Hey everyone,

This one’s a wish list, not a to do list, because although I can do something to fulfill my wishes for WordPress and other Open Source stuff, the most I can do for Facebook is send them e-mails and pray. But I wouldn’t want to waste my prayer time on Facebook so I can just send them e-mails. But they’d reply with the same generic message: “maybe we will some day (which means never) but thanks for your e-mail,” so… wish list it is!

1) A simple option in your privacy settings to turn of all new application requests. Why so lazy on something so obvious, Facebook??

2) An option when you’re inviting Friends, to invite them all. I understand most people have different types of friends in their list, but for a power user like myself - I have four of five different accounts with different types of people in each account. And I don’t want to click 100 names. [Update: Here's an awesome FireFox add-on called Check All which can help with that.]

3) The option to change the name of your group, within reason. They have a no exceptions policy on this, and I think that’s unfortunate. Sometimes you start a group, it gets big, and the mission or vision changes, but you don’t want to have to ask all 600 or 6,000 or 60,000 people to move to a new group!

4) Functionality to work with large groups. Usually on Facebook, after your group has more than 1,000 members, a lot of the functions stop working. You can’t message all members, you can’t make officers or admins. It just gets silly.

5) Better Video. Facebook’s video extension has issues. Sometimes videos that are being processed just disappear. Sometimes you can’t tag people. Strangeness!

One thing I am really liking, however, is the Graffiti Wall public gallery. Many of the full time artists are using tablets to draw it, but still some very nice stuff.

Image by: Anna Leychenko

Hi Everyone,

I’d encourage you to do this on your blog if you’ve got some wishes for Wordpress. They have a section on the Wordpress site called Ideas, and the community ranks them. The Automattic team works on the highest ranked ideas, but for the programmers out there who love a challenge, you can check out some of the brilliant ideas and work on them as projects for plugins. So the things below are both a wish-list and a to-do list. These can be done by a programmer and WP professional, but the product would be more solid if the community and Automattic worked on them together. Here’s my list:

1) Importing & Exporting not just by author, but by category, or time range, or tag. Today there was a an interesting post by Jeff Chandler on the long way to export by category. However, a simple plugin would be awesome. This one’s obvious and it’s already on the list… and someday it WILL be a part of WP.

2) Really custom write panel. A write panel that works like NetVibes, PageFlakes, and iGoogle. There is a plugin called Custom Write Panel, and other similar ones, but none that goes the distance (without some modifying of your own). If you could, out of the box, define templates for types of posts you write, such as Post, Announcement, Review, Update, etc. Then based on those defined templates, you can define custom form fields that you would like to fill out for each type of post. I mean this can be done with modifications, but if it came ready to go out of the box, that would rock. (Clarification: this is not the same as a page template, which defines the markup/code/design of the page. This is about the input fields and the write panel).

3) BuddyPress. This wish is coming true some day. I can’t wait. Basically it will allow you to use WP Mu with some plugins and modifications to launch a social network. It can be (and has been) done with your own mods, but BuddyPress will probably have the checks and balances someone couldn’t achieve on their own.

4) WP linked to BBPress via comments. Basic functionality: you make a post, it is posted in your BBPress-powered forum (the first post will just have the title and link to avoid duplicate content). Then, all comments on the post are made as replies to that thread in your forum. People have been working on many WP bridges with VBulletin, phpBB, IPB, SMF, etc. but you’d think the easiest to bridge would be another Automattic product. This is more on the to-do list than the wishlist because I think it’s not that complicated, just need time to do it.

5) Post Macros. Maybe there is a plugin for this I haven’t found, but basically being able to set up posting of certain content at certain intervals; being able to schedule posts; and being able to perform specific actions on posts at certain times.

What is your wishlist? :)

stay in high spirits,

-k.s.