Change Log

• Enhanced Blogs:
• Pages: use out-of-flow posts for general information pages. (fplanque)
• You can write Excerpts for posts and use them in XML feeds (instead of full contents). (fplanque)
• Each blog has now an owner; skins have a link to contact the owner on all default skins (fplanque)
• Photoblog features (fplanque)
• XML Feeds for comments on individual posts (fplanque)
• Enhanced Skins:
• evoSkins 2.0 offering superior flexibility in customizing different views based on what is being displayed ($disp) (fplanque)
• evoSkins 2.0 implement widget containers: (fplanque)
• Containers can receive widgets directly from the backoffice. No file editing necessary. (fplanque)
• Widgets can be provided by plugins ("SkinTag" reloaded).
• Widgets receive default presentation params from the skin’s container in order to automagically adjust their look to the skin they’re used in (fplanque).
• Widget can be configured to behave/display differently in every location where they are displayed. (fplanque)
• Cascading widget params: overall defaults < widget defaults < container/calltime params < widget specific configs (saved in DB)
• Default widgets:
• Blog list:
• Public blog list : Display list of all blogs marked as public.
• Same owner’s blog list : Display list of all blogs owned by the same user.
• Blog header:
• Blog logo : Include a logo/image from the blog’s file root.
• Blog title : Display blog title
• Blog tagline :Display blog’s tagline
• Blog contents:
• Page list : Display list of all pages
• Post list : Display list of all posts
• Category list: Display list of categories for the blog
• Meta contents:
• Long Description of this Blog : Display this blog’s long description.
• Free HTML : Display a block of free HTML code.
• Tools:
• Common Navigation Links : Display these links: Recently, Archives, Categories, Latest Comments
• Content Search Form : Display search form
• XML Feeds (RSS / Atom) : Display list of all available XML feeds.
• User Tools : Display user tools: Log in, Admin, Profile, Subscriptions, Log out
• Other contents:
• Linkblog Display : list of entries from the linkblog, grouped by category.
• Widgets provided by Plugins:
• Calendar Widget : This skin tag displays a navigable calendar.
• Archives Widget : This skin tag displays a list of post archives.
• Who’s online : This skin tag displays who is online
• Links to move to previous & next post in single post display mode. (fplanque)
• Enhanced Back-office:
• Reorganized backoffice (fplanque)
• New "Chicago" backoffice skin (fplanque)
• Removed annoying "ping" screen after posting/editing (fplanque)
• Dashboard (fplanque)
• In context comment moderation directly from the dashboard (fplanque)
• New category/chapter management interface (fplanque)
• In context editing: you will go back where you left after editing a post or a comment. Even if you where in the skin (i-e. not in the back-office). (fplanque)
• Enhanced Filemanager:
• Added integrated File editor into the File manager. Allows editing of skin files. (fplanque)
• Massive refactoring of the File Manager / interface cleanup (fplanque).
• Automatic generation and caching of thumbnails for images in the File Manager. (fplanque)
• Ability to create (photoblog) posts with selected files in file manager. (fplanque)
• Enhanced Security:
• Backoffice system checks page to help secure your server and assist in troubleshooting (fplanque)
• Login form: If Javascript is available the password gets hashed by the client before it gets sent "over the wire". It uses a random salt generated by the server for this on every login attempt. It’s still recommended to set $htsrv_url_sensitive to an SSL URL, but at least this helps a bit. Plugins which need the raw password can hook into the new LoginAttemptNeedsRawPassword event and return true there. (blueyed)
• Enhanced Configuration:
• Several options can now be set on a per Blog basis in the backoffice:
• Default ordering of posts: by date, by title, by priority… (fplanque)
• Number of posts (or days) per page to display (fplanque)
• Number of posts for RSS/Atom feeds (fplanque)
• Content of feeds (excerpts, full posts…) (fplanque)
• Archive mode (monthly, weekly, daily…) (fplanque)
• Permalink and other link formats (fplanque)
• Allowing users to subscribe to email notifications (fplanque)
• Removed special behavior of blog #1. Any blog can now aggregate any other combination of blogs. Look into Advanced Settings for the aggregating blog. (fplanque)
• Made default chmod settings for dirs/files editable (blueyed)
• Workflow properties are now hidden by default. Can be enabled on a per blog basis (fplanque)
• User feature settings can be reset to defaults, including PluginUserSettings (blueyed)
• "Multiple sessions per user" setting. This will ensure logout from public computers if unchecked. (blueyed)
• Enhanced User permissions:
• Each blog now has a unique "owner" — multiple blogs belonging to the same owner can be interlinked. (fplanque)
• For single user blogs there is no longer a need to set advanced permissions, just assign the owner. (fplanque)
• Blog owners can now have control over their blog settings without necessarily having control over their blog url and other sensitive settings. (fplanque)
• Blog owners can be given permission to view stats on their own blog (and only their blog). (fplanque)
• Advanced permissons can be enabled on a blog by blog basis when needed (fplanque)
• Advanced permissions include ability to give edit perm only for posts written by users with a lower level, or equal level. (fplanque)
• Enhanced SEO:
• Automatic XML sitemap generation (fplanque)
• Made permalinks / URL titles Google friendly (fplanque)
• Clean category/chapter URLs (fplanque)
• Added a wide variety of permalink formats to chose from (fplanque)
• New post visibility status ‘redirect’: allows to redirect old posts to a new location. (fplanque)
• 301 redirects of post requests to their canonical permalink URL (useful to unify older URLs) (fplanque)
• 301 redirects of category requests to their canonical URL (useful to unify older URLs) (fplanque)
• All redirects are now either 301 or 303 (No more stinkin’ 302s) (fplanque)
• Enhanced evoCore framework:
• Posts can be filtered by locale, e.g: ?lc=fr or ?lc=fr-FR (more to come) (fplanque)
• Category searches can be focuses ‘wide’ (including extra categories) or ‘main’ (main category only) (fplanque)
• Better precision for viewcounts (fplanque)
• Replacing of special characters in auto-generated URL titles (blueyed)
• Entities support for HTML checker (blueyed)
• Optimized speed/memory usage
• Multiple plugins/skins can require the same css or javascript and it will only be included once (personman, fplanque)
• A lot of refactoring (fplanque)
• Enhanced stability:
• Many fixes in XML-RPC APIs
• Fixed URL modes for Blogs (fplanque)
• Fixed and enhanced item/file links (fplanque)
• Several fixes in the Weekly Archives (fplanque)
• Enhanced Plugins:
• Added events: LoginAttemptNeedsRawPassword, AdminDisplayCommentFormFieldset, SkinEndHtmlBody, AdminBeforeItemEditDelete
• Enhanced purity:>> Cleanup of depreciated features:
• Pingbacks are dead. R.I.P. (no maintainer…)
• User skin switching. Only the admin can switch skins now.
• …postcounts for categories will probably die soon (not enough value over processing time)