Pulse Pro 2.3
The latest version of Pulse adds some great new features and improves upon some existing ones. Here's a rundown of what's new.
Drag and Drop Re-Ordering
One of the most exciting new features is drag and drop image re-ordering for gallery images. While recent updates brought the ability to sort images, it was a somewhat tedious process as you needed to click into each image and assign a number to it. Now you just click and drag the images around to whatever order you like. To truly appreciate the new feature you have to try it for yourself, it's completely fluid and somewhat addicting. Head over the demo site and give it a try.
Thumbnails
Previously, the gallery thumbnails were just the full images resized using CSS. Now, there are dedicated thumbnails saved for each image. This will greatly improve the speed of the gallery since you are downloading tiny 10k images instead of multiple 100k + images. The images are also cropped to square with no distortion.
Slimbox Updates
A bug with IE 9 was recently discovered and patched.
Misc Gallery Updates
You can now upload PNG and GIF files instead of only JPG images. Also, the size limit is now 5mb instead of 2mb.
Access Logs
A brand new feature in Pulse is access logs. This is used to monitor all login activity should you need to. For example, if you are suspicious your Pulse admin is compromised, you can view the logs to see the IP's and times of all logins. The logging is not visible from the admin, so there is no way to tamper with it unless you have ftp access.
Other Improvements
The frontend template has been updated with some minor visual and layout changes. Redactor has been updated to v 8.2.3. I was hoping to get 9.0 (a major upgrade coming soon) into this release but the guys at Redactor are still finishing that up. I have used the beta and it's a huge improvement. The generated code is much better and font controls are now included (Font face and size).
Two small bugs were fixed, one in the backup and another layout bug in the blog when comments are disabled.
Upgrading
The usual upgrade process is to be used (http://pulsecms.com/support.php) with one exception. After you have put all the new files in place, run update.php. This will create some new folders in the data folder that are required.
If you are upgrading from version 2.0 and higher, you can just replace the entire "includes" and "plugins" folders, then run the update.php file inside the pulsepro folder.
To get 2.3, go here: http://pulsecms.com/getpro/
Yes, once you have run the update.php you can remove it.
P.S. to all customers, who haven't bought Pulse yet... This is GREAT CMS and runs very very fast and handles great huge traffic. Recently I used it for a website with over two million views a day the first week and it runs just great. If you havent, buy it now! Won't regret.
The thumbnails load faster as well but what if I don't want them cropped square - is there a way to override this? Thanks again.
s
Quite right Mark, a little css bullet point styling markup had slipped in unbeknown from a previous incarnation.
Slider works perfectly now.
cheers,
s
Please consider renaming the timthumb folder and the script to something else - hackers still search for these words when they scan an installation (can tell that from my WP sites). I know that timthumb is much safer now but maybe it would add another layer of security?
Regards, SiGa!
If you are concerned, you could add .htaccess file that blocks external views.
i would like to make a feature request. i dont know, maybe for v3 perhaps?
it will be really helpful for clients if pulse can somehow enable inline text edits from the front end instead of logging-in a back-end. there is nothing wrong with the current back-end admin editing but from my observation.. my client is having a hard time which block edits which especially now that their website has accumulated a lot of pages.
what im thinking is if an active session is detected (either by logging thru backend or a frontend login form) mouse-over visual cues appear on blocks of content which indicates that it can be editable and a small edit icon appears on the corner. if clicked, a redactor editing panel pops-up via lightbox with a cancel, preview changes, save & close buttons which automatically closes the editing modal and refreshes the entire page to reflect the changes.
im sure it'll make my current client happy and i'll gladly purchase a new license to upgrade the current version my client is using right now.
thanks and i hope you continue improving upon this great product.
p.s. sorry i had to chop up my long message coz you commenting system wont allow me to post really long messages
One Problem:
My Images have the original-size of 1020 x 450 px.
After upload there are smaller than the originals... only 800 x 353 px.
Are there any workaround to fix this image-resizing?
Thanks!
Best,
D.
Daniel - The default behavior is to resize images to a max of 800x800 but this can be edited. Please use the contact for to submit a help request and we can help you with that.
Greetings from Morocco
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