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The Planet 4 Roadmap
Planet 4 launched in 2018. You can find a history of changes on the #Updates page. Want to know where we’re going from here? Check the P4 Roadmap!
Request or vote for P4 features
Below is a list of cool ideas for P4 suggested by the community 🙌
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The full Idea generation / voting / discussion / decision process is described below 👇 (How ideas turn into product development)
P4 feature request
- 2Sort and search functions for tablesI'd like to be able to allow users to sort and search a table of data in the same way as you can do with the Google Sheets embed. Sometimes tables are required so that we can have html in the data ... Read more...
- 1Add an internal title to pagesOur editors sometimes set up multiple landing pages with similar content for different audiences. It would be useful for them to be able to set an internal title for pages (that's not visible to t... Read more...
- 2Make the Donate button sticky on mobile (always on top)The donate button is hidden on mobile / responsive views, which implicates in a bigger journey for donators. This doesn't happens on desktop website, where the button is placed in a rich website posit... Read more...
- 3Gravity Forms thank you message customizationIt would be nice if we could customize each share message by channel: WhatsApp: it could be a copy of the twitter but often Tweets uses @ or other formatting that doesn’t make sense for WhatsApp. I... Read more...
- 6Configurable share buttons (to add Reddit, LinkedIn, Line, etc.)I'd like to be able to select (and deselect) which social share buttons appear on stories and posts so that I can add Reddit and LinkedIn share buttons - (but maybe there are other social platforms th... Read more...
- 8Hubspot counter blockAs it's done for the EN counter block, I believe it could be useful to have a block that use the Hubspot counter for NROs who host their petition pages in P4. The idea is to display the number of s... Read more...
- 3Carousel scrolling on mobileOn mobile, it is not clear that users can swipe through the slided in Carousel. Would it be possible to add some elements to make it more obvious, like an arrow on the left and right side? Thanks! ... Read more...
- 3Identify Greenpeace staff when replying to comments on PostsWhen GP staff reply to comments on Posts we'd like a way to identify ourselves as GP staff. On P3, when a user with a GP email address would leave a comment their comment was highlighted with a lig... Read more...
- 1Gravity forms - Survey add-onSometimes for better audience analyses, different ways of questions are valuable to understand your survey results. Gravity Forms survey add-on is giving ability to add likert scale, rating and ran... Read more...
- 5Send readership/impact stats to post authorsAs an author of a post, I would love to have Planet 4 send me updates about how well that post/article is doing. I envision something similar to what is sent to authors of posts on Medium.com. See,... Read more...
- 3Images add-on for GFIn case there are some given solutions already or future plans from the community, please ignore the idea 🙂 Gravity Forms is a nice plugin. Thanks for adding this. It will be really easy way of ad... Read more...
- 7A live blog feature and page typeWhen we do an action or put on some sort of event, we have typically used paid third party tools like ScribbleLive to aggregate and embed a 'social feed' of tweets, youtube videos and instagram and fa... Read more...
- 8Compare 2 images sliderHave a block to show the difference between two images; before and after storytelling. e.g. https://es.greenpeace.org/es/trabajamos-en/oceanos/artico/consecuencias-del-deshielo-del-artico/ T... Read more...
- 4"Last update time" feature for latest news postsLast week we made a post about forest fires in Turkey. We updated the page regularly with the latest news inside the content so people can follow the news from our page. You can see it here. https... Read more...
- 7Alternative backgrounds: Parallax and Video bkgdsThe following multimedia blocks or functionality, natively in P4, would be really useful in building engaging pages: Parallax scrolling (example - or other examples here and here) - I underst... Read more...
- 7Google Apps plugin for WordPressMany Web Editors find the process of adding a Gravatar to their Author bios cumbersome. Either they do not have the internet bandwidth (ships personnel), the time (EDs), or the technical capacity (... Read more...
- 3Accordion Block V2 (allowing other blocks or content types)I see the new accordion block is now available, which is awesome! I see that for content, users can insert text and a button for each section. Are there any plans (or is it possible?) to allow users t... Read more...
- 2Add an option for a second button on each slide of the carousel header blockFor the carousel header block, it would be nice to have the option to add a second button to each slide. I was able to achieve this for GPCA by copying the carousel header block from the browser dev t... Read more...
- 5Media assets warning (when a user deletes an file)As an Admin, when an Editor attempts to delete a Media Library asset I want them to be able to see if and where that asset is embedded/linked to on the website so they can make an informed decision ab... Read more...
- 2Text positioning option in carousel header blockBecause of the text overlay on carousel items, the options what images can be used are somewhat limited and images have to be selected specifically to work in this layout. Sometimes, that prevents ... Read more...
- 4Hide certain pages from Google and othersMost pages in Planet4 are for the whole world to see, but we also work with landing pages, thank you pages for donations and others that aren't relevant to everyone. I'd like to have a page setting... Read more...
- 11Mixed SoMe Feed (Social Radar)Call all Social Media feeds in a same frame to see Facebook, Twitter and Instagram most recent posts. Sort of an enhanced version of the German Social Radar, including all Social Media feeds but fr... Read more...
