I think I’m almost ready for a release, but I need you to test! test! test!.
Sooo, if you’re willing to help download FlatPress 0.803 (Vivace) now! :)
Get it while it’s hot :D
I hadn’t updated the changelog in a while, but changes are huge, a new DB backend (still not the best, but for that there’ll be the thesis), a new system to let plugin hook the admin panel, new cookie handling, new security features (wpnonce), etc etc…
Known Issues
I’ve found out issues with sessions I couldn’t track down.
This means that if you have “AccessibleAntispam” enabled it might not work giving a “wrong result” error.
The problems is that this happens even if the result is correct.
Unfortunately this doesn’t happen always, so I wasn’t able to fix it. I hope you can help.
How to upgrade
- BACKUP your fp-content/; please I WON’T be responsible for any damage! (but I’d anyway feel responsible if anything happened, so be kind, and save me another headache ;))
- Check your drafts. Drafts are now working in a different way. So either publish your old drafts or they’ll result on your home page. You can also re-save them, once you have finished upgrading.
- Rename your old FlatPress installation
- Upload the new FlatPress directory you have already unpacked
- Install the new FlatPress
- Move to the new fp-content/ your old content/ and images/, attachs/ (if any). Do not move config/, cache/ or users/ to the new installation
- Clear the cache/ contents
- Point your browser to the home page and wait for it to recreate the db (it will take a while, depending on the number of posts).
- Once the page is loaded FP is ready. Login and enjoy.
- (remember your drafts ;) )
If anything goes wrong please report it on the forum and let me know; in the meanwhile you can take back your old FlatPress installation by moving back the content/, images/, attachs/ dirs.
Please report any bugs!
bye!
Wednesday, March 5, 2008 - 14:21:20
Hi!
Very Good!
I like it: Configuration of Plugins, Widgets etc
Test - http://www.blogru.net/flatpress/
Thursday, March 6, 2008 - 13:02:18
I Can’t Add New Themes :(
Thursday, March 6, 2008 - 13:21:24
It’s running here: http://div-0346.div.ed.ac.uk/DjR_FP/
No time to play with it yet.
Thursday, March 6, 2008 - 13:30:52
@Antuan:
> I Can’t Add New Themes :(
Errors? Please, explain.
Thursday, March 6, 2008 - 14:16:22
good work! However I suggest to improve the text editor, add support to tagging and, if it’is possible, improve prettyurls capabilities. Thanks far your Flatpress!
Thursday, March 6, 2008 - 14:47:44
>> Errors?
Old Themes - emerald_grass, trebah_gardens. Upload to /fp-interface/themes/
Don’t see him - in Admin => Themes
Thursday, March 6, 2008 - 15:23:19
trebah_gardens (maybe emerald_glass, too) use an old format for its config file. try to “rename theme_conf.php” to “theme.conf.php”.
It should be now listed.
You might have issues, though (exp. with the admin area).
Contact the author to ask him to port it or just fix the changes yourself
bye!
Thursday, March 6, 2008 - 15:27:23
Also, you may want to share your Russian langpack on the official wiki.
Thursday, March 6, 2008 - 19:29:12
Old themes, yes…
I tested many themes from the Wiki and from Editors Pick, most of them didn’t work with the SVN revisions. Why? I don’t know, really…
But for all who use old themes, here a small and great working solution for the new admin interface in 0.803 (SVN) versions of Flatpress:
Copy the admin.css and the gloabl.css file from the Leggero theme to the res-directory of this theme which you have chosen to use.
It will work with some of the old themes :)
Thursday, March 6, 2008 - 19:42:08
Yes, that should fix most of the issues :)
Strange for Editor’s pick, they were meant to keep on working. I suppose we’re talking about CSS issues, though.
I’ll try to ask hydra :/
BTW, if you guys are willing to help somehow, it’d be great.
As for the user themes, you should ask the author of that theme.
Well, this alpha will be a great occasion for people to get in sync :)
bye!
Thursday, March 6, 2008 - 20:11:01
I have tested many themes with SVN #50 to #60 and my test environment browsers, but no theme with the new 0.803 or currently most commonly browsers.
If I have free time in the next weeks, I will see what I can do for preparing my themes for the Wiki :)
Friday, March 7, 2008 - 08:56:49
0.803, looks pretty good.
I know you have planned to implement feed per category. When is it scheduled?
Friday, March 7, 2008 - 09:08:18
@guti: it should work already, using index.php?cat=N&feed=rss2.
(or /category/name-of-category/feed/ with prettyurls)
@laborix: most of the issues for themes.flatpress.org are either (or both)
- misnamed conf file (theme_conf.php instead of theme.conf.php)
- a small error in a function defined in that conf file, which should have “global $fp_config” at the beginning or at least in the “else” body
I’ll ask hydra if she has time to fix :/
bye
Friday, March 7, 2008 - 16:03:24
Great news!However I will wait for the stable release:P
Could you please include in the changelog about the new DB stuff you introduced in this version and what good will it has(pros/cons)
Friday, March 7, 2008 - 16:11:18
Yeah I understand you’re not upgrading, my only wish is that you all meanwhile tested the package so I can release something - almost - bug free… well at least the most important ones.
I can’t find where I put the draft of the changelog, but I’ll do that.
BTW, the class for the back-end has been completely rewritten, so that it could be improved in strength (more checks on data types for query arguments); also there are changes in how drafts are handled (they’re saved to another, separate directory).
This would mean the listing is a bit quicker.
Really the whole processing, due to the added strenght, might be in fact a bit slower, but the additional cost should be worth it.
BTW, remember I’ll soon start working on a new indexing system, with speed and bottlenecks well in mind :)
bye
Friday, March 7, 2008 - 19:50:30
Embrance wrote:
Great news!However I will wait for the stable release:P
Can I ask you why?
