After more than twenty days of development, we have managed to release 1.1.0 beta1. The long wait is due to the number of new features we have added, mainly to improve WP integration, and to ease installation and management.
The most notable features added in beta1 are:
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new permalink structure that follows the WP conventions, and makes it possible to use the post_id as key
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one-way (for test installs) or two-way synchronization of the relevant WP options
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support for nested (static) pages and categories in the URL
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easier installation, everything runs from the WP plugins folder
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automatic .htaccess generation
In the next release we will concentrate on the administration UI, and will also add new plugins to manage tags and nested pages. If you are upgrading from alpha2, you might want to reset your LP options. As usual, the ChangeLog is available on SourceForge, and also copied below.
2005-07-08 14:56 ludo * INSTALL.txt, VERSION.txt: updated for beta 1 2005-07-08 14:52 ludo * config.php: clean up config 2005-07-08 14:45 ludo * classes/Frontend.php: set version to 1.1.0-b1 2005-07-08 14:42 ludo * classes/Frontend.php: moved wpff_version to getVersion() so that it can be used as a static method 2005-07-08 14:27 ludo * wp-plugin/options.php: store version do not update rules if we have no options 2005-07-08 14:26 ludo * wp-plugin/main.php: add link to blog as last installation step fix PHP close tag in config add BEGIN/END WordPress to root install .htaccess 2005-07-08 14:25 ludo * wp-plugin/LightPressOptions.php: set a sane default for url if we are in testing mode 2005-07-08 14:24 ludo * wp-plugin/LightPressModRewrite.php: fix post rule 2005-07-07 19:22 ludo * wp-plugin/: main.php, options.php: add installation instructions 2005-07-07 14:10 ludo * lightpress.php, wp-plugin/LightPressModRewrite.php, wp-plugin/LightPressOptions.php, wp-plugin/main.php, wp-plugin/options.php: add testing/root installation types 2005-07-06 19:24 ludo * classes/Frontend.php: set default template to 'elastic_minimal' 2005-07-06 19:24 ludo * wp-plugin/main.php: remove useless checks add "Clear Options" form 2005-07-05 14:04 ludo * classes/Frontend.php: store the hierarchy for nested pages/categories in context 2005-07-05 13:40 ludo * templates/kubrick/: en_US.ISO-8859-1/plugins/about_context.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/about_context.xml: fixed with elastic_minimal version 2005-07-05 12:38 ludo * wp-plugin/LightPressModRewrite.php, classes/Frontend.php: add 3rd level to nested pages/categories 2005-07-05 08:31 ludo * wp-plugin/LightPressModRewrite.php: fix broken 'static' rule 2005-07-04 22:57 ludo * classes/Frontend.php: add support for nested categories and pages with non-prefixed URLs 2005-07-04 22:16 ludo * wp-plugin/LightPressModRewrite.php: add support for nested categories/pages 2005-07-04 17:58 ludo * lightpress.php, wp-plugin/LightPressModRewrite.php, wp-plugin/LightPressOptions.php, wp-plugin/main.php, wp-plugin/options.php: categorize LP options add commented mod_rewrite rules if we are not running from the WP root don't overwrite WP settings in case we are not running from the WP root 2005-07-01 01:30 ludo * templates/elastic_minimal/styles/style.css: add class for warning messages 2005-07-01 01:04 ludo * wp-plugin/LightPressModRewrite.php, lightpress.php: build and LP old-style htaccess 2005-06-29 21:56 darkcanuck * wp-plugin/LPRewriteRules.php: Exclude sitemap rules for basic contexts, minor cleanup 2005-06-29 19:56 ludo * config.php: fix guessed basedir as the only supported method to run LP is from wp-content/plugins/lightpress 2005-06-29 01:49 ludo * classes/Frontend.php: fix and deuglify a bit context_url 2005-06-28 21:59 darkcanuck * wp-plugin/LPRewriteRules.php: