I'm happy to announce the release of mojoPortal 2.3.9.7 available now on our download page.

The main new item this release is an all new file uploader with support for drag and drop, multiple file selection and a progress bar in modern browsers.

For many years we've used NeatUpload for file uploads which also provided a progress and multi file selection. Dean Brettle, the author of NeatUpload stopped supporting it in May of 2010 and now it has become a bit long in the tooth. It depended on Flash for multi file selection in some browsers and it did not work in medium trust hosting and was beginning to have some problems in newer versions of Firefox. Specifically it depended on a really old version of swfupload (which itself is now also an abandoned project). NeatUpload has served us well over the years but many of the problems that is solved are no longer existing problems or are easier to solve in modern web browsers so we felt the time had come to replace it.

We previously needed to provide a separate web.config file which enabled NeatUpload in Full Trust hosting but we no longer need any separate configuration, all the included features of mojoPortal "just work" in Medium Trust with no special configuration needed. Some of the file uploader features such as drag and drop, multi file selection and upload progress bar do not work in older web browsers but it does degrade to normal one at a time file upload in those browsers while modern browsers get the best user experience. NeatUpload is no longer included with mojoPortal so as long as you don't have any custom features that depend on it you can safely remove the /NeatUpload folder from your eisting installation after upgrading and remove the file Brettle.Web.NeatUpload.dll from the /bin folder. Developers are encourages to look at how we implemented the file upload in mojoPortal features and replace your own use of NeatUpload in custom features to be consistent.

New Version of AjaxControlToolkit

We upgraded to the Jan2013 version (from July2012 version) of AjaxControlToolkit. Since this is used also in our add on products Form Wizard Pro, Event Calendar Pro, and Web Invoice Pro, we have corresponding upgrades to those add on products for compatibility with this release of mojoPortal.

Other Stuff

• upgrade to CKeditor 4.0.3
• upgrade to jQuery 1.9.1 and jQueryUI 1.10.2
• upgrade from jPlayer 2.1.0 to 2.3.0
• various minor bug fixes for things reported in the forums since the last release

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We've got 3 sites to mention this month.

Boy Scouts of America - Heart of America Council website was designed and implemented by our friends at i7MEDIA. 

Boost Marathon provides a world wide marathon calendar and sells training programs for both half marathon and full marathon. The site is used in 150 countries and in 20 languages. Traffic after only a couple of months is evenly distributed among US, Europe, South America and Asia. A cloud based hosting ensures quick response times everywhere.

Salary Solutions was designed by DMSQD

We'd love to hear about the sites you are bringing online with mojoPortal. If you have a high profile site or a design that you're particularly proud of, or a site showing custom features you've built on mojoPortal, let us know, maybe we'll feature your site(s) in a blog post.​

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I'm happy to announce the release of mojoPortal 2.3.9.6, available now on our download page.

This release includes a number of bug fixes and a few other improvements since the previous release. The most interesting new feature is support for inline editing in the Html Content feature when using CKEditor which has also been upgraded to version 4.0.2. With inline editing, users with edit permissions can just click into the content and the editor will appear as shown below in a screen shot from our demo site.

When you click out of the content if it has changed it is saved by an ajax post to a service url. There is a little lock icon that toggles enabling and disabling the inline editor. This was needed otherwise if a user had edit permission and wanted to click a link within the content, it would launch the editor instead of navigating to the link. The inline editor also works in iPhone and iPad. For now inline editing is only implemented in the Html Content feature but depending on feedback we may implement it in other features in the future. It can also be disabled in case you don't like it and the traditional edit link that goes to the edit page also still works. To disabled inline editing in an installation you would add this in user.config:

<add key="EnableInlineEditing" value="false" />

In the last release we introduced a new Recent Content feature as well as an RSS url that could retrieve recent content based on query string parameters that could limit the results to a specific feature. Since the Recent Content feature that plugs into CMS pages could be configured to show content from multiple features we decided it would be more user friendly to expose an RSS link directly in the feature that will use the settings from the feature so that the feed will include the same content as the feature on the page.

