Today I upgraded our demo site at BloggerTools.net to the latest beta version of Hotaru 1.3. The main areas we're working on are installation, speed and plugin independence. Believe it or not, but BloggerTools no longer uses SB Base! Here are the listed goals for this milestone: CORE - Implement smartLoader [Done] - Apply smartCache to Comment class methods [Done] - Add additional indexes to database tables [Done] - Reworked install/upgrade ...
A quick post before I take a break... As you can tell by now, I've upgraded the forums to a beta version of vBulletin 4. The front page is a bit bare, but that will fill out soon. More importantly, I've now uploaded all the new plugins to their respective threads - about 30 of them (phew!), including the Social Bookmarking Suite that contains most of what you need in a single download. So what's left? Well, the next step is to post about and upload the Hotaru 0.8 Beta .zip ...
It's well past my bedtime, but a quick update to let you know Hotaru 0.8 is nearly done, and all the plugins have been updated with improvements or bug fixes. The most significant changes are an improved default theme, options to enable, disable or uninstall all plugins in one go, the ability for moderators to access plugin settings pages, post sorting, post archiving, a sidebar comments plugin including email alerts, pagination, RSS and an "all comments" page. Plus dozens ...
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