Several suggestions for plugins or added functionality

[wimvincken]

• Display where visitors and members are on the board till the level of the topics (sorry, you call them threads).
  
• A separate screen/panel and showing where all the visitors are currently on the board.
• On each thread the number of visitors (per month or time period(s)). For an author of a thread, the only visible form of reward he or she gets is that the author sees that people visit it (and how many). This means an added value to the forum.
  
• Sorting of threads in any index. I know it was answered before, but I know that there is functionality out there, which is doing exactly that on a board like this. And not talking about other boards out there with that functionality. This means an added value to the forum.
  
• Custom fields, but not for the user, but for the threads and posts. This is important when you want to use the forum for something else then some stories or text. This means a very big added value to the forum. For example fields describing a book (title, description, pages, ISBN number, price, author(s), year, publisher, etc. And such functionality can be applied on everything possible.
• An easy and direct way to change the theme of a forum. Come on! There is no such a thing (then some strange constructs for attempting to do something like that) existing on the board!
• A functionality to manipulate the header (and footer) of the board (globally, per pages, per category or per forums).  With manipulation I mean not only the stupid banner, but also the different texts (sub-title, additional (sub-)titles like information, sub-headers, sub-sub-headers, copy-rights, some short messages, some sort of help, some description, etc. This means a very big added value to the forum.
• And get the shoutbox to the left or right too. And don't moan about "can't etc.", because you can. Some theme makers did exactly that without breaking any layout or anything else.
  

[Brian]

Please make only one plugin request per thread.

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Oct 18, 2019 9:31:09 GMT -8 wimvincken said:

• Display where visitors and members are on the board till the level of the topics (sorry, you call them threads).
  
• A separate screen/panel and showing where all the visitors are currently on the board.

This wouldn't be allowed, not just because it's tracking users but also because the code involved would have to write to a key automatically every time the page loads. Otherwise a plugin would have already existed for this by now as it gets requested often.

Oct 18, 2019 9:31:09 GMT -8 wimvincken said:

On each thread the number of visitors (per month or time period(s)). For an author of a thread, the only visible form of reward he or she gets is that the author sees that people visit it (and how many). This means an added value to the forum.

Google Analytics would probably do a better job of this than any plugin could, though a plugin could automate the changes required to get that data to Google Analytics.

Oct 18, 2019 9:31:09 GMT -8 wimvincken said:

Sorting of threads in any index. I know it was answered before, but I know that there is functionality out there, which is doing exactly that on a board like this. And not talking about other boards out there with that functionality. This means an added value to the forum.

This would need to be a built-in feature of the forum software itself. A plugin can't change which threads you receive from the backend of the forum software.

Oct 18, 2019 9:31:09 GMT -8 wimvincken said:

Custom fields, but not for the user, but for the threads and posts. This is important when you want to use the forum for something else then some stories or text. This means a very big added value to the forum. For example fields describing a book (title, description, pages, ISBN number, price, author(s), year, publisher, etc. And such functionality can be applied on everything possible.

That's pretty much what plugin keys were made for, so this is possible. An example of a plugin that already does something like this is the Thread Descriptions plugin.

Oct 18, 2019 9:31:09 GMT -8 wimvincken said:

An easy and direct way to change the theme of a forum. Come on! There is no such a thing (then some strange constructs for attempting to do something like that) existing on the board!

Already exists in the form of the Theme Changer plugin.

Oct 18, 2019 9:31:09 GMT -8 wimvincken said:

A functionality to manipulate the header (and footer) of the board (globally, per pages, per category or per forums).  With manipulation I mean not only the stupid banner, but also the different texts (sub-title, additional (sub-)titles like information, sub-headers, sub-sub-headers, copy-rights, some short messages, some sort of help, some description, etc. This means a very big added value to the forum.

This is what Themes > Layout Templates in your admin area is for. Editing your forum's layout templates alters its underlying HTML. A plugin would have to make all of these changes after the page loads and end up increasing how long it takes for your page to finish rendering, versus the forum's layout templates which will allow the forum software to deliver the page to your browser with all of those changes already made, no extra render time necessary.

Oct 18, 2019 9:31:09 GMT -8 wimvincken said:

And get the shoutbox to the left or right too. And don't moan about "can't etc.", because you can. Some theme makers did exactly that without breaking any layout or anything else.

This can also be done with a layout template edit, hence why some themes already have it. You can move the $[shoutbox] variable anywhere you want in the Forum Wrapper template to change where the shoutbox appears.