Welcome to the Product Ideas forum for Movable Type. We are starting this forum to give users a place to share ideas, thoughts and musings upon MT. If you have an idea for a feature you would like to see by all means, share it here, we would love to hear it!
Yup, got one. I'll hope that someday (as in 2008) Movable Type will include a newsletter plugin that will let authors/users send and manage electronic newsletters to designated groups of website visitors or press or whoever needs a site related mailing. Content created as a bunch of categorized entries, newsletter management through the regular MT UI, opt-in/opt-out as a widget thingy.
Already a great product...however, if MT REALLY wants to make it even better, provide a better templating method to style individual pages as you make them. Sorry to say the other name, but WordPress has that function to apply a page template layout style from a drop down selection. Simple, fast, and perfect for the non-techy. For example, you have 4 pages, should be able to quickly make pg1 with left sidebar, pg2 with right sidebar, pg3 with both left and right, pg4 with full width no sidebars...and would be awesome to do this from the "Create Page" or "Create Category" sections...
Hey Pixelwm I suggested that one to Maarten... sort of did something similar when I implemented static pages in MT3 (see http://mt-staticpages.com/).
Being able to add extra fields to pages and have different templates assigned on a page-by-page becomes v. powerful...
I'd like to suggest a system to rsync a file-system to the mt-assets database.
Sample use case: 1 - upload complex file tree of assets to server 2 - decide it's too difficult to manage by hand via ftp 3 - decide to use the mt-assets service 4 - click on "merge asset data" ["select path to merge"] 5 - once sync is complete (EXIF and other metadata included if poss) mt prompts user with a disambiguation and refinements page (see Flickr picture uploader last step)
Man, Would I love to see expandable Comments. The comments on our PoliWatch blog can be lengthy and that means a lot of scrolling down and around to find the comments you are looking for.
What would be fantastick is a one line link for each comment with a second line providing the first line of the comment. Click on the link and the comment expands to reveal the full content. Another click at the bottom of the comment would collapse the comment again, leaving a listing of the comments as below:
David replied to Jim Jim, I have to disagree with your second argument and here...
Jim replied to David David, Yes, you have a good point there. I will take it...
etc. etc.
Actually here is another idea which I posted in another area... a complete platform change from perl cgi to a fully functional PHP version of MT. Much more flexibility I would think :)