Five WordPress Plugins that should be Mango Plugins

As many people already know, Mango Blog is an easily customizable ColdFusion blog engine that provides a way to administer and publish content to websites.  It also provides the necessary architecture to extend its basic functionality by adding plugins.  While there have already been many great and flexible plugins developed for Mango, the list has a long way to go before it reaches the WordPress plugin directory.

The nerds at Brice Cheddarn are hard at work on several projects, which limits time for plugin development.  But, that didn't stop us from compiling a list of plugins we wouldn't mind seeing developed (either in-house or by one of the many CF developers in the world).  As such, here are Five WordPress Plugins that should be developed Mango Blog Plugins:

1. Wordpress Video Plugin:  Sure, Mango Blog has a few video-related plugins already.  There is a blip.tv plugin, a YouTube plugin and a Brightcove.tv, but there isn't one comprehensive, all-in-one video plugin for Mango Blog that allows people to post videos from all over like the Wordpress Video Plugin.  Not only does this plugin allow you the option of posting videos from all over the internet, it also allows for some customizations to those video like sizing.
2. PollDaddy Polls:  The PollDaddy Polls plugin allows bloggers to create and manage polls from within the WordPress dashboard. It has 20 different styles for your polls and allows for viewing all poll results as they come in. All PollDaddy polls are fully customizable.  WP Polls is also another good WordPress poll plugin.  Having a poll plugin for Mango Blog would give bloggers a chance to make their websites and blogs more interactive, which helps increase repeat traffic.
3. DISQUS Comment System:  Disqus, pronounced "discuss", is a service and tool for web comments and discussions that can be plugged into any website, blog, or application. Disqus makes commenting easier and more interactive, while connecting websites and commenters across a thriving discussion community.  It allows bloggers to have a more in-depth and across platform conversation with visitors.  Mango Blog has several comment-related plugins, but nothing this verbose tool.
4. Star Rating for Reviews:  Star Rating for Reviews is a simple WordPress plugin that inserts styled rating stars into posts using an inline tag [rating:4.5]. It can also calculate and output overall ratings based on all previously assigned scores already in the database.  There are a number of different uses for this type of plugin.  It could be used to rate just about anything, from movies and music to developers and projects.
5. Twitter Avatar:  WordPress has a million Twitter-related plugins (OK, only 310), and Mango Blog has a few already as well.  But the Twitter Avatar plugin allows visitors to enter their Twitter username when posting a comment on your blog. The plugin will also replaces the avatar on the comment with their picture on Twitter, both on the front-end and the Admin of the Blog.  Having something similar for Mango Blog would bloggers more convenient interaction with their readers.

While it isn't a plugin, there is another bit of functionality needed. WordPress also has a native functionality to it that Mango needs to adopt:  Page Links.  This provides the ability to split a single post up into different web pages by just typing <!--nextpage--> into the post.  This is handy functionality for many obvious reasons.

So many plugin ideas, so little time to develop them.

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