New Features On PrintnPost
- Usability Improvements
After extensive usability testing, minor usability changes have been
made to the control panel interface to make publishing web content easier
for non-technical users
- New Article Submission Process
The create/edit article screen in the control panel is now all on 1
page, instead of the 3 before. It uses 2 tabs, one with the basic/required
options, the second tab with additional options.
There is also now only 2 types of articles; A complete article or a short
article. A complete article is the old ‘Article with pages’ while a short
article is a combination of ‘Summary’ and ‘Summary and Link’. With the
short article option, the Link field and attachments are optional, so if
you fill it in, it will display, otherwise it won’t.
- Advanced Commenting System
Comments are now threaded. Website visitors can now reply to other user's
comments and have their comments grouped together, so a conversation
doesn't get lost. Users can now also include a website when submitting
that their name will link to in their post. The author of the blog/article
is now also identified so they stand out from the other comments.
In the control panel, approving, deleting and approving comments has now
been converted to ajax so make the process faster for admin.
There is also 2 new anti-spam features on the site. this will limit the number of URLs used within a comment. The second option is 'IP Banning'. The IP of each comment is now recorded and it can be blocked in the event of abuse.
- Podcasting
Podcasts will be able to be added to both articles and blogs within
printnpost. There will then be links to the podcast feeds on the
website which users can click to add the feeds straight into iTunes.
You will also be able to configure your podcast options from the
settings page under a new tab named 'Podcast'.
- Teaser Images
There is now the option to add an 'teaser image' to an article.
Traditionally ArticleLive has always just displayed the author image for
each article, now there will be an option to display: No Image, Author
Picture or upload a 'teaser image'.
- Updated Search Code
We've updated the method used for searching to enable ArticleLive to
work with more articles than before. The search is faster and more accurate.
You can also search by date and within category descriptions.
- Optimizations
We've optimized the code to run less queries, faster. We've also halved the
average memory usage to keep Articles from taking up too many server
resources. This also means it will perform far better when the server is under
high traffic load.