Updated to use new permalink verbs (rather than strftime formats), fixed suffix addition and bug in getUrlPath() 2005-06-28 20:50 ludo * classes/Frontend.php: don't treat context_url for archives as a special case, check url_token for emptyness 2005-06-28 20:46 ludo * classes/Frontend.php: tentative fix for context_url (WARNING: messy code) 2005-06-28 20:02 ludo * classes/Frontend.php: fix context for post_id (pi=n) and hopefully find a better solution for context_url which was broken anyway for static etc. 2005-06-28 17:24 ludo * classes/Frontend.php, wp-plugin/LightPressOptions.php: first shot at new WP< ->LP permalink structure, probably breaks Jerome rewriterules, still need to check post_id in getcontext 2005-06-28 14:32 ludo * wp-plugin/LightPressOptions.php: make the update code more readable 2005-06-27 12:42 ludo * lightpress.php: Options > Writing is actually useful: - Simple controls / Advanced controls - Size of the writing box - Default post category - Update Services etc. 2005-06-27 11:02 darkcanuck * lightpress.php: Plugin now removes menus that conflict with LP 2005-06-27 10:49 darkcanuck * wp-plugin/LightPressOptions.php: Simple conversion between WP permalink_structure and LP post_prefix 2005-06-27 10:14 darkcanuck * lightpress.php, wp-plugin/LPRewriteRules.php, wp-plugin/options.php: .htaccess generation using LP's permalink settings & link style (first cut) 2005-06-26 21:04 darkcanuck * wp-plugin/plugins.php: Remove old args from the database config (otherwise they haunt us forever) 2005-06-26 10:33 darkcanuck * plugins/: LPPreFormatted.php, PostExcerpt.php, SearchIndex.php: Fixed Preformatted to use new query vars, fixed typo in SearchIndex, added PostExcerpt for producing excerpts 2005-06-26 10:27 ludo * classes/Frontend.php: set locale again in getArchives() 2005-06-26 10:19 ludo * classes/Frontend.php: revert context['queryvars'] to an associative array 2005-06-25 18:04 ludo * templates/elastic_minimal/it_IT.UTF-8/: atom.xml, author.xml, error.xml, footer.xml, header.xml, index.xml, post.xml, rss2.xml, search.xml, sidebar.xml, sitemap.xml, sitemap_index.xml, static.xml, syndication.xml, plugins/about_context.xml, plugins/about_me.xml, plugins/about_post.xml, plugins/adminoptions_admin.xml, plugins/adminoptions_editcomment.xml, plugins/adminoptions_editpost.xml, plugins/adminoptions_login.xml, plugins/archives_list.xml, plugins/archives_list_extended.xml, plugins/categories_list.xml, plugins/categories_list_extended.xml, plugins/categories_list_nested.xml, plugins/delicious.xml, plugins/links.xml, plugins/links_feeds.xml, plugins/pagination.xml, plugins/pagination_multi.xml, plugins/pagination_single.xml, plugins/post_ad.xml, plugins/post_comment.xml, plugins/post_comment_notification.txt, plugins/post_from_search.xml, plugins/post_related.xml, plugins/post_send.txt, plugins/post_send.xml, plugins/posts_list.xml, plugins/top_commented.xml, plugins/top_read.xml: initial import 2005-06-25 15:54 ludo * plugins/Stats.php: hide when the user agent is in the exclusion list 2005-06-25 15:53 ludo * stats.php: ua-based exclusion now handled in plugin 2005-06-25 15:48 ludo * wp-plugin/plugins.php: fix argument description for bool args 2005-06-25 09:51 ludo * plugins/Stats.php: fix error detecting wp cookie 2005-06-25 09:30 darkcanuck * wordpress/: wp-login.php, wp-admin/admin-header.php, wp-admin/link-add.php, wp-admin/link-categories.php, wp-admin/link-import.php, wp-admin/link-manager.php, wp-admin/menu-header.php, wp-admin/menu.php, wp-admin/options-general.php, wp-admin/options-misc.php, wp-admin/plugin-editor.php, wp-admin/wp-admin.css: Updated admin stylesheet, rearranged menus and converted login screen 2005-06-25 02:01 darkcanuck * plugins/Stats.php: Fixed bugs in new server side stats logging 2005-06-25 01:59 darkcanuck * plugins/AuthorIndex.php: Fixed typos - I don't think this plugin is finished? 