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After 6 development releases Bluetrait 2.0 has now been released.

Bluetrait 2 has the following features over Bluetrait 1

• Categories for Posts
• Group and Task based Permissions
• Custom Permalinks
• Themes
• Improved Plugin System
• Pseudo Cron System
• MySQL and SQlite Support
• Limited SSL/HTTPs Support
• PHP5+ Only

You can get it here:

[Download] ~ 1.5MB

Changes since Beta 2 include:

• Minor bug fixes
• Fixes and improvements to Bluetrait 1 importer (Can now import Content, Link Categories and Links)
• Fixes and improvements when using sqlite
• Added trackback link to classic theme and post template tags

A new version of Bluetrait 2 has been released, Beta 2.

Changes include:

• A database maintenance page
• Links management (Add/Edit/Delete/Order)
• Now able to send trackbacks

[Download] - 1.5MB

We are getting close to a final release of Bluetrait 2, so there is currently no plans to add any new functionality to 2.0.

A new version of Bluetrait 2 has been released, Beta 1.

Changes include:

• Akismet spam checking on contact form
• Fixes to the way themes work, now similar to plugins
• Able to update your password from the personal settings page
• Now able to edit categories
• changes to the htaccess file to fix some issues when not using a blog as the home page
• plus some more smaller fixes/changes

[Download] - 1.5MB

I've updated the FCKeditor plugin for Bluetrait 2, it now contains FCKeditor 2.6.2.

Download

Bluetrait 2 Alpha 4 is now out and can be downloaded from here.

The following are the major changes since Alpha 3:

• Shows new version number and download link when a plugin is out of date.
• Able to delete comments through the delete comment link
• Spam settings page finished.
• More options in general settings page
• Javascript popup window when deleting things
• Basic incoming trackback support
• Paging support on your comments
• More work on user admin
• Contact Form now uses user details
• fixed "SQLSTATE[23000]: Integrity constraint violation: 1062 Duplicate entry for key 'PRIMARY'" error

So to install:

• Download
• Unzip
• Modify .htaccess if required (i.e not installing in /bluetrait-2.0/)
• Visit bt-install/ in your web browser to install
• Once installed delete the bt-install/ folder

Bluetrait 2 Alpha 3 is now out and can be downloaded from here.

The following are the major changes since Alpha 2:

1. Comment Editing Support
2. Plugin Update Notifier

The install process is the same as alpha 2.

Unfortunately I haven't had much time to work on Bluetrait 2, so Alpha 3 doesn't have a huge number of changes.

The current plugins don't have an update url so they won't pull down the latest version information. I will update them either tonight or over the weekend.

Bluetrait 1.2.6 is now available for download.

fixes include:

• Minor PHP 6 errors
• Akismet submitting ham (real comments) as spam when doing a mass moderate

Time for some plugin action!

Three plugins that should be useful:

1. FCKeditor WYSIWYG editor. This is like the one found in Bluetrait 1. It is not longer included within Bluetrait 2 by default. Download
2. Search. This Plugin adds post searching to your website. Please note that this plugin requires MySQL. Download
3. Gravatar. This plugin adds gravatar support to your website. Download

Bluetrait 2 Alpha 2 is now out and can be downloaded from here.

The following are the major changes since Alpha 1:

• File upload support
• Group permission editing
• Remember guest commenting details
• Documentation (The big document here is the Plugin Guide which should be helpful for anyone wanting to write plugins for Bluetrait)
• Improvements to the editing page (including deleting posts)
• Full Installer
• Basic content support has been added

So to install:

• Download
• Unzip
• Modify .htaccess if required (i.e not installing in /bluetrait-2.0/)
• Visit bt-install/ in your web browser to install
• Once installed delete the bt-install/ folder

You no longer need to create a config file as the installer will take care of that for you.

If you are upgrading from Alpha 1 there are some manual steps that SQLite users will need to undertake. This information can be found in the file: upgrade.txt

One month after code example 2 it is time to release Bluetrait 2 Alpha 1.

The following have changed since Code Example 2:

• Edit posts
• Task based permissions
• Rework of theme support
• More template tags (comment count etc)
• Basic comment moderation
• Your comments section
• Upgradable
• Improvements to event viewer

This is the first version of Bluetrait 2 that will be upgradable.

Please note that this isn't a fully working version (its pre-beta), and many things aren't finished/don't work. Please don't use this on a production site.

So to install:

1. Download
2. Unzip
3. copy bt-config-sample.php to bt-config.php and setup your database details
4. Check .htaccess (it is setup for /bluetrait-2.0/)
5. visit bt-install/ in your web browser to install
6. once installed delete the bt-install/ folder
7. read readme.txt if you get stuck