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BuddyPress Version 1.1.1 Released
Oct 6, 2009 by Srikanth AD MyTestBox News 2 Comments
BuddyPress, is a set of plugins and themes, which can be used to extend the functionality of WordPress MU and bring social networking features to a new or existing installation. These suite of plugins can be used either independently or cumulatively to create a complete social network. Some specific plugins could also be used to add desirable features to your existing blog network.
BuddyPress has recently released its new version 1.1.1. The fixed issues include,
- Fixed an issue where themes designed for BuddyPress 1.0 would cause a signup page failure.
- Fixed issues with creating and posting on private and hidden group forums.
- Fixed missing forum topic title in activity stream entry when editing a forum post.
- Fixed missing ability to pass an array of template files to load.
- Fixed post new topic and post new reply links displaying on group forums, even when logged out.
- Fixed issues with viewing paginated friend lists in the default theme.
- Fixed issue with multiple ajax loaders on the groups and friends pages for a user when searching or clicking navigation.
- Added username compatibility fallback setting to provide support for dots in LDAP usernames.
Download BuddyPress 1.1.1 here.
Sphere: Related ContentocPortal, Content Management System, Version 4.2 Released
Oct 5, 2009 by Srikanth AD MyTestBox News 4 Comments
ocPortal, one of the upcoming web content mangement systems has released its new version 4.2. This release has huge number of new features and bug fixes. If you haven’t tried ocPortal yet, you might want to check a personal demo here.
New features include:
- Online store (shopping cart)
- Big cleanup of blogging/news features
- Tidy-up of galleries
- Posting-rate graph
- True multi-language support – virtually all content (news posts, forum posts, CEDI pages, etc) can be translated.
- More data-conversion choices – importing from CSV files, RSS and JPEG meta-data, and ocPortal’s new XML format for synchronization of data between sites
- Google Sitemap generation
- Twitter and Facebook syndication
- A new weather block to show the current weather in a given location
- Refreshed forum driver support (IPB3, vBulletin 3.8, SMF 2)
- All the menu templates and CSS have been rewritten to be far easier to understand and modify
- About 30 new config options, to allow greater flexibility
- Error messages are now much more thorough, providing solutions on how to resolve the errors
- Performance improvements, particularly to reduce memory usage
- Search-friendly URLs (URLs with keywords in, rather than ID numbers)
- Reviews support (e.g. people can post reviews for a catalogue entry)
- MkPortal import, and feature parity: Slide-shows and eCards from galleries, Top-sites support
- New ‘carousel’ Comcode tag
- Overhaul of the support ticket system, including SMS alert support
- Encrypted custom profile fields (CPFs) and privacy settings
- Flash and Java based uploaders
- Further improved best practice compliance for web standards, and support for the semantic web (“Web 3.0″) – Microformat support, Dublin Core support, and more.
Check out other features about the ocPortal version 4.2 here.
Sphere: Related ContentTikiWiki, Content Management System, Version 3.2 Released!
Oct 3, 2009 by Srikanth AD MyTestBox News 5 Comments
- Wikis (like in Wikipedia)
- Forums (like in phpBB)
- Blogs (like in WordPress)
- Articles (like in Yahoo News)
- Image Gallery (like in Flickr)
- Map Server (like in Google Maps)
- Link Directory (like in DMOZ)
- Multilingual (like in Babel Fish)
- Bug Tracker (like in Bugzilla)
- RSS Feeds (like in Digg)
- Free Open Source software (LGPL)
Tiki version 3.2 can be downloaded here.
For the list of major enhancements since Tiki2, check out the TikiWiki docs.
Sphere: Related ContentSix Apart: Announces the TypePad Platform and TypePad Motion
Oct 3, 2009 by Srikanth AD MyTestBox News 6 Comments
It been eight years since Movable Type, an open blog platform has been released. Recently some major steps in Six Apart’s continuing mission to make web publishing more accessible and social were announced: the TypePad Platform and TypePad Motion, a new open-source software social application.
