Tuesday 27 December 2005 by sencer

We are currently fine-tuning the next release of Textpattern, which will hopefully become available within a week.

What’s new? Besides plenty of bugfixes, there are several improvements to how textile handles non-ascii characters. Most of the improvements have gone into handling comments. Comments can now be differently markes as being unmoderated or spam (both being “invisible”, but presented differently in the comment-list in the backend). Multi-Editing in the comment-list has also improved, meaning you can now operate (ban, mark spam/visible/unmoderated) on multiple comments at once. E-Mail notifications contain a link to the edit-screen of the comment (if the author has the necessary privileges).
Handling of previews and missing fields has also improved: Missing fields lead to a reload of the preview screen, and lets you place the error-message via the new <txp:comments_error /> tag in your comments_form (takes break, wraptag and class as attributes), and it’s fellow <txp:if_comments_error /> . That error-message and the faulty input fields can now also be styled via CSS (the form-fiels will have a class of “comment_error”). So en example for the CSS would be (note: the default wraptag for txp:comments_error is div):

 .comments_error { background-color: #ffa }
 div.comments_error {border: 1px solid #cc8; padding : 0.3em;}

So, watch this space for information when the new release will be available. :)

Want to help out? If you want to help us by testing the current revision, please join the mailing-list (txp-dev) and tell us your feedback. We have added things to ease the writing of anti-spam-plugins, but are still looking for feedback on it, before we finalize it. Once you’ve subscribed to the txp-dev list, you can take a look at the archives where I have posted an example plugin, and where we are discussing how to write plugins. Eventually we’ll be adding and updating that information to Textbook: Combat Comment Spam.

So, plugin developers, I hope I’ll see you over on http://lists.textpattern.com...