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Pritlog 0.81 - Alpha 1 release

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  1. Prit
    Pritlogger

    Release information can be found at the below link:
    http://hardkap.net/pritlog/pmwiki.php?n=Pritlog.Pritlog081

    Use this thread or the google code hosting website to report bugs/feedback:
    http://code.google.com/p/pritlog/issues/list

    Posted 10 months ago #

  2. john
    Member

    Hi Prit,

    Thank you for the new release.
    I already setup a new test site at: http://enbaires.com/pritlog_081a1/
    Please feel free to use it if you want to check things on a different server.

    My first task: get some time to explore the new code to make myself familiar with most significant changes in this version (template sys and plugins)

    I think we are all learning a lot and having fun with this very nice script. I'm sure more people will join as soon they discover its existence.

    First errors to report

    1. JS error on page load / line 38 char 873 "null" is null or not an object
    2. date on post title displays Dec 31 instead of Apr 16
    3. searching for "pritlog" displays duplicated result

    Posted 10 months ago #

  3. Prit
    Pritlogger

    Thanks John. Yes, we are learning in developing this script. I personally learned a lot and it really helps us understand and make the design better. Thanks for all the help.

    I found the reason for this error and have fixed it in the Alpha1 package now. You can just download the nicEdit plugin from http://hardkap.net/pritlog/0.81/nicedit.plugin.zip and replace your existing one. Let me know if it fixes the issue.

    Posted 10 months ago #

  4. john
    Member

    Prit,

    new plugin fixed the JS error. Thanks
    Note that I edited my previous post to add a 3rd error re. searchbox duplicate results

    Posted 10 months ago #

  5. Prit
    Pritlogger

    Hi John .. Have fixed this error. Can you please download index.php from http://hardkap.net/pritlog/0.81/index.zip and replace your index.php? Let me know if the issues are fixed.

    Posted 10 months ago #

  6. john
    Member

    Prit,

    uploaded your new index.php / the 3 reported errors are fixed :)

    I just wrote a list with most significant changes in my customized version, to start thinking about best alternative to port them to v0.81 (maybe using plugins), and to check available features side by side. Besides changes in functionality, I also have countless little adjustments to style (some in css but many others hard coded in index.php) to correct look in different browsers.

    I need to decide if worth to move everything to 0.81, or just doing the reverse: pick selected features I like in 0.81 and move them into my custom version.

    My Changes to v0.8

    General
    - layout (css and hard coded)
    - improved navigation / redirects / go back links
    - menu logic (what to display depending if logged is admin ,author, or guest)
    - clean urls using short format and .htaccess
    - measure script execution time / display on footer

    SideBar / Footer
    - menu categories with nbr of posts each one contains
    - most popular posts with nbr of comments they received
    - using post title in sidebarListComments instead of name

    Posts
    - using fixed selectable categories (dropdown menu)
    - image uploader / with resize / preview / and link loaded in nicEdit
    - mail to post author / using contact form with dynamic "To" address
    - sticky posts / ability to asign sticky order
    - ability to edit post dates
    - delimiters to use partial post text in header meta description
    - tell a friend link and support files (popup form)
    - display comments in reverse chronological order
    - added script and support files to post videos (flv)
    - added script and files to show polls on sidebar
    - searchbox able to search multiple words and phrases in quotes
    - disallow duplicate mail at author registration
    - ban author on administration page
    - fix accented characters in titleModify
    - new stats function with detailed access logs

    Archive
    - added author name at right of link

    Posted 10 months ago #

  7. john
    Member

    Prit,

    4. nicEdit image upload doesn't work / manchego's ajax file manager isn't available

    I also tested the use of comma separated tags as categories. In my view, creating an entry on the sidebar menu for each tag, will produce so many entries that after several posts they might be impossible to display.

    I like the Tag idea, but regarding category names I prefeer to keep site structure by using a short list of predefined names as site "sections".

    It would be nice to have Tags as a separate field (one for category and another for tags) and include it as searchable content (maybe tags could also be added dynamically to existing keywords in header meta tag to improve search engine ranking).

    It seems to me that post title and now tags, are the best ways to let visitors know about specific and existing post subjects (through last entries and most popular). I like to see category names to be more generic, like a starting point to guess where to find what, tags on sidebar menu would also led to some confussion as several links might point to the same post. Just an opinion :)

    Posted 10 months ago #

  8. Prit
    Pritlogger

    John ..

    Do you see any errors when the nicEdit upload runs? On the first run, it should try to create a folder called pictures under the plugins directory. You can create this yourself and give the appropriate permissions so that pictures can be stored by the script.

    I see the point you are making for the tags vs categories. If there are lot of tags, it can easily make the categories in the sidebar a mess. I was thinking of even getting rid of this sidebar categories and just have a tag cloud for Pritlog. Anyway, for those who don't want to use multiple tags, they can continue to use this field like the category field itself.

    I have been using the bookmarking service called Delicious for a long time now and its been very easy and useful to use just tags (they don't use categories) for bookmarking. You can easily get a list of bookmarks under any particular tag. This is the reason why, I am considering tags now.

    Posted 10 months ago #

  9. john
    Member

    Prit,

    5. the pictures folder is created in the plugin directory
    - images uploaded on both attempts I did
    - but in the first one I saw a js error and no picture appeared in nicEdit
    - i guess the reason is that it was also creating the directory
    - on second attempt pic was both uploaded and displayed in nicEdit
    - the ajax file manager is still unavailable

    Posted 10 months ago #

  10. Prit
    Pritlogger

    Thanks John .. I have not provided the ajax file manager plugin with this yet. The current Pritlog comes with "upload to own server" plugin enabled by default.

    Posted 10 months ago #

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