Presstopia : Presstopia Blog v1.0 released

Thursday, June 29, 2006

Presstopia Blog v1.0 released

What Changed :

CHANGED : Please note - Presstopia Blog v1.0 does not contain any new features or bug fixes. However, many changes were made to ensure that Presstopia Blog now not only runs under ASP.NET 2.0, but use as much of the new classes, features and functionality of ASP.NET 2.0 (such as the new mail classes, masterpages, App_Code folder, etc.) as possible. The project is also no longer developed in Visual Studio 2003, but in Visual Studio 2005.
CHANGED : The FreeTextBox control included in the download has been updated to version 3.1.4.

To Install :

See the readme.htm file for installation instructions.

To Upgrade :

No database changes were made. However, this version will only run under ASP.NET 2.0 so please make sure that your web site is configured to support ASP.NET 2.0 before upgrading. Make a backup before uploading the new files, just in case. The files that changed from the previous version and which must be (re)uploaded to your web server are :

/App_Code/*.* (Note : This is a new folder)
pt/admin/*.*
pt/blog/*.*

The following file can be be deleted :

/bin/Presstopia.PTBlog.dll

Posted By Presstopia At 8:34 AM •

nice nice
very nice!

'I can't believe it's still free!'

Comment By y01nk At 6/29/2006 4:44 PM

Is it possible to integrate Presstopia blog's login & authentication with ASP.NET 2.0's Membership API so that a site can have one global login on the homepage?

Comment By Andrew J. At 7/6/2006 6:40 AM

Hi Andrew, not at the moment - unless of course you make the necessary changes to the application to cater for this functionality.

Comment By Presstopia At 7/6/2006 9:26 AM

You really have made a wonderful product. I use it in an integrated form at my site.

I've written my own scripts to ready from the database, and merge it into my existing site. It's hard to find a blogging tool that doesn't dominate the site.

Great work. Now that you've released the new version, I guess it would be silly to mention that I ported it to 2.0.

Comment By Ben Yanis At 8/4/2006 6:29 PM

Thank you for the wonderful comments Ben!

Comment By Presstopia At 8/5/2006 7:09 AM

Hi,

I'm brand new to PT, and I think your blog app is really elegant.

The only hang-up was I had to download the latest control from http://freetextbox.com/download/ and overwrite the .dll in the pt/bin/ folder to get the text box to work in the newest Firefox. But that was ultimately easy to do.

I can't wait to deploy this and use it more.

Are there any plans to make this blog compatible as a DotNetNuke module?

Thanks!

Comment By Greg Dorr At 8/7/2006 3:28 PM

Me again.

I see that the image upload function also allows the uploading of non-image files, but just doesn't preview them in the gallery window. Is there a way to add a pane to the gallery window to show non-image documents hosted in the uploads folder so they can be linked in the blog?

Thanks.

Comment By Greg Dorr At 8/8/2006 2:23 PM

Comment By Greg Dorr At 8/9/2006 12:13 AM

Thank you for the compliments Greg :)

The image upload function actually uses a control that comes with FreeTextBox. The entire page (the preview pane, upload area, insert into document area, etc.) is generated by this contol. It would probably be fairly easy to enable it to preview non-image files, but you would need the source code (available for a fee from the FreeTextBox creator) to make those changes.

Comment By Presstopia At 8/9/2006 4:54 AM

I have installed Presstopia and i was wondering does it support paging on the main blog page. So that users can scroll to the next page?

Comment By tarek2 At 9/6/2006 2:57 PM

Anyway to make this into a DNN module?

Comment By Jim At 9/7/2006 10:45 AM

Jim, making it a DNN module will involve substituting the default user handling with DNN's user base - no small task unfortunately, but certainly do-able. :)

Comment By Presstopia At 9/9/2006 5:20 AM

Very nice application! You've done a wonderful job. Installation is straightforward and using it is even easier.

Keep up the good work!

Comment By Jacob At 3/15/2007 3:30 PM

Just visiting.

I have downloaded the app but have not yet installed.

Comment By John D At 5/28/2007 9:26 PM

Very nice

Comment By karthick At 12/5/2007 4:38 AM

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