try to fix this basic issues and thank you for the work so far!!

[gergo85]

Thank you for your useful feedback! I will fix this issues as soon as. I'm glad you're making extensions for it.

[Fenn-CS]

Great. Following up :)

[Fenn-CS]

First plugin on Indikator.News now available in OctoberCMS store.
https://octobercms.com/plugin/fenncs-newspageviews

[gergo85]

I added your plugin to the documentation.

[Fenn-CS]

@gergo85 Have you added a webhook to this repository? I am asking because after the new updates I expected to see the plugin up for updates in the plugin manager but that has not been the case.

In case there's no webhook to inform the store of updates I think one should be set and if one already exist we should check why changes are not reflected.

[gergo85]

@Fenn-CS How can I add webhook to this repository? I've never done this before.

[Fenn-CS]

@gergo85 Please consult "Updating plugins automatically" section of this page

https://octobercms.com/help/site/authors

[gergo85]

I will add some minor changes for plugin. After that I will update it.

[Fenn-CS]

Ok... I also noticed when we use the WYSIWYG plugin which has support for Indikator News just the first editor (introductory) changes....

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On 9 Nov 2018 10:53 am, "Szabó Gergő" ***@***.***> wrote: I will add some minor changes for plugin. After that I will update it. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#80 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ANp4z8OL7UR8NDHyAG2Sj7v1TI8sfp6wks5utVCngaJpZM4XcsWW> .

[gergo85]

Maybe I will change the layout. But it is a WYSIWYG plugin's bug.
Also I added Author field to the form.

[Fenn-CS]

Ok.... I see. But the current layout is just cool I guess.

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On 14 Nov 2018 10:58 am, "Szabó Gergő" ***@***.***> wrote: Maybe I will change the layout. But it is a WYSIWYG plugin's bug. Also I added Author field to the form. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#80 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ANp4z55re8LR_VygADbfBx9hikPrLAZNks5uu-lTgaJpZM4XcsWW> .

[gergo85]

Finally I have changed the layout a bit because of tag list field.

[Fenn-CS]

@gergo85 ok great! Thanks for the updates.

[Tetraneon]

Many thanks to your very useful update (author, prev and next, etc.).

Would it be abused to ask a "prevcat" and a "nextcat" to have the previous and then next post in the same category ?
Best regards

[Fenn-CS]

Hello Tetraneon, once you access a post object you can effectively access the category via `post.category.name` ...

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On Fri, 7 Dec 2018, 6:41 pm Tetraneon ***@***.*** wrote: Many thanks to your very useful developpement of author, prev and next. Is it abused to ask a prevcat and a nextcat to have the previous and then next post in the same category ? Best regards — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#80 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ANp4z87BU8pPrzLfNzp3Ff9AiP2geMQXks5u2qg5gaJpZM4XcsWW> .

[Tetraneon]

Hi Fenn-CS,
Of course I can do that... I would use a new post.prev() fonction ("prevcat") , to navigate between posts but in the same category.

[snipiba]

@gergo85 perfect work bro. maybe some usefull hints for next work>

• extending for seo (keywords, description, title, og image)
• issue at /news/statistics ErrorException: Undefined variable: top in /plugins/indikator/news/controllers/Statistics.php:84 ...

at line 83 was $top .= '<br>'; and may be $this->vars['top'] .= '<br>';

[gergo85]

@snipiba Thank you for your remark!
I fixed the statistics issue and I added the seo options to my to-do list.

[gergo85]

@snipiba I added SEO fields to news.

[snipiba]

@gergo85 ... maybe next time... something like author bio or profile, to create a linkable profile with author articles, biography, links to social media, avatar, etc. what u think?