2005-06-25 01:58 darkcanuck * classes/Frontend.php: Fixed typo from last commit, author context bugs and set post/static title 2005-06-25 01:09 ludo * classes/Frontend.php: fix nasty recursion from getPosts and renderPost calling getContext() 2005-06-24 23:30 ludo * plugins/Stats.php: added server-side logging *untested* 2005-06-24 23:12 ludo * classes/Frontend.php: shutdown hook, it would be better to have a destructor, but doing something like what PEAR does may be too much 2005-06-24 23:04 darkcanuck * wp-plugin/LightPressOptions.php: Synchronize shared LP & WP options 2005-06-24 19:10 darkcanuck * wordpress/wp-content/plugins/lp-stats/: page-hits.php, referrers.php: Updated stats queries to use new stats table 2005-06-24 16:15 ludo * classes/Frontend.php: add the stats table 2005-06-24 16:14 ludo * stats.php: use the new table name 2005-06-24 16:11 ludo * plugins/Stats.php: create the stats table on activation if it does not exist still need to implement straight logging in the 'shutdown' hook 2005-06-24 15:57 ludo * wp-plugin/plugins.php: run install() when we activate a plugin 2005-06-24 15:35 ludo * classes/LightPressPlugin.php: added install() method 2005-06-24 10:19 darkcanuck * wordpress/wp-admin/: admin-footer.php, index.php: Last but not least, updated the Dashboard 2005-06-24 10:04 darkcanuck * wordpress/wp-admin/: link-add.php, link-categories.php, link-import.php, link-manager.php, menu-header.php, menu.php, options-discussion.php, options-general.php, options-misc.php, options-reading.php, options-writing.php, upgrade-schema.php: First cut at tweaking WP admin interface 2005-06-24 08:44 darkcanuck * templates/default/en_US.ISO-8859-1/error.xml, templates/default/en_US.ISO-8859-1/header.xml, templates/default/en_US.UTF-8/error.xml, templates/default/en_US.UTF-8/header.xml, templates/default/styles/default.css, templates/elastic_minimal/en_US.UTF-8/author.xml, templates/elastic_minimal/en_US.UTF-8/header.xml, templates/elastic_minimal/en_US.UTF-8/post.xml, templates/elastic_minimal/en_US.UTF-8/search.xml, templates/elastic_minimal/en_US.UTF-8/syndication.xml, templates/elastic_minimal/images/atom03.gif, templates/elastic_minimal/images/rss2.gif, templates/elastic_minimal/images/xml.gif, templates/kubrick/en_US.ISO-8859-1/author.xml, templates/kubrick/en_US.ISO-8859-1/error.xml, templates/kubrick/en_US.ISO-8859-1/header.xml, templates/kubrick/en_US.ISO-8859-1/post.xml, templates/kubrick/en_US.ISO-8859-1/search.xml, templates/kubrick/en_US.ISO-8859-1/syndication.xml, templates/kubrick/en_US.UTF-8/author.xml, templates/kubrick/en_US.UTF-8/error.xml, templates/kubrick/en_US.UTF-8/header.xml, templates/kubrick/en_US.UTF-8/post.xml, templates/kubrick/en_US.UTF-8/search.xml, templates/kubrick/en_US.UTF-8/syndication.xml, templates/kubrick/images/atom03.gif, templates/kubrick/images/rss2.gif, templates/kubrick/images/xml.gif, classes/Frontend.php: Added template var http://lightpress.org/wp-content/plugins/lightpress/themes for proper path to CSS & images, updated templates to use new var plus other tweaks (images included in template dirs, fixed xmlrpc URL) 2005-06-23 08:50 darkcanuck * wordpress/wp-content/plugins/lp-stats/: page-hits.php, referrers.php: Added link to referrers, changed hits sort order (improved MySQL compat) 2005-06-23 07:40 darkcanuck * wordpress/wp-content/plugins/lp-stats/: lp-stats.php, page-hits.php, referrers.php: Added simple stats reporting plugin 2005-06-22 16:26 ludo * config.php: set PATH_SEPARATOR for PHP < 4.3.1 2005-06-22 16:21 ludo * list_archives.php, list_categories.php, plugins/ArchivesListExtended.php, plugins/CategoriesListExtended.php, templates/elastic_minimal/en_US.UTF-8/list_archives.xml, templates/elastic_minimal/en_US.UTF-8/list_categories.xml, templates/elastic_minimal/en_US.UTF-8/plugins/archives_list_extended.xml, templates/elastic_minimal/en_US.UTF-8/plugins/categories_list_extended.xml: added categories and archives list and fixed extended plugins 2005-06-22 15:52 ludo * plugins/: CategoriesListExtended.php, ArchivesListExtended.php: limit to a custom php