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- Shows new version number and download link when a plugin is out of date.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:
- Comment Editing Support
- 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:
- FCKeditor WYSIWYG editor. This is like the one found in Bluetrait 1. It is not longer included within Bluetrait 2 by default. Download
- Search. This Plugin adds post searching to your website. Please note that this plugin requires MySQL. Download
- 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:
- Download
- Unzip
- copy bt-config-sample.php to bt-config.php and setup your database details
- Check .htaccess (it is setup for /bluetrait-2.0/)
- visit bt-install/ in your web browser to install
- once installed delete the bt-install/ folder
- read readme.txt if you get stuck