Big Release: Something for everyone

Christina Wodtke, Jim Meyer, Fleur Dragan — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:18:19 GMT

Hello true believers in independent publishing everywhere! We’ve got goodies for you this week!

_We’ve added image manipulation._ Wherever there are image links there are edit links now. Take a test drive, and resize, reformat and play! We do want to recommend though, that you create a copy *first* before you crop or resize. Those buttons apply immediately, so if you are a bit unsure about what you are doing, better to play with a copy (Christina found out the hard way!) Also, when a file is uploaded, a caption can now be specified along with the keywords. To see the caption used with a dropcap, the liquid template for a story will have to be modified. In liquid, the story image tag is

{{story.image.url}}

and there is now a

{{story.image.caption}}

tag available as well.

Finally, we’ve also changed the alt tag to show the caption rather than the keywords. However, if no caption is present, we’ll still show the keywords so your old stories will continue to work the same.

We now let you autopublish!

You notice now we’ve got two fields, one for internal deadlines (behaves the same way as the old deadline field but now also a “publish date” which will actually publish your story with or wihtout you! But don’t panic.. once you set that deadline, the story is marked publishable, just to warn you it’s on it’s way.

Never be seen without your makeup again!

And another much-requested feature: template staging. Planning a makeover? Don’t want to get caught wearing your curlers? Well now you can specify a theme to be “staged” that will show up as the theme on your own personal staging site. There is a link to the staging site available from the themes editing page (the “design” tab) on the theme designated as the staging site theme.

BTW, we've turned on the "forums" feature (another new and nifty feature, activated by clicking on "forums" under configuration) so you can tell us about bugs, issues, improvements and blow us kisses when we finally get it right....

We’ve got a few other little surprises planned… Watch this space!

PS: What's up?: Stories by Fleur Dragan

Big Release: Something for everyone

We now let you autopublish!

Never be seen without your makeup again!