App Ideas

A place to collect ideas for apps and specifically things that the apps need to be able to do.

The idea here is to list a high level goal, and then document what API/GDT features are needed to achieve it.

If you have an idea, please add it to the list no need to break it down into features!

• Embed analytics code into every page
  • Be able to filter ghost.head or ghost.foot (need renaming)
• Embed comments into posts / pages
  • Add configuration settings to the admin
  • Have access to a {{comments}} helper
• Modify RSS feeds
  • Be able to filter rss.feed and rss.item
• Way to supply additional headers
  • Add X-Content-Duration for .ogg files for example. (see http://expressjs.com/3x/api.html#res.set)
• Receive data via webhook to add new posts
  • Integration into IFTTT (compare https://ifttt.com/wordpress)
• Github project daily/weekly/release summary post
  • Use Github Webhooks (git-at-me) to compile a summary of commits/PR/issues for a specified time range
• Way to specify a path for receiving REST data
  • Have a server POST data to a ghost path that the app can then store and use (like usage statistics every 2 hours from a server)
• Hook into the login process to add 2FA
  • https://ghost.org/forum/plugins/877-two-factor-auth/
• Hook into existing routes
  • https://keen.io/blog/78561215787/how-to-install-keen-io-analytics-into-your-node-js-app
• Extend core helpers
  • It would be awesome to extend native helpers like {{#has ..}} to check for attributes in custom fields ({{#has audio='true'}})
• Modify HTML before rendering from markdown
  • Could be used by syntax highlighters to recognise the extended fenced code blocks notation.
• Intercept image uploads to generate thumbnails/etc.
  • Will need a separate permission that doesn't belong to a model.
• Multilingual blogs
  • Each post could be annotated with an AppField language - would require post filtering by AppField value (only posts with app_field language = en)

Quick List from looking around GitHub / Forum:

• Editor stuff
  • Hemmingway app
  • Markdown Flavors
  • Mathjax
  • Vim bindings
• Media
  • oEmbed
• Login
  • 2FA
  • OAuth / Google/FB logins
• Blog output
  • RSS with excerpt
  • Meta data
  • Reading time
  • bookmarklets
• Infra
  • 301 redirects
  • output flat files

Places to go for inspiration:

• https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/search?q=app+territory&ref=cmdform&type=Issues
• https://ghost.org/forum/plugins/

(comments)

Quite possibly the most frequent change made to Casper, or any other theme, is to add comments. Disqus has emerged as a clear favourite of all the services available for adding comments to your blog.

The Disqus App adds Disqus to the bottom of every post. It also provides a way to output the comment count.

• I want to embed data into post.hbs, either via a filter, or via a helper.
• I want to have a settings page where users can enter their disqus code
• I want to provide a custom helper for comment_count on the blog frontend

• I wan to display comment_count in the admin UI

• I want to register dashboard widgets