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Below is a list of cool ideas for P4 suggested by the community 🙌
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- 4Digital Cleanup ToolIn the spirit of cleaning up digitally, it would be useful to have a sort of tool that spots if an image isn't being used anywhere on the site. Over time, so many images get uploaded and lost. If ther... Read more...
- 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...
- 2Add 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...
- 3Make 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...
- 8Configurable 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...
- 10Hubspot 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...
- 7Carousel 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...
- 5Identify 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...
- 3Gravity 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...
- 6Send 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...
- 4Images 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...
- 9A 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...
- 10"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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 20Allow "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...
How ideas turn into features (Video & Process)
Here’s a video 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
P4 Handbook
Community
Set up A/B testing
#Updates (release notes, improvements and much more)
Medium