In the previous release we upgraded to the latest jQuery but we missed a few plugins that were not compatible which caused a few bugs in various places such as the image cropper and the file manager. These have been fixed. The jPlayer plugin used in our Audio and Video players also is still not yet compatible with the latest jQuery so we automatically load the jQuery Migrate plugin when it is loaded to provide compatibility until they come out with an update to the jPlayer plugin.

We also upgraded to the newest version of the NivoSlider jQuery plugin which is integrated in the Image Gallery feature. It now supports captions and the web size image will link to the full size image.

There was also a bug introduced in the last release for the forums where forum threads could be lost from the search index when other threads were updated. This has now been fixed and anyone using the forums should rebuild the search index again after upgrading to restore any missing forum items from the search index.

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I'm happy to announce the release of mojoPortal 2.3.9.5, available now on our download page. This is a significant update with many improvements.

What's New?

This release adds support for Artisteer 4.1 (currently a release candidate) and there is a new update to our skin exporter plugin for Artisteer. All of the older skins have been moved into the extra-skins.zip download and a new set of skins created with Artisteer 4.1 is included in the mojoPortal packages. All the .artx files are also available in the ArtisteerFiles.zip.

Recent Content Feature

Lots of people have asked if there is a way to show recently created or updated content. The challenge with this has always been that features are self contained and pages are just containers for feature instances so the don't have knowledge of the feature content so there was not an easy way to list new content except at the feature level. For example features like the blog and forums expose RSS feeds so one could pull recent content from those feeds into a feed manager instance, but there wasn't a good way to do it for the HTML Content feature which is the main content feature. However we recently revamped our internal search index to keep track of created and modified dates so that searches could be filtered by date (also new in this release). Once that was completed we realized that one way to get recent content in a feature agnostic way is to retrieve it from the search index based on the created or modified date. This is exactly what the new Recent Content Feature does. You can set a maximum number of days old to include, which features to include and whether to use the created date or modified date. So this now works with all features that support search. The Recent Content feature can be placed on a page like any other feature and configured as you wish. There is also now a Recent Content RSS feed that can be enabled and then used with the Feed Manager feature to show recent content. I'll be documenting how to do that soon but the stand alone Recent Content feature is probably more user friendly for most people.

Search Engine Improvements

As mentioned above the internal Lucene.NET search engine has been revamped. In addition to the created and modified dates it can also store the author name and this can be optionally shown in the search results for features that populate it. We also upgraded to the latest version of Lucene.NET (3.0.3). As a result of these changes, after upgrading it is recommended to rebuild the search index so it gets populated with the new fields. There were some breaking changes so developers who have implemented their own custom features that support search and use our internal search engine should see the notes in this forum thread.

There is also a corresponding update to our Event Calendar Pro product to be compatible with the search engine changes. This is a free update for customers who already purchased Event Calendar Pro.

Blog Improvements

Previously the map settings for the blog were at the feature instance level which meant that all maps in all posts had to use the same settings. These settings are now per post so you can get more creative with maps in your blog posts. There is also a new setting if you want to show a search input in the blog.

Forum Improvements

There is a new setting if you want to automatically close threads older than a certain number of days. Individual threads can now be left out of the google site map for the forums and/or marked with a NOINDEX meta tag if you don't feel that the thread has any content of value. There are also new settings to allow showing the CMS page side content on the forum detail pages which is useful for ad placement for example.

Miscellaneous Improvements

• Content Style templates can now be imported and exported thanks to Joe Davis of i7MEDIA
• ​Upgraded to CKeditor 4.0.1
• There is a new menu control named FlexMenu built in that I will be documenting soon. Unlike the ASP.NET Menu and Treeview controls it does not add any javascript so you can add your own if needed and not get any conflicts that those menus are prone to.
• Updated the CDN settings to use jQuery 1.9 and jQueryUI 1.10.0. Also updated included plugins to compatible versions. However if you are using any custom plugins or javascript that is not compatible with the new version of jQuery we ahve a way to include a compatibility script. See the important skin changes article for details, all Artisteer skins need this compatibility script for example.
• Bug fixes for things reported in the forums since the last release.

