The Next Ideal Plugin

[zontech]

. . .unless it's very basic the Vivvo guys will be VERY used up 24/7/365.
There's a lot in it - have a look the web - the scripts are either dead basic (Almond), really tacky looking, or have Wall Street pricing.

So we opted for a WP sub install using ClassiPress http://wpclassipress.com - styling can be almost identical to Vivvo and functionality is superb.
Ver 3.0.2. is trouble free, only issue is that so far, free ads can't be revived by the poster.

Anyway, my vote for plugin: An EVENTS CALENDAR that works - has many useful applications for business and consumer sites - can provide real value to your audience and engage them with your site.

[Impaler]

you mean free ads cannot be edited by unregistered user? what if registrations are forced?

1. THEMES
I think the big thing missing for Vivvo are realy good themes. All the Vivvo themes except for the new 4.5 one and the new Vivvo company theme look like 2005 themes in style. The new theme for 4.5 is OK. I think the new Vivvo company theme you used to announce Vivvos features is the best so far -- especially the menus.

I like the Rocket Themes the best -- if you could get those guys to workwith Vivvo themes -- or work with them to convert one of their themes every month to Vivvo -- and let them sell it -- you might have seomthing going on there. http://www.rockettheme.com

2. CUSTOM FIELDS FROM BACK-END ADMIN
Add a field to any type of article, etc. Drupal and now Wordpress 3.0 has this built in now, and Joomla has it kind of as a plugin. This allows us to create our own content types.

3. SPAM KILLER FOR COMMENTS & REGISTRATIONS
Similar to WordPress.com which uses Akismet. It blocks spammers from leaving comments on your blog.

4. STORE
For a store I would recommend integration with MAGENTO as opposed to a plugin. The trick is can Vivvo integrate magento and a forum at the same time. In other words a single login for Vivvo users and magento. There would then be another widget which can display RSS from magento into a vivvo theme -- say of top 5 items for sale.

5. LINKS/DIRECTORY/CLASSIFIEDS plugin
This could be a classifieds, show real estate, etc. However, if you had a CUSTOM FIELDS plugin, a user could set this up themselves via the plugin as long as there was an option for the fields to be searchable.

6. STOCK MARKET WIDGET
Quick and dirty.

7. FLICKr WIDGET
Quick and dirty

8. BEEF UP ALL THE PLUGINS YOU HAVE NOW
Make the weather plugin more diverse with better graphics and options. Make the POLL plugin have better features for display, %'s etc.

9. A REALLY DECENT ROTATING CONTENT WIDGET with all the bells and whistles
See http://www.vivvo.net/forums/showthread.php?t=7605

[zontech]

With current version, anyone with access can place a free ad.

But it will expire according to the admin dashboard setting (example 14 days) and once expired can't be renewed with a couple clicks, as you can with some online auction/classified sites.

This has an upside - and this is on a site where items are typically $200 and up: Posters are less likely to relist $5 junk items because they have to re-enter the whole ad.

what if registrations are forced?

Not clear what you mean by this

[akash210]

I needed a classifieds system where users didn't have to register to post ads. Was pretty much appalled to see that none of the scripts on the market offered that option. So I customised one. And it totally fits in with my site. Here: http://www.lematinal.com/marketplace.html

[Alex]

Originally Posted by zontech

Anyway, my vote for plugin: An EVENTS CALENDAR that works - has many useful applications for business and consumer sites - can provide real value to your audience and engage them with your site.

My vote goes to this as well :P

Originally Posted by bahamamark

3. SPAM KILLER FOR COMMENTS & REGISTRATIONS
Similar to WordPress.com which uses Akismet. It blocks spammers from leaving comments on your blog.

Good one. We plan on having comment plugin that utilizes Akismet service for a while, hopefully we'll do it someday

Originally Posted by bahamamark

6. STOCK MARKET WIDGET
Quick and dirty.

7. FLICKr WIDGET
Quick and dirty

Why would you need us for this? Btw, you have Flickr widget already:
http://www.vivvo.net/resources/dload...r-gallery.html

[Micha]

@ bahamamark regarding themes

A good point here, however, gotta say few things

First of all, majority of Vivvo themes, including the new one, are made to be supported by all major browsers, hell, if you look at new 4.5 theme, it still looks decent even in IE6

Second, the themes from rockettheme.com, oh well, I guess they look ok, however, let's just make quick compare between Vivvo and rocket themes.

If you look at new 4.5 theme, and even 4.1 theme, in firebug, fully loaded, home page weights approximately 280kb, while at rocket themes, due to use of big graphic images, both for boxes and backgrounds, I couldn't find any under 500kb (I simply looked ad 10 random themes).

Now, take this in consideration - Vivvo users + their servers (some good, some ok, some pretty bad), imagine how bad would theme that weight let's say 700kb (but looks bitchin') load.

I'm not saying that Vivvo themes are state of the art design, they are far from that, but for the price, well, IMO, they are decent

[zontech]

@akash,

Wow - very impressive stuff, man. And fast, to boot.

NB: With ClassiPress classifieds anyone can post ads without registering or waiting for approval, depending on the WP settings.

[akash210]

Originally Posted by zontech

@akash,

Wow - very impressive stuff, man. And fast, to boot.

NB: With ClassiPress classifieds anyone can post ads without registering or waiting for approval, depending on the WP settings.

Thanks mate.

Installing Wordpress to run a simple classifieds system wasn't an attractive option for me.

Cheers.

Akash

Anyone know of a decent 'directory listing' i can customise to list companies?