Typo 2.5 released

Posted by tobi — 04:04 PM Aug 06

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We released the latest typo and its just oozing with amazing features. Many of the additions were demanded by the recent influx of high traffic and high profile blogs. Here are some choice additions:

  • Static Caching, your typo blog will now serve thousands of pages per second with ease. All the active elements of the frontend were moved into JavaScript
  • First official release with the new Azure theme
  • Multiple theme support, please create your own!
  • Newly designed admin interface
  • Textile, Markdown and Smartypants support, all bundled
  • Enhanced spam protection
  • Quick post functionality
  • Support for multiple users posting to the same blog
  • Powerful sidebar management with drag and drop goodness
  • Monthly archives
  • Multiple syndication support built in for 43things, del.icio.us, Flickr, upcoming.org, tadalist, technorati, 43places and much more.
  • Ajax’ed out the wazoo
  • Edit/nuke comments while reading them in the frontend ( as admin )
  • Converters for most major blog software including import from RSS feeds.

... and tons more new features and improvements. The svn repository number doubled since the last release.

In other news:

Please welcome our new dev team members Justin Palmer who is responsible for the typo visual identity and themes and Scott Laird who reinforces the typo hacking team. Scott did the majority of typo improvements in the last weeks. The theme system, the sidebar admin and countless other improvements were his work.

For more, read the stable page on the typo trac.

Comments

  • Dylan 06 Aug 21:38

    Nice work guys.

    Had initial troubles with 2.5.0, but it was fixed in the 2.5.1 release and now running 2.5.2.

    Coincidentally the pages setup, didn’t know you were adding it in 2.5, works the same as what I currently use. I guess it’s all it really needs.

  • MatL 06 Aug 22:16

    “Typo is an absolutely minimal weblogging engine powered by rails.” Isn’t it time to change this description on RubyForge at last ;)

    Thanks for this great work! I wish I had the time to contribute to it.

  • Justin 06 Aug 22:33

    I’m new? ;-)

  • tobi 07 Aug 04:54

    Hehe well you weren’t part of the team last release. Thats how long ago it was…

  • user 07 Aug 08:37

    how about pictures ? can we add picture easily ?

  • user 07 Aug 08:37

    how about an upgrade process from 2.0.6 ? any sweet solution ?

  • Jemaleddin 08 Aug 01:20

    Let me second the request from user (and third the one from me on the previous article) and beg you to explain the upgrade process. After spending a couple hours backing up my site, switching to 2.5.2 and restoring the backups I made, it’d be nice to know what I was supposed to be doing.

  • Mallow005 08 Aug 01:48

    I fourth that movement. After visiting the irc channel for help and finally got it working, you guys admitted that the upgrading documentation was much needed, yet still didn’t do it?

    I did a “RAILS_ENV=production rake migrate” but no go, it gives this:

    Linking article authors to users rake aborted! undefined method `guid’ for #<a rticle:0xb766c82c rel=”nofollow”> ./Rakefile:216

  • tobi 08 Aug 06:03

    If you are coming from 2.0.6 or similar you can just start the new typo. It will prompt you to update your database schema once you go to /admin/

    After that you need to restart the server and you should be good to go.

    Mallow005: You seem to be updating from a trunk release. Try to run “RAILS_ENV=production rake migrate VERSION=1” followed by “RAILS_ENV=production rake migrate”

  • Jemaleddin 08 Aug 08:47

    tobi: not trying to dump on you – I know that I appreciate all the hard work that has gone into typo. But that doesn’t work. I’m about to restore my site from backup for the third time, and I’m wishing that I knew what was wrong.

  • Jemaleddin 08 Aug 08:58

    Hey = fourth time’s the charm! Glad I didn’t post that angry rant I was writing in my head!

  • tobi 08 Aug 11:34

    I’m not happy how the migration stuff turned out myself. I have a few ideas on how to make this rails facility work better for projects like typo

  • somekool 08 Aug 14:39

    well, the update is mainly to keep track of database changes and to version every tables;

    I suggest keeping all your update/alter sql query into arrays and running them on upgrade with version condition.

  • somekool 08 Aug 17:44

    another install feature I’d like to see in Typo is a generator….

    I already have a rails app… I want a blog…

    ./script/generate typo

    that’d be awesome, no ?

  • Aaron 10 Aug 11:01

    I wish my host supported rails. I’d be all over Typo :)

  • Phil 11 Aug 13:25

    Thanks for all yr hard work, Tobi and the Typo team! It rocks most verily.

  • Shawn 11 Aug 14:03

    That’s pretty cool.

  • null 14 Aug 06:26

    ?

  • Eric L 14 Aug 18:17

    I just joined Site5 which supports rails so hopefully I can get Typo up and running soon. RoR is so new to me and i’m so lost.

