Releases: fboes/blogophon
Global Smiling
The Blogophon now allows editors to insert Emojis easily. Just write ASCII smileys like :), und you see a 😄 .
There is also improved documentation, which is more streamlined and removes a lot of pro-stuff.
For owner of multiple blog there is now a global installable script. So you need to install the Blogophon once, and produce multiple blogs from on machine.
Under the hood there is now Travis CI, which checks all tests after every commit.
Theme Park
The biggest change is the support for image styles, which means you are not including a certain size of an image, but a responsive behaviour. By referencing an image style via [image.jpg#STYLE] the image gets scaled to a predefined set of image sizes, which in turn are output accordingly to smartphones, tablets and desktop browsers as it best fits.
Theming and HTML output has been vastly improved. Your theme can now be used with AJAX, and lots of small modifications make your output even more beautiful:
- There is an improved parser for code blocks, which leads to even better readability.
- The Blogophon now has Emoji support, by just adding ASCII smileys to your Markdown. 😁
- Some bug in the Accelerated Mobile Pages were fixed, and the output improved.
Articles now have a modified date, which is guessed from the last time an article was updated, or which is set by setting it explicitly.
And internally there is now testing with Travis-CI.
Alternate Realities
The Blogophon now caters to rather special channels:
- Google`s Accelerated Mobile Pages
- Apple News
- Facebook Instant Articles
- Microsoft Tiles
- ICS-Calendars
- GeoJSON
There are also minor improvements to Google Analytics / Piwik tracking.
And internally the output of the Markdown generator has been vastly improved, to produce even nicer HTML. There is also syntax highlighting for code snippets.
Paged Power
Tag pages and author pages are now split up into multiple pages if there are to many articles for a given tag or author. They also come with their own RSS-, RSSJS- and ATOM-Newsfeed.
Now there is also a browserconfig.xml and some XMLs to have notifications on Windows 8+ desktops.
Also the templates have been updated, and non-theme templates moved out of the theme template folder, so theme editors might not break them by accident.
There is also improved HTML for Youtube, Vimeo, as well as an all-new Giphy integration.
Under the hood there is a lot of new prototype going on.
Broomsweeper
Author names now will generate author pages. If you have multiple authors, there is a page for every single author showing her / his articles.
There are some template upgrades, which may break your old templates.
Internally the code is now much cleaner… but there is still room for improvement. ;)
Shiny colors
This release adds support for multiple themes, therefore changing the directory structure of the themes folder.
The manual has lots of improvements and tips on how to do editing and advanced ideas for installing the Blogophon.
Ans as usual there are tons of minor improvements.
Adolescence
With lots of minor modifications, this version represents a rather grown up build of the Blogophon. A v1.0.0 may not be that far along.
At last the main administration tool is now accessible via ./index.js.
A Warm Welcome
There is now an installer, so your blog starts with a properly setup configuration right from the start. The installer will be called when you do npm install or if you call it afterwards via ./install.js.
The documentation has also been improved, so you know how to work with the Blogophon.
And now there is a tag overview page, which is also added to the sitemap.xml.
The Blogophon rises
The Blogophon now has a comprehensive administration tool, accessible via CLI. Just enter ./blogophone.js to create, edit, generate or delete articles.