Friday, March 7, 2008 - 19:51:53
That worked!
Thank you very much.
Monday, March 10, 2008 - 23:03:02
Hi,
I just tried 0.803 Vivace. Everything seems to work just fine. The upgrading was a bit more bumpy than what the instructions said but I figured it out.
The only problem I had and that forces me to go back to 0.703.6 is that my static pages are not displayed correctly with the Snail theme. They displayed properly with the included theme (Leggero). I’ll contact the author of Snail and wait for a fix.
Monday, March 10, 2008 - 23:24:47
Laborix@Well…I dont really have a reason,maybe Im too lazy now!:P
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 07:01:26
Hi Marc!
No need to wait, just open your static.tpl and turn {$content} into {$content|tag:the_content}
btw, would you please explain which other troubles did you find, so that I can make the instructions easier for other people?
bye!
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 14:26:30
Looks great so far, an improvement to 0.705, The search function picks up very little though, most results return as:
Search
Searching for about returned no results.
Search again
It doesn’t seem to pick up words which are on the pages!
Can this be improved?
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 17:54:43
yes, martin it does not search pages at the moment.
there is a little problem with pages; as pages can be used from blockparser also blockparse’d pages would show up there, which might not be what you really want
bye
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 00:20:23
I found a bug.Comment are really locked,even If i choose to be locked.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 14:48:32
It would be nice if the search could work for the final release of Vivace so there is an improvement from 0.705.
Also it would be nice if the upload dropdowns had some text instead of – – – –
ie this area:
B I U Quote Code – – – –
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 18:28:11
@Martin, improvements are already quite a few, aren’t they? features for this alpha should be considered almost frozen.
btw, if I have time I’ll have a look.
@Embrance: thanks, now fixed in SVN
Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 10:23:37
I just found that Antispam doesnt work either.No numeric stuff to calculate.
Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 13:09:29
embrance, what does that mean, exactly?
are you reporting this (from this post)?
> I’ve found out issues with sessions I couldn’t track down.
>
> This means that if you have “AccessibleAntispam” enabled it might
> not work giving a “wrong result” error.
Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 13:16:29
…and would you PLEASE use the forum ? ;)
Friday, March 14, 2008 - 14:14:33
Hi,
Re: Also it would be nice if the upload dropdowns had some text instead of – – – –
ie this area:
B I U Quote Code – – – –
That would be great as users would not realise these were image attachments, there are 2 dropdowns, the right is image attachment, what is the left?
I’ve also found that the contact form doesn’t work, I’ve set my email address in the configuration section but nothing comes through to my email.
Saturday, March 15, 2008 - 15:23:56
nice work! It’s much better than the 0.703 version.
Sunday, March 16, 2008 - 11:14:16
I find a bug with the calendar , It gives wrong links!
blog.worldproblem.org
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 - 17:51:21
Yes, I cannot get the contact form to work, how do i set it up as no email comes through once sent?
Thanks
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 - 20:42:55
i’ll have a look.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 - 21:04:37
should now be fixed in rev120
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 - 13:23:06
Thanks re contact form, do you have a release date for Vivace?
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 - 13:36:20
I hoped by the end of March but I can’t assure anything
Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 14:20:10
Just installed to my new blog at 110mb.com but it ask the fp-content writable, I clicked the writable link it redirected to fp wiki but nothing there, pls tell me why? thanks, my blog is: blogtips.110mb.com
Friday, March 21, 2008 - 18:55:08
I’ve done the installation, and actually every went as it as to. Only one thing: in the installation page, the one where you need to insert your datas, the description of the forms can’t be seen.
I apologise for writing in Italian from this point, but I need to made things easier… :P
Dicevo, quando bisogna inserire i campi del nome utente, password e co la descrizione della funzione di ogni campo è invisibile, non bianca, proprio invisibile… Ho inserito le informazioni basandomi sulla logica (username, pass, conferma pass, indirizzo e mail) ma in realtà le ho inserite a caso… è normale? non credo… penso che sia colpa di qualche mia stupidata nel corso dell’installazione… in ogni caso volevo rendertene partecipe!
PS: ottimo programma davvero! complimenti! Prima o poi ti offrirò da bere, credo!
Friday, March 21, 2008 - 19:29:04
Don’t care about what I already said: the problem is caused by my temptative of using the old italian translation pack on the new FP… It doesn’t work. The new english pack works, instead. Of course… >_>
Saturday, March 22, 2008 - 08:06:41
è normale con IE7. già corretto in SVN, sul forum era scritto
ciao
Friday, March 28, 2008 - 22:13:27
Strange - on a Strato-Account, i get the following errors after installation and first site-call:
Warning: No suitable language file was found default in /mnt/web5/41/86/51071086/htdocs/flatpress/fp-includes/core/core.language.php on line 56
Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /mnt/web5/41/86/51071086/htdocs/flatpress/fp-includes/core/core.language.php:56) in /mnt/web5/41/86/51071086/htdocs/flatpress/fp-includes/core/core.session.php on line 17
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /mnt/web5/41/86/51071086/htdocs/flatpress/fp-includes/core/core.language.php:56) in /mnt/web5/41/86/51071086/htdocs/flatpress/fp-includes/core/core.theme.php on line 231
Warning: Smarty error: unable to read resource: “index.tpl” in /mnt/web5/41/86/51071086/htdocs/flatpress/fp-includes/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1095
What´s wrong here - maybe a problem with settings of my provider… ? I have now downgradet to my old version :( Maybe someone can help me ?
Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 07:33:23
your installation is either corrupt or you have wrong permissions on fp-interface/* redownload the package and try again
AND USE THE FORUM, seriously, this post is not even on front page anymore! :D
bye