What would you like to see in RapidWeaver 7?

@Aaron - probably not feasible. many times references to needed files/scripts/etc are buried in obfuscated JS – sometimes things are dynamically loaded by parameters that are only defined at the time the page is actually being viewed. for that reason it might not be possible to determine which files are needed and which are not.

although, perhaps with an extension to the RW api add-on developers could explicitly specify those hard-to-find resources.

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How about having the search field pull focus automatically when I click the “Snippets” button? I always click the button to call up the snippets window and then start typing before I realize I have to actually click into the search field before I type…

I am also looking for a Next and Previous button for my blog. I am using the blog page that comes with Rapidweaver, not a third party plugin. Is there any way to currently accomplish this?

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I just use a free javascript called infinite scroll (from http://weaveraddons.com/utilities/infinite-scroll/), doesn’t add next buttons etc, but is it better than nothing.

The Accordion plugin from http://yourhead.com/accordion was a great alternative to a blog. New entries could be re-ordered at any time after they are created.
But, alas, it is not responsive, so it is not very compatible with newer devices.
There is no stack that come anywhere close to doing what that plugin does.
I lament the fact that development of such plugins has stalled to the the emphasis on stacks.

Hi,

I’m dealing with lots of pictures in my projects.
It would be great to be able to add an entire folder from Finder in the resources, and not just the files inside a folder.

This would allow to have a ‘dynamic’ resource area, where I can simply put a new picture in the folder and Rapidweaver recognizes automatically and puts it in the web.

thank You

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  • LESS Support

  • Ability to add code fragments in the Theme.plist (instead only references to js and css files)

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SASS/SCSS support or shall we not start that debate :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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I don’t care. What is better to integrate regarding the compilation process…

That would really help expand my skills

I suspect the issue will be compile time. If a full pre-processor compilation has to go on in preview every time something is changed then things will grind to a halt, it is not exactly speedy with vanilla CSS as it is.

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Late to the party, I know.

I’d like to see the ability to use multiple RW source files for a single site – ie, the ability to share resources and link to pages in separate RW files.

One of the sites I administer is growing very large, and the ability to split the project into sections would be amazing. It would also reduce the (now almost 300MB) files size, and speed up the opening by literally 10s of seconds.

This would also open up the ability to work collaboratively on a site, with some aspects being handed to different colleagues – one could work on the shop, whilst another on biography pages, etc.

And a remote blogging / CMS option would rock.

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I do a lot of javascript development and I find the page javascript window extremely small. Would it be possible to provide the ability to resize the javascript page.

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online CMS
online projects sharing
better SEO tools
live chat add-on
add stacks to any page

I blog, and rapid weaver does not have one outstanding blog. The one included requires that the individual file contain and exorbitant amount of space for images and then I can only work from the one main computer. There are not a lot of things that I can’t do with it either with outside codes that are popular on other platforms.

RW/Writer is trying (tried) but I feel like they created a product, made two updates and are letting it sit. There is little no information on using it to its full capacity. I would almost love to work closely with the @blueballdesign group just to have a blog that explains how the hell to use it to its full capacity and to expand its capabilities to a blogging world that desperately wants more than WordPress.

Blogger has a good RW stack but has become very irrelevant as a platform as a whole

Tumblr lacks the SEO capabilities.

Even midway through an overhaul my page and blog look beautiful thanks to RW and RWWriter, and the customer service is second to nothing out there - but I can’t even successfully embed a twitter post, a Rafflecopter contest, get a tiled list of blogs, have contributing writers with their own bios, basically any javascript plummets, use linked within or many of the other cool gadgets.

I really wish either RapidWeaver or RW/Writer would take the blog part just as seriously as the rest.
Stepping calmly off destroyed soap box now

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I’d also like to add my name to the list of people hoping to see new features added to the blog page. Things like:

  1. Next / Previous buttons on the blog page.
  2. Social media sharing options for each individual blog post, and things like the ability to Pin any photo used in a blog post to Pinterest.
  3. I might have missed it but a search field so visitors to the blog can search your posts without needing to do it through Google.
  4. The ability to add Stacks into a blog post (or a similar alternative implementation) to allow more creative abilities with the content of each post.
  5. Greater control over how each blog post preview displays on the primary blog page (e.g. an image background with the post text overlaid, or just text, or the current header image followed by text).
  6. Layout options on the primary blog page (I appreciate that might be up to the Theme developer instead of RMS) so you can display all the blog post previews as either a list, or a grid.
  7. Ideally getting rid of the /files/ part of the blog post URL so that it reads a little nicer,
    www.goodwinphotography.co.uk/blog/sian-and-mark.html rather than
    www.goodwinphotography.co.uk/blog/files/sian-and-mark.html (that exact post is a work in progress by the way)

Basically I’d just like greater creative control over the blog page. Thanks for all your hard work making RW by the way. It is very much appreciated.

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This is a really important thing, because I am often in situations where my clients tell me, that they found in Google a part of the website which should not at all public anymore, which was caused by an orphaned link to a path / folder, that resulted from changing the menu / folder structure inside a project! I cannot identify with my FTP-Account all folders that are not used anymore. There should be a mechanism to delete no longer needed folders and files.

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For me, I have two things (I know you only wanted one):

  1. RW is currently “one-way” - meaning you create the site and you publish. There’s no way to bring content back from the web. For RW-generated sites, there ought to be a way to import a site.

  2. Having access to the div IDs at design time so they can be set by the designer. RW should warn if a duplicate ID is created (as it does with file names). A more meaningful name can then be given, such as “myDarkDiv” vs. “stacks_in_48_page0” and that would be incredibly helpful and, I feel, make RW easier to use.

But, hey, what do I know! :wink:

EDIT: in addition to div IDs, object id’s (such as <img id="myImg"> would be helpful too!!!

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We’re not planning an Import feature (there’s just far, far too many moving parts to realistically offer this - sorry). However, in future we are looking at ways to transmit the project file when publishing the site so it can be downloaded and used.

Much of this is in the hands of plugins themselves. We rely on specific classes in RapidWeaver’s built in plugins, but that’s it. Any IDs are entirely handled by plugins.

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In response to your latest podcast about Pluskit (likely abandoned and unsupported by both the author and RM), would it be possible to create a built-in functionality like @import? Or is that just a huge can of worms?

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