As I work with consulting and connecting people I would like a place where people can post their ideas and other can comment on them. But I do not like the way forums work. They make it complicated and not interesting.

I wish for a plug in, which is a pin board (like this http://static6.depositphotos.com/1011646/540/i/950/depositphotos_5407180-Pinboard.jpg ) People would then be able to post their ideas and the ideas would be pinned up there. And in case they write long texts, then you should be able to click on the pin and the pin would be expanded to show all of the text.

I kind of like the way this works http://plugins.flowcom.se/flowboard/demo/ but it is not exactly what I had in mind.

This information is stored in the database as part of the wp_usermeta table. For example, there is a meta_key named closedpostboxes_page with serialized data that expresses the current state of the Post editor's closed boxes.

In the SQL example below, we have several Custom Post Types: Committees, Misc and Notes. So the meta_key "closedpostboxes_committees" has a meta_value with serialized data {wrapped: like, this}.

In theory it should be easy to set the preferences for all users to have the same settings, which would make WordPress more like a CMS, as all users would have the same general Dashboard look.

As a workaround for now, we can do a SQL INSERT command, if we know the user's ID.
I'm hoping some clever developer can pick up on this and create a plugin for applying preferences from, say, the Admin, to all other users. Or maybe make it part of WP core?

Here is an example for user ID 8:

INSERT INTO  wp_usermeta
( user_id, meta_key, meta_value)
VALUES
( 8, 'closedpostboxes_committees', 'a:7:{i:0;s:11:"categorydiv";i:1;s:16:"tagsdiv-post_tag";i:2;s:11:"postexcerpt";i:3;s:10:"wpseo_meta";i:4;s:10:"postcustom";i:5;s:16:"commentstatusdiv";i:6;s:13:"trackbacksdiv";}'),
( 8, 'closedpostboxes_dashboard', 'a:1:{i:0;s:11:"w3tc_latest";}'),
( 8, 'closedpostboxes_misc', 'a:5:{i:0;s:11:"categorydiv";i:1;s:16:"tagsdiv-post_tag";i:2;s:10:"wpseo_meta";i:3;s:10:"postcustom";i:4;s:16:"commentstatusdiv";}'),
( 8, 'closedpostboxes_notes', 'a:3:{i:0;s:16:"commentstatusdiv";i:1;s:10:"postcustom";i:2;s:11:"commentsdiv";}'),
( 8, 'closedpostboxes_page', 'a:3:{i:0;s:10:"wpseo_meta";i:1;s:10:"postcustom";i:2;s:18:"rs_event_sectionid";}'),
( 8, 'closedpostboxes_post', 'a:3:{i:0;s:10:"postcustom";i:1;s:18:"rs_event_sectionid";i:2;s:10:"wpseo_meta";}'),
( 8, 'edit_committees_per_page', '200'),
( 8, 'edit_misc_per_page', '200'),
( 8, 'edit_notes_per_page', '200'),
( 8, 'edit_page_per_page', '200'),
( 8, 'edit_post_per_page', '200'),
( 8, 'upload_per_page', '200'),
( 8, 'manageedit-committeescolumnshidden', 'a:16:{i:0;s:9:"Thumbnail";i:1;s:10:"categories";i:2;s:4:"tags";i:3;s:9:"post_type";i:4;s:11:"wpseo-score";i:5;s:11:"wpseo-title";i:6;s:14:"wpseo-metadesc";i:7;s:13:"wpseo-focuskw";i:8;s:0:"";i:9;s:0:"";i:10;s:0:"";i:11;s:0:"";i:12;s:0:"";i:13;s:0:"";i:14;s:0:"";i:15;s:0:"";}'),
( 8, 'manageedit-misccolumnshidden', 'a:12:{i:0;s:9:"post_type";i:1;s:9:"thumbnail";i:2;s:11:"wpseo-score";i:3;s:11:"wpseo-title";i:4;s:14:"wpseo-metadesc";i:5;s:13:"wpseo-focuskw";i:6;s:0:"";i:7;s:0:"";i:8;s:0:"";i:9;s:0:"";i:10;s:0:"";i:11;s:0:"";}'),
( 8, 'manageedit-notescolumnshidden', 'a:4:{i:0;s:9:"Thumbnail";i:1;s:9:"post_type";i:2;s:0:"";i:3;s:0:"";}'),
( 8, 'manageedit-pagecolumnshidden', 'a:14:{i:0;s:9:"Thumbnail";i:1;s:8:"comments";i:2;s:9:"post_type";i:3;s:11:"wpseo-score";i:4;s:11:"wpseo-title";i:5;s:14:"wpseo-metadesc";i:6;s:13:"wpseo-focuskw";i:7;s:0:"";i:8;s:0:"";i:9;s:0:"";i:10;s:0:"";i:11;s:0:"";i:12;s:0:"";i:13;s:0:"";}'),
( 8, 'manageedit-postcolumnshidden', 'a:14:{i:0;s:4:"tags";i:1;s:9:"post_type";i:2;s:9:"thumbnail";i:3;s:11:"wpseo-score";i:4;s:11:"wpseo-title";i:5;s:14:"wpseo-metadesc";i:6;s:13:"wpseo-focuskw";i:7;s:0:"";i:8;s:0:"";i:9;s:0:"";i:10;s:0:"";i:11;s:0:"";i:12;s:0:"";i:13;s:0:"";}'),
( 8, 'manageuploadcolumnshidden', 'a:2:{i:0;s:8:"comments";i:1;s:0:"";}'),
( 8, 'meta-box-order_committees', 'a:3:{s:4:"side";s:75:"submitdiv,pageparentdiv,categorydiv,tagsdiv-post_tag,authordiv,postimagediv";s:6:"normal";s:72:"postexcerpt,wpseo_meta,postcustom,commentstatusdiv,trackbacksdiv,slugdiv";s:8:"advanced";s:0:"";}'),
( 8, 'meta-box-order_dashboard', 'a:4:{s:6:"normal";s:82:"custom_help_widget,w3tc_pagespeed,dashboard_right_now,DashboardRecentPostsExtended";s:4:"side";s:11:"w3tc_latest";s:7:"column3";s:0:"";s:7:"column4";s:0:"";}'),
( 8, 'meta-box-order_misc', 'a:3:{s:4:"side";s:75:"submitdiv,categorydiv,tagsdiv-post_tag,postimagediv,pageparentdiv,authordiv";s:6:"normal";s:72:"postexcerpt,wpseo_meta,trackbacksdiv,postcustom,commentstatusdiv,slugdiv";s:8:"advanced";s:0:"";}'),
( 8, 'meta-box-order_notes', 'a:3:{s:4:"side";s:63:"submitdiv,pageparentdiv,postimagediv,authordiv,commentstatusdiv";s:6:"normal";s:42:"postexcerpt,postcustom,commentsdiv,slugdiv";s:8:"advanced";s:0:"";}'),
( 8, 'meta-box-order_page', 'a:3:{s:4:"side";s:46:"submitdiv,pageparentdiv,postimagediv,authordiv";s:6:"normal";s:26:"be_gallery_metabox,slugdiv";s:8:"advanced";s:40:"rs_event_sectionid,postcustom,wpseo_meta";}'),
( 8, 'meta-box-order_post', 'a:3:{s:4:"side";s:61:"submitdiv,categorydiv,tagsdiv-post_tag,postimagediv,authordiv";s:6:"normal";s:49:"be_gallery_metabox,postexcerpt,postcustom,slugdiv";s:8:"advanced";s:29:"rs_event_sectionid,wpseo_meta";}'),
( 8, 'metaboxhidden_committees', 'a:4:{i:0;s:10:"wpseo_meta";i:1;s:16:"commentstatusdiv";i:2;s:13:"trackbacksdiv";i:3;s:7:"slugdiv";}'),
( 8, 'metaboxhidden_dashboard', 'a:2:{i:0;s:14:"w3tc_pagespeed";i:1;s:11:"w3tc_latest";}'),
( 8, 'metaboxhidden_misc', 'a:6:{i:0;s:11:"categorydiv";i:1;s:16:"tagsdiv-post_tag";i:2;s:10:"wpseo_meta";i:3;s:13:"trackbacksdiv";i:4;s:16:"commentstatusdiv";i:5;s:7:"slugdiv";}'),
( 8, 'metaboxhidden_notes', 'a:7:{i:0;s:13:"pageparentdiv";i:1;s:12:"postimagediv";i:2;s:16:"commentstatusdiv";i:3;s:11:"postexcerpt";i:4;s:10:"postcustom";i:5;s:11:"commentsdiv";i:6;s:7:"slugdiv";}'),
( 8, 'metaboxhidden_page', 'a:1:{i:0;s:7:"slugdiv";}'),
( 8, 'metaboxhidden_post', 'a:3:{i:0;s:7:"slugdiv";i:1;s:18:"rs_event_sectionid";i:2;s:10:"wpseo_meta";}')

