First ride with Hotaru: Some questions/observations

[nothingman]

Ok, I test installed 0.7.4. here (http://www.lawrkhawm.com/hotaru/) and following are some observations/questions.

- Is there a way to enable/disable the 'require URL when submitting a story' feature (in submit step1) via the admin panel?
- Which file(s) to look for if one wants to add an editor like tinymce in submit step 2 or the comment form?
- Any plans to add the live page and 'view all comments' feature?
- Adding news categories was quite confusing. I went to admin>Plugin Settings>Categories but all I got was adding the categories to the sidebar or menu bar. Later found out that there was a 'Category Manager' link. As a suggestion, could the Category Manager link be added under the Categories link?
- The pages loaded without the themes being applied in a go (yes it took some time for the themes to be 'applied')
- Any plans of adding Smileys? :)
- Comments in the sidebar was missing. Is there a way to add the latest comments in the sidebar?
- Would be good to have clickable 'bold' 'Italics' buttons etc for the enabled HTML tags in the comments form like the one we have in these forums OR maybe an editor like TinyMce?
- How does on go about adding a site logo in the header - sorry, but I couldn't find any documentation on this :confused:

Well, these are some of my queries/suggestions and I'm not being critical but trying to be as constructive as possible. :)

All in all, it was my first ride with hotaru and I loved it, hence the queries :)

[Nick]

Hi nothingman, thanks for setting up Hotaru and for your feedback. Let me see...


Is there a way to enable/disable the 'require URL when submitting a story' feature (in submit step1) via the admin panel?

Not yet, but I definitely want to add that.


Which file(s) to look for if one wants to add an editor like tinymce in submit step 2 or the comment form?

The forms are in the Submit plugin (templates/submit_step2, submit_edit_post) and the Comments plugin (templates/comment_form.php).


Any plans to add the live page and 'view all comments' feature?

I intend to make a Hotaru version of the SWCMS Live module, which includes a filter for comments.


Adding news categories was quite confusing. I went to admin>Plugin Settings>Categories but all I got was adding the categories to the sidebar or menu bar. Later found out that there was a 'Category Manager' link. As a suggestion, could the Category Manager link be added under the Categories link?

I'd say no. They are two different plugins that automatically get added to the Plugin Settings list. However, I could add a note in the Comments settings page about the Category Manager.


The pages loaded without the themes being applied in a go (yes it took some time for the themes to be 'applied')

I'm not sure what you mean, but the first load is usually pretty slow. After that, all the css, js and some database queries are cached for subsequent page loads. Make sure you've enabled the database cache from the Settings page.


Any plans of adding Smileys? :)

I love Smileys. Yes, definitely. Edit: DONE! (download here (http://hotarucms.org/showthread.php?t=170))


Comments in the sidebar was missing. Is there a way to add the latest comments in the sidebar?

Not yet, but it's coming.


Would be good to have clickable 'bold' 'Italics' buttons etc for the enabled HTML tags in the comments form like the one we have in these forums OR maybe an editor like TinyMce?

I'm interested in looking at TinyMce or a similar editor.


How does on go about adding a site logo in the header - sorry, but I couldn't find any documentation on this :confused:

Edit: Added to docs (here (http://hotarucms.org/showthread.php?t=168))

Open /content/themes/YOUR_THEME/header.php and find:


<h1><a href="<?php echo BASEURL; ?>"><?php echo SITE_NAME; ?></a></h1>Replace that with this (change YOUR_THEME and YOUR_LOGO):


<a href="<?php echo BASEURL; ?>"><img src="<?php echo BASEURL; ?>content/themes/<?php echo THEME; ?>images/YOUR_LOGO.png" title="<?php echo SITE_NAME; ?>"></a>Hope that helps :)

[nothingman]

Hi Nick, thanks for the answers. I forgot to ask about one thing i.e private messaging (will hotaru have one too :)

Oh, also noticed that apostrophes (') in the story title are converted to forward slashes (/) in the tags (v 0.7.4) - What's is converted to what\\\'s - Sample -> http://imgur.com/vfqQb.png
BTW, in v 0.7.3, this happened with the story title too.


I'm not sure what you mean, but the first load is usually pretty slow. After that, all the css, js and some database queries are cached for subsequent page loads. Make sure you've enabled the database cache from the Settings page.
Nick, here's what I meant. If you notice, the theme isn't loaded but the skeleton(?) is. However, the theme is 'fully' loaded in seconds.

http://imgur.com/IMJCP.png

[Nick]

I forgot to ask about one thing i.e private messaging

Private messaging is quite low on my list of priorities, but I'll make a plugin if no-one else does first.


Oh, also noticed that apostrophes (') in the story title are converted to forward slashes (/) in the tags (v 0.7.4) - What's is converted to what\\\'s

Interesting. I don't get that problem on my local install, but I can see it on the demo site. It must be the PHP configuration, probably something to do with magic quotes. I'll look into it.


If you notice, the theme isn't loaded but the skeleton(?) is. However, the theme is 'fully' loaded in seconds.

Hmm, that's strange. Not sure about that one. Let's see if other people have the same problem.

[Nick]

I've updated the Submit, Categories, Tags and Sidebar Posts plugins to fix the back slashes. Plugin Downloads forum (http://hotarucms.org/forumdisplay.php?f=18). :)