The new Smart-Thinker Wall module allows you to attach a Facebook-style Wall to a Group, Event, UserProfile or other entity. This allows users to collaborate, discuss or simply leave comments.This was a sponsored enhancement/project and is based loosely on the Facebook Wall design and is fully templatable/localisable so you can change the look and feel to match your site.
To see this module in action, have a look at my PokerDIY profile, this poker group, this poker event, or this custom entity, a live poker league. Feel free to log in and test the wall, but please bear in mind this is a live, working site, so leave sensible comments (the Wall is usually at the very bottom, under the other entity).
This module uses templates and tokens to display the Wall Posts, so you can define what content is shown as well as the layout. It integrates with the other Smart-Thinker modules (Groups/Events/UserProfile) so that you can define the security rights around who can see or post on a Wall. For example, if you add it to a UserProfile then you could chose to only allow your Friends to be able to post. If you add it against a Group then you could only allow Group Members to post on the Wall. On PokerDIY the Wall is actually quite simple and allows everyone to see and post (this is by design). You can also allow users to search on posts, as well as have a "threaded" conversation (where the top-level Wall Posts/Topics have replies. We wanted a simple Facebook-looking Wall on PokerDIY so we turned these off in the Module Settings. You can read the Module Config Guide here.
Please raise any queries on our Wall Forum. All existing customers receive this module free as part of the Product Suite. You can download it from the "My Downloads" area on Smart-Thinker.com.
Future Features Planned:
- Ratings (Like YouTube)
- Voting (Possible change the order of comments ala-Digg style)
- Like/Dislike (Like YouTube, suppress comments that are irrelevant or spam)
- Report This/Spam controls