A couple of improvements flew under the radar in the recent point release of Mango that I thought were worth mentioning so that you know you can take advantage of them. I believe both may be new to blogs using SQL Server to store their data, but were functional in Mango 1.4.x for blogs using MySQL.
First, the new database-logged errors and warnings are now properly exposed for SQL Server users, which means that LogViewer will once again give you access to view and delete log information. Unfortunately, if you were using LogViewer the problem that was keeping it from working in 1.4.x was something that itself was being logged, and frequently. If that's the case, the first time you get back into LogViewer, it'll have a lot of errors, which may end up being so much content to deliver to the browser or so much for your browser to render that it crashes. If that's the case, you can delete all of the records from the log table and that will make using LogViewer more manageable.
Second, Mango 1.4 also added revision tracking to posts and pages; and once again, it seemed not to work with SQL Server. I believe both of these features were affected by a single deeper problem. But now that the bug is fixed, you should see a new section at the bottom of the edit-post and edit-page pages that shows a list of revisions of the entry, if it's been edited at least once since the Revision Manager was added. From there, you can roll back to or compare with any previous revision of the same entry.
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July 07 2010
You can download the latest zip from MangoBlog.org, or the auto-updater in your admin will also allow you to upgrade inline (the preferred method, since it's awesome).
Don't consider these full release notes; all I'm doing is looking at the Subversion commit notes. I don't have time right now to investigate all of these, so some may not be very clear.
- Adds pagination to multi-category archives
- Adds order of categories in a post by title
- Adds an "assetSelector" that will allow you to browse available files on the server for input fields. (I happen to know a good bit about this one since I developed the change.)
- Amount of logging done on plugin errors/failures has been reduced
- Fixes some admin-related issues when context root is not /
- Improvements to custom panels (in admin)
- Fixes an issue when trying to delete a theme
- Adds permissions to custom panels
- The base plugin class has had process and handle event methods added (not sure what the implications of this are, yet)
- File Explorer (flash stuff) has gotten some updates
- Fixes an issue with TinyMCE and Safari/Chrome
- Adds author to post list in admin (useful for multi-author blogs)
- Fixes an issue with admin util when no categories are passed to a new post
- Removes custom panels from config
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June 18 2010
Are you interested in learning more about Mango Blog? Finding out if it can do what you need? Want to talk about extensions, theming, etc? Or do you have other Mango-related questions or comments?
Laura Arguello, creator of Mango Blog, will be moderating a Mango BOF at CFUnited. I know I'll be there. Will you?
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May 21 2010
I've fixed a few minor but frustrating bugs in my Related Entries Mango Plugin.
- There were some references to
console.log in the JavaScript code used in admin. Users who don't have Firebug (or an alternate JS console) installed would receive errors.
- I was incorrectly outputting the Related Entries content, which could prevent other plugins from adding their own output to the same events. (Like Paul's ViewCount plugin, Hat tip to Paul for pointing this out to me.)
- I removed CFLog lines that I use for development.
- Plugin:
- Related Entries
- Version:
- 1.1.3
- Requires:
- Mango Blog 1.3+
- Auto-install URL:
- http://fusiongrokker.com/get/RelatedEntries
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March 11 2010