Pulse 5.3.3 is here and it comes with some small features and updates, but will have big impacts on your projects and workflow.
Thanks to all of you who helped with feedback and also provided BETA testing with this solid release
Initial feedback from BETA users already:
Good job so far.. Loving the filesize reduction and the way of picking the featured image of a post..
Some highlights to run through:
- You can now pick the featured image of a post from a nifty image selector
- Re-ordering of images in the media can now be dragged and dropped across pages (great when lots of images exist)
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Huge file reduction again of the ZIP install file so much lighter to get it onto your server!
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URLs of the form blog/A-Very-Nice-Blog-Post or blog/subblog/A-Very-Nice-Blog-Post are now supported
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Extended Blog loop now exists to make it more flexible to style
On this Blog loop, you can check the Pulse Docs (manual) for more information but essentially:
The format is either:
{{blog}}
{{blog}} {{featured-image}} {{blog-content-loop}} {{blog-item-author}} {{blog-item-date}} {{blog-item-featured-image}} {{blog-item-title}} {{blog-item-content}} {{/blog-content-loop}} {{/blog}}
The tag parameter layout is still supported too. That is something like:
{{blog:"blog":"[[featured-image]] [[blog-content-loop(<<blog-item-author>> <<blog-item-date>> <<blog-item-featured-image>> <<blog-item-title>> <<blog-item-content>>)]]"}}
This allows you to add your own HTML hooks and design elements around the Blog pieces in the loop and create a really fantastic looking blog! This works for sub-blogs too
How to get it
As always, download it from your Pulse dashboard account >
How to update
We always recommend backing up (especially if you've done some customisations). You can follow the update procedure in the Pulse docs for manual updates, but the auto update should also work.
We ran test updates with this build and it worked.
Version History
The full run-down of the updates can be found below!
Pulse 5.3.3
NEW
- Better way to add Blog featured images with image popup and selector
A better way to add / manage 'Featured Images' when creating a blog post Β· Issue #103 Β· thecyman/pulsecms-tracking Β· GitHub
Recent post visual - #7 by jdloudon - Re-ordering of images in media can now be dragged and dropped (great for when lots of images exist) with drop targets for next/previous pages
Re-ordering images when lots of images exist in the folder. Β· Issue #104 Β· thecyman/pulsecms-tracking Β· GitHub - URLs of the form blog/A-Very-Nice-Blog-Post or blog/subblog/A-Very-Nice-Blog-Post are now supported
Feature Request: More beautiful Blog URL's Β· Issue #102 Β· thecyman/pulsecms-tracking Β· GitHub - Extended Blog loop to make it more flexible. The current Blog tags all work but if wanted to separate the template fro the code use something like: {{blog-loop-start}} ...my own layout with divs, cards, whatever {{blog-title}} {{blog-content}} etc. {{blog-loop-end}}
IMPROVEMENTS
- German language updates for Email newsletter copy
Styling the newsletter signup / email-list - #8 by Oliver - Changed "Home" in the breadcrumb admin to "Home page" to represent the breadcrumb hierarchy as: Home page > admin > pages
- Made the installer clearer with new Administrator username requirement
Default Credentials - Improved usability handling after uploading an image
Feature Request: Better usability handling after uploading media Β· Issue #101 Β· thecyman/pulsecms-tracking Β· GitHub - Truncation is now based on number of words
Work started on 5.3.3 - #6 by annett - Also with {{recentposts_visual}} tag it now strips pulse tags from a string - also removes ##more##
Work started on 5.3.3 - #6 by annett - Reduced ZIP install size again! Compressed images, cut down demo images and made video assets remote. And cut down core files such as unused Font Awesome and other dependencies.
Updater not working from 5.22 > 5.3 - #6 by Oliver - Featured image in Blog with social share - improvement to only show image OGP meta tags if there is a featured image or image within a blog post
Featured image in Blog
FIXES
- Dropzone upload icon back for Font Awesome 5
Dropzone is missing icon in version 5.3.1 & 5.3.2 Β· Issue #106 Β· thecyman/pulsecms-tracking Β· GitHub - Fix for Sweet alert error X image
- Hide bullets in Pages META
- Ecommerce / Shop table headers fixed to one line
- Better handles leading slashes in image URLs for {{recentposts_visual}}
- Fixed the Media Gallery sub folder sorting bug
Suggestions for 5.3.2 - Plugged in a fix for showing audio/media files in the media folder
Work started on 5.3.3 - #3 by annett - CSS fix to ensure bullets appear for unordered lists in Editor mode
- Fix for editor adding blocks now adds the block to the editor block ACL list
Thanks again all and happy Pulsing in 5.3.3!