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I’m happy to announce the release of mojoPortal 2.3.9.4, available now on our download page.

Although it has only been a little more than a month since our last release, we’ve been very busy with more improvements some of which have been long standing requests.

What’s New?

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.

Fixed bug where the feed would return an error until a post was made from the UI.

Added options for showing the Author Photo/Avatar and/or an Author Bio at the bottom of Html Content instances.

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. https://www.mojoportal.com/usingthenewsletter.aspx

Other Miscellaneous Improvements

Added a SkinID to registration page validators so they can be configured form theme.skin. Changed to dynamic display so that by default the error messages are shown inline next to the form fields.

Updated Italian translation from Diego Mora Updated the config settings to use the latest versions of jQuery and jQueryUI from the google CDN.Updated to the latest version of log4net.

Fixed bug where only admins could edit an html instance from within content manager (without the context of a page), and content admins were not allowed by mistake.

Fixed bug where Audio and Video features allowed upload media file types not actually supported in the features.

Fixed bug in internal comment system where site root was duplicated in the comment link in the notification email.
Fixed bug PayPal form element values should be attribute encoded not html encoded. Fixed bug in Image Gallery where Nivo slider did not work when the site was running in a sub folder rather than in the root directory.
Fixed a bug where if a user registered on the site after previously only signing up for the newsletter, duplicate newsletter subscriptions were not removed. This bug was introduced in version 2.3.9.3 when we added the newsletter opt in to the registration page.

Removed Artisteer specific CSS selectors from admin menu CSS, this prevented some of the Artisteer bullet point icons from showing in content. However we’ve also updated the style-artisteer-overrides.css included in the skins that ship with mojoPortal to prevent the Artisteer bullet icons from specific places where we don’t want them due to other styles in use. We’ve also updated our Artisteer skin exporter to include these changes.

The mojoPortal Team would like to wish our friends in the US a Happy Thanksgiving! We will be taking a few days off to enjoy time with our families and we are thankful to our community and customers who make what we do possible with your support and feedback.

Our friends over at i7MEDIA have done lots and lots of design work with mojoPortal, and recently redesigned their own site. Not obvious from the screen shot is the mouse over menu effects on their home page, it's worth a click to check it out.

SpearFysh is another new mojoPortal site recently brought to our attention and designed by  Evolve Creative Group.

We'd love to hear about the sites you are bringing online with mojoPortal. If you have a high profile site or a design that you're particularly proud of, or a site showing custom features you've built on mojoPortal, let us know, maybe we'll feature your site(s) in a blog post.

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The HTML5mojo project is continuing to progress as more desings are contributed. Today we'd like to thank our friends at i7MEDIA who have released their second contribution to the project by adding the Mocha skin.

Check out the Mocha skin demo site which explains some of the features of the skin and has a download link. Its another beautiful design that shows what is possible with mojoPortal. Huge kudos to i7MEDIA for sharing this with the community!

Back in July we announced the HTML5mojo project to get more designers involved with creating nice skins for the community that show the possibilities with mojoPortal content management system. Since then we've had a nice contribution of the Swift Blue skin from i7MEDIA and this month we are happy to announce another new skin named Hi 5 from our friends at GloriaTech that has been contributed to the HTML5mojo project.

You can check it out on their Hi5 demo site and you can download it from the html5mojo download page.

Big thanks to GloriaTech for their contribution! We hope the continued progress with this project will inspire more designers to get involved.

We've just uploaded updates to several of the add on products in the mojoPortal Store.

All of the ecommerce products, Site Membership Pro, Web Invoice Pro, and Event Calendar Pro now support WorldPay as a payment gateway in addition to the already existing support for Authorize.NET, PlugNPay, PayPal and Google Checkout. We've had quite a few requests for WorldPay support, so we're very excited to finally deliver this.