script 2005-06-22 15:50 ludo * classes/Frontend.php: don't override index template in default context, use the one set in Frontend->templates 2005-06-22 15:37 ludo * plugins/Delicious.php: remove PEAR contructor invocation 2005-06-22 15:25 ludo * plugins/Delicious.php: free parser by default 2005-06-22 14:46 ludo * plugins/Delicious.php: remove PEAR dependency 2005-06-22 13:23 ludo * wp-plugin/plugins.php: stripslashes only for strings 2005-06-22 13:21 ludo * classes/PostGenericAction.php: extend LightPressPlugin 2005-06-22 13:20 ludo * classes/LightPressPlugin.php: add active and hooks attributes 2005-06-22 13:19 ludo * classes/PostGenericAction.php: check and fix constructors 2005-06-22 13:15 ludo * plugins/: AboutContext.php, AboutMe.php, AdminOptions.php, ArchivesList.php, ArchivesListExtended.php, AuthorIndex.php, CategoriesList.php, CategoriesListExtended.php, CommentSpam.php, Delicious.php, HeaderAd.php, HeaderBar.php, LPPreFormatted.php, Links.php, Pagination.php, PostAd.php, PostDay.php, PostExcludeCat.php, PostExtra.php, PostFromSearch.php, PostRelated.php, PostsList.php, SearchIndex.php, Stats.php, TopCommented.php, TopRead.php: check and fix constructors 2005-06-22 13:07 ludo * wp-plugin/plugins.php: fix incorrect use of htmlentities() 2005-06-22 12:41 ludo * wp-plugin/plugins.php: tentative fix for the extra slashes in _POST variables (but not in _REQUEST variables) even when magic_quotes_gpc is turned off 2005-06-22 10:51 darkcanuck * wordpress/: wp-settings.php, wp-admin/admin-functions.php, wp-admin/admin.php, wp-admin/menu-header.php, wp-admin/plugin-editor.php, wp-admin/plugins.php, wp-includes/functions.php: Allow WP backend to use LP plugin from basedir or LP plugins directory 2005-06-21 19:00 ludo * classes/LightPressPlugin.php, plugins/AboutPost.php: strip slashes from args potentially coming from the db 2005-06-21 16:40 ludo * classes/Frontend.php: use basedir option for localized messages 2005-06-21 16:35 ludo * templates/elastic_minimal/en_US.UTF-8/header.xml: fix typos 2005-06-21 16:11 ludo * classes/Cache.php: add served-by cache notice to the cached page 2005-06-21 16:01 ludo * plugins/Links.php: fix weird error on txd 'Non-static method Links::parse_link_category() cannot be called statically in /home/lmagnocavallo/web/public/wp-content/plugins/lightpress/plugins/Links.php on line 117' 2005-06-21 15:29 ludo * templates/kubrick/: en_US.ISO-8859-1/sitemap.xml, en_US.ISO-8859-1/sitemap_index.xml, en_US.UTF-8/sitemap.xml, en_US.UTF-8/sitemap_index.xml: from dead 1.0.0 maintenance branch 2005-06-21 15:03 ludo * config.php: fix basedir for default (WP root) installation 2005-06-21 14:57 ludo * wp-plugin/plugins.php: backport classes from WP 1.5.1 2005-06-21 14:54 ludo * sitemap.php: fix errors left over from when we had no LastModified() method in Frontend 2005-06-21 14:51 ludo * plugins/AboutContext.php: show category feeds in the category context 2005-06-21 14:51 ludo * templates/elastic_minimal/en_US.UTF-8/plugins/about_context.xml: show category feeds 2005-06-21 14:50 ludo * templates/elastic_minimal/en_US.UTF-8/: sitemap.xml, sitemap_index.xml: merged from the 1.0.0 maintenance branch 2005-06-21 11:49 ludo * templates/elastic_minimal/en_US.UTF-8/index.xml: make the index page appear a bit more like the post page 2005-06-21 11:48 ludo * templates/elastic_minimal/styles/style.css: pad header like the rest of the page 2005-06-20 17:35 ludo * plugins/AboutMe.php: add missing args to constructor 2005-06-20 16:30 ludo * templates/elastic_minimal/en_US.UTF-8/sidebar.xml: change default plugin order 2005-06-20 16:24 ludo * plugins/Links.php: defautl sort order is by link id 2005-06-20 15:59 ludo * plugins/Links.php: fix link ordering 2005-06-20 15:43 ludo * classes/Frontend.php: bump version number 2005-06-20 15:41 ludo * templates/: elastic_minimal/en_US.UTF-8/plugins/post_comment.xml, elastic_minimal/styles/style.css, kubrick/en_US.ISO-8859-1/post.xml, kubrick/en_US.UTF-8/post.xml: change comment rendering in post 2005-06-20 15:18 ludo * classes/Frontend.php: change comment rendering in post 2005-06-20 15:18 ludo * templates/elastic_minimal/: en_US.UTF-8/post.