mojoPortal 2.3.9.4 Released!

What's New?

Highlights of this release include:

• Page Content Wizard
  
  Most of you who are familiar with mojoPortal know how to add features to a page, but I've noticed on our demo site some people manage to create pages but then for some reason can't figure out how to add content by clicking the "Edit This Page" link. To make it more friendly for new users and for people trying mojoPortal for the first time on our demo site, we've added a simple widget for adding a content feature to a page. This widget is shown if user visiting the page has edit permission on the page and the page has no other content on it and is not configured to show the child page site map.
  
  We’ve also added a new default profile field for AuthorBio. By default it is only available to Administrators, Content Administrators, Content Authors, and Content Publisher roles.
  
  
• Forum Improvements
  
  Reduced the number of Url parameters and added a site map for forum threads that can be submitted to search engines for greatly improved SEO in the forums feature. See the updated Site Map documentation for details.
  
  
• Blog Improvements
  
  Added support for showing an Author Bio at the bottom of blog posts.
  
  Added support for a Sub Title per post, with theme.skin support to configure what element it renders as in the list an in the detail view.
  
  Added support for multiple bloggers: A user in the edit roles for a blog can only edit their own posts unless the user is in the Administrators or Content Administrators roles. This can be disabled from user.config if you prefer the old behavior where any editor could edit any post. See the updated blog documentation for details.
  
  Added support for per category feeds. Now by default the feed icon on the category page has the category specific feed url.
  
  Added support for post end dates. If an end date is specified, then the post will no longer be available to users not in an edit role. Other users who visit the post url will see a message saying the content has expired and the HTTP Status code 410 will be returned for search engines, and the post url will be removed from the google site map.
  
  
• Newsletter Improvements
  
  Added support for some new token replacements that can be used to personalize the newsletter, with settings for fallback default values configurable on the newsletter definition. See the updated newsletter documentation for details.
  
  
• Added options for showing the Author Photo/Avatar and/or an Author Bio at the bottom of Html Content instances.
• Lots of other small improvements and bug fixes.

See the release announcement blog post for full details.

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 October 2012
• Blog Post: mojoPortal 2.3.9.4 Released
• Author Biography Profile Property
• Using the Blog
• Blog Display Settings
• Important Skin Changes
• Submitting Your Site Maps to Google and Bing
• Using the Newsletter
• Solving Browser Security Warnings

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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.

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Warm Regards,

Joe Audette

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