  • Paul 16 Aug 03:24

    This is a test comment

  • ADoM 17 Aug 15:39

    This is another test comment.

  • ADoM 17 Aug 15:43

    I can’t believe this!

  • ADoM 17 Aug 15:47

    Really, no blinking!

  • dev/null 17 Aug 16:45

    dude!

  • drc 18 Aug 05:48

    Sorry, just have to test the Ajax goodness :)

  • testing here too... 18 Aug 06:39

    Sorry…!

  • testing here too... 18 Aug 06:39

    nice…!

  • What about testing this comment form :) 19 Aug 06:05

    Everyone seems to be doing it :)

  • congrats 19 Aug 10:45

    nice work, y’all.

  • Mike 19 Aug 11:36

    Congratulations!

  • test 19 Aug 15:26

    testing of course

  • testing 21 Aug 09:57

    testing

  • Ian 21 Aug 11:44

    nice one.

  • tst 21 Aug 13:06

    tst

  • Mark 21 Aug 13:53

    This is kind of nifty, but things like the ‘leave url/email’ link and such don’t work if Javascript is disabled.

    As nifty as AJAX is, I don’t think it should outright replace typical interfaces. Some people like to browse blogs on their cellphones, after all.

  • Jo 22 Aug 06:34

    Very nice! But it would still be cool to see advanced syntax highlighting support for code snippets ;-)

  • test 22 Aug 10:25

    testing

  • leo 23 Aug 04:09

    test

  • test 23 Aug 05:20

    yeah sorry another test

  • Luke 24 Aug 05:34

    Great update!

  • Ted Power 24 Aug 15:30

    excellent

  • Me 24 Aug 15:50

    This is great!

  • Jon 25 Aug 11:39

    Excellent

  • Mike 26 Aug 23:46

    Cool ajax comments

  • test 28 Aug 19:27

    test

  • Johnny 28 Aug 19:27

    This is tres cool!

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  • Bon 29 Aug 16:44

    This is just a test comment to see the sexy Ajax sh!t you got going on!

  • Wyatt 01 Sep 19:27

    testing

  • Danilo 02 Sep 01:22

    comment testing

  • adsf 04 Sep 22:51

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  • timsuth 06 Sep 21:36

    Well, everyone else is testing, so…

  • ben 08 Sep 11:11

    Fantastic work folks. I’m looking forward to setting this up on Site5.com! Thanks very much!

  • john 17 Sep 23:10

    i love this, but i can’t get it to work on my site5.com server… i’ve tried everything I can think of, which isn’t much because my mind is small.

  • David 18 Sep 05:44

    One more test…

  • test 20 Sep 08:52

    Test

  • skilar 20 Sep 18:05

    Awesome! Now I just need a RoR host.

  • null 24 Sep 18:35

    cool

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  • Javan 25 Sep 21:57

    I can’t wait to try it out.

  • null 03 Oct 23:01

    Wow! this looks great!

  • Rick 08 Oct 08:14

    I need a little help, please, with customization. Where do I edit the “meta” line? For example, what if I’d like for it to say “Written in” instead of “Posted in?”

    I’d also like to move “no comments” from the meta line to be just under the article name.

    For the life of me, I can’t find the file this is in.

    Thanks!

  • null 08 Oct 16:54

    Ajax testing.

  • null 08 Oct 16:54

    Damn, prettiness.

  • Anonymous 09 Oct 17:14

    It’s a little tough sifting through the asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfaf comments to find something interesting.

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  • ff 25 Oct 14:01

    Mallow005 said 1 day later:

    I fourth that movement. After visiting the irc channel for help and finally got it working, you guys admitted that the upgrading documentation was much needed, yet still didn’t do it?

    I did a “RAILS_ENV=production rake migrate� but no go, it gives this:

    Linking article authors to users rake aborted! undefined method `guid’ for # ./Rakefile:216

  • ff 25 Oct 14:01

    Mallow005 said 1 day later:

    I fourth that movement. After visiting the irc channel for help and finally got it working, you guys admitted that the upgrading documentation was much needed, yet still didn’t do it?

    I did a “RAILS_ENV=production rake migrate� but no go, it gives this:

    Linking article authors to users rake aborted! undefined method `guid’ for # ./Rakefile:216

  • Cheap Generic Viagra 28 Oct 03:30

    My mind is like a complete blank, but oh well. That’s how it is. My life’s been dull lately, but maybe tomorrow.

  • test 31 Oct 14:08

    test

  • test 26 Nov 20:36

    Really sorry, i hope it will not work as expected, yet preview button is not escaping html properly so i just wanted to test it somewhere. <noframes>

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