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/post_comment.xml, styles/style.css: make small slightly bigger, fix comments 2005-06-20 14:34 ludo * templates/elastic_minimal/: en_US.UTF-8/index.xml, en_US.UTF-8/post.xml, en_US.UTF-8/sidebar.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/about_me.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/pagination.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/post_comment.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/top_commented.xml, styles/style.css: minor tweaks 2005-06-18 10:47 darkcanuck * wordpress/: wp-config.php, wp-admin/admin-footer.php, wp-admin/install.php, wp-admin/setup-config.php, wp-admin/upgrade-schema.php, wp-content/plugins/preformatted.php, wp-includes/functions.php, wp-includes/wp-db.php: Forked WP to integrate LP installation 2005-06-18 10:28 darkcanuck * wordpress/: index.php, license.txt, readme.html, wp-atom.php, wp-blog-header.php, wp-comments-post.php, wp-commentsrss2.php, wp-config-sample.php, wp-feed.php, wp-links-opml.php, wp-login.php, wp-mail.php, wp-pass.php, wp-rdf.php, wp-register.php, wp-rss.php, wp-rss2.php, wp-settings.php, wp-trackback.php, wp.php, xmlrpc.php, wp-admin/admin-footer.php, wp-admin/admin-functions.php, wp-admin/admin-header.php, wp-admin/admin.php, wp-admin/bookmarklet.php, wp-admin/categories.php, wp-admin/edit-comments.php, wp-admin/edit-form-advanced.php, wp-admin/edit-form-comment.php, wp-admin/edit-form.php, wp-admin/edit-page-form.php, wp-admin/edit-pages.php, wp-admin/edit.php, wp-admin/import-b2.php, wp-admin/import-blogger.php, wp-admin/import-greymatter.php, wp-admin/import-livejournal.php, wp-admin/import-mt.php, wp-admin/import-rss.php, wp-admin/import-textpattern.php, wp-admin/index.php, wp-admin/install-helper.php, wp-admin/install.php, wp-admin/link-add.php, wp-admin/link-categories.php, wp-admin/link-import.php, wp-admin/link-manager.php, wp-admin/link-parse-opml.php, wp-admin/menu-header.php, wp-admin/menu.php, wp-admin/moderation.php, wp-admin/options-discussion.php, wp-admin/options-general.php, wp-admin/options-head.php, wp-admin/options-misc.php, wp-admin/options-permalink.php, wp-admin/options-reading.php, wp-admin/options-writing.php, wp-admin/options.php, wp-admin/page-new.php, wp-admin/plugin-editor.php, wp-admin/plugins.php, wp-admin/post.php, wp-admin/profile.php, wp-admin/quicktags.js, wp-admin/setup-config.php, wp-admin/sidebar.php, wp-admin/templates.php, wp-admin/theme-editor.php, wp-admin/themes.php, wp-admin/update-links.php, wp-admin/upgrade-functions.php, wp-admin/upgrade-schema.php, wp-admin/upgrade.php, wp-admin/upload.php, wp-admin/user-edit.php, wp-admin/users.php, wp-admin/wp-admin.css, wp-content/plugins/markdown.php, wp-content/plugins/textile1.php, wp-content/themes/default/comments-popup.php, wp-content/themes/default/comments.php, wp-content/themes/default/footer.php, wp-content/themes/default/header.php, wp-content/themes/default/index.php, wp-content/themes/default/sidebar.php, wp-content/themes/default/style.css, wp-images/fade-butt.png, wp-images/get-firefox.png, wp-images/header-shadow.png, wp-images/wp-small.png, wp-images/wpminilogo.png, wp-images/smilies/icon_arrow.gif, wp-images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif, wp-images/smilies/icon_confused.gif, wp-images/smilies/icon_cool.gif, wp-images/smilies/icon_cry.gif, wp-images/smilies/icon_eek.gif, wp-images/smilies/icon_evil.gif, wp-images/smilies/icon_exclaim.gif, wp-images/smilies/icon_idea.gif, wp-images/smilies/icon_lol.gif, wp-images/smilies/icon_mad.gif, wp-images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif, wp-images/smilies/icon_neutral.gif, wp-images/smilies/icon_question.gif, wp-images/smilies/icon_razz.gif, wp-images/smilies/icon_redface.gif, wp-images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif, wp-images/smilies/icon_sad.gif, wp-images/smilies/icon_smile.gif, wp-images/smilies/icon_surprised.gif, wp-images/smilies/icon_twisted.gif, wp-images/smilies/icon_wink.gif, wp-includes/class-IXR.php, wp-includes/class-pop3.php, wp-includes/class-snoopy.php, wp-includes/classes.php, wp-includes/comment-functions.php, wp-includes/default-filters.php, wp-includes/feed-functions.php, wp-includes/functions-compat.php, wp-includes/functions-formatting.php, wp-includes/functions-post.php, wp-includes/functions.php, wp-includes/gettext.php, wp-includes/kses.php, wp-includes/links.php, wp-includes/locale.php, wp-includes/pluggable-functions.php, wp-includes/rss-functions.php, wp-includes/streams.php, wp-includes/template-functions-author.php, wp-includes/template-functions-category.php, wp-includes/template-functions-general.php, wp-includes/template-functions-links.php, wp-includes/template-functions-post.php, wp-includes/vars.php, wp-includes/version.php, wp-includes/wp-db.php, wp-includes/wp-l10n.php: Initial import of WP1.5.1.2 2005-06-18 10:13 darkcanuck * wp-plugin/LightPressOptions.php: Added install functions, var for constructor and fixed mixup between home & siteurl settings 2005-06-18 04:55 darkcanuck * INSTALL.txt: Changed email address for Jerome 2005-06-17 17:45 ludo * templates/elastic_minimal/: en_US.UTF-8/index.xml, en_US.UTF-8/sidebar.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/about_context.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/about_me.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/about_post.xml, styles/style.css: minor changes 2005-06-17 17:16 ludo * templates/elastic_minimal/: en_US.UTF-8/atom.xml, en_US.UTF-8/author.xml, en_US.UTF-8/error.xml, en_US.UTF-8/footer.xml, en_US.UTF-8/header.xml, en_US.UTF-8/index.xml, en_US.UTF-8/post.xml, en_US.UTF-8/rss2.xml, en_US.UTF-8/search.xml, en_US.UTF-8/sidebar.xml, en_US.UTF-8/static.xml, en_US.UTF-8/syndication.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/about_context.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/about_me.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/about_post.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/adminoptions_admin.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/adminoptions_editcomment.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/adminoptions_editpost.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/adminoptions_login.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/archives_list.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/archives_list_extended.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/categories_list.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/categories_list_extended.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/categories_list_nested.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/delicious.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/links.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/links_feeds.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/pagination.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/pagination_multi.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/pagination_single.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/post_ad.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/post_comment.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/post_comment_notification.txt, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/post_from_search.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/post_related.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/post_send.txt, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/post_send.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/posts_list.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/top_commented.xml, en_US.UTF-8/plugins/top_read.xml, styles/style.css: New original layout Tested only in Firefox (Linux+Win) and IE6 (Win) Ported files: index.xml header.xml footer.xml post.xml and a few plugins, still need to check the other templates 2005-06-17 09:16 darkcanuck * classes/Frontend.php: Added options array check 2005-06-17 09:04 darkcanuck * wp-plugin/plugins.php: Modified plugins.php to display the default list if none are set 2005-06-17 01:37 darkcanuck * config.php: Use PATH_SEPARATOR, reset options to defaults, fixed comment typos
