EasyBlog 3.5 beta released!
After months of endless commits and crazy pushes in our repository, we would like to announce that the beast is now available for beta tests! Yes, that's right! The all-new EasyBlog 3.5 beta, marks our 4th generation of EasyBlog and it is released officially!
Just some heads up for you that in this release we have made over 6000 crazy commits and introduced over 300 new exciting features and improvements.
While is it still in beta, it is very close to the final stable release. We thought that it would be a great honor to have you, our valuable users, to be involved in the final stages of this all-new EasyBlog 3.5.
Some of the new and exciting features:
- Multi-lingual blog posts (Joomla 1.6 onwards only)
- More SEO control (Yes, you can control how you want the URL to look like)
- Blog Images
- Micro posting
- New media manager (Something that I would urge you to try)
- Integrations with JomSocial album and Flickr (Some really cool feature here!)
- 4 New Themes!
- Extensive Integrations with EasyDiscuss 2.0
- Improved user experience throughout the dashboard area.
- Multiple comments support (Yep, you can have as many comment integrations as you want!)
- Pinterest Integrations
- LiveFyre Comment, Komento integrations
- and so much more ...
Well, how about we put you in the driver's seat and let you take EasyBlog 3.5 for a spin and you tell us what you think of this awesome Joomla blog component?
We are inviting all of our loyal subscribers of EasyBlog to login to our forum and download the installer.
If you were holding to your wallet earlier, here's a chance on how to go about grabbing this opportunity to get some discounts:
Offer is valid till May 11th, 2012 on 2359 hours (GMT+0).
Go ahead, put EasyBlog 3.5 to the test and check out all of the awesome new features. You won't find them in the other Joomla! blog extensions available in the market.
Send us your feedback in the same forum http://stackideas.com/forums/easyblog-3-5-beta-had-finally-landed-here.html and tell us what you think/feel of this powerful blogging component. Oh, a word of caution, do not install the beta version in your live website, instead, do it in your local test server.
Happy testing!
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Comments (60)
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Yippee! The (beta test) day has finally arrived
Quick install Question - How do we install to preserve the data in an existing (latest) version of EasyBlog - Just install over the top with Joomla Installer - or use the EasyBlog upgrade option in the back-end settings of EasyBlog????
Congrats to the StackIdeas team - I know this is a MAJOR achievement
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In reply to: Specjalista SEO Permalink
If your subscription is expired, you'll need to renew them. Otherwise you can still download them when the stable release is available
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Erik, there's quite a bit of changes done on the "elegant" themes and most of it includes Google Rich Snippet support as well as reorganizing the DOM structure to make more sense. I don't think upgrading would work for you out of the box as you'll need to perform some tweaks to make it work on 3.5
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In reply to: Guest (Danny Mittleman) PermalinkHey Danny,
The area around the editor has been reworked but we can't actually make change on the editor because they are rendered by the respective plugins.
Unfortunately, we are a little occupied during the CMSExpo period and we wouldn't be able to make it there
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Will there be a stable version soon? Have been waiting to try it!
http://winedinedaily.com
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In reply to: Guest (Aikigi) Permalink
Thank you Aikigi
We'll see if we can port this into a plugin in the future.2 Like -
So far soooo good! The new settings options are amazing and the views / additional themes are fantastic - glad to see that you've been making progress on allowing EasyBlog to fit in to most designs!
I will say, and this is personal preference here, that the media manager (while totally sweet) is a bit unintuitive. You are forced to click the "back" button, which is dimmed out until hovered over and is easy to miss. It would be AWESOME if a user was allowed to click the background of their screen (not in the media manager) to close out as well. Since the MM takes up so much screen real estate, I wouldn't expect too many problems with allowing that. My .02
I'll be making any notes about issues found and reporting those back. Do you have a specific place for this (such as the featured discussion?)
Great work guys - wish all of Joomla! could be like this. Soon enough, soon enough
Cheers
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In reply to: kyle faber Permalink
Thank you for helping us test this Kyle! Yep, we're working on some changes of the back button and also working on the user-friendliness approach of hiding the media manager.
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