Currently blog article's URL is numeric based. This makes it unreadable for people who you share the link with and this is not good from SEO point of you. The URL has to use blog title.

Allowing "Blog" to be viewed in a new window or tab, separate from the website, so that individuals can explore blog more easily.

Allow to submit blog posts for review before publishing them on live.

Make it so that comments are not shown for others to read until moderated (approved) by an admin team member.

I would like to be able to duplicate individual blog posts.

This would be extremely helpful when there is standardized formatting that takes quite a bit of time to set up in a post.

Copy/pasting between individual blog posts is time consuming!

Would be great to have a library of free images to choose from for Blog posts... :)

There are blog post that I would like to stay pinned to the top of the post.

I don't see a way to control the length of the "excerpt" generated by the RSS for the blog posts. Typically the user can control either the number of characters or the number of words;

Raise the individual upload limit to accommodate audio podcasting.

Add the ability to put a small picture (of author) in the title of blog. Many RSS readers use this picture to link Rss stories.

I don't see a way to save a draft version of a blog post that I might be working on. As a result one need to make the post live even though you might need to make several revisions over a period of time to get it just right and truly ready for posting.

Yes i ditto that--we need to have tags available for our blog posts. This is a basic feature of blogs now that greatly improve the user experience as well as one to rank in google for keywords/tags.

I like the forum subscription service. It woudl be great to be able to link this to blog -posts as well. In our organization, members post their own media releases and announcements on the site through the blog feautre. However, they only get distributed to the mailing list once a month or so. Being able to assure members their postings are distributed immediately would be a great addition to the value proposition.

I would like to have a feature added to the Blog module.

In many cases, I will write several blog posts at once, though I would like to have them post in different dates in the future. I am able to do this on blogspot and it is really handy if you want to set up regular posts, reminder posts, etc. and keep the action going!

Would you consider that the blog-post would only post on the (activate) day that is used in the top of each post?

Thanks in advance,
Patty

Is there a way to "accept comments" before they post directly to our blog? We want to let the public comment without having to be a member but at the same time want to ensure that none of the content being posted is inappropriate.

Thanks for your help.

Our forums are languishing because our members say there's no easy way to tell what conversations are active. We need a search function at the top of the forum that includes things like:

-recent posts

-active topics

-unanswered posts

Basically, the forums need a major upgrade in order to be useful. The only reason we haven't moved to a different forum software is because we want to maintain one login for our members.

Thanks.

Would be great to have a way to make our own Custom URL for Blog posts, Events.

Right now i use bit.ly to make:
http://secondgearclub.camp9.org/allevents?eventId=159084&EventViewMode=EventDetails
into
http://bit.ly/may29-trail-clearing

Be nice if we could have a box that says Short URL

http://secondgearclub.camp9.org/events/may29-trail-clearing

It would be nice to be able to indicate an author of a post who might be different from the person entering it. Our blog is moderated by one person, but many contribute content. It would look much better and give credit where it is due if the post carried the actual author's name.