Yikes, that's a long changelog!
Yep! We did a lot of work, no wonder it took so long to release it.
I just upgraded the site to the latest beta, let's hope I did not forget anything. :)
I recently started investigating OpenSource weblog software to install on a personal site I created just for trying out ideas. I also have Apache/PHP/MySQL installed on my Windows XP machine. I wanted something simple to start off with because I'm a PHP newbie. The thing that impressed me most about WordPress is the quality and comprehensiveness of the information in the codex. Perhaps developers of plugins would like more in-depth documentation about the source code, but for someone who simply wants to install a blog and style it with their own theme, the documentation is impressive.
Having said all that, WP is a lot more complicated that what I really want at this stage. So when I came across an article about LightPress I wanted to know more. It seems LightPress is quite new. I don't know if you are targeting users who already have plenty of technical knowledge or whether you'd like it to be attractive to the kind of people who typically choose Blogger, even though they might host it on their own website. I guess I fall into that category.
I'm looking for support documentation with plenty of screenshots and a description of the software architecture which even a PHP newbie would find easy to understand. Should I wait for that from LightPress in the near future? Do you plan to compete with the kind of support documention available from WordPress and Blogger? I haven't looked at MT because it's Perl/CGI, but I ruled out every other blogging platform because of the lack of adequate documentation. In the early stages, before the documentation is ready, a support forum for LightPress could attract potential users.
Kerim,
Documentation is certainly one area we need to work on. WordPress has been around much longer than we have and has quite a large team of people helping to document the system. We're also still getting settled at TextDrive so hopefully we can put together an official support forum and wiki in the near future.
In the meantime, we've been offering personalized support to all new users. If you need any help, just post a question here or send us an e-mail.
And I hope that LightPress - once it's fully independent of WP - will be so easy to use that a huge codex isn't necessary.
Jerome, thank you very much for your kind offer to provide personalized support via e-mail. I took a look at your vapourtrails.ca site to see LightPress in action. The clean and simple CSS presentation is really nice. I also looked at Michael Heilemann's http://binarybonsai.com/kubrick/ page. I notice he has completely done away with the header and background images of his famous default WP theme. Initially, that's what I'd like to do with whichever blog system I end up with — experiment with themes.
It would be terrific if LightPress becomes so easy to install and modify that a huge codex isn't necessary. At present, I don't want to experiment with a project that's new and still evolving. I would like to be able to start with a document like WP's "The Loop in Action" and move on to tutorials about templates and themes.
Kerim, LightPress is getting prettu easy to install. If you want to experiment with themes you can start right away, as we don't use themes but templates. Templates are just plain XHTML files, where tags like {post_title} get replaced by the live values by LightPress.
As for documentation, like Jerome said we are working on it. The first drafts should appear soon on this site.