I've just spent 45 minutes bouncing between geeksta.com, squatty.com, and GxBlock.com looking for the Chatterbox plugin.

The disappearance of Squatty's download area begs the question: Why isn't the Geeklog Plugins Project being promoted more actively? There isn't even an obvious link from the Geeklog site to the Plugins Project page. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/geeklogplugins/)

Hi folks,

First of all congrats for the wonderfull work done with Geeklog. I am already using it for my personal website ( http://sasaska.net ).

I am thinking about using it also for a company website but the only problem I have found not to be able to solve with the current Geeklog is languages: we have the same information in several languages. I would like to be able to post news items in several languages. Usually the first and default language would be English but if translations are available then they should appear (as flags or language symbols?) on when seeing the news item.

The needed functionality would be:

One of the reasons I love Geeklog is that the SID's are incremental numbers. For example, an article SID would be 2002072032...etc. which is taken directly from the date and time. I think this method of IDing articles is very good, because if you had incremental numbers of, say, 1, 2, 3, 4, and then deleted article #3, it would, in essence, put a break in the organization of your database.

I'm an organization freak.

Though the SID's are all well and good, the PID's (each comment ID) are incremental, so if you deleted a story, although it wouldn't disorganize the story id's, it would disorganize the comment ID's.

What if each comment ID used the date/time method of IDing as well? That way, if at a future date the webmaster decides to delete a story/comment, whatever, there would be no disorganization of numbers in his database since all the ID's are date based.

I have integrated the IP-Atlas PHP script that geographically plots IP addresses on a graphical map.

It's integrated into GL and I have modified the standard Who's Online block to show the option to "Plot IP" beside your visitors name. It will show all vistors including all the annonymous users. You can modify this if you want.

This is a neat feature the allows you to see where vistors are from. Saves you from scanning logs and looking them up using some other tool to trace IP addresses

You can see the feature at my site here and the block is available in my downloads section

Note: Many GL Users still running pre 1.3.5sr2 sites will have the problem where anonymous vistors sessions are not cleared. There is a quick fix to that but only really shows up on sites that don't have regular registered users signing in. As soon as a registerd user signs in, the older annonymous sessions are cleared. I can post the fix for this if users need it.

Cheers,
Blaine

Add a little humour to your site with a daily feed from www.quirt.com. The site has a new daily adult cartoons in five languages.

The URL to use for the daily feed is http://www.quirit.com/quiritmatic/quiritmatic.asp?lang=en for the daily english cartoon. Now you can use the URL in a story or create a static page for it. The images are always 340x367 so a bit large for a block.

I created a staticpage for it on my site and then linked the staticpage into the main menu. Using an iframe for the staticpage that floats between the blocks.

Just replace the last keyword to use a different language.

Cheers,
Blaine

Note: I'll add the actual iframe syntax used in a reply as GL parses it out when posting as HTML.

How can I modify GL to allow registered users to attach and upload images with their stories? Is there a hack or mod that does this already?

Thanks!

-Ken

A small request ... making the comment mechanism more straight forward. When viewing a story if you're the first commenter the reply button is obvious, but when comments already exist the reply button is hard to find for the avg computer user. The button is nested along with the view preferences and doesn't stand out on its own as the way to create a new thread in the comments. I had a hard time myself as a GL newbie finding how to comment without replying to a pre-existing comment.

I know I could recode the html templates, but this may be something all of our users experience.

I work at a K-12 public school, and am in the process of submiting proposals to implement Geeklog. It's a perfect solution for me because it has a calendar, simple administration for teachers, permissions that I can easily control, and great themes to build on. However, when creating proposals for my school district I found myself writing Glog instead of Geeklog. I felt that the name would make administrators somehow take the solution less seriously. I dont' particularly hate the name, however I do think that using Geeklog in a proposal may very well turn non-technical managment off. What does everyone else think about this issue? Should the name be changed? Do we want Glog proliferating itself into schools and businesses? Ne who that's my two cents.

I have had Geeklog for about a week, and I already know that this software is great. However, a first impression means everything. I knew from the minute I saw this website that Geeklog was high quality.

The portal's website means everything. See, I get to see their template, which is versatile enough for everyone to use. This shows that the owners have put a lot of thought and consideration into producing this software. Great job, Geeklog!

Is anyone interested in adding a file attachment system converted from the image attachment system?

Is the GL dev team currently working on something like this?

Here's my list of additions and changes.