Update Adds Sidebar Widgets and Category Listings

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Zachary Segal

CataBlog 1.4 was released this evening, offering new features that better integrate your catalogs with your blog. Particularly exciting are the sidebar widgets. One allows you to display your catalog item's and the other lets you link to your catalog categories. The CataBlog Widget is very similar to using a Shortcode and comes with simple drop down menu options for most of the Shortcode attributes. The CataBlog Categories Widget renders a list of links or drop down menu with all your catalog categories in a similar fashion to the regular Categories Widget. These two widgets give even the most novice WordPress user the ability to show off their catalog in new and interesting ways.

The other notable new feature in this version of CataBlog is a new Shortcode for rendering a list or drop down menu of all your catalog categories. The [catablog_categories] Shortcode has two attributes that may be set to 'yes' or 'no', dropdown and showcount. Here are some examples implementations of the Shortcode.

[catablog_categories]
[catablog_categories dropdown="yes"]
[catablog_categories dropdown="no" showcount="yes"]
[catablog_categories dropdown="yes" showcount="yes"]

Well let me know how the widgets workout and hope to see some good feedback once again in the comments below. Cheers! 🙂

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1.3.2 Update Builds on New Features

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Zachary Segal

A new minor update to CataBlog was released last night. This version simply builds on the new template system and the multiple page catalog navigation. New configuration options now allow you to change the labeling of the next and previous links and hide the extra navigation statistics. A new CataBlog Template View was created for archive pages (category, search, lists) and a new token %EXCERPT% was created for use in this template. You may set how many characters the excerpt has in the CataBlog options under the Description Tab. Hope this new enhancements help people make better use of the new features in CataBlog.

Cheers! 🙂

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Version 1.3.1 Released

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Zachary Segal

Just a small patch revision that fixes a few display glitches and lets theme developers take advantage of the limit and navigation parameters for rendering catalogs.

The other bug this patch hopefully fixes is now when user's are upgrading from versions of CataBlog lower than 1.3 their custom template should be retained and written to the Default View.

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CataBlog 1.3 Available

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Zachary Segal

Today I am happy to announce the release of CataