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This page has a mix of old notes, all here for reference.

MIGHTYDEV PRODUCTS​

We will have multiple products, starting with two commercial WordPress plugins:

  1. NoozRoom Easy Press Releases
  2. Resource Library

OTHER OFFERINGS​

Some code created by MightyDev is only used internally or on client projects, and may be open sourced. These items may not become products for sale, but they are actively developed and maintained as if they were products, so they will follow the same methodology and best practices as if they were for sale.

  1. 80/20 Theme

MightyDev may have a suite of products designed for publishing of corporate marketing content.

CATEGORYNAMEDESCRIPTIONREV MODEL
NewsNoozWordPress plugin
Press Releases, Coverage, Events and AwardsFree on WPress Repo
Paid via Freemius
Resource LibraryWordPress plugin
DocumentationWordPress plugin
Partner PortalWordPress plugin
Sort + Filter EngineWordPress plugin
80/20WordPress theme
Announcement Bar

NOOZROOM STATUS​

2020 State of plugin and theme projects As of 2020-05-05

Nooz To Do List (old GDoc)

Nooz Dev Status​

  • Stable version 1.6.0 (tagged, in wordpress repo)
  • View CHANGELOG (includes pending changes)

1.6.0 Overview of Completed

= 1.6.0 =​

  • added "meta" data value for use by custom post types
  • improved shortcode post type (e.g. category) pretty URLs
  • improved managed post type handling
  • updated create_cpt init action priority from 10 to 50, allowing detection of user-defined post types using init action
  • fixed rewrite rules flush operation/timing

Pending ISSUES:​

  • Unit testing code needs revision, many tests are out of date and/or simply not working
  • Other listed issues are new-features/improvements

Nooz Pro​

  • Current version 1.8.3 (tagged)
  • View CHANGELOG (includes pending changes)

1.8.x Overview of Completed​

= 1.8.0 =​

  • initial implementation of EDD license api for automatic plugin updates

= 1.7.0 =​

  • fixed depreciated filter name
  • fixed use of event_venue, event_locality and event_region
  • core: added "meta" data value for use by custom post types
  • core: improved shortcode post type (e.g. category) pretty URLs
  • core: improved managed post type handling
  • core: updated create_cpt init action priority from 10 to 50, allowing detection of user-defined post types using init action
  • core: fixed rewrite rules flush operation/timing

Pending ISSUES:​

  • Nooz and Nooz Pro require template improvements, this is evident by recent inflexibility with event data in existing templates as well as recent work with Health Fidelity installation which uses standard WordPress template structures (related #10)
  • Nooz Pro categories and tags #7
  • Other listed issues, while important, are not as critical

Priorities:​

  • Smooth installation on-top of Nooz or independently
  • Improved template/theme functionality
  • Plugin auto-update (how are updates pushed to the end-user)

PRODUCT STRATEGY​

Target developers first, agencies & marketers second.

Focus on WordPress plugins initially, hosted later.

Use best practices to do more with less: Develop and document systems, tools, methods and operations/procedures

Marketing ideas

PressReleasy - stand-alone press release/coverage plugin, pay more for events and other types

Market Research

Meeting(s) with Steve Swasey, worked at Moovit, an Israeli urban mobility $81mil in funding, top VC's, less than 100 employees, acquired in 2020 by Intel for $900MM They micro target who they send press releases to, they have their own curated list of journos. Too expensive for them to use BusinessWire, PRNewswire, etc. Steve says the only benefit of a press release is to have an historical record of the company Would pay $250/month for a service that allowed him to post all of his content Likes the idea of a "white glove" service that caps the number of customers and provides premium support or the appearance of exclusivity

NOOZROOM HOSTED SERVICE​

(Old notes from 2018)

NoozRoom is the hosted version of WPNooz and will have a larger feature set. The holy grail is to have a monthly subscription service with a limited number of accounts paying the highest possible amount. The goal is to spend more time on expanding the feature set while keeping support requests to a minimum. NoozRoom Ideally, provide option for hosting content on our servers, or use API to store all content on customer’s own servers.

We provide three things:

admin interface

presentation display

embed code for other digital properties Content Press Releases Press Coverage Events Awards Bios Images Videos Audio

FEATURES LIST (OLD)​

EVENTS Features​

What is difference between Free and Pro Events, if any? Show past event status in list view Checkbox to display past events on page UI for displaying/marking past events as past Indicate required fields Are there any default settings for Events? If not, say so in the documentation

EDITOR Features​

In drop down Help, can we embed images? Update tabs to map to new Docs, post back up to plugin (forgot what I meant by this... lol)

TEMPLATE Features​

Template updates to match ACF features Last Update byline on articles (pull from Front Matter?) Disable WPBakery on Docs template? Add Last Update Date at top or bottom of each article

ADMIN Features​

Add Screen option to show Excerpt column in list view Is there error handling if the default /news/ URL is not setup? Does it require the Permalink Update step? Labeling updates on flyout menu in Nooz Free

this image embedded in Notion, not on Sirv

Add Press Release Add Coverage Add Event (will Events only be in Pro?) All Releases All Coverage All Events (will Events only be in Pro?) Settings Do we/will we support Import/Export of Nooz data? License tab change button text to: Activate License / Deactivate License Suggest changing label text on 'Show Sections' checkbox, to 'Show Tabs'. Additionally, a small thumbnail graphic diagram that toggles with the checkbox would be good next to this, for a quick visual reminder of what it does. While 'tabs' make more sense to us, it might not mean the same thing to others. If we keep the category setting in Nooz Pro, that would be the place to adjust the order and [future] change the icons

GENERAL Enhancements​

Test/verify Nooz with latest version of WPress

Fonts back to Boostrap

Test  Sirv feature for image zoom

See ACF gallery style for 2, 3 or 4 across image handling

Move DNS for Mightydev.com back to WPE server, see what needs to happen with ROI tool, we can just use IP address or ??. If Sales side breaks, we can get them sorted out, but no idea if it is being used.

Press Release Features​

The Edit Dateline short cut in the Press Release edit screen is a great feature, we should add it to any other editor UI where it makes sense.

COMPETITION​

Other News Mgt Plugins​

wordpress.org/plugins/irm-newsroom/

wordpress.org/plugins/press-release-newsroom/

wordpress.org/plugins/sp-news-and-widget/

wordpress.org/plugins/simple-news/

wordpress.org/plugins/news-announcement-scroll/

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT​

Old notes for cleanup

2020 State of

As of 2020-05-05

The primary intent of this document is to provide a high-level summary of projects.

Nooz

  • Stable version 1.6.0 (tagged, in wordpress repo)
  • View CHANGELOG (includes pending changes)

1.6.0 Overview of Completed

= 1.6.0 =

  • added "meta" data value for use by custom post types
  • improved shortcode post type (e.g. category) pretty URLs
  • improved managed post type handling
  • updated create_cpt init action priority from 10 to 50, allowing detection of user-defined post types using init action
  • fixed rewrite rules flush operation/timing

Pending ISSUES:

  • Unit testing code needs revision, many tests are out of date and/or simply not working
  • Other listed issues are new-features/improvements

Nooz Pro

  • Current version 1.8.3 (tagged)
  • View CHANGELOG (includes pending changes)

1.8.x Overview of Completed

= 1.8.0 =

  • initial implementation of EDD license api for automatic plugin updates

= 1.7.0 =

  • fixed depreciated filter name
  • fixed use of event_venue, event_locality and event_region
  • core: added "meta" data value for use by custom post types

RESOURCE LIBRARY STATUS​

2020 State of plugin and theme projects As of 2020-05-05

Resource Library Dev Status​

  • Current version 0.2.0-dev.22 (untagged)
  • No pending commits

Pending issues:​

  • While not listed in issues, Resource Library suffers from undefined URL structures as evident by query strings being used instead of an improved pretty-url structure
  • Other listed issues, while important, are not as critical

Priorities:​

  • Improved admin UI / functionality (smoothing rough-edges)

80/20 THEME STATUS​

2020 State of plugin and theme projects As of 2020-05-05

Eightytwenty Theme Dev Status​

  • Current version 12.0 (tagged)
  • No pending commits

Pending issues:​

  • Bloat and unused/never-used features
  • Historically, Eightytwenty receives updates during web projects, I plan on making updates to eightytwenty as we work on Borquez

Content Library​

  • Current version 0.5.0 (tagged)
  • Pending commits/release:Schema taggingImproved breadcrumbsAbility to create “many” content libraries (databanks) #8
  • Pending issues:
  • Improving templates/theme functionality
  • Improving admin UI