This update adds automated backups of Big Medium data and site files. Plus: comment counts, improved control over the display of tips and announcements, and lots of other changes and bug fixes.
The Big Medium 2.0.4 update allows advanced users to make automated backups of Big Medium data and site files. The new version also adds comment counts, provides more control over the display of tips and announcements, and adds a variety of other changes and bug fixes.
Download the latest version of Big Medium here.
The download package includes complete installation instructions, including notes for upgrading from previous versions of Big Medium.
Shortcut instructions for upgrading from versions 2.0 - 2.0.3 are provided below. (If you’re upgrading from a version prior to 2.0, including a Big Medium 2.0 beta version or release candidate, please follow the full installation instructions in the download package; along the way, those instructions include special notes for upgrading.)
Important: After upgrading, clear your browser cache, and be sure to ask all other editors to do the same.
The upgrade process will rebuild all pages of your site(s).
Big Medium can now make automated, compressed backups of its data and site files. This remains a “hidden” feature and won’t be available in the control panel until I get around to adding easy tools to restore from backup. Until then, it’s a tool for power users, and activating it takes a modicum of technical know-how, too. More details.
The new <%commentcount%> widget displays the number of comments on the
current page, along with a link to those comments. The new “comment count”
link element lets you add the same to link descriptions. (For the moment,
the comment count link element is available in the spotlight, links and
morelinks widgets; it's not yet available for latest, quicktease or
news).
The <%images%> and <%gallery%> widgets now accept an “enlarge” attribute.
By default, the images in these widgets enlarge when clicked. Setting
enlarge="no" (or enlarge="" orenlarge="0") now suppresses that
feature.
Public pages that use dynamic forms (comment previews and email/comment error pages) now detect the language of the current site and will display text in that language if custom language files are available for those languages.
Updated the JavaScript libraries on published sites to Prototype v1.6.0.2, Scriptaculous v1.8.1 and Lightbox v2.0.4.
Tips and announcements may now be assigned directly to the homepage.
You can now choose to have tips and announcements display items only if they are specifically to the current section (i.e., you can suppress content assigned to subsections). This option is in the “Tips & Announcements” screen of HTML preferences.
Pages can now appear as a homepage spotlight when the “Never make this page a section spotlight article” option is checked. Pages can still be suppressed from the homepage spotlight by selecting the “Never make this page a homepage spotlight article” option.
Updated rich-text editor to FCKeditor 2.6.3, which includes the following changes, among others:
The ~ tilde character is no longer used in a number of URLs. In fresh
installations of Big Medium, the tilde is no longer used at all; for
existing installations, the tilde remains in use in published pages
(i.e., no changes to URLs of news feeds and other pages for those sites).
The “Section/Category” field in edit screens is now taller, displaying more sections at once.
Periods in filenames of document and image uploads (except for the period in filename extensions) are now converted to dashes.
In the “Spam” screen of HTML preferences, the new “challenge caption” preference text helps explain the presence of the anti-spam question in comment and email forms.
In the “Visitor Comments” screen of HTML preferences, the “form caption” and “format instructions” preferences are now optional. Setting them to be blank means that no caption or Markdown link will be displayed in comment forms.
Added new options in the “Links” screen of HTML preferences to choose
whether the <%quicktease%> and <%latest%> widgets should display
their headings on the homepage.
Document and news-feed icons are now vertically centered for improved display with varied text sizes.
Added additional security against unsafe filenames.
Updated Markdown to v1.0.2b8, fixing a few bugs in Markdown processing.
Fixed bug in the “add description line break” preference, which inserted line breaks in link description text even when there was no text to display.
Related links are now properly rebuilt if the target page’s title changes.
Fixed display issue that caused theme preview to show preview images off-center.
Fixed typo in <%tagcloud%> HTML that could cause layout trouble in the
surrounding template.
Corrected outdated URL in the XHTML 1.0 transitional DOCTYPE.
Links in the news gadget now mirror site content more accurately.
Important: After upgrading, clear your browser cache, and be sure to ask all other editors to do the same.
If you’re upgrading from v2.0-2.0.3, you can update to the new version by following the instructions below. (If you’re upgrading from a version prior to 2.0, including a Big Medium 2.0 beta version or release candidate, please follow the full installation instructions in the download package; along the way, those instructions include special notes for upgrading.)
To upgrade from v2.0, v2.0.1, v2.0.2 or v2.0.3:
moxiebin/Modules directory:BigMed.pmBigMed (directory and all contents)HTML (directory and all contents)Text (directory and all contents)URI.pmURI (directory and all contents)version.pmversion (directory and all contents)moxiedata/templates directory and all contents:moxiedata/support/assets directory and all contents.bmadmin/index.html file with your site’s moxiebin URL.Open bmadmin/index.html in a text editor and follow the
instructions in the file to update the two marked URLs with the full
URL to your server’s moxiebin directory.
bmadmin directory:css (directory and all contents)index.htmljs (directory and all contents)wysiwyg (directory and all contents)bmadmin/img directory:caution.gifbmadmin/themes/_general directory and all contentsBrowse to the bm-update.cgi file in your site’s moxiebin directory.
For example:
http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/moxiebin/bm-update.cgi
Along the way, the update process will rebuild all pages of your site(s).
Clear your browser cache, and ask other Big Medium editors to do the same.
This completes the update from v2.0, v2.0.1, v2.0.2 or v2.0.3.