New Steem Posts Curation Interface (wordpress plugin updates)

Repository

https://github.com/mcfarhat/gk-steemit-info

Introduction

I've been working on my wordpress steem plugin GK Steemit Info for a long time now (slowly .. but hey you're seeing the cool progress), and the plugin has been shaping up to provide more steem-based valuable information to any wordpress user.
Last round we presented a "widget/shortcode" (which you can also identify with as an interface) to allow the display of specific posts with a highlight on posts voted by specific accounts, if need be.

I decided to turn this concept completely into a curation screen that any community can even actually utilize for their curation activities, but also to host it somewhere publicly so that one or more of those communities can benefit from this service (as I did .. more information and links available below :) )

New Development Work

So what did we provide as new work under this development iteration?
With the focus on the curation screen, which already allowed you to filter posts by tag, by voters and skipping on posts voters, we made the following modifications:

• Created new filtering criteria based on a secondary tag, which is an additional tag that helps display only posts which contain both the main tag and this additional second tag. This comes in handy to anyone who's on the lookout to see recent contributions under a specific utopian category, or even to be used in our own utopian moderation process.
• Created new filtering limits on minimum count of words and count of pictures in a post, as beautifully suggested by my friend @futurethinker ! As I understood such criteria comes in handy when curating for curie, so I hope many curators can benefit from this!
• As the interface is based on shortcode parameter values (i.e. how it is being set in the backend), I auto-populated the filtering options on the interface based on those values so that curators can already know what filtering criteria is in use at the moment, and adjust it accordingly.
• Made some minor layout/stylesheet adjustments to improve the visual appearance of the plugin. Still lots of more work to be done on that end .. I know :)
• Fixed the loader inconsistency in display due to subsequent loading iterations
• Enabled search interruption when clicking on the filter button, as prior version wasn't able to cancel out and inconsistent results were being displayed.

Check It Out !

So as I mentioned above, I hosted my plugin on a public domain I own, and it's non-other than a domain I bought for my @arabsteem community and helps me out with my curation work :)
And to make things easier, I created specific pages relating to few communities with whom I constantly work or have worked before, and believe such tool can be helpful in one way or another, as follows:

• #promo-steem community - the source of inspiration for this work: http://www.arabsteem.com/promo-steem/
• #utopian-io community - my homeland :): http://www.arabsteem.com/utopian/ (I also created my own curation tool for tutorials under http://www.arabsteem.com/utopian-tutorials/ if anyone wants to keep an eye on tutorials)
• #steemSTEM community - one my first communities on steemit with amazing curation effort: http://www.arabsteem.com/steemstem
• #steemitbloggers community - a greatly active community that monitors community members votes, can easily be done now:) http://www.arabsteem.com/steemitbloggers/
• #arabsteem community - my community supporting arab created content: http://www.arabsteem.com/

Github Commits:

Relevant commits to the above work can be found under the following links:
commit fa53394
commit 10ec598
commit 1b6c4dd
commit 8665ca4
commit 2e2f46b
commit e901b1e

Downloading the plugin

You can always download the plugin and host it on your own domain, I am also planning on moving this work to a different domain soon, instead of just putting all this work under arabsteem.com domain.
The plugin is available for download via the official GitHub repository here.

Future Work

The plugin is a continuous work-in-progress. There is planned work for further optimization, particularl speed-wise, but also in terms of adding more functionality.
If you have any specific ideas you would like to share or see happen, or found an issue with using this plugin/service, feel free to contact me here or via discord mcfarhat#6013

Thank you!

@mcfarhat