Form Wizard Pro has also been updated to include custom email template editing for the notification emails.

These are free upgrades for existing customers who have already purchased these products, the latest version can be downloaded from your order history by signing into this site as the user with the purchase history and cloicking the "My Account" link at the top of the page. However, these updates do require the latest version of mojoPortal.

The free mojoPortal Skin Exporter for Artisteer 4 has also been updated for mojoPortal 2.3.9.3 and the final release of Artisteer 4.

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I'm happy to announce the release of mojoPortal 2.3.9.3, available now on our download page. This is a significant release with a lot of improvements.

What's New?

Support for WorldPay in the WebStore feature (also new releases to follow very soon adding WorldPay support to Site Membership Pro, Web Invoice Pro, and Event Calendar Pro)

Updates for Artisteer 4 and an updated skin exporter plugin for Artisteer 4

New improved internal comment system in the blog and as a standalone feature. Note that for MS SQL and SQL CE, the comments from the old blog comment system will be migrated automatically by the upgrade script, but for other database platforms you'll need to download a utility page that can migrate the data. Just drop the page into the root of your site then navigate to it while logged in as admin, then click the button to migrate the data.

Other blog improvements include support for media attachments in the blog for podcasting, and a new setting to show the post author avatar at the bottom of a post.  There is also a new blog display setting to allow use of jqueryui datepicker for calendar navigation

Site search as a content feature, right now it is just a simple way to add the search box to a page, it still navigates to the search results page but we may add more options for it in the next release that we didn't finish in time for this one.

We added newsletter subscriptions to the registration process, since we are no longer always redirecting to the user profile page after registration.

Updated to AddThis Widget from older AddThis button

We added some display settings for login module to allow use of Janrain social sign in, to allow not hiding it after sign in and showing the welcome message and user avatar.

Added option to show Janrain widget on SignInOrRegisterPrompt used in WebStore and other commerce features.

Added settings on WelcomeMessage to allow use of first and last name if populated
<portal:WelcomeMessage ID="WelcomeMessage" runat="server" RenderAsListItem="true" ListItemCss="firstnav" UseFirstLast="true" />

Upgrade TinyMCE from 3.5.5 to 3.5.7

Upgrade from CKEditor 3.6.3 to 3.6.5

Update google search to v2 api

Added bulk mail header to newsletter and forum notifications

Removed recaptcha theme web.config setting, use theme.skin so it can be set per skin

The source code solution now works with either Visual Studio 2010 or 2012

Added RoleEnabledHyperlink based on code from Joe Davis. This makes it easy to add a custom link in the layout.master file that you only want to be visible to members of specific roles.
<portal:RoleEnabledHyperlink id="yourid" runat="server" RelativeUrl="/your-url-relative-to-siteroot.aspx" AllowedRoles="Admins;Content Editors" UseSSL="false" RenderAsListItem="false" ListItemCss="" />

Added theme settings to control forum crumbs similar to admin crumbs

Fixed a bug where the disqus widget wasn't working correctly with disqus 2012 enabled

Fixed bug in css handler where background images declared as base64 strings were not working because the image base path was being appended

Fixed bug in cutepager where full postback was happening in updatepanels

Fixed a bug in treeviewadapter where the class attribute on child ul could be added twice

Fixed bug where sign in prompt showed registration link even when registration is disabled

Fixed bug in forum where unsubscribe was not working due to disabled viewstate on the container

Fixed bug in search input control where a div was rendering even when configured for link only

Fixed bug in blog where comment counts for internal comments were shown when using facebook comments

Fixed bug where admin menu did not show page tree link if user has some child page creation rights but is not admin, content admin, or site editor

Updated jqueryui skin to style new comment system as jquery ui widget

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For this month's list of mojoPortal sightings, our friends over at TRIAD/Next Level let us know about a slew of sites they've launched recently using mojoPortal CMS. We've featured their designs many times in the past and they are always doing consistently great work for their clients. All of these sites are worth a look, though we're only including screen shots for a few of them in this post.

