AWC Mediawiki Forum road map

version 2.5.x - EST Unknown In Public Beta Now

Planned

1. recycling bin - a place all deleted threads and posts will sit (admin option)

Whats Changed

Fixes

1. There have been many fixs which i have not noted or kept track of, sorry.
2. Fixed: Forum now displays time (to guests) based on what ever $wgLocaltimezone and $wgLocalTZoffset they might have set, logged in users time still reflect on their Wiki Preferences.

Changes

1. CSS file has been moved to the Database.
   Through your AdminCP you can now edit your CSS (edit history also), export, import, search, save as file or have css code embedded in your pages.
2. Skin file has been moved to Database
   Through your AdminCP you can now edit your skin display (edit history also), export, import and search.
3. The forums Permissions now works off wiki groups along with two pemissions settings
   One for reading
   A second for posting
4. url format: No longer use ?action= (kept old read system so its back-word compatible)
5. Removed 'Delete Thread' from second page of threads with multi-pages
6. How the forum tag creates URL's
7. Member search for Threads and Posts
   When clicking the post count link the results will not retrieve threads started by the member. Before it would display all threads and posts which the member was active in, now it will only display posts and the Threads link will display only threads, like it has.
8. Large part of the code has been changed to run more efficient
9. Language text display, look-up.
   Any and all text displayed in the forum can now use wiki-syntax. Change the text in the AdminCP >> Language file >> section.
10. Changed how the "recent post" indicators work (along with an Admin option to store info in dbase to make "recent posts" browser independent, Default is cookie)
11. Got rid of the /includes/SpecialAWCforum.php file.

Added

1. Spam-bot filter
   One invisable text box has been added to all posting forms which humans can not see. If the text box is filled in, the forum will reject the post with a "spam" message. Since a human can not see the text box they can not fill them in (so the text box will remain blank), but since a spam-bot can see the text box the spam-bot will try and fill them in and cause the post to be rejected.
2. Forum Stats(Total threads, posts, forum members) displayed on the main forum page
3. Wikifying Words
4. Poll option along with a <forum_poll id=##></forum_poll> tag
5. Who's Here and Where (also in Wiki via the config.php file)
6. Added .html to the end of most links - trying to make links more search engine friendly (admincp option)
7. (2) Default Forum Avatars
8. Nicer pre-view display for Quoting, Editing and Posting
9. Redirect system.
   Message screen with a 3 second pause (admincp option) after submitting (post, thread, edit, etc.)
   New language definitions section for redirect system
10. Displaying wiki templates (or pages using {{template}} or {{:page}}) in the forums header (at the top of every forum page) and/or above each forum section (editable via AdminCP editing forum sections) and/or above the posting boxs (editable via AdminCP editing forum sections).
11. Moderation check boxs to the left of thread titles on the forums listing page for mass; Announcing, Move, Delete, Sticky, etc.
12. Splitting posts to new threads
13. Merge posts into other threads
14. History for post edits (admin, mods and user who created the post (if admin lets users to edit) can see this)
15. "Last Post" links. When clicked, links in the 'Last Action' columns (forum pages, search pages, forum tag) will lead to the last page and last post in a thread.
16. Announcement, Poll, Sticky, Locked indicators in forum tag.
17. Page jump blocks in forum tag
18. Option for users to "Auto Subscribe" to threads
19. Thread subscribing option on the thread posting screen
20. Forum Menu in Wikis Navigation Menu along with a <awc_forum_menu_tag> tag and MemCP option to control whats displayed.
21. Extra <forum_info>option, you can pull from different forum sections (<forum_info id=#,#,#>)
22. Adding thread and post text to your wikis database.
23. Added [admcp lang_news|five small language files]] that are used for the Poll tag, FOrum tag, Whoes Here and Forum Menu.
24. Added SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi Buttons
25. Added help links through out the AdminCP
26. add the following tags (pretty sure they have been working in the forum from early 2.4.x)
    

    [search]test[/search] [google]test[/google] [yahoo]test[/yahoo]

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