Journal 0.6

[Nick]

Journal
Version: 0.6
Author: Nick Ramsay
Created on: 2010/03/17
Last Updated: 2010/08/03
Tested on: Hotaru 1.3.0 ~ 1.4.0
Plugins Required: Comments, Users
Plug & Play: Yes
Supported: Yes

Description
User journals are mini-blogs for your users. They don't need to provide a link, category or tags. They just post, Twitter style without the length restriction. Journal entries are separate from social bookmarking posts and can't be voted for. Users can leave comments, though.

As of version 0.3, the Journal plugin can be either with or without the Bookmarking plugin.

Instructions
1. Upload the "journal" folder to your plugins folder.
2. Install it from Plugin Management in Admin.
3. Ensure that Journal comes *after* Bookmarking (if used), Users and Comments in the plugin order.
Note: Using Journal 0.6 on Hotaru 1.4beta, Journal must come *before* Comments for the open/close comment form link to work.
4. Edit settings in Admin -> Plugin Settings ->Journal

Access a page of all journal entries with
example.com/journals (friendly urls), or
example.com/index.php?page=journals (unfriendly urls)

To link to that page from within a template, use this:

<a href="<?php echo $h->url(array('page'=>'journals')); ?>">Journals</a>

3. Access individual journals from the menu in a user's profile.
4. Add a new journal entry using the form at the top of your own journal.

Anti-spam
If used in conjunction with the Bookmarking plugin, you can require a user to have one approved bookmarking post. Simply check that option in Admin -> Journal -> Settings. If using the Journal plugin as a standalone site, the best thing to do is set the default "Can Journal" permission to "mod" for all new users. You can do that in Admin -> User Manager -> Edit Default Permissions. Once you've approved a user's post, don't forget to set their individual "Can Journal" permission to "yes" from their Profile -> Permissions page.

Future plans
Email notification of new Journal entries

Revision History
v.0.6 2010/07/29 - Nick - Fixed broken plugin hooks
v.0.5 2010/07/24 - Nick - Added link to close/open the comment form. Requires Comments 2.5.
v.0.4 2010/07/20 - Nick - Added "can_edit_journals" permission and fixed drop-down edit form
v.0.3 2010/06/23 - Nick - Made CSS independent of Bookmarking plugin
v.0.2 2010/05/23 - Nick - Removed dependency on SB Base
v.0.1 2010/05/07 - Nick - Released first version

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[louis]

I like the idea of this (mini-blogs) plugin. "Micro-blogging" with Hotaru.

[baadier]

My mouth is waterting at the possibilities of this plugin!

[JonH]

Cool. I bet it wouldn't be hard to integrate a WYSIWYG editor into this and maybe even the EVB button or similar.

[louis]

Inserting images into journal post, possible?

[Nick]

Inserting images into journal post, possible?

You should just be able to add the <img> tag to "Allowed HTML tags" on the settings page and use that.

[mabujo]

Is it possible to have the Journal entries show up in the main/'Top' list?

[Nick]

Is it possible to have the Journal entries show up in the main/'Top' list?

I'm afraid not. Journal entries are given a post_status of "new" and a post_type of "blog". Social bookmarking posts have a post_type of "news". I suppose you could submit journal entries manually as bookmarked links, or use Autoreader to run journal feeds straight in as "news".

Alternatively, if you want link-less posts showing on the Popular and Latest pages, you could either assign "post_without_link" permissions to users, or remove link submission altogether with the Submit No Links plugin.

[twine]

is there a way to make a single journal that multiple users can contribute to as opposed to a single journal per user?

[Nick]

is there a way to make a single journal that multiple users can contribute to as opposed to a single journal per user?

The Journals page itself combines all the user journals into one and has its own RSS feed. Other than that, no, there's no option in this plugin for what you're asking.