COMING SOON: Advanced Blogging in EasyBlog 2.1

Andrew Rogers Wednesday, 24 August 2011 by Andrew Rogers under EasyBlog
COMING SOON: Advanced Blogging in EasyBlog 2.1

After the initial birth of EasyBlog 2.0, we haven't been really working on additional features as we are trying to assist users to build / migrate over from EasyBlog 1.8.x and quite frankly, it wasn't a walk in the park.

We had to help users migrate their themes and revert any modifications done on the older version. It was tough and it wasn't easy but it's the best way to do it.

Moving forward...

EasyBlog 2.1 -- there won't be any massive code rewrites as the previous version as we have already made the jump to a new theme architecture in 2.0. We liked the idea of a one-click operation so the next version of EasyBlog will definitely live up to its name.

So what features are there in this new release? I wouldn't be disclosing every single functionality of the new release yet (we love giving you guys surprises). This time, I'll only be disclosing some of the new cool features that we've been working on.

 

Slick Media Manager
Remember the image manager that you are so used to embed images in the blog posts? It has now been re-branded as File Manager. The reason behind this is because the media manager now allows you to upload and manage not only images but files. For instance, you might want to embed zip archives or any other archives which allows you freely share to your visitors and the new file manager does the job for you.

 

Unified Editor
Yep, you heard it right. This is not so much of a major update but I definitely think this is worth being mentioned! We have stripped off the introtext altogether and consolidated them into one text editor. Most of you had actually requested for this, including yours truly, simply because it doesn't make much sense for bloggers to fill in two separate editors when they really should focus on writing blogs!

 

Meet Miss Zemanta
Zemanta is more like a personal assistant in the blogsphere. It works by showing tips and advises by suggesting related contents (images, articles, keywords, etc) based on the content that is being written. It's really a cool tool I must say especially if you want to jazz up your blog like a pro. EasyBlog is ready for it! Learn more about Zemanta and see how it will help you get more traffic to your site, too.

 

Email to Blog
With all the advanced mobile gadgets and smartphones these days, this feature might seem that we're jumping into the bandwagon. Love it or hate it, these gadgets are here to stay and we've got EasyBlog ready for it. As the title suggests, this feature allows bloggers to update their blogs via email in real time, at any where they are. As long as they have a mobile device with an Internet connection, they are good to post a blog anywhere!

 

Location Service
You can now tag your blog posts with your current location. This adds more social elements into your blog postings. Every blog post that are tagged with a location will automatically display a nice little map beneath the blog post pointing out the location where the blog is posted from.

 

UI Improvements
Well, we thought EasyBlog 2.0 had one of the best user interface experience but apparently there are still some grey areas which we had to improve on -- especially on the administration area and the hassle to go through the upgrades. In the next version, we'll be offering you a one-click upgrade process which looks through a list of modified files and download them accordingly.

 

There you have it. Just a few of the goodies coming your way in the next version of EasyBlog to get you charged!

 

 

 

Comments (20)

  1. Sascha Manns

Wow i'm very impressed. I'm happy to hear that :)

 
  1. #146
  1. Andrew Rogers    Sascha Manns

Look out for the actual announcement coming very soon. :)

 
  1. #147
  1. carbonite

awesome:D You guys are the best

 
  1. #148
  1. Jack    carbonite

Thank you! :)

 
  1. #149
  1. Andy

Oh wow.... and I know from the forum discussions that behind all those great headline attractions there are lots of small but important user experiences improvements. You guys have produced THE BEST OF THE BEST here - and continue to move it on.... So I have to ask, when can we get our hands on this and upgrade??? :D

 
  1. #150
  1. Jack    Andy

Andy,

We're finishing up all the minor stuffs as much as we can and also running some major tests on the component. This time around we did not change as much codes as we did on 1.8 to 2.0 but we still want to try to release a beta with the least bugs possible.

At the moment, we're scheduling for a beta somewhere early of next month!

 
  1. #151
  1. Pedro Antunes

WoW really, really impressed :D

Wasn't expecting a media manager, and zamanta sounds really good and helpful.

Can't wait for the release now :)

Keep it up ^^

 
  1. #152
  1. Jack    Pedro Antunes

Thank you Pedro, I am pretty sure that EasyBlog 2.1 will make a very stunning appearance :)

 
  1. #153
  1. Charl Laas

Please look at an easy way to override default file upload size limits. Uploading big Zip or movie files can be blocked if it's bigger than the default max upload size

 
  1. #154
  1. Jack    Charl Laas

Hey,

Unfortunately there is no way we can override this settings in php. Mainly this is because some hosting providers doesn't allow overriding of the max_upload_size settings and results in a fatal error. If your hosting provider is restricting the max_upload_limit, perhaps you could get them to increase this value?

 
  1. #155
  1. René

Great new Features..i like it :)

 
  1. #156
  1. Jack    René

Thank you Rene :) Looking forward for this release as well!

 
  1. #157
  1. René    Jack

you're welcome jack..can you confirm that our modified sh404sef sef_ext file also work on 2.1 without issues?

 
  1. #158
  1. René    René

ah forget...and i of course hope our Guest User are better invited to write there own Blog in 2.1 ;)

 
  1. #159
  1. Jack    René

Rene,

The modified version of SH404 would work fine regardless if it's version 2.1 or 2.2 :p but you'll need to make backups first of that file.

 
  1. #160
  1. Nakul Gupta

waiting eagerly:)

 
  1. #161
  1. Jack    Nakul Gupta

Hey Nakul,

Yeap me too! :)

 
  1. #162
  1. muhanad

JAACK, your component is the only component that i will never regret purchasing!! not now .. not in the future .. got couple of questions though :P the media manager allows uploading videos without joomlaworks allvideo plugin ? 2- any plans to add acl per category so i can throw k2 for ever? :D:D can't wait for the beta release

 
  1. #163
  1. Jack

Hey Muhanad,

Thanks :)

Yep, the media manager allows uploading videos without any 3rd party plugins but it uses "JW Player" .

Yep, in fact 2.1 includes acl for each category. There's a few types of permissions for the categories and I guess I'll blog about it in a day or two :)

 
  1. #164
  1. muhanad

Great news :D waiting for the blog post!! :)

 
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