Development

One of the new features in Geeklog 1.3.10 are the so-called autolinks which provide new tags (called autotags) to link to objects under a plugin's control. For example,

[staticpage:cvs Learn all about the Geeklog CVS]

will be displayed as this link: Learn all about the Geeklog CVS

But the full potential of this new form of links has yet to be explored. For example, autolinks could provide a solution to the often requested ability to let normal users upload images with their stories. If you have Gallery installed and allow image upload for your users there, a plugin could provide an autotag that not only links to the image in Gallery but also displays the preview in the story. Another example would be a request from a client I had who asked for attachments to stories (just like attachments in an email), which could be done by adding autotags to the File Management plugin.

The Plugin Development at Tokyoahead for the Geeklog has been extended. To better cater the needs of a professional development and to encourage the participation of other developers, a sourceforge project has been started.

Now, all files are available to the public through sourceforge and also CVS and Forums are accessible. Bug trackers and Feature requests are now also available. Future plugins will also be signed up as a Sourceforge project. Please visit Sourceforge.Net for more information! If you are interested in the FAQ project, please do not hesitate to participate by submitting feature/bug requests, templates, language files etc etc!

Starting with Geeklog 1.3.10, Geeklog ships with a new default theme. We've chosen the Professional theme, kindly provided by Victor B. Gonzalez (of Aeonserv fame).

We've also decided to remove the old set of themes (Classic, Clean, Digital Monchrome, Gameserver, Smooth Blue, XSilver, Yahoo) from the distribution. They are now available as a separate tarball.

Once Geeklog 1.3.10 is offically out (after the Release Candidate phase), we will also remove the old themes from CVS and stop updating them. Instead, we would like to ask the Geeklog community to continue to support and update them. If you have any ideas how this could best be accomplished, please post your ideas and thoughts below.

And last but not least, a Big Thanks to the theme authors Jason Whittenburg (Classic, Digital Monochrome, Yahoo), Matt Jones (XSilver), Simon Lord (Clean, Gameserver), and Mark Limburg (Smooth Blue) for their themes which have served us so well over the years.