News Manager blog

Changed since beta 13:

• dropped support for nm-* components/blocks introduced in beta 10 (as I had already said)

• optional gsconfig variables $NMIMAGEINPUT, $NMIMAGEDIR and $NMLOWERCASETAGS no longer supported - they are now replaced by constants, to be used like:
  define('NMIMAGEINPUT', 3);
define('NMIMAGEDIR', 'imagefolder');
define('NMLOWERCASETAGS', true);

Other changes:

• updated/completed Czech, German, Russian, Italian translations (thanks TeeJay, Connie, Oleg06, GPB61)

• fixed issues in just-installed sites that haven't been configured.

• removed gaps between <h3>, post title and </h3>

New:

• You can now select thumbnails/images from data/thumbs/ and they will not be treated as external images (so they will be scaled, cropped...)

• Blank spaces, non-alphanumeric, non-English characters (except comma) are now allowed (and should work) in tags

• Added sidebar function nm_tag_list() (displays a plain <ul> list, no tag cloud)
  <?php nm_tag_list(); ?>

• Added template tag/function nm_post_excerpt (optional parameters: length, ellipsis; default as in settings)
  Examples:
  <?php nm_post_excerpt(); ?>
<?php nm_post_excerpt(100,'...'); ?>
<?php nm_post_excerpt(200) or get_page_excerpt(200); ?>

• Added template tag/function nm_post_image_url (optional parameters: width, height, crop, default image)
  Examples:
  <?php nm_post_image_url(); ?>
<?php nm_post_image_url(300,200,1); ?>

• Added template tag/function nm_post_has_image (returns true if current post has an image).
  Example:
  <?php if (nm_post_has_image();) { ?><img src="<?php nm_post_image_url(); ?>" /><?php } ?>

• Added template tag/function nm_is_home(), returns true if main news index page. Example: <?php if (nm_is_home()) {
// display or do something ...
} ?>

• New optional frontend Custom settings: tagseparator, markuptitle, markuppost
  Examples:
  tagseparator ", "
  ...changes the default separator between tags (a blank space) by a comma (and a space)
  markuptitle h2
single markuptitle h1
  ...changes the default html tag used in post titles (<h3>) by an <h2> tag, and by <h1> in single post pages.
  markuppost article ...changes the default html tag used as wrapper for posts (<div>), by HTML5's <article> tag.

Thanks to TeeJay, D.O. and everyone else for your ideas and suggestions.

As always, feedback is very much appreciated. Please report any issue you find.

Download:

http://get-simple.info/forums/showthread.php?tid=3972&pid=41591#pid41591