Released a new version of CataBlog today, it has some fairly minor codes changes that fix quite a bit of functionality, especially for WordPress MultiSite users. That right, CataBlog now plays nice with MultiSite and lets you either network activate or choose to activate on a site by site basis. If you do choose to network activate, new sites will remind you to finish the CataBlog installation for that specific site, creating directories and setting up the plugin options. Also site disc quotas are respected and updated as users create and delete CataBlog items, no need to be worried about sites bloating beyond your set limits. The other changes involve the LightBox, which now has better keyboard shortcuts and navigation controls, including an actual close button.
For the next release I am aiming at giving users a control to turn on or off an automatically generated public page for each catalog item, perfect for a product page of sorts. Also I would like to make CataBlog multilingual, but before I invest a lot of time in extracting all the strings, is there any interest from the community? Would people be willing to translate a list of english strings into other languages for me? If so please leave a comment below stating your interest in translation and what languages you are experienced with. Thanks and here is to the 1.0 release coming out before February!
- Zach
Hello Zach, I know it’s a little late. But I’m interested in translate CataBlog to Brazilian Portuguese.
If it’s possible please send me an email.
That would be so awesome. Currently I still need to mark all the strings in the source code and create a POT file. This is a little ways out, and I’m concentrating on other features right now. So if you don’t mind, I will happily email you when the time is right. Cheers and have a wonderful day.
Nod3vic3,
The latest beta release of CataBlog comes with a POT file ready for translation. You may read more about it at my post called, POT File Available for Translation.
I can (and will) translate it in Bulgarian. Just contact me when the POT file is ready 🙂
TheMouse,
the newest version of CataBlog is ready and has a POT file located in the plugin. Simply go to the latest post I wrote to learn more, POT File Available for Translation
Bit of an emergency. I need to turn off keyboard shortcuts. I’m embedding gravity forms into the lightbox slideshow but everytime I hit certain letters I skip to the next slide. Is there anyway to shut off shortcuts in Catablog?
Jason, what version of CataBlog are you using? You will need to hack CataBlog to do this, so don’t upgrade unless you are ready to re-apply the hack.
You should look for the functions un/bindKeyboardShortcodes or something similar near the bottom of the catablog.js file. Insert a return false statement as the first line of the functions. Something like this
function bindKeyboardShortcuts() { return false; ....other code continues....Will look for line numbers and report back.
Hello,
Is it possible to make Catalogblog works with a multilingual site, with WPML.
Thanks,
It is possible, it won’t be the next thing done for CataBlog, but it definitely is on the list.