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Today I've committed a new plugin to our repository called "TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor support". It can only be used with the latest Serendipity SVN version, as new plugin hooks were introduced.

Because of license issues you'll need to download TinyMCE seperately and configure the path to the editor.

This is mostly for the people who always wanted to add their own WYSIWYG editor easily, now you can have a go at it. :)

I just wanted to add a pointer to a posting on the Serendipity Forums: In A wiki in my Serendipity blog, TimothyP outlines a plugin that can import external Wiki links and combine it with the staticpages plugin to make those wiki-style pages available in your blog. As he's looking for feedback, anyone care to give some? :-)

Today I have committed version 0.2 of the cachesimple plugin. It features:

1. Use of Conditional GET to prevent "cache busting"
2. Shortcircuit larger parts of the Plugin API to gain some extra performance.

It is very important for the plugin's full performance that you place the cachesimple plugin as your first plugin in the Event plugin queue. The only plugins that should come before this plugin are

1. serendipity_event_loginform
2. serendipity_event_templatechooser
3. serendipity_event_karma
4. serendipity_event_phpopentracker
5. serendipity_event_filter_entries
6. serendipity_event_randomblogdescription

(if you do not want to loose their functionality, that is)

If the plugin is not first in the queue, it results in all the other plugins being initialised before the cachesimple plugin is able to exit the serendipity Framework.

Feedback, improvements/patches and reports if this breaks any functionality is heartly welcome. The plugin should be available in spartacus tomorrow, you can of course download the diff from the URL location above; this should be available in a few hours.

I have prepared a patch which allows the plugin interface to be a bit more intuitive.

It combines the spartacus/external plugins into the same interface you use to install downloaded plugins, so this is now one large list of plugins. The new list also allows to be grouped by one level of categories.

Some plugins in the list, and some spartacus plugins have been given the new "group" property so that you can play with the patch.

For the interface to load faster I have created an intermediate cache, that stores the plugin metadata and makes it retrievable easier on the interface. The upside of this is that the list of plugins is now much faster created.

This may possibly cause a lot of trouble, so do not apply this patch in a working environment. Only use it for fun and report back to me how you like it.

In a future step, the new (localized!) plugin XML metadata can be used easier on a pear.php.net like interface.

The patch can be found here: http://blog.s9y.org/uploads/plugincat.diff

UPDATE: New diff file http://blog.s9y.org/uploads/plugincat2.diff supports Template downloading via Smartacus, uhm Spartacus. :-)

UPDATE 2: New diff file http://blog.s9y.org/uploads/plugincat3.diff contains support for alternate file mirrors. The list of mirrors will hopefully be updated soon to contain some backup locations.

A serious security issue has been discovered in our bundled library XML-RPC. This issue allows for possible remote code execution.

Some users of the Konqueror-Browser may have noticed that when posting a new entry, the "plus" icon next to the categories selection did not toggle anything.

This functionality was meant to toggle a multiple-select field when clicked, to preserve screenspace on most browsers and make it easier for people that do not want to post in multiple categories.

This functionality did not play well with Konqueror's interpretation of the select-field's properties. I have thus rewritten the JavaScript code to toggle the state of the select field, and it should now work in all major browsers. I have committed the patch to our 0.9 SVN, and it should be contained in the daily snapshot created later today.

I'd be happy for any reports regarding this functionality and whether it's working fine for you. Remember that when toggling from a multi select to a single select, the function will remember the last multi-select of your categories and restore those. So it is considered a feature when you select edit an entry with multiple selected categories, toggle to single select, and then toggle back that all previous categories get re-selected. Thanks for your feedback!