Suggestion: For content-heavy sites (in our case, lots of educational "how-to" type articles), a plugin allowing users to personalize some navigation by selecting particular articles/pages as "favorites" and have that list available in an area on the home page (once logged in) or in a sidebar would be a great way for individual members/users to get to favorite content faster - without having to drill through what could be many navigation layers. Sort of a "playlist" for posts...
Suggestion: For content-heavy sites (in our case, lots of educational "how-to" type articles), a plugin allowing users to personalize some navigation by selecting particular articles/pages as "favorites" and have that list available in an area on the home page (once logged in) or in a sidebar would be a great way for individual members/users to get to favorite content faster - without having to drill through what could be many navigation layers. Sort of a "playlist" for posts...
From my perspective, this would make the user favorites a key "feature" of a site - the personalization of the web site interface becomes a value-added part of the overall defined user-experience.
My Yahoo!, MSN, iGoogle and other such sites allow users to essentially tailor page content/navigation based on their own preferences - rather than simply telling the user to use browser bookmarks to get to those things.
Essentially what I'm looking for is a sort of portal "lite" feature that allows my users to aggregate content from my site into their own area on a page or in a sidebar. Pages and posts could have an "Add to favorites" icon that would allow authenticated users to mark the content.
Because the feature is controlled via the web application, I as a site owner could include additional information to the "list" or add functionality that would not be possible via a browser bookmark.
Responses (4)
Erstwhile founder — 24th August 2009 (2 years ago) #
Hiya,
What would advantage would a feature that allows users to mark a post as a favorite have over browser bookmarks?
Thanks,
Andrew
Member — 24th August 2009 (2 years ago) #
Thanks Andrew.
From my perspective, this would make the user favorites a key "feature" of a site - the personalization of the web site interface becomes a value-added part of the overall defined user-experience.
My Yahoo!, MSN, iGoogle and other such sites allow users to essentially tailor page content/navigation based on their own preferences - rather than simply telling the user to use browser bookmarks to get to those things.
Essentially what I'm looking for is a sort of portal "lite" feature that allows my users to aggregate content from my site into their own area on a page or in a sidebar. Pages and posts could have an "Add to favorites" icon that would allow authenticated users to mark the content.
Because the feature is controlled via the web application, I as a site owner could include additional information to the "list" or add functionality that would not be possible via a browser bookmark.
Member — 25th August 2009 (2 years ago) #
There already is a plugin like that: 'My favorite posts'. Not sure how (and if) it works with pages, but I don't think that would be difficult to add.
Member — 25th August 2009 (2 years ago) #
Hiranthi - thanks much for the heads up. I searched around, but somehow missed this.
I'll check it out.
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