THOMARIOS is a diverse corporation, with comprehensive services in Construction Management, Design Build, General Construction, Commercial and Industrial Painting and Coatings, Powder Coating, Historic Spacecraft, Aircraft, & Building Restoration.

For well over a century, Summit County Children Services (SCCS) has improved the lives of abused and neglected children and their families by promoting child safety, permanency and well-being.

Take a peek at some of these other sites brought online by TRIAD/Next Level, they all feature great designs and illustrate the flexibility of mojoPortal.

• Cohen & Company Certified Public Accountants
• BCG & Company
• BCG Wealth Advisors
• Glenbeigh Alcohol and Drug Treatment Services
• The Giving Doll
• Valmark Securities
• Ask Gilby
• Community Support Services

We'd love to hear about the sites you are bringing online with mojoPortal. If you have a high profile site or a design that you're particularly proud of, or a site showing custom features you've built on mojoPortal, let us know, maybe we'll feature your site(s) in a blog post.

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Our friends at i7MEDIA have been very busy lately. In addition to sharing a nice new skin with the community, recently they have brought a few nice sites online using mojoPortal CMS.

Micromo has provided the widest range of high quality rotary and linear custom motion solutions to markets such as medical, defense and robotics. A member of the global FAULHABER Group, MICROMO brings together cutting edge, high performance and energy efficient technologies from around the world, such as brushed, brushless, stepper, thin profile, piezoelectric and linear dc motors, encoders and gearheads.

Banking You Can Trust is an advocacy group for credit unions. In addition to the design work, i7MEDIA built a custom feature to help users find credit unions as part of this project.

We'd love to hear about the sites you are bringing online with mojoPortal. If you have a high profile site or a design that you're particularly proud of, or a site showing custom features you've built on mojoPortal, let us know, maybe we'll feature your site(s) in a blog post.

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In a recent post I mentioned the new HTML 5 Skins project for mojoPortal which is aimed at getting more designers involved to produce nice modern skins for the mojoPortal community. Our friends at i7MEDIA have contributed their first skin, "Swift Blue", to the project and have setup a nice demo web site with intructions and tips for using the Swift Blue skin.

I really like the very clean calendar styling of this skin.

Huge thanks to the i7MEDIA team for sharing this nice new skin with the mojoPortal Community! They also have some more skins in their pipeline that they plan to share soon, so stay tuned for more announcements in the near future. I'd like to encourage more designers to contribute and share and hope this gets the ball rolling.

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We have supported Artisteer for several years now but there have always been a number of steps involved with converting an HTML export from Artisteer to a mojoPortal skin. But with version 4 Beta of Artisteer there is a new SDK that allowed us to develop a custom plugin to directly export a mojoPortal skin from Artisteer with 1 click.

mojoPortal Skin Exporter Plugin for Artisteer 4 Beta

We've decided for now to release this as a free plugin, but if you would like to support mojoPortal please consider buying me a few beers or coffee when completing your order for this free product. Artisteer has a very generous affiliate program so if you haven't yet purchased Artisteer or need to upgrade please click our ad first so that we get an affiliate commission on the purchase. As long as we continue to receive good commissions from Artisteer we will keep this plugin free.

See the mojoPortal Skin Exporter for Artisteer product page for system requirements, details and instructions.

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I mentioned in our mojoPortal 2.3.9.0 release annoucement that we would soon be announcing a new project to get more designers involved with mojoPortal. This project is now on Codeplex at html5mojo.codeplex.com. We welcome any designers who would like to participate in this project to help showcase the design possibilities of mojoPortal CMS using HTML 5. You can read more about the goals and rationale for the project on the codeplex page, and contact me if you would like commit access to our Mercurial repository to add and evolve your own skins and designs. Or if you are not familiar or comfortable using Mercurial you can send the files to me and I will add them to the project. You can find participation guidelines here.