- 8Upgrade "tweet share" to twitter standardsAs an admin I want more control over the tweet button for each page, access to all the parameters and for it to use twitter standards for tweet button: https://publish.twitter.com/ https://publish.... Read more...
- 10Add a "Countdown" blockI would like to add a countdown to some of our pages, for example an act page. A countdown can bring across the urgency to act. The "Countdown" block should include at least: Date and time to ... Read more...
- 10Show EN Form on top of mobile pagesAs an Editor I want the form part of the EN Form block to appear at the top of the page when viewing the content on a mobile device. ... Read more...
- 1EN form : add Email To Target OptionIn order to use P4 as we use Engaging Network to build Email To Target campaigns
- 3Text Editor in the EN form blockTo facilitate text customization easily as in any other text block
- 1New P4 block: meme generatorMy colleagues and I really like this meme generator idea: https://greenpeace.org.nz/omv/banners/2019-11-18-728-stz86/# We were hoping this could become a reusable P4 block where we could customize ... Read more...
- 4Enable zoom setting on timeline blockThe timeline block displays a timeline to a default zoom level, which doesn't work well for all content. The underlying timeline script seems to support setting a default zoom level. It would be gr... Read more...
- 14Media Library asset version controlAs an Editor I need to be able to overwrite assets in the WP Media Library and maintain the asset URL. The current process* is not only cumbersome (Admins cannot create redirects from an old media ... Read more...
- 5Stripe payment gateway integrationAs an admin I want to be able to create a 'donate widget' page element that allows users to select and / or type a donation amount, and click a button that triggers the Stripe Payment Gateway 'remembe... Read more...
- 1Allow selection of Take Action parent pagesI'd like to be able to select parent pages of Take Action pages. Today only the first level pages - Take Action - are available to be selected on Post pages. Sometimes it's needed to create a tree ... Read more...
- 10Media Library enhanced managementAs a web editor I want to organize P4 media into folders (?) by category (?) in my CMS so that I can easily find media for content I publish. JIRA Ticket >> https://jira.greenpeace.org/browse... Read more...
- 31SEO Meta Data - Add Customisation Features beyond excerptGP France developed an SEO feature on their WP website to customize meta data (beyond the excerpt) and increase their organic reach. Could probably be partly replicable and for sure very interestin... Read more...
- 15Robust web page reportingAllow Admins to run more robust website reporting and allow Editors to have wider view of changes made to Posts and Pages. 🗳️ SLACK VOTING – NOVEMBER 2020 🗳️ 🙌 – 3 (from 12 to 15) 💚 – 6 ... Read more...
- 9Multi-engagement Feature (inspired from GPUS)GPUs build an awesome Volunteer Platform on WP. Their Take action feature is simple & engaging, reusable for online toolkits for action for ex. See here the tool : https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/volun... Read more...
- 2Enable more alphabets in another language in ThumbnailAs a User I want to show more than 30 alphabets in blog thumbnail for another language. Now with only 30 alphabets we still can't communicate sample content with people. example for Thai language, we ... Read more...
- 4Images URL for special charactersWe had some problems with editors who forgot (or just didn't know) to rename image files, removing/converting special/latin characters, like "á", "é", "ç". I noted that spaces are substituted, but may... Read more...
- 8Tasks to count more than 4As an Editor, I want to put 2 tasks blocks on the same page and command the 2nd task block to count from a specific number. So I can have more than 4 tasks for my audience to take. e.g. the 1st tas... Read more...
- 6Customise Search ResultsAs an Admin/Editor I want to have the ability to weight and/or customise search results in Elastic Search, so that I can influence search results and sorting; directing my audience to the content I wa... Read more...
- 18Allow "FlipBook" page design in P4I think it will be good for Web editors to create our own page for Newsletter or Annual Report by use pdf file to flipbook page. Here is example that we used to use for flipbook - http://viewer.zma... Read more...
- 10Make Sitemap page editableWeb editors should be able to edit the Sitemap page, which is now automatically populated. JIRA Ticket >> https://jira.greenpeace.org/browse/PLANET-2096 [caption id="attachment_4... Read more...
- 6Ability to change the color of donation buttonI want able to decide which colour the DONATE button is. Sort of what GP Colombia did - http://greenpeace.org/colombia Maybe this could be in Settings > Planet 4? UPDATE June 3rd 2020 >>... Read more...
- 14Enable Image Bilingual CaptionsAs a user I would like to Enable bilingual option for caption images translate the caption in the correct language and add it in the FR version of a description so it's available every time we call th... Read more...
- 1Embed ProfilesWeb Editor Embed a profile of a colleague in a page where their contact details and photo are relevant, so our visitors can contact them. E.g. a pressofficer in a press release, or a fundraiser for a ... Read more...
How ideas turn into features (Video & Process)
Here’s a video and here’s a schematic process on how the ideas above make their way into the core product 👇

Data-Driven Improvements
To continuously improve existing features and integrate new functionalities, the mantra of the P4 team is “Test before developing”.
The schematic below highlights how this is included in the development process, and for more details please check the Medium post improving Planet 4 with A/B Testing and the Set up A/B testing Handbook guide.

Links & Resources
Community
Set up A/B testing
#Updates (release notes, improvements and much more)