The new Site Mods system goes live with today's update! From the Control Panel, select Site Mods. From there, you can install them on your site, or even author new mods for others to use. A mod is any combination of HTML, Javascript, and CSS code that come together to enhance the functionality of a site it's installed on. They can be full-blown widgets, or code that makes snow fall down the screen during the holidays. They can even have configurable code so that authors can provide variables that an admin installing a mod on their site can change in order to customize how it behaves.

Widget authors can create widgets, and when they make changes, they create new revisions. Each mod (and further revision of the mod) will be reviewed by GuildPortal staff before being made available for installation (although the author of the mod may always install the latest revision, even if it's not approved, in order to test). Mods can also be given star ratings and comments by the community! After many years of awesome admins providing guides and help when it comes to extending the functionality of GuildPortal, we're offering this in hopes of making that development (and deployment) process much easier -- we're looking at you, Mottie!

Of course, for the scripters out there, the jQuery library is already available, and you can easily use it from your javascript code in your mod! Also, we look forward to providing service end-points that return JSON or XML guild data that can be easily consumed by a mod using simple jQuery get requests, and sample code to go along with it. Think of it as a light-weight API for writing your own widgets or extending GuildPortal to your specific needs, and then getting massive kudos for doing so.

Now, aside from that excitement (can you tell we're excited? huh??), we also pushed the following changes with the update:

• Sign-ups may now be deleted by event admins directly from the sign-ups listing when viewing an event's details.
• Aion integrated rosters are now working again.
• Buncha other stuff for support tickets.

Alrighty, I've got a list of things I've got to work on now.  But for your questions:

• Not yet -- deleting will be added, but it will only work on mods that haven't been approved yet (because they may be installed on sites). For ones that have been approved, it will be a "request deletion" type deal.
• Editing is done in revisions of the mod. I like your idea of publishing instead of the way I set it up, where each edit creates a new revision.
• The only way I can think of to prevent variable naming conflicts would be to suggest that authors prefix their variables with something unique to their mod..
• Yeah, should probably allow the re-naming of a mod.
• Will check into the media problem.
• Yeah, the disco mod was messed up. I moved the r, g, b variables over to customization code and didn't wrap them in a script tag. Updating to latest should fix you up.
• Which mod isn't installing?

I went to rate a mod as 5/5 stars, typed my description/review, hit submit, and it submitted my review as 1/5! 

Can someone possibly go in and edit, or even delete, my rating? (or let me change it?)

Sorry Mottie!