Einträge für Garvin Hicking – Serendipity

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!

I have received new upstream releases for the Tagging-Plugin by Jonathan Arkell and a 0.9 compatible version of the googlesitemap plugin by Sebastian Wiesinger. Thank you very much, guys!

The revamped version of the Tagging plugin by Jonathan now supports easier maintaining of the tags, as well as refactored code and better styling/RSS+Technorati integration. Weightings and Intersections of Tags has also been improved, but there is still some pending work needed to get it to work with postgreSQL.

Both have been committed to CVS and should be upgradable in Spartacus the next 24 hours. If you have any issues with the new plugin versions, please report them here.

A new theme contribution has been made by Hendrik Scholz / Wormulon. The theme is called "Joshua" and has been added to our additional_themes repository here, where it will be available in the next 24 hours. Hendrik's site is running the theme, if you want to see it in action.

A user-contribution by Boris, Plugin Google Sitemap, allows to create the new Googlebot-compatible sitemap layout for most of all Serendipity links.

I think it may not run smoothly with Serendipity 0.9 and a customized permalink structure, but it should not be too hard to adapt the plugin there. Apart from that I think it's a really nice plugin, thanks to Boris!

As already foretold in this entry, I have committed a patch to our 0.9 SVN trunk which enables Serendipity to have multiple group permission privileges.

You can read more in my posting on the mailinglist.

The bottom line is: We now need some bug- and QA testers who need this functionality and are willing to testdrive it. Huge problems are not expected, but the more people testing it, the better.

On a related sidenote, I have added a "Current state of SVN" box in our blog on the right hand side. There you can easily spot in the future if the current nightlies are considered stable or unstable. Thanks a lot and have fun!

A new plugin called serendipity_event_assigncategories ("Category Assignment") has been added to CVS. It allows to easily change the category assignemnts of all articles. It can be very helpful if you decide to add a new category to your blog and would like to sort special entries to those new categories.

The plugin will be available in Spartacus soon and has already been committed to CVS.