The TypePad Platform
Six Apart announced the launch of the TypePad Platform, where any developer, blogger, publisher, or firm can use the TypePad “cloud” through their open APIs. This novel platform enables developers to use structured object, like blogs, posts, comments, people, activities, groups, and tags, to quickly and inexpensively build next generation social applications on a reliable, secure, and scalable platform.
For larger publishers and Internet businesses, TypePad Platform can stand as a new way to incorporate blogs and social networking into their sites – offering an alternative to completely local software solutions or completely hosted SaaS solutions. With the TypePad Platform, publishers can use the presentation layer and templates of their choice – be it via MT, PHP, Django, Java, etc. – while not having to install and support an expensive back end.
For personal bloggers and TypePad users: TypePad will be built into applications that will help the bloggers and their readers, paving the way for more applications that enhance TypePad functionality.
For larger TypePad customers: the TypePad platform opens up a large set of possibilities about how they can integrate their TypePad blogs into their existing web sites.
TypePad Motion
To show what the TypePad Platform can do, Six Apart announced TypePad Motion as the inaugural open source application for the TypePad platform. Typepad Motion is a microblogging app evolved from the Pownce codebase & community. It’s a effective example of how developers can use TypePad and control of an entirely separate presentation layer, like Django, to maintain templates and build pages.
Sphere: Related ContentA TypePad Motion site is a place where members come together to share notes, files, photos, videos and audio with others and featured users can aggregate all of their activity around the web onto the TypePad Motion site, keeping their fans or followers up-to-date on their activities. Several celebrities have integrated TypePad Motion sites into their branded websites, such as Zachary Quinto (Star Trek, Heroes) and Ryan Star.
Matt Mullenweg: Answers Questions from the WordPress Community (Video)
Sep 30, 2009 by Srikanth AD MyTestBox News 1 Comment
Matt Mullenweg of Automattic, the makers of one of the most popular blog software, WordPress, answers questions from the WordPress community, including making money from open source products, migrating from WordPress.com to WordPress.org, the history of WordPress, the roles system in WordPress, core vs. plugins, blog comments, WordPress security, and more.
Source: WordPress TV
Sphere: Related ContentBuddyPress Version 1.1 Released
Sep 30, 2009 by Srikanth AD MyTestBox News 1 Comment
BuddyPress, is a set of plugins and themes, which can be used to extend the functionality of WordPress MU and bring social networking features to a new or existing installation. These suite of plugins can be used either independently or cumulatively to create a complete social network. Some specific plugins could also be used to add desirable features to your existing blog network.
BuddyPress has recently released its new version 1.1. This new release includes a substantial number of core code improvements as well as an array of useful new features.
Some highlights of this version are:
- One click internal bbPress forum integration. This allows you to set up group forums in no time.
- A global forum directory (example) allowing you to easily browse public facing forum posts regardless of the group they are attached to.
- Completely re-written theme handling. Now, one theme controls all of your installation. There is no hidden HTML and everything is in the template ready for you to tweak.
- Easily create themes that are upgraded automatically when BuddyPress is updated.
- Total site administrator control of all content within an installation. Edit user’s profiles, update avatars, mark users as spammers, manage all groups, delete site activity entries.
- Activity streams everywhere. Activity streams can be filtered allowing for feature specific activity streams or adding an activity stream to your custom plugin.
- A new status updates feature is included in BuddyPress 1.1. Actions and filters are included to allow plugin developers to hook into any external service.
- An awesome group extension API allowing developers to easily extend groups and add completely new features.
Download the latest version of BuddyPress here.
Sphere: Related ContentMovable Type, Open Source Blog Software, Version 4.32 Released
Sep 30, 2009 by Srikanth AD MyTestBox News 1 Comment
Movable Type, an open source blog software, which we have reviewed here has released its new version 4.32.
MT4.32 has fixed some of the minor bugs from the previous releases. And, MT4.32 is now bundled with the Zemanta plugin. Zemanta can be very helpful in the case where you need an image, links to related articles, help with tags for an entry, etc., to have a more compelling blog entry.
