Hello true believers in independent publishing everywhere! We’ve got goodies for you this week!
We’ve added image manipulation, autopublish, staged templates and more!
The em dash (—) is used to indicate a sudden break in thought (“I was thinking about writing a—what time did you say the movie started?”), a parenthetical statement that deserves more attention than parentheses indicate, or instead of a colon or semicolon to link clauses.
Due to popular request, we’ve added the ability for you to allow your visitors to comment without having to register. Just remember, without the enticement of building reputation (or the deterrent of losing it) you may see a drop in quality of comments as well as an increase of quantity. Please let us know your experience with anonymous comments!
The Washington Independant is the first of a series of newsblogger sites from the Center for Independant Media to be run on PublicSquare.
by Lars Pind
Using email for login seems a compelling choice, because an email address is guaranteed to be globally unique -- no two people will have the same email. Unfortunately, there are some problems.
You may have noticed WYSIWYG has gone on a diet and started working out… and she’s looking (and acting!) better than ever before. What you don’t know is Jim, which exploring the depths of the FCKEditor documentation, found some awesome keyboard shortcuts for you!
Three tiny bits of liquid to add a cool factor to your interface.
Redcanary is the latest site to move to PublicSquare. It’s gorgeous, and truly a showcase of what you can do if you roll up your sleeves and get in the templates… plus it’s chock-full of wonderful information for tech professionals! Check it out!
by Jim Meyer
A nice thing about PublicSquare is the ability to show off your community's statistics. Here's a bit of liquid to pull up some commonly used statistics.
To be sure, most enterprise customers don't know yet what it means to "manage" user-generated content, and important questions are stalling some initiatives. Should we put UGC through an approval workflow? Do we need to archive it? Do we expose our internal classification scheme so we can cross-reference internal and user content? And so on.
Erstwhile Matt Pelletier of EastMedia has just added the ability to add rss feeds as a way of populating content to the pages of your publication.
