Got some ideas about what should be added to the new release of LyftenBloggie post them here.

Also here is a small list of what has been added: http://www.lyften.com/news/1-latest-news/62-lyftenbloggie-110-news.html

A lot of things have been fixed in this release as well.

I have also attached some screen-shots of the new Access Groups function.

-Daniel

Hey Daniel,

Really great work! Love the whole system and can't wait to see the new one.

What would be really helpful would be getting the Latest and Popular Blogs module sorted out. I cannot get it to work at all. That's a BIG plus.

Thanks

Two things that would be helpful as these items are available in most blog engines.

1. I wanted to know if it was possible to add a feature for a HTML signature for each author?
2. Daniel, will the next update have a feature to allow "x" amount of words/letters of "x" amount of articles on the front page (or any page?) Will this also display thumbnail of an image for the article?

READ MORE LINK... It would seem that when I post an article, and I limit it to the default 2 paragraphs, and have the "show read more link when necessary" it doesn't show up. I'm guessing the majority of people won't bother thinking to click on the article title to see the whole thing. you can check it out at www.nexushairdesign.com

[Tommy Rayburn 12 Mar 2010 09:02:20]

Two things that would be helpful as these items are available in most blog engines.

1. I wanted to know if it was possible to add a feature for a HTML signature for each author?
2. Daniel, will the next update have a feature to allow "x" amount of words/letters of "x" amount of articles on the front page (or any page?) Will this also display thumbnail of an image for the article?

I like this idea as well. A read more link is always viable.

[Randy Dueck 12 Mar 2010 11:20:00]

READ MORE LINK... It would seem that when I post an article, and I limit it to the default 2 paragraphs, and have the "show read more link when necessary" it doesn't show up. I'm guessing the majority of people won't bother thinking to click on the article title to see the whole thing. you can check it out at www.nexushairdesign.com

[Tommy Rayburn 12 Mar 2010 09:02:20]

Two things that would be helpful as these items are available in most blog engines.

1. I wanted to know if it was possible to add a feature for a HTML signature for each author?
2. Daniel, will the next update have a feature to allow "x" amount of words/letters of "x" amount of articles on the front page (or any page?) Will this also display thumbnail of an image for the article?

Hi,

1. Signature: That wouldn't be too hard. I can make it apart of the about block.

A quick thought:
In the new release I think I am going to change the Authors option in the backend into Profiles. With the new Access Groups that I'm adding there really isn't a need for some of the options that where in the backend Authors tab. I will add the option to block user.

2. X Amount: I don't know about this one. I am going to make an option for the entry to have an image. It seems to me the option I made in theme Anemoi caused some problems with improperly sized images. What is did was look through the entry before posting it and pull the first image if found and made it the entry's primary photo. It seemed to be a better idea in theory.

[Tommy Rayburn 12 Mar 2010 09:02:20]

Two things that would be helpful as these items are available in most blog engines.

1. I wanted to know if it was possible to add a feature for a HTML signature for each author?
2. Daniel, will the next update have a feature to allow "x" amount of words/letters of "x" amount of articles on the front page (or any page?) Will this also display thumbnail of an image for the article?

A support for Gravatars would be a nice to have option for those users that don't want to register for the site but want to have their own avatars on their comments. 

Will it be possible to reliably post images into blog postings in the next release?
(I just want it behave like a standard Joomla article)

In the current version the first image posted to an article replaces the avatar in the output, and subsequent images mess up the width of the column so that it overwrites into the right hand Joomla column.
My users are asking to post images in most of their blogs, and I can't help them do it with this version.
(I have resorted to creating a Joomla article with the images in and a link to that article - not a great solution).

Here is a sneakpeek of the changelog for version 1.1.0. It may not look like much but I have gutted LyftenBloggie, in fact I have created it's own little framework which controls it functions.

It's not done yet, so it's going to keep growing :-)

• Created 3rd party Plugin for JComments
• Added LyftenBloggie can now update it's self with one click
• Added Roles based on Joomla's Group Access levels
• Added the ability to install plugins(editors, comments, avatars...)
• Added one click install of modules and plugins from Lyften.com
• Fixed Bookmark ordering
• Fixed update check error caused when Lyften.com is down
• Fixed Tag Publish/Unpublish
• Fixed view issue with comments in the backend
• Fixed readmore not showing on entries page
• Fixed comment count for 3rd party commenting systems
• Fixed issue with image insert with CKEditor plugin
• Fixed time resting to 00:00 after saving Entry

Hi Daniel,

I'd like to thank you for all the great work you have done producing this component and associated modules. It might be a bit late now however, I would like to make the following suggestions for possible inclusion to version1.1.0:

1) Auto Archive system (setting in the backed where you can choose how long before an entry is removed and archived)
2) RSS import utility (allowing the import of a feed where the administrator can preview the feed contents and publish a new entry by selecting one of the feed items)

I have posted other entries within this forum around the categories module not really working properly for me, I'd be interested to find out how you got it to work on your demo site?

Thanks again for the great work you have done on this.

Brian

[Daniel Stainback 20 Mar 2010 11:19:19]

Here is a sneakpeek of the changelog for version 1.1.0. It may not look like much but I have gutted LyftenBloggie, in fact I have created it's own little framework which controls it functions.

It's not done yet, so it's going to keep growing :-)

• Created 3rd party Plugin for JComments
• Added LyftenBloggie can now update it's self with one click
• Added Roles based on Joomla's Group Access levels
• Added the ability to install plugins(editors, comments, avatars...)
• Added one click install of modules and plugins from Lyften.com
• Fixed Bookmark ordering
• Fixed update check error caused when Lyften.com is down
• Fixed Tag Publish/Unpublish
• Fixed view issue with comments in the backend
• Fixed readmore not showing on entries page
• Fixed comment count for 3rd party commenting systems
• Fixed issue with image insert with CKEditor plugin
• Fixed time resting to 00:00 after saving Entry