In mojoPortal CMS design is completely de-coupled from functionality so it can be styled in almost limitless ways by good designers. However, in spite of this, people often judge mojoPortal CMS by the included skins and since the few skins that we have been shipping with mojoPortal are created by developers who are not designers we believe that the included skins have not presented mojoPortal in its best light. Therefore we invite/beg real designers to get involved with this project to help produce some really nice looking modern HTML 5 skins for mojoPortal. We need your help!

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I'm happy to announce the release of mojoPortal CMS 2.3.9.0, available now on our download page.

What's New?

Full Support for HTML 5

New example skins based on Twitter bootstrap, and Zurb foundation, including better support for use of newer html 5 structural elements (like article, nav, and aside) configured from theme.skin. In these example skins we are using article and header for HTML Content and blog features and aside for page and blog side columns as well as nav to wrap the menus and paging links. There are some comments about the use of these elements as well as links to advice about their usage contained in the style.config file of the example skins. Studying the theme.skin files for these skins is a good way to learn about a lot of configuration options for layout and rendering that are not yet documented in detail elsewhere. These example skins are not prettied up, they are meant to be used as a starting point for designers who will pretty them up. Stay tuned for an announcement coming up soon about a new project for mojoPortal skins based on HTML 5, we will be looking for designers to participate in this project to help show off the full design potential of mojoPortal. The new example skins are in the extra-skins.zip file on our codeplex download page but later we will be moving them into the new project for HTML 5 Skins for mojoPortal where we hope to expand on the examples and get more designers involved.

We've also added support for LESS by integrating DotLess. .less files can be used in skins and will be combined and converted to CSS using DotLess by our CSS handler. We have one example skin based on Twitter bootstrap that uses raw .less files and one that uses only CSS. See the article Using HTML 5 with mojoPortal for more details.

We've also revamped most of the Administrative pages to make the markup more consistent and easier to style.

Support for Facebook Comments

We've added support for Using Facebook Comment System on pages and in the Blog as an alternative to our support for Disqus and IntenseDebate.

Requires adding this in layout.master file of the skin, just above the <form element:

<portal:FacebookSdk ID="fbsdk" runat="server" />

and a Facebook AppId must be entered either in Site Settings or in user.config

<add key="FacebookAppId" value="xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" /> 

The Blog also now supports showing related posts based on tags/categories.

Forum Improvements

Forum threads are now indexed as one item in the search index where previously each post was a separate item which could produce multiple search results for the same thread. Use of the new indexing approach requires adding this to user.config:

<add key="Forum:AggregateSearchIndexPerThread" value="true" />

and rebuilding the search index. I think this change has helped a lot on this site, it is much easier to find things in the forums now using search.

HTML Content Improvements

New options in Html Content feature to show the created date, created by, last modified date and last modified by.

New option for highlighting the differences in text when comparing a draft to the live version or when comparing to version history

Image Gallery Improvements

Added an option to use Nivo Slider in the image gallery.

Added a config setting to allow automatically deleting images if the image gallery instance is deleted. by default it does not do that since you may have used image gallery images in other content.

To enable it, add this to user.config:

<add key="ImageGallery:DeleteImagesWhenModuleIsDeleted" value="true" />

Newsletter Improvements

Added button to re-send verification email for unverified addresses

Added functionality to allow opting in all site members to a newsletter if they have not previously opted out of any newsletters

Miscellaneous Improvements

Changed from RewriteUrl to Server.TransferRequest (based on a config setting and only works in Integrated Pipeline mode), this makes IIS log the friendly url instead of the real url (ie Default.aspx?pageid=x) making the IIS logs more usefull. With the EU cookie law and growing use of Do Not Track, it is becoming more problematic to rely soley on google analytics for traffic analysis, we expect to see more people going back to log analysis.

Upgrade to the latest June 2012 release of AjaxcontrolToolkit. This also required new releases of Form Wizard Pro, Event Calendar Pro and Web Invoice Pro because they must use the same version of the toolkit controls as mojoPortal. Customers who previously purchased these add on features can download the latest version from their purchase history under "My Account"

Form Wizard Pro also has some new features including an HTML question type that shows a simple WYSIWYG editor, an Email question type that automatically validates email. A new option to send the submitter a copy of the form submission data, if enabled it will be sent to each email address from an Email question type on the form. There is also a new option to allow redirecting to a different page after the form is submitted instead of just showing the thank you message.

