Global Moxie

The Kaffeeklatsch beta update invites your site's visitors to the conversation with the ability to add comments to pages. Like any good hostess, of course, Big Medium insists on polite conversation; indelicate topics involving little blue pills simply will not do. This update adds vigorous anti-spam features to help prevent spammers from bombarding your email-this-page and comment forms.

Coffee talk, of course, is about more than a tasty danish. It's about being in the know. This update makes sure that you stay in the loop, allowing editors to subscribe to e-mail alerts about new comments, new pages and status changes.

And to keep things neat and tidy, a bunch of bug fixes are included, too.

Get after it

Download the latest version of Big Medium here.

Please note: This update contains a considerable number of JavaScript updates, some of which may not be updated in your browser by a simple page refresh. Please have all of your organization’s editors follow these browser update instructions.

The download package includes installation instructions, including info for upgrading from previous versions of the Big Medium 2 beta. If you’re upgrading from 2.0b40, see the shortcut instructions below:

The Nitty Gritty

Here's what's new in this version.

New features

• New <%comments%> widget allows visitors to post messages to site pages. (See the new "Visitor Comments" screen in "Settings>HTML Preferences.")

• Comment moderator features let you edit site comments or review comments marked as spam or otherwise held for review. These options are available from the "Edit" menu for accounts with publisher privileges or better.

• Vigorous spambot detection for "Email this page" and visitor comment forms, including a customizable challenge question to help make sure that it's a human submitting the form. (See the new spam screen in "Settings>HTML Preferences.")

• Added support for the Akismet spam-detection service to prevent spam messages in page comments.

• Big Medium account-holders can now subscribe to e-mail alerts from their "my account" page. Alerts may be received when:

  • Pages are added
  • Pages change status
  • Comments are awaiting review
  • Comments are published to the site

• New optional settings in the "Big Medium Server Info" screen: Akismet API key and proxy server information.

• Improved preview display for pages whose templates use server-side-include tags.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused IE6 to display "please provide a value" message when clicking on pulldown menus in the control panel.

• Fixed a bug in rich-text editor that caused "file not found" error message to flash briefly when opening dialog pop-ups.

• In Firefox, if pasting in the rich-text editor is blocked by the browser security settings, a "Paste" popup is shown to complete the paste.

• Fixed a bug that prevented Internet Explorer from pasting into the rich-text editor if the browser's "Allow paste operation via script" preference was disabled.

• Fixed a crashing error when leaving a required field blank for certain items (e.g., the URL for related links).

• Fixed a bug on page-rebuilding and site-importing pages where, if your session expired, a file download would start instead of displaying the progress bar. Also improved error detection and messaging for progress bars.

• Fixed a bug that prevented hotlinked images from opening in a new window for external links even if the site's HTML preferences indicate that they should.

• Fixed a bug that caused HTML errors in metadata tags for pages with quotes in description text entered via the rich-text editor.

• Fixed a bug in the library editor that could cause an empty screen when deleting a library item and there's an I/O error when updating changed pages behind the scenes.

• Fixed Firefox auto-fill behavior to stop it from automatically filling the "new password" field on the "edit account" screen.

Upgrading from 2.0b40?

If you’re upgrading from v2.0b40, you can update to the new version by following the instructions below:

1. Set your FTP client to "plain text" or "ASCII" mode.

2. Upload files to moxiebin

Upload these files to the moxiebin directory:

• bm-comment.cgi
• bm-mod.cgi

On Unix-based servers, set permissions on the two files to chmod 0755.

3. Upload files to moxiebin/Modules

Upload these files to the moxiebin/Modules directory, replacing the old files of the same names:

• BigMed.pm
• BigMed (directory and contents)

4. Upload files to moxiedata/support/assets

Upload this file to the moxiedata/support/assets directory, replacing the old file of the same names:

• bm.js

5. Upload files to moxiedata/templates

Upload these files to the moxiedata/templates directory, replacing the old files of the same names:

• cp_templates (directory and contents)
• site_templates (directory and contents)

6. Upload files to bmadmin

Upload these files to the bmadmin directory, replacing the old files of the same names:

• css/bigmedium_cp.css
• js/bigmedium_cp.js
• js/bm-actionmenu.js

7. Set your FTP client to "binary" or "automatic" mode.

8. Upload additional files to bmadmin

Upload these files to the bmadmin directory, in "binary" or "automatic" FTP mode:

• img/bmcp_approve.gif
• img/bmcp_spam.gif
• themes (directory and contents)
• wysiwyg (directory and contents)

9. Run the updater

Browse to the bm-update.cgi file in your site’s moxiebin directory. For example:

http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/moxiebin/bm-update.cgi

10. Ask editors to clear browser cache

Please ask all of your site’s Big Medium editors to follow the browser update instructions.

This completes the update from 2.0b40.