Fri 11 Jul 2008
Dodo is a WordPress plugin that helps you personalize your blog homepage.
Dodo system tracks user actions on your blog (post reading, searches, comments) and gives a widget-based view to your users, proposing related posts, giving you -the blogger- an overview of what’s hot in your blog. Blogger and users are able to select what actions will be tracked and which widgets (and in what order) will be shown in the personalized view, having the option to switch off the whole view, in one click.
Blogger has also the ability to know every time he/she writes a story, which are the “hot” tags and the most interesting category on his blog, based on the records from post/search tracking, in order to come up with more interesting stories.
Dodo admin interface gives blogger the possibility to watch in real time, how tracking goes, edit widget css and track the 5 hottest tags / categories / searches.
You can read more about Dodo in this explanatory pdf and you can download it from here. All about Dodo in http://www.getdodo.com
What I will gain as a blogger?
- Overview of most interesting tags, categories and search terms of your blog
- Live view of user actions
- Story suggestion
- The ability to offer to your readers a more personal view of your blog, increasing the time
What I will gain as a user?
- Find the answers to your comments easily
- Find posts you may be interested in via recommendation algorithm
- Find latest posts on your favorite tag or category
- Watch your tagcloud change based on your interests
(70 votes, average: 4.44 out of 5)
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No developer contact details anywhere! Broken pages on their site and unfinished demos. This looks such a promising piece of software, C’com guys…
During the day there will be a “Contact” tab in Dodo’s website…
Anyway get our emails
stelabouras [at] gmail [dot] com
chzigkol [at] gmail [dot] com
Agree with Richard. I couldn’t get it working, but excellent concept.
Test blog for Dodo plugin
633 posts ready and waiting. Unfortunately the posts are in Greek from my greek blog (newsfilter.gr) but you can play with Dodo features easily…
http://chzigkol.newsfilter.gr
Create an account and see Dodo in action
Be careful, this is not an active blog, it is only for testing purposes
Looks really good.
I would like to make a few points.
1. I would prefer it if it showed more articles on the “Favorite tag” and “Favorite category” modules, perhaps the two latest articles and the one most visited of each.
2. I loved the “Comments” module and all the rest.
3. Also I noticed that after a while of moving in the site some of the tags in the tag cloud got too small, almost unintelligible, maybe you should set a minimum font size for that.
4. At some point after visiting a few articles I got to a point where the same article appeared in both the “Favorite tags” and the “Favorite category” modules.
Not that this is such a big problem but it just didn’t look too good. Maybe you could have a condition where no article can appear simultaneously on those two modules.
5. Finally, perhaps you could add a Guest book on the Test site so people can leave their comments there. Perhaps a simple article where people could comment. It would also help to demonstrate the “Comments” module as well if you know what I mean.
Good job, keep on it
I thing I could certainly find many uses for such a plugin and would probably use it myself.
This is very alike.
http://www.schloebe.de/wordpress/admin-management-xtended-plugin/
@Matthew
Can you please tell me the problem(s) that you confront.
@Abraxas
Firstly, thank you for your good word and secondly i noted down your suggestions as possible future extensions