With the holidays in front of the door we would like you to receive this christmas gift: mvblog 3.0

As usual, here is the changelog:

mvblog 3.0:
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* Added category icons
* new version of tinymce
* Added user settings interface
* Users can now decide wether to show their email address on comments
* Added import from WordPress blogsoftware
* inactive users can now be deleted

 

Merry Christmas everybody

Leonieke has been very busy with creating end user documentation for mvblog.
She is almost finished, and I think it's time to announce this new addition to the project.
You can find the documentation here.

Thanks a lot for all the hard work on this one Leonieke.

Time for another release. This release removes most of the themes from the default download package.
We now have a new wiki page with all the previous themes and a new theme by sofie.
This is now the preferred way to release themes. Feel free to contribute your theme to the project.

As usual, here is the changelog:

* Added story linking: use [#] to include link to other post
* Added dossiers (implements #115)
* removed the default limit of 4000 characters on posts in main list. 
You _MUST_ use the BREAKPOINT magic now to get a 'read more' link
* plugin system now ignores directories in plugins/ to prevent errors
* added syntaxhl plugin to do syntax highlighting of post based on [ code: ..... :code ] syntax. 
See COLOR_HIGHLIGHT.txt (implements #113)

Today I started work on the import from other blogtools (ticket #37).
Thanks to fboender for a dump of his wordpress database so I have data to work with.
If you want to follow this work checkout the mvblog-import team branch. (checkout with: svn co https://svn.three-dimensional.net/mvblog/team/michiel/import_blogs)
I will keep you all updated on this one as I make progress.
If you have a another blogtool running and want to share your database with me let me know so we can implement import for that as well.

First of all, sorry for the errors I made with mvblog 2.2
The release script had a bug that made most images go corrupt and the version template was not correctly updated.

mvblog 2.2.1 is mvblog 2.2 with those two issues resolved.
For those who already got mvblog 2.2, please upgrade to 2.2.1.
For those wanting to upgrade, grab the 2.2.1 package/svn tree

mvblog 2.2 is released today.
Important for our current users is that the .htaccess now prevents the conf/mvblog.ini to be downloaded.
We recommend you upgrade to this release as soon as possible.
Here's the CHANGELOG:

• Make sure users cannot download mvblog.ini
• Support multiple categories per post
• Added backup routines to update progress
• Added WP dashboard like index page for admin interface.
• Added swedish language

See the download page for information on how to get this release.

As always, report issues on the development website

[UPDATE] Please use mvblog 2.2.1 because in mvblog 2.2 most images are corrupt due to a bug in the release script

mvblog 2.1 is finally here.
Here is the changelog:

• Fixed RSS item description
• Added link to archive for older articles
• removed common/hosts.php in favour of conf/mvblog.ini
• we no longer support one codebase with multiple blogs
• switched from xinha to tiny_mce
• Rewrote plugin stuff and plugins to be completely object oriented
• Created API docs
• added some more correct info to the RSS.php
• added RDF.php to output nice RDF feed.
• Added custom 404 page (#62)

See the download page for information on how to get this release.

As always, report issues on the development website

We have a lot of bugs that are caused by the fact we can run multiple blogs on one codebase. Those bugs are hard to fix and almost every new feature introduces more bugs in this area.

A quick scan under the users of mvblog we know resulted in the fact this feature is not used and also causes troubles during setup for just a simple blog.
Add the new mvblog config file and upgrade possibilities and you will come to the same conclusion as we: It's a feature not used and hard to maintain.
That's why we decided to let go this feature for now. We will create a ticket on dev.mvblog.org for this so maybe in the future it will be available again.

We really like your feedback on this.

Today I merged my tinyMCE branch into -trunk.
This means there's no more Xinha as WYSIWYG HTML editor but tinyMCE.

As you can see we have a new website.
Thanks a lot sofie for the design and Nieke for helping me with all the implementation struggle.

We are now once again using our own product for the news section so we can update you with more news now.

On other news: fboender joined us as developer and already did massive ammounts of coding for us.
Check our dev site for a list of everything that's going on in the coding part of mvblog.