Big Release: Something for everyone

by Christina Wodtke, Jim Meyer, Fleur Dragan
Published on 01/29/2008
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crop imageHello 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!


How to stage a themeAnd 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!

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Talk about Big Release: Something for everyone

Trevor Stafford said   Edit (for another )
Trevor Stafford

Lovin’ the stagin’! It would be great to see this blog be more active, but maybe the forums can take over that responsibility?

Posted on 01/30/2008 06:45
Christina Wodtke said   Edit (for another )
Christina Wodtke

Well, as you can see we’re working to get more up on the blog (and even link to it from the main site…) The forums will hopefull allow our userbase to both give us feedback, and help each other! We’re ahppy to have gotten some new life (and thanks to CIM (see previous story) for providing that jolt)

Posted on 01/30/2008 06:47
Brian Arbelaez said   Edit (for another )
Brian Arbelaez

We Love Goodies….Thanks!! ~ Keep up the fabulous work!!

Posted on 01/30/2008 08:49
Austin Govella said   Edit (for another )
Austin Govella

This release is awesome. Everything I knew I wanted (autopublish) and everything I didn’t know I wanted (template staging).

Posted on 01/30/2008 09:55
Christina Wodtke said   Edit (for another )
Christina Wodtke

We did hit a couple of bumps in the road on autopublish, due to how the internal clock is set, but we’re working on fixes now. We’re also planning to get the clock down to hours, which will help also.

Posted on 02/01/2008 07:07
Christina Wodtke said   Edit (for another )
Christina Wodtke

Autopublish is finally really truely here, plus a couple other ride-along improvements:

*Alt Tag*

On the story edit page image tags are pre-generated for users to copy
and paste into stories. It used to be the alt value generated was
the keyword, and if no keywords, the filename. It’s now caption if
there is one, then keywords, if there are any, then filename. This
is done and available live now.

*Profile Story Sort Order*

The current liquid provides a list of stories from oldest to newest.
To get a list from newest to oldest you’ll need to change the
liquid. The liquid that needs to change is any reference to
‘person.published_stories’. Change these references to
‘person.recently_published_stories’ and the same list of stories will
appear in reverse order, from newest to oldest.

Current example:



      {% if person.published_stories != empty %}

          Stories written by {{ person.name }}
          <a href="%7B%7B%20person.stories_rss_url%20%7D%7D" rel="nofollow"></a>
    {% for story in person.published_stories %}

  • {{ story.title }} {{ story.published_at |
    date }}
    • {% endfor %}

With new edits:


      {% if person.recently_published_stories != empty %}

          Stories written by {{ person.name }}
          <a href="%7B%7B%20person.stories_rss_url%20%7D%7D" rel="nofollow"></a>
    {% for story in person.recently_published_stories %}

  • {{ story.title }} {{ story.published_at |
    date }}
    • {% endfor %}
Posted on 02/09/2008 15:33

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