Often Wordpress is been used as CMS. Most people that made this use sometimes need to schedule an update on a page or post.

As part of the program an LCMS (Learning Content Management System) section should be developed which can be used by educators to create content for a LMS.

Ok, one has to learn the wordpress php codes but when you look at them they are pretty self-explanatory and not too hard to understand...

2. These content blocks are EXACT replica's of the main content block including media buttons and formatting. You should be able to interact with these content blocks in the same way as the main content block.

2. There should be radio button options and template tags so technical and non technical users can specify where they would like to use these in the theme ( pages AND posts ).

3. The content blocks MUST be completely readable by RSS feeds. This is where current plugins fail most urgently. For example - if you have text in one content block and images in another content block - both should be picked up by your feed.

Why? because fafing around with "more" tags is tedious and NOT USER FRIENDLY. There are plugins, but these do not do the job. WordPress has come on leaps and bounds with regards to becoming a fully functioning CMS. Changes like this would help it along even further.

If you use the feeds, you'll need to access them via curl or file_get_contents (whatever works). In both cases you can process the documents with php5 XLSTProcessor class.

Using functions like is_category() and is_frontpage() to build conditional queries, you can actually build a wp-xsl theme with just index.php, style.css and a bunch of xsl stylesheets.

So I thought I have worked with and seen other CMS platforms that use Class="Editable" or something to that effect to integrate a site into the CMS, quite simple right!?

But the problems that come from such platforms as they are too simple and limited in what they can do. What I think would be great is to have a simple to use plug-in or Class integration tags to get a site onto the WordPress platform quicker and easier. Without all of the PHP mumbo jumbo that only Geeks and Developers want to look at.

Example:

<html>
<body>
<div id="main" class="wp-content">
<div id="header" class="wp-header">
</div>
<div id="nav" class="wp-navigation">
</div>
<div id="article" class="wp-article">
</div>
<div id="aside" class="wp-aside">
<div id="footer" class="wp-footer"></div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Post formats, allowing for different display style has been implemented in 3.1, which is in late beta and will be released within the next couple of weeks.