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I've set up a Semiologic Pro 5.5 playground. Please respect three simple rules if you go in to take a peek: Don't change the theme, the site's url, or the test user's password.
A few features are disabled for security reasons, but it gives a good idea of what's coming up.
Back already? Great!
Now, as highlighted in the WP 2.5 thread, I'm still bumping into small niggles here and there. The initial public release will happen when I only exceptionally bump into small niggles. To make it happen faster, and for the first time, I'd like to organize a bug hunt event in the forum.
If you'd like to contribute a bit, here's how:
Scan through this thread to see what has been tested already. Activate an untested feature if necessary. Pick an admin screen, a widget, a box in the write / post or write / page areas, something reasonably isolatable.
Try it. Mess around with the options to see if things break, insert the widget in the inline widgets or the feed widgets, see if they show as expected in a post or in the feed, and so on.
If anything behaves in an unexpected manner, write a short report like this:
Settings / Whatever. This went wrong when I did that...
If everything works as expected, write an even shorter report so others know it's tested:
Write / Post / Article Uploader: OK.
Mike and I (and other moderators who wish to participate) will maintain a list of tested features and of known issues in this post.
Thanks in advance to all who report anything!
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some html is stripped from titles in WP for security reasons.
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I wish I had enough time to get rid of now reading and replace it with something I'd write. ;-) I've updated it in trunk, will update the test site later today. The permission issue seems to be gone.
RE: the gallery manager, I'll bug Marc again, he must have forgotten after updating the VPS.
@Mitch: They're actually sorted already -- with the exception of Post and Page, just like under Write. I've kept those two in their original location so that WP loads doesn't generate bugs.
@Chris: I've removed the trim after X characters option in this release. And I've replaced it with widget options for individual posts and pages. Check under Write / Post and Write / Page -> This Post/Page In Widgets
@Gefsmith: it shows once the title is set
@Paul: it did
@All: I've added a couple of items to the "needs testing" list
Btw, there's a fantastic flickr plugin for WP 2.5:
http://factage.com/yu-ji/tag/wp-media-flickr
I won't included it in Sem Pro, as it won't work on all servers, but I thought I'd highlight it.
Speaking of other plugins: There's a bunch of other plugins in the WP plugin directory I'd have loved to add in this release, but each one that had me go "wow" also turned out to have bugs and/or security problems. Sigh... :(
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Gallery manager is fixed, and I took care of adding the regularly requested inline boxes in the header and footer
@Sammy: delete that function in the extract-terms.php file.
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I've just upgraded the dev site to the latest trunk. it now includes the new Semiologic Cache plugin.
For information, I've only two items left on my todo list:
So with a little luck we'll have a Release Candidate by tomorrow if I tackle it then, else Monday. :)
@Chris: hehe, looks like you bumped into the infamous shortcode bug. ;-)
Thanks for bringing it up, I had nearly forgotten. Caching should work fine now.
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(gallery excerpt is fixed)
@Chris: php widgets were dropped because the slightest syntax error can break a site's front end. this and the fact that people usually needed help to "find the correct code" was generating a lot of support requests -- the kind that I feel Mike and I should not be tackling, as it is something one should hire a VA for.
Adding to this, I'd have removed them in this release had they still been around -- and forced them off existing sites. Until now, you could always remove a php widget with broken code. In WP 2.5, the slightest syntax error in a php widget will additionally render the widgets screen completely unusable. This is extremely severe, because this disallows to recover a broken site short of editing the plugin.
@Xen: His Sitemap 3 plugin was licensed under a CC Non-Commercial license until very recently. I looked into adding it a few weeks ago, but I found that my fork of v.2 was superior: v.3 has a few bugs that my fork fixed, and I've simplified the install process. Were I to make the switch, many sites would no longer serve a sitemap at all.
There is no lightbox effect. Instead, WP creates a page for each image you upload, so people can comment them. And then you can click once again on the image to get the original file. Imho, this is a better approach. I'm sure someone out there will come up with a WP 2.5 plugin to add a "Use lightbox effect" checkbox or something for image uploads -- and I'll add it when that happens.
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Hi Alan,
Your site looks very broken -- have you, by any odds, tried to upload the free theme on top of an old Sem Pro install without upgrading WP at the same time, or something like that?
And yes, you'd want to renew your membership. Your user ID is your email (the one at bigpond.com). Hop to members.semiologic.com, use the I lost my password form if you never went in, and renew from there.
I'd advise to leave the site broken for a few more hours if you haven't upgraded Semiologic Pro since last november (Semiologic 5). The reason is the Ad Spaces exporter and the "old site" upgrade scripts are much better in Semiologic 5.5 than they were in 5.0.
@Mike: it was broken so I removed it from 5.0. In 5.5, I've adopted a different approach to the entire thing: You can now insert any widget after each post in your feeds via the "Sidebar" called Feed Widgets.
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http://dev.mesoconcepts.com/wp-admin/widgets.php
Note the sidebar called: "Feed Widgets (for use in feeds)"
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fixed in beta-3, which I'll release later this afternoon. I also need to go through a couple of IE bugs that have been reported
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