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The update to Pressible includes a few big things and a bunch of small stuff (hey: to us it’s all big, to others, it’s probably all small stuff).

New in this release:

xml sitemaps (modifying an existing plugin)
remove uncatagorized and featured from header
set up real maintenance page and workflow
remove unused widget areas
“featured” and “uncategorized” categories should never show anywhere
wordpress api running
commenting does not require a pressible account
brightcove (oEmbed?) support, plugin
shorting comment content accross the site
add styling for code blocks
add utf meta tag to the header
move header logic to a seperate file and clean it up
add root rss feed to the header
fix links in footer
widgets shouldn’t render without content
“recent” and “related” language consistencies
remove repeated author name mentions on author page
“days ago” dates on everything
remove pressible user from people page
Clean up template files to meet code conventions
blog title link should be red on rollover
Clean up CSS file and reduce any redundancies
add styling for secondary content (heiarchical content)
theme options page – change things in footer, drop-downs
change screenshot for “pressible”
image boxes on header!
make header smaller
make comments shorter on “People” page
on “Tags” page links background color overlaps when two rows appear
Text gets cut off in <li> in header dropdown
bigger right margin for author description, permalink text, featured post, etc.
remove topic name from bottom widgets on topic page
change drop down limit to 5
Links in single posts need differentiating stylng
Consistency with the display of text in link boxes, equal padding on top and bottom
re-design of single page meta data section, Author Name, Date, Topics
Default Gravatar showing up on user element list
root: give a link (show image?) of a good example site?
pingbacks should look diff than comments
add border to gravatar in comments
make subscriber page comments appear like lists in rest of site with grey box
Header: align colored boxes with page links. change page link font size to match box height if necessary
Header: limit tagline to one line of text? (first sentence)
Homepage: add author to Featured post at bottom very small
Lower Header: each topic should drop-down separately, top li is trigger
Topic Page: Widget area titles: “Contributors”, “Related Tags”, “Recent Posts”, “Recent Comments”
better color for linked text in posts
Author Page: Widget area titles: “Topics”, “Tags”, “Recent Posts”, “Recent Comments”
Tag Page: Widget area titles: “Related Topics”, “Related Tags”, “Recent Posts”, “Recent Comments”
Tag Page: add area for “Related Contributors” [or "Contributors"]?
Tag Page: bring grey “Tag” box closer up to the actual tag name
Homepage: comment attribution? name? gravatar? what’s necessary?
Comments on a post: Gravatar to left of name
Post: mouse-over highlight for individual topics
Gravatar/text vertical alignment consistency.
Highlighting consistency. Different for each instance: Lower Header, homepage bottom links, homepage sidebar, post links in post lists, person-page sidebar, person-page posts. Must choose consistent highlight effect
doubled up borders on lower page lists
make all sidebar/lower lists consistent in basic style
add gravatar styling to all gravatars
remove max height for images
reveal meta data
font size re-evaluation, featured post
topics on single post , comma separate, hover color
set max width for oembed to match images
FAQ: adding users
browser testing: FF 3.0 and higher
browser testing: chrome
browser testing: ie 6.0
if ie 6.0 doesn’t work, we need to direct them to get a new browser
sub-topic bread crumb on topic pages and consistent styling of how categories appear beneath page titles
Remove gravatars and contributors when only one author is in system
hide all contributor lists if only one author
tips for single author sites
BUG: Long topic titles push li elements off of header
bring back custom text on account creation page (note on username, etc.)
bring in the right justification on post text (it runs to the edge!)DUP
left column should not collapse when empty
separate topics with commas (under post titles)DUP
on posts: what is the rollover effect on the gavatar if it can’t be clicked?
remove time (“3:22pm”) from post metadata? too specific… no?
allow jpg jpeg png gif mp3 m4a pdf doc docx txt xls xlsx ppt pptx
caption styling
make font of dropdown cat titles smaller and fix wrap
styled “Author last posted n hours ago” and removed Last from text
lighten background, maybe with a gradient
Edit/refine FAQ oEmbed with link and our tips
Style “Posted n days ago” beneath the author image on author page
Recent Comments don’t appear on the non-admin user author page
Issue with left and right aligned images and post meta data

By: Brian Hughes

Preparing for the 1.2 release by Molly Riordan

Posted less than an hour ago.

We had a final meeting this afternoon to tie up the loose ends as we prepare to deploy Pressible 1.2 tomorrow afternoon. Still a bit left to do but spirits are high, even as Patrick fights with the HP touchscreen computer whilst performing browser testing on a certain cantankerous browser. But with the good news [...]

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Adding Brightcove – a test by Molly Riordan

Posted 8 days ago.

I’m adding a few more Qs to the Pressible FAQ. Of course, the easiest way to tell people how to do something is to do it yourself, and record the steps (ah, documentation!). Hence, this post, and (perhaps) the following video:

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Pressible Seminar @ EdLab by Molly Riordan

Posted 14 days ago.

I am taking notes from EdLab where Patrick is giving a seminar on Pressible use right now!
Some questions asked:

“How can visitors to the site add themselves to a site?”
They can’t yet, but we are working on a way to make that happen.
“How can I add site analytics and visuals of site hits to the [...]

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Planning Meeting for 1.2 by Molly Riordan

Posted 14 days ago.

An epic planning meeting took place this morning/afternoon, buoyed by high spirits from the 1.1 release and blood-sugar stabilizing snacks. We talked about Pressible 1.2 and beyond, about bringing on interns, about the many futures of Pressible. Exciting, inspiring stuff. Some possibility-highlights to get you’all excited for the next release:

Possible text-widget in the sidebar
Content-sharing buttons [...]

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Rumblings… by Molly Riordan

Posted 29 days ago.

We’ve been hearing rumblings from various people. Not scary, thunderous rumblings; more like hungry stomachs. People are hungry for two things: customization options especially for the header, and search functionality.
As I mentioned earlier, we’re adding a cool feature that populates header-image boxes with images from the site. That will be a first step toward a [...]

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Symlink Fix for the XML Sitemap Feed Plugin

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