Mango Blog

I have decided to remove Mango's beta status and call it version 1.0. Besides bug fixes, these are the new features:

• Added user roles and permissions
• New file explorer
• Upgraded TinyMCE editor
• New File explorer plugin for TinyMCE editor
• Ability to create custom post and page edit panels
• Added hooks to let plugin developers add Pods to the admin Dashboard
• Added a simple Statistic pod for the Dashboard
• Users can now be de-activated

The most important feature added is the ability to have user roles and permissions. For example, you are the administrator and you edit the blog settings, skin, etc, but you can give access to the admin to an author so that he or she creates posts, but can't change any of the blog settings.

Enjoy!

Important: if you are upgrading from an older version, read the intructions in the Downloads page.

Posted on April 16, 2008
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Glossy Blue skin turned out to be very popular. I had forgotten, however to have a link "Read More" when showing the abstract of a post in the home page or in the archives. I fixed that and a couple of other small issues and posted the update.

To download the update, you need to login to your administration, go to Settings > Skins, and there you should see a yellow box indicating that there is an update for that skin. It will also show you a link to the download. You can then upload the files to your server (only changed files are included in the download).

Posted on February 09, 2008
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A new beta version has been posted in the downloads. What's changed:

• You can now add or edit posts via Contribute
  
• Akismet plugin added as an alternative (or addition) to Captcha
• New skin: Glossy Blue
• Other minor bug fixes
  

Posted on January 12, 2008
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A new beta version has been posted in the downloads. It has three main new features:

• Administration cache manager to update your posts and pages cache (clearing the cache for links still in the works)
• Mango can now be installed on a host that requires username and password to be supplied in every query
• Added FormToEmail plugin that allows you to have a form in any of your static pages and it will send the information entered by the user to specified email addresses

Posted on December 05, 2007
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Brian Rinaldi from Remote Synthesis has posted an extensive review of Mango Blog (beta 2).

He has used Mango to publish the website for the Flex Camp Boston he is currently organizing. He applied a nice custom skin and is using Mango to publish news in the home page and to maintain the website content using "Static Pages". It is a very positive review and I hope to get more participation like this from the CF community.

Thank you Brian!

Posted on November 09, 2007
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