This page contains features and fixes that I'm planning to implement for Koriander CMS:

Content management

• Improve first start onboarding experience
• Validate fragment-level references
• Create page templates, similar to Hugo archetypes
• Make Koriander better suited for multi user editing
• Make it easier to import and export Koriander databases
• Support editing multiple Koriander sites on the same computer with a splash screen
• Maybe: consider adding Lua scripting support like Scribunto
• Maybe: Import Sphinx or other automatically generated documentation as sub-tree
• Add MediaWiki-style "red links" that you can click on to create new pages
• Show that a page is statically rendered in the frontend footer
• Add page edit history-based page revert function
• Add import for WordPress XML content
• Maybe: Support bidirectional links (show on the linked page which pages link to it)
• Renaming pages should update other page's references to it (or, make it a lot harder to rename pages)
• Done: Add render & rsync to server feature (added in 0.9.0)
• Done: Add a render to ZIP button to the CMS administration screen that lets you download koriander render - rendered version of your site as a ZIP file (added in 0.9.0)
• Done: Add rename & leave alias shortcut (added in 0.12.0)
• Done: Show the current Koriander CMS version in the administration screen (added in 0.11.0)
• Done: Show whether a page is a branch/leaf in administration toolbar in frontend (added in 0.9.0)
• Done: Make it easier to add new child pages to a leaf page. Example: fresh Koriander installation with just root page shows no "add leaf page" shortcut (added in 0.13.0)
• Done: Improve new page experience for frequent blogging (added quick draft form in 0.13.0)

Portability

• Let users export their Koriander CMS contents using an XML exporter
• Let users import their Koriander CMS XML export using an import screen
• Make it easier to import and export Koriander SQLITE databases

MediaWiki interoperability

• Let users import MediaWiki XML dumps using a drag and drop screen
• Support converting Wikitext to Markdown, at least partially

Hugo interoperability

• Improve Hugo template conversion
• Add export to Hugo feature
• Let users import their existing Hugo content archetypes

Command-line interface (CLI)

• Done: Show the current Koriander CMS version in the CLI (added in 0.11.0)
• Done: Add "version" command and "-v/--version" flag (added in 0.11.0)

Markdown editor

• Make internal links searchable by tag and summary
• Improve crash-resilience of Markdown editor when browser unexpectedly exits.
• Support browser spell checkers
• Allow adding fragment-level internal links, referencing other pages' headers
• Add (optional) review changes view before saving screen
• Add option to switch to fixed-width font in Markdown editor
• Let the user enter footnote text in the add footnote modal
• Fix color contrast in Markdown editor links
• Show all footnotes in Markdown editor
• Support inserting Markdown checkboxes¹
• Add better default placeholder footnote name, other than ^fn34
• Add merge-conflict resolution feature on conflicting edits
• Support substituting links for Wayback Machine snapshots
• Add footnote template for citations
• Order footnotes based on where they first appear in the document when rendering Markdown. ²
• Done: Split add link (Ctrl+K) and add (internal) link (Ctrl+Shift+K) menu button (added in 0.11.0)
• Done: Fix text overwrite issue when editing text mid-sentence.
• Done: Combine page change form and markdown editor into one change_form.html (added in 0.12.0)
• Done: Fix editor and preview alignment (fixed in 0.12.0)
• Done: Add revert changes button for unsaved page (added in 0.13.0)

Default templates

• Fix page resource overflow

Asset management

• Merge static and asset file model to one StaticFile with a type static/asset enum type.³
• Store content hashes as binary and index as binary⁴
• Connect page resources and pages as M2M ⁵
• Done: Renaming page resources should rename their ![](name.png) links in pages (added in 0.12.0)

Wiki

• Create a new Wiki content model
• Serve Wiki pages under /wiki
• Add MediaWiki import for /wiki
• Add MediaWiki export for /wiki
• Maybe: Connect to a federated Wiki like ibis.wiki
• Publicly show Wiki page edit history
• Add recent changes page
• Add permanent links (permalinks) to page versions

Federation

• Support ActivityPub

Translation

• Prepare German language translation
• If you want to help translate Koriander CMS, contact me!
• Done: Mark all user interface strings for translation and prepare app for localization (mostly done in 0.13.0)

Deployment

• Make Koriander runnable as a zipapp bundled with all dependencies, similar to a JAR file
• Make Koriander suitable for deploying on servers

Documentation

• Create built-in documentation for Koriander CMS administration screen
• Create demo video for Koriander CMS first steps
• Extend current Koriander CMS tutorial and explain how to create leaf pages, render your site, and publish it to the web
• Add help text to model fields
• Update architecture documentation to explain all koriander CLI commands
• Create Sphinx documentation
• Create tutorials for the most common 5 tasks
• Done: Add and format doc strings in Python code (added in version 0.13.0)

Testing

• Make end to end tests in test_e2e.py use a LiveServerTestcase

Bug fixes

• Fix CSRF issue after restarting Koriander CMS
• Add helpful error pages for:
  • 400 errors
  • 403 errors
  • 404 errors
  • 500 errors
  • CSRF failures
• Add tag M2M field back to pages
• Done: When setting the date prefix option, check if a child slug doesn't have YYYY-MM-DD and correct it (fixed in 0.12.0)
• Done: Fix broken page resource insert button in Markdown editor (fixed in 0.11.0)
• Done: Hide gunicorn winch log messages (fixed in 0.10.)
• Done: Updating templates should invalidate the Page cache (fixed in 0.12.0)
• Done: Fix slugs containing .html at the end instead of throwing an error (fixed in 0.12.0)