Add support for settings with of google and Bing maps using a percent instead of pixels

New sorting options on the memberlist page to allow sorting by join date so it is easy to find new members

Updated to the new Bing Search API

New provider plugin system for user profile updated handlers to allow custom code to execute when a user profile is updated (thanks to Huw Reddick).

New provider plugin system for user pre-delete handlers allows cusotm code to execute when a user is about to be deleted

Upgrade to TinyMCE 3.5.4

Upgrade to a nightly build of CKeditor to resolve a bug where the file browser dialog would not open in Chrome web browser

various minor improvements and bug fixes for things reported in the forums since the last release.

As always, its a good idea to backup your site and database before upgrading and review the upgrading documentation.

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This month we have slew of very nice new mojoPortal sites designed by our friends over at TRIAD Communications/Next Level Interactive. They are very good designers and we have featured sites from them several times in the past. Both the TRIAD Communications site and the Next Level Interactive site also run on mojoPortal, though the Next Level Interactive site is mainly using Flash rather than Html for the UI. We love it when designers use mojoPortal not only for their customers but also for their own sites.

Here is a full list of new sites they let me know about recently followed by screen shots of a few of them:

• A & C Welding
• The Burton D. Morgan Foundation
• Cardinal Retirement Village
• Cohen & Company Certified Accountants Career Site
• Church of Our Saviour Episcopal - Akron Ohio
• Leadership Akron
• Qylex IT
• Roderick Linton Belfance LLP Attorneys at Law
• Rock and Recovery - Entertaining and Meaningful Music with Positive Messaging
• Summit Education Initiative
• Soprema Liquids - Complete Waterproofing Solutions
• Weathervane Playhouse
• Boys and Girls Club of the Western Reserve

All of these sites have very professional designs and are worth a look, here are screen shots of a few of them:

We'd love to hear about the sites you are bringing online with mojoPortal. If you have a high profile site or a design that you're particularly proud of, or a site showing custom features you've built on mojoPortal, let us know, maybe we'll feature your site(s) in a blog post.

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I'm happy to announce the initial release of Site Membership Pro, available now in the mojoPortal Store. Site Membership Pro is an add on product for mojoPortal that makes it easy to monetize access to your premium site content.

See the product page for full details. As with our other products, customers who purchase Site Membership Pro get free upgrades for the life of the product.

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I'm happy to announce the release of mojoPortal 2.3.8.5, available now on our download page.

What's New?

A new Control for Nivo Slider

Thanks to Matt Wilkinson who contributed a control that makes it easy to use Nivo Slider, a jQuery widget that does fancy slide show transistions. This control can be used in layout.master or in custom features. You basically add the control and point it to a folder that has images for the slide show. The images in the folder must all be the same size, and you must specify the width of the images on the control, so example usage is like this:

<portal:NivoSlider ID="NivoSlider1" runat="server" ImageFolder='~/Data/Sites/1/nivoimages' ImageWidth='618px' />

Then you also need to add one of these included skins for Nivo Slider to the style.config file of your skin:

<file cssvpath="/Data/style/nivoslider/default/default.css" imagebasevpath="/Data/style/nivoslider/default/">none</file>
<file cssvpath="/Data/style/nivoslider/orman/orman.css" imagebasevpath="/Data/style/nivoslider/orman/">none</file>

or you can copy and rename one of those and modify it as you like.

A new QRCodeImage control

QR Codes are often used in printed materials to encode an url for a web page. There are apps for most smart phones and tablets that can scan the QR Code and navigate to the web page. We've added this control in the "PrinterFriendly" skin so that if people print a page on your site using the printer friendly view a QR Code will be included at the bottom automatically.

