This is a long way down the road and it's probably daft to raise it now but I wanted to get my thoughts down so that at the very least we can kick off a debate on slow cook.

I would like to consider a major change in the way we display SPF. I raised a ticket on this a long time ago but it remains on the back burner perhaps as too ambitious. The two major items I would like to consider are (a) templating the display and (b) creating a plugin mechanism.

Templating

Our display is fixed. Buttons are placed where we want them to be. We order things and that's it. if we moved to a templating system it would allow great flexability for customisation. This could be done in a similar way to WP itself by the creation of a 'loop' and template tags.

Plugins

Rather than continue to pile on feature after feature we should consider a plugin architecture that would allow users to include and exclude specific components and provide the necessary hooks that would also allow for third party plugins.

Thoughts welcome!