mojoPortal 2.3.8.5 Released

We released mojoPortal 2.3.8.5 on April 18, 2012

Whats New?:

• A new Nivo Slider control that can be used in custom skins or custom features.
• A new QR Code Image Control is included in the printer friendly skin and can be used in custom features.
• Upgrade from CKeditor 3.6.2 to 3.6.3
• Upgrade from TinyMCE 3.4.7 to 3.4.9
• Lots of small improvements and bug fixes

For more details see the blog post release notes for mojoPortal 2.3.8.5.

Site Membership Pro Released

We made the initial release of Site Membership Pro on April 19, 2012, it does require the latest version of mojoPortal.

Site Membership Pro provides additional functionality on top of mojoPortal to make it easy to monetize access to your premium site content.

mojoPortal already provides role based security so that you can use roles to protect your premium content. For example you could create a role named "Members Only" and you could set that role as the only allowed View Role on pages in your site that contain premium content. However, managing the roles assigned to a user is a manual process in mojoPortal that can be done by Administrators, Role Adminsitrators or Roles That Can Manage Users. So one would have to go to each user who should be given access to premium content and add the user to the "Members Only" role.

Site Membership Pro provides the missing pieces to make it easy to sell membership subscriptions and automatically grant the user the role or roles that provide access to the premium content on your site when they complete a subscription purchase.

For more details see the Site Membership Pro product page.

New and Updated Articles

Each month we continue to fill in some gaps in our documentation and update some documents that were out of date and no longer accurate. Below are links for some of the new and updated articles.

• Blog Post: mojoPortal Sightings for April 2012
• Overview - Creating Skins for mojoPortal
• Event Calendar Pro Tips and Tricks
• Why You Need SSL

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Carole Bennett of Indigo Tea and Ian McIntosh are our current Arvixe Commiunity Liaisons. Both of them have been writing a lot of great blog posts with good tutorials and tips for mojoPortal on the Arvixe Blog and we are maintaining a list of them here.

For those who would rather have someone else handle all the technical details of their hosting including installation, configuration, and upgrades of mojoPortal, we recommend i7MEDIA. You can let them handle all the technical details so you can focus on your site content. Joe Davis of i7MEDIA is our Community Manager, an expert in all things mojo and an all around helpful guy that you can count on.

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Warm Regards,

Joe Audette

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