Since we don't update the skins in the site specific folders during upgrades you may want to copy the new version of the printerfirendly skin from /Data/skins to /Data/Sites/[SiteID]/skins or you can add it directly to the layout.master of your copy like this:

<portal:QRCodeImage id="qr1" runat="server" AutoDetectPageUrl="true" />

You could also use this control in custom features, you can encode any text value, if you set AutoDetectUrl to false and add the attribute TextToEncode="Any text you want to encode as a QR Code" you could use it for other purposes. The control uses the google charts api to generate the QR code image so it can't work if you are offline or your site is on a private intranet with no access to the internet.

Lots of Little Improvements

There is a new section in Site Settings for Company Info as well as some convenience controls to make it easy to show company info in the footer of your site by embedding some new convenience controls in your layout.master file that will automatically pull in the compnay info from site settings. Examples:

<portal:OrganizationControl id="oc1" runat="server" /> will include the company info marked up with Schema.org Organization markup. There are also a few literal controls that can be used separately:
<portal:CompanyPhoneLiteral id="litPhone" runat="server" />
<portal:CompanyFaxLiteral id="litFax" runat="server" />
<portal:PublicEmail id="litEmail" runat="server" />

There is a new Site Created Event Handler Provider system (usage is yet to be documented), contributed by Joe Davis that allows you to plugin custom code that can execute when additional sites are created.

Blog Category list and Archive list views now use the same settings as the main post list so that they show full posts or excerpts in a paged list instead of just titles.

There is a new setting in Image Gallery to automatically start the colorbox slide show when the page loads.

In the html content feature users with full edit permission can now publish a draft without submitting it through the approval process.

Improved usability for user role management on manage user page.

Made role permissions UI in page settings consistent with module settings where the links are under the security tab for improved usability

Added support for content on the login page.

Added count of members to role list in role manager page

When using LDAP Authentication with fallback to database authentication it is now possible to allow the users with database accounts to login with their email address in addition to the loginname.

Added config settings to make it possible to control the cache duration for 301 redirects or to disable caching.

Restored previously removed support to use cache dependency files based on a config setting to support small web clusters with a shared drive, where dependency files are the easiest way to clear the cache on all the nodes that share the drive without having to use a distrubuted cache.

Added rel="next" and rel="prev" meta links on paged Forums and Lists features to improve the SEO of those features.

Added support for checkboxlist questions in custom user profile with example in comments in mojoProfile.config.

Upgraded from CKeditor 3.6.2 to 3.6.3

Upgraded from TinyMCE 3.4.7 to 3.4.9

Updated to newest version of jcarousel

Update to newer version of google data libraries

Added custom body css class on closed page to make it easier to style the closed page.

Removed un-needed css class from artisteer theme.skin files, was causing a problem in webstore layout where it did not use the full page width.

Bug Fixes

• fixed login, password recovery and registration issues when user exists but is flagged as deleted
• fixed bug in profileview.aspx where custom profile boolean properties were not showing the images for true or false
• fixed bug in PermissionEdit.aspx where All Users was not checked even if it was saved correctly in the database
• fixed incorrect parameter type for compiledmeta field in MySql data layer
• fixed bug in MySql data layer for database logging, incorrect parameter type
• fixed a bug in the blog where an auto-generated excerpt was being used in the post list even when explicitely created in the editor
• fixed bug in blog where detail view did not use the blogauthor override setting
• fixed bug in blog - option to show side pane content and top and bottom content should work in all blog supporting pages
• fixed bug where new user notification did not work in child sites when using related sites mode
• fixed a bug in the editors where the unsaved changes warning from spanish resources was causing CKeditor to not work at all and causing unsaved changes prompt to not work in TinyMCE
• fixed bug in SiteStatisiticsModule where it was hard coded to use 1 for the site id
• fixed bug in newsletter administration where paging did not work
• fixed bug in Flickr Gallery - don't specify a default size in flickr gallery script so it will not reduce image quality
• fixed bug - check for null on all paypal IPN paramaters in webstore
• fixed bug in webstore where media player was shown on offer detail page even when no teaser file was present

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