You might want to check out the Zemanta FAQ for more details on how Zemanta’s services may be useful for you or your bloggers. You can disable the Zemanta plugin based on your needs. There are many ways to disable the Zemanta plugin additionally anyone with file-system access can remove the Zemanta plugin from the plugins directory within the MT install.
Check out the bug fixes and other minor updates in Movable Type Version 4.32 here.
Download MTOS-4.32-en [zip] [tar.gz]
Source: Movale Type blog
Sphere: Related ContentAdVantShop.NET V2.2.3 Integrated with Excel – New Updated Version of E-Commerce Engine
Sep 26, 2009 by Srikanth AD MyTestBox News 6 Comments
The AdVantShop.NET team has recently released an updated version of v2.2.3 e-commerce engine. All the abilities of e-commerce have been largely extended in the new version. One of the new functions is AdVantShop.NETuploading / downloading goods catalogue from Microsoft Excel (.xls). Many of the online shops owners would like their sites to meet following requirements,
- Comfortable and easy working with e-commerce engine
- Stating the prices
- Working with payment systems
- Uploading the data to online-markets etc.
The updated AdVantShop.NET v2.2.3 simplifies working with your online shop. It has some considerable enhancements. Firstly, it enables you can upload your goods offers from Excel file or get the price-list from your shop in Microsoft Excel format (.xls). Meaning that it’s much easier now to operate price-lists both at the initial stage of working with online shop and at further stages. The only thing you need to do is to fill the xls-file with your goods, load it to your shop and start to sell the goods. Secondly, it has added the essential e-commerce function to this new version – Adjustable Options. This improvement allows to set up the goods options: color, length, size etc. For example, you can set different prices for each size of trousers. Finally, it’s available now to import your goods offers to the most popular on-line shopping services: Yandex.Market, Google Base, Shopping.com, Yahoo Shopping, PriceGrabber, Amazon.com and Shopzilla. You can promote your goods on the largest online shopping destinations. The updated AdVantShop.NET v2.2.3 is available as demo-version, version for downloading (for developers) or trial-version, that you can checked out at AdvantShop. For beginners it also offers a detailed video-guide for installing and operating the AdVantShop.NET e-commerce engine.
Sphere: Related ContentZimplit: Easiest Open Source Content Management System
Sep 26, 2009 by Srikanth AD MyTestBox News 15 Comments
Zimplit, an easy-to-use content management system, has released a new version of its fully rebrandable content management system for hosting companies who want to provide easily editable websites for their customers.
Briefly, Zimplit is the easiest Open Source Content Management System. It is extremely lightweight, simple and customizable. It’s easy to install, and easy to use via a simple web interface. Zimplit doesn’t need a database and it consists of only a one core engine file.
The motivation behind Zimplit is that most private users and companies are using the hosting service for website hosting and it seems obvious that a client can get the hosting service as well as website creation tools from the same place. It seems also apparent that most hosting companies don’t provide any website creation tools at all.
Zimplit allows hosting companies to set up website creation tool in minutes and provide full service for the client. It allows hosting providers to keep and promote their own brand - meaning that the entire software’s interface can be modified to suit hosting provider’s own branding.
It provides not only a content management system, but also ready made and custom templates. The system also allows end users to choose suitable design templates. It will work on most hosting control panels like Plesk, cPanel, etc. It has a solution even for the small hosting companies who have a self made control panel. Apart from the installation process, it features a new updating process. Zimplit allows updating the whole service from one place and all hosting provider clients will get the updates instantly.
It’s very search engine friendly and helps you setup your website in few minutes without having to setup a database.
Sphere: Related ContentWordPress Theme Generator: Create your Own WordPress Themes (No Coding Required)
Sep 20, 2009 by Srikanth AD Tips and Tricks 9 Comments
WordPress theme generator is an online theme generator that enables you to create custom unique WordPress themes for free. It does not require any knowledge of web programming languages like HTML, PHP, or JavaScript. It provides you with options to change the colors, settings, layout based on your needs. You can customize the tag cloud, archives and search and menu layout.
It enables you to preview the theme live, save and download your WordPress theme as a zip file. It lets you design a complete WordPress theme with widget support in an easy and fast way, without any knowledge of programming languages.
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