Thursday, August 23, 2007

New Version 8.0 Released

 The highlights are:

  • No more manually configuring the path to fckeditor, now it's done automatically. You really only need to edit your connection string now!
  • Users are of two types, Admin or not and this is set via the admin screens.  Admins have access to everything but you can change the view dynamically via a link at the top of the admin screens called "User View | Admin View" - User View gives you the admin screens as if you're just a regular user and Admin View brings back access to everything.  Only admins have this menu that's located at the top right of the main admin screen (screenshots).
  • Galleries are now tied to users and any user can create one (also fixed some path issues)
  • Plugin Module
  • Admin layout is separate from your template so now you have a lot more screen area to administer your blog (screenshots)
  • Error checking (javascript required) on all admin screens now

Readme: http://www.betaparticle.com/wiki/BP-Blog.ashx
Changelog (and db update info): http://www.betaparticle.com/wiki/BP-Blog-Changelog.ashx
Download: http://blog.betaparticle.com/uploads/blog_8.0.zip

You can always contact me if you need help updating your database but it's only two fields.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

New Version 8.0 coming in the next two weeks

Proposed changes:

http://www.betaparticle.com/wiki/BP-Blog-Changelog.ashx

Monday, August 13, 2007

Userlastposts

This is the first plugin I've written for the new (8.0) release of bp blog later this month. 

Author: Matt
URL: http://blog.betaparticle.com
Description: Diplays the user's last n posts on their profile page, n can be set below

Example

Template Code: %%plugin_userlastposts%%

This will be available by default in the new download.

Thursday, August 09, 2007

The Famous Kubrick

Ported via

Preview Kubrick | Download

Available Included Themes

White Minima
Black Minima
Blue Minima
Rounders
Dots
Snapshot
Ms. Moto (Pinky Lee variation)
Minima 2

Simple Lightbox JS 2.0

Lightbox JS 2.0 is already included with BP Blog.  Just add this code to the top of Layout2:

<script type="text/javascript" 
src="js/prototype.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="js/scriptaculous.js?load=effects"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="js/lightbox.js"></script>
<link media="screen" href="css/lightbox.css"
type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />