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Admin Message Plugin Question

I am pretty excited about the admin message plugin as it allows the admin to alert all users if there is something that they should know. That is pretty wild.

Would you consider a fork of this project to individual messages to blogs? It could be used for alerts to specific users of TOS violations, alerts specific to the user or quick responses to questions.

Thoughts?

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 1:57:21
  • trent
    • Site Builder, Child of Zeus

    Email is the obvious choice, but having a nice big message at the top of your dashboard when you login saying contact support about a possible TOS infraction would work as well. It was just a thought and nothing that is that important.

    Trent

  • Luke
    • The Crimson Coder

    Provided they log in, of course.

    When it comes to TOS, I don’t play around. If it’s an obvious or blatant violation, I suspend and then contact. If it’s questionable, I contact with a “stern lecture”.

    If it’s spam, the blog and user are immediately removed.

    Granted, since I blocked a few choice countries from registering at all, plus my other initiatives, I’ve got zero traditional splogs, and only 3 blogs that were related to what we’re doing but we’re nothing but a free press release ad.

    Better than 100 splogs a day.

  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Trent’s idea is something they put in over on wp.com a few months back. Mark made a mention in passing that some folks weren’t responding to emailed “complaints” from wp.com staff but yet they were still making posts.

    Since the message over on wp.com isn’t displaying any details, (I can’t find a mention on the forums right off but I believe all it says is “We have a problem with your content. Please contact staff for more details” with the contact staff as a link to the support form on the main site) I think it’s just a simple options flag in the blog’s option table. ie If the option is found, display message.

    That’s how I would do it.

    If you want to display individual messages, I’d probably do the same thing, just instead of a “flag” that turns on and off, I’d do it as a text field. If found and not empty, then display content.

    To create that option, I’d just add it to the schema file for new blogs. For older blogs, I had a big long post on how to do that but I can’t find it right off. I ran through the idea quickly here though. Could also do it as a plugin of course. Every time a blog is accessed, add in the option as an empty field. Kind of a waste though.

    That way the option field would be there when you edited the blogs via Dashboard -> Site Admin -> Blogs -> Edit.