New Admin Area Coming Soon

Posted in AtomSite, Website by JarrettV on 4/16/2009 9:53:56 AM - CST

Thus far, AtomSite has relied on the built-in AtomPub support to allow LiveWriter to manage posts. This has worked out great so far and allowed us to focus on other area's of the system. However, a CMS/Blog Engine isn't complete until it has a built-in, easily accessible administration area.

You can expect AtomSite's administration area to be heavily influenced from WordPress. They've done such a great job on their administration that we are borrowing their best ideas.

WordPress Edit Post
WordPress 2.8 Edit Post Screenshot

AtomSite Edit Entry
AtomSite 1.0 Edit Entry Prototype Screenshot

The WordPress screenshot is from 2.8 beta and our screenshot is from an alpha. Obviously the icons, menu, and layout need work. We are hoping that for the 1.0 release, we'll have:

Dashboard (no drag drop yet)
- Right Now
- Recent Comments
- Incoming Links (next release)
- Quick Publish (next release)
- Recent Drafts
- AtomSite News (next release)
Entries
- Filtering (next release)
- Paging
- ~~Inline editing~~
- ~~Bulk~~
Annotations
- Filtering (next release)
- Paging
Plug-ins
- Enable/Disable
Settings
- Workspaces (next release)
- Collections (next release)

Please add a comment if there is anything you like/dislike about WordPress Administration.

Comments

Posted by Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett on 4/17/2009 8:34:12 PM - CST

Looks good!
Is there any possibility of having the plugin system include support for adding extra fields to the input pages for atom extensions like your Themes collection extension?

Posted by OpenID User on 4/19/2009 10:47:31 AM - CST

Brilliant choice!

Posted by JarrettV on 4/21/2009 12:56:59 PM - CST

@Jaykul, Sure, I assume you mean like the custom fields support in WordPress. If so, thanks to extensibility of Atom, there is already baked in support. I'll look into creating a widget area that plugins can customize the front-end.