We're happy to announce that PivotX 2.2.0 has been released as a stable release. There are quite a few new features, that make PivotX even more stable and easier to work with. Some of the new stuff is listed below, and you can find screenshots at the bottom of this entry.
- There's a new Debugbar, which will be of great use when you're working on a new website. It shows you the current PivotX modifiers, as well as information about which templates are used, server variables, cookies and more. (see the screenshots below)
- The Entries screen has been revamped: It has better options for filtering and pagination. Best of all: the filters are more persistent. If you've filtered the entries, and then edited an entry, you will return to the same active filter in the overview screen.
- A lot of smaller fixes and changes are made to streamline the interface of the PivotX backend, so everything is more consistent. A lot of the graphic elements have been touched up.
- We're now using the excellent Plupload uploader for all file uploads.
- There's a new [[searchresults]] tag, which allows you to format and style the search results page to your liking. Documentation can be found here.
- PivotX now has an Offline modus, allowing you to show an static page with a message to the visitors of the website, while you can still use the backend to do upgrades or work on the website. The switch to turn the site off, can be found under Administration » Configuration. Please note that you will still be able to see your site, because your IP-address will be whitelisted after flipping the switch. Only people from other IP-addresses will see the offline page.
- And, there's countless more smaller fixes and improvements.
The release can be downloaded from this location: pivotx.net/files/pivotx_latest.zip (or pivotx.net/files/pivotx_latest.zip, if you prefer .tgz files). For setup instructions, we point you to our documentation: Getting the files & installing. If you're having trouble downloading the files, you can also download them from our sourceforge mirror.
Now that 2.2.0 is out of the way, we are continuing work on PivotX 2.3 and PivotX 3.0. The 2.3 version which will contain ongoing improvements and fixes, while version 3.0 will be a major overhaul of the user interface as well as the inner workings of PivotX. Once we have organised what we need to do, we will start posting our ideas and thoughts, allowing our users to comment on them, to make sure we're building the best tool possible.
Just in time for the holidays, here's the Release Candidate for PivotX 2.2. This means that this version is considered to be stable enough to use on live websites, but we're doing one more small round of testing before labeling it "2.2.0 final". Please try this version, and let us know how it goes in this forum thread.
This release contains two new features, when compared to the previous beta release:
- There's a new [[searchresults]] tag, which allows you to format and style the search results page to your liking. Documentation can be found here.
- PivotX now has an Offline modus, allowing you to show an static page with a message to the visitors of the website, while you can still use the backend to do upgrades or work on the website. The switch to turn the site off, can be found under Administration » Configuration. Please note that you will still be able to see your site, because your IP-address will be whitelisted after flipping the switch. Only people from other IP-addresses will see the offline page.
Apart from that, this release contains mostly fixes and enhancements for the new features in 2.2, like the Debug Bar, the new Entries Overview screen, and the new uploader and the new handler for the way PivotX inserts code to certain parts of a rendered page.
The release candidate can be downloaded from this location: pivotx.net/files/pivotx_22rc.zip (or pivotx.net/files/pivotx_22rc.tgz, if you prefer .tgz files). For setup instructions, we point you to our documentation: Getting the files & installing. If you're having trouble downloading the files, you can also download them from our sourceforge mirror.
We've just released PivotX 2.2 beta 2. Just like with the first beta, we were one week behind schedule, but there were some quirks we wanted to fix before this release.
Currently, version 2.2 is feature-complete, so we'll take one more iteration to straighten out the issues that people find with this release, before we consider this version stable. Expect the 2.2 RC in a week or two, and the 2.2.0 final release a week after that.
In the meantime we're continuing work on new features that will be added in the near future. PivotX 2.3 will have a new feature to easily make (and maintain) multilingual website. Ideas for PivotX 3 are still being worked on, but so far we're exited about the way it's shaping up.
Back to version 2.2: This beta contains fixes for the Debug Bar, the new Entries Overview screen, and the new uploader. It also contains one important new feature: There's a new handler for the way PivotX inserts code to certain parts of a rendered page. This will make it far easier to add Javascript and CSS includes to the correct locations in your pages, and it is smart enough to do it only when required.
For now we still wouldn't advise against using this PivotX 2.2 beta on production websites, unless you like living on the edge. If you encounter issues with this release, please post about it in this forum thread.
The beta release can be downloaded from this location: pivotx.net/files/pivotx_22b2.zip (or pivotx.net/files/pivotx_22b2.tgz, if you prefer .tgz files). For setup instructions, we point you to our documentation: Getting the files & installing. If you're having trouble downloading the files, you can also download them from our sourceforge mirror.
The Dev team is working their asses off to meet the deadline for the release of PivotX 2.2 on november the 23d. Other teammembers (like me) are working on the migration of the PivotX sites to another server with hopefully less downtime.
But in the meantime we still found time to add a new chapter on Book.PivotX.net: 'Howtos - various snippets for special effects'. It's a growing collection of code snippets for various solutions like creating a simple eventcalendar, word count, trim texts and automatically generated metatags. Lots more coming soon.
If you think you have useful additions, please let us know in the comments.
We've just released the first beta of PivotX 2.2. More information (with screenshots) of what's new can be found in this posting.
Please note that this is the first public release of PivotX 2.2, and that we would advise against using this version on public websites, unless you're comfortable running beta software.
If you're not comfortable running beta software, the final (and thus stable) release of PivotX 2.2 is planned for the end of november. In the meantime: Please post any bugs and feedback you might find in this forum thread.
We initially planned this first release for last week, but we took some extra time to fix some more issues. The updated release schedule is:
- 2.2 beta 1 released on october 19
- november 2: 2.2 beta 2
- november 16: 2.2 RC
- november 23: 2.2 final
The beta release can be downloaded from this location: pivotx.net/files/pivotx_22b1.zip (or pivotx.net/files/pivotx_22b1.tgz, if you prefer .tgz files). For setup instructions, we point you to our documentation: Getting the files & installing. If you're having trouble downloading the files, you can also download them from our sourceforge mirror.
