ExpressionEngine public beta 2 installed

By Michael Fraase

Saturday, 27 March 2004 10:16PM CST

Section: Announcements

Heads up to some Hasten down the wire changes now running public beta 2 of ExpressionEngine which looks like a final release candidate….

New features include:

  • simple search (searches only titles) and advanced search which links to a new search template that’s pretty dang impressive; both are over there in the right shoulder box
  • updated templates for the RSS/RDF 1.0, RSS 2.0, and Atom 0.3 XML syndication feeds (the Atom feed actually validates now)
  • pagination for both articles and comments; this is especially useful in the Information Eclipse section because it lets you read the work sequentially
  • pagination between fields will allow longer essays to be presented in a more visually pleasing manner
  • PHP code can be parsed either before or after template rendering (woot! now I can screw things up coming and going)
  • related entries tag (this one still needs a little work to be really useful, so it’s hidden from most users)
  • the referrer module has been improved significantly and includes a blacklist (only registered, logged-in users see the referrers link)
  • moderation capabilities have been added to the article comments (only registered, logged-in users can post comments)
  • access to content can be restricted based on user class (this one has been available since public beta 1, but I’ve only recently sufficiently figured it out; interesting things will start to happen when the pMachine team releases the ecommerce module)
  • the database caching has been improved noticeably
  • lots of minor bug fixes, mostly in the back-end functions

There’s still quite a bit to do. Next up is integrating the user module and search style sheets with the main system style sheet.

Maybe tomorrow….

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