• A checkbox on the Publish > Uploads page now allows a new image to be uploaded, replacing an existing one, all the while preserving the metadata.
• Added Title and Caption fields to Publish > Images > Batch Treatment. This information will be common to all the uploaded Images, and will override any information present in the IPTC fields.
• The management of Documents was severely borken, and in most cases it wasn’t possible to delete an uploaded file except by connecting in through FTP or telnet. This has been corrected, tested and cleaned up, and now works as advertised. It also updates an existing document database to the new correct way of doing things.
• Corrected cosmetic problems resulting from the above.
• Minor bug squishes.

• Implemented a new Template Tag, caption, that works like title but inserts the page [parent, or section] caption rather than the title
• Extended the special image link Template Tag [ [ link:url | image_ref (|image_style)(:style) ] ] which inserts an image [original format] surrounded by the link code
• For historical reasons [that’s always what we say when we don’t remember why] there was a limit of 8 on the number of pages in an image gallery, plus a lurking math error when this limit was reached. Both of these has been corrected [thanks to Hubert Raguet].
• For some reason the page verification pane wouldn’t display a page preview if the page to preview had no title. This has been changed so that the page will not preview if there is no template: an altogether more logical proposition.
• The download counter for documents created a separate line for each download, not for each day. Corrected.
• As Alain pointed out, when you edit or clone an entry, you don’t know what language you’re working in. Corrected.
• Quite a few changes on the ‘Preparation > Structure’ tab [thanks Alain]:
  • new and moved pages no longer upset the ‘Virtual Page’ attribute of other pages in the Site Structure [a hard-to-track-down ‘feature’ of Safari, that one…]
  • a little clean up, again in Safari, of the ‘ghost’ image when dragging and dropping pages
  • the little animation that appeared when pages were created has gone, as it didn’t work properly, and [although a nice idea] was more an annoyance than a help
  • the alternating line colours are now corrected displayed when creating more than page at the same time.

• Argh! still problems with feeds getting ‘refreshed’ when there is no new content. Hope that I have squished this, this time…
• Squashed a bug in media downloads where an extraneous “ appeared in the download link
• Squashed a bug in media downloads where tag in a caption disrupted display of the HTML (similar to the same bug for images, already corrected)
• Squashed a bug in the breadcrumbs moglet where the homepage appeared twice in some circumstances
• Updating ‘Display Information’ on the Image Edit tab, now gives feedback when all is well
• In some cases, the use of \ to escape chars that mog*cms uses to encode text styling [this is an internal tool named moggie, a humane TEXT2HTML system] was not fonctionning correctly in the mog*cms admin pages. I have made a change in the ‘lang.class.php’ file, counting that this over-zealous stripping of backslashes was the problem. I am hoping this won’t introduce [or reveal] bugs in texts elsewhere now…
• Using the download tag didn’t call the download manager, and so some document downloads were counted [thanks to Hubert Raguet for pointing this one out]
• Corrections in the JavaScript for the tab ‘Preparation > Page > Structure’ [thanks Alain]
• Corrected other minor bugs

• corrected a few tabs that didn’t allow entries to be erased [notably Page, Include, Entry, and MediaTemplates…]
• squashed a useless warning that was displayed when deleting a web site language
• minor corrections in Language files

On a personal level, I’m really proud of this release, I feel that mog*cms is ‘getting there’. Now, perhaps, I need to explain that statement.

Version 1.2 is what I would have wanted for the 1.0 release. This doesn’t mean that 1.0 [and 1.1] weren’t fit for release, just that they were the best that we could do at that point. 1.0 was frozen and pushed out for April 1^st, 2006 as it had to be released at some point. We spent 2 weeks prior to release polishing it, and then went ‘Ouf!’ — an obscure French exclamation meaning ‘Well, we finally got there!’. For 1.1 we corrected a bunch of bugs, and added the RSS feeds that had had to be cut out of the initial release.

With this release we didn’t aim at adding new functionnality to mog*cms, but rather we reviewed everything from a user’s perspective. And so we have cleaned up and improved the administration interface no end… There has been a lot of behind-the-scenes work by Alain Pastor in the JavaScripts that control and correct input; there is his magnificient work that lets you just drag pages around to change their place in the site structure that you have to see to believe; there is the wonderful code that Max let us use that allows the resizing of select controls and textareas [and that replaces the old toggle buttons]; and there is the code that allows you to preview articles before saving them; each of the tabs in mog*cms has been revised, cleaned, and improved — our list of annoyances has practically shrivelled to nothing; the PHP and CSS code has been pruned and cleaned up. All these changes are aimed at making mog*cms a better experience for day-to-day use, and a more agreable experience in general.

Of course, we’re not claiming that mog*cms is perfect. We’ll no doubt see a 1.2.1 release as a few stragglers get cleaned up, but we still have great plans for the future.

You can download the latest version here. Release notes are here. And the changelog is here.

jonathan

• corrected a bug in browsers where the offset could go haywire and the wrong number of entries/images/documents is displayed
• correction of a bug where the presence of a link in an image caption would lead to this appearing in the HTML title tag, and throwing off the HTML in the page to disasterous effect
• corrected the synchronisation of text tags between languages had a serious problem where information was incorrectly passed between languages
• corrected the RSS feeds where HTML entities were appearing in what was supposed to be UTF-8 text
• fixed highly obscure bug when new fields in Text Tags couldn’t be resized
• fixed publication date in RSS feeds which was reset when feeds were generated, causing all items to show up as ‘new’ in some feed readers : now the publication date is set to the date of the last published item.
• corrected a bug in Text Tags where an erased entry was immediately replaced by an existing entry from another language instead of erasing that entry in other languages.

improvements

• can now sort entries by publication status
• new publication status category ‘archive’
• timed publish has been simplified and hours/minutes added
• interface has been overhauled and cleaned up, included a whole new means to create and order pages
• help text is now optional and can be switched on and off

new newness

• previews [youpi! and thanks Alain] are in place — you can preview entries and check that your moggie tags are clean!
• implemented virtual pages — pages that exist in the site structure but possess no template and no content, instead defaulting to the first available daughter page
• it is also now possible to clone an existing page and so keep the template and settings [a real time saver]
• a new PHP Settings page [Settings > Mog*cms > PHP Settings] informs you about any limitations in your PHP installation

On a side note, in the next few days we will be updating this site with version 1.2 of mog*cms — please excuse us in advance for any issues while we check the changes.

jonathan

Mog*cms version 1.2 should be released shortly. And there’s a host of new features (and bug squishes). Stay tuned.

When we added RSS Feeds to mog*cms, we wrote a small document to show just how easy it really is. This document is available as a PDF on our documentation page. Grab it and read it today, you’ll see how easy things are…

• altkey now allows admin to select unique filters in Entry / Image / Document browsers [thanks Alain]
• cleaned HTML entities that were appearing in mailed messages from the contact forms
• correction in image links [now work properly]
• corrected a problem in RSS feeds where english was used for links in all languages, and other minor issues with links in feeds
• standard install file now includes license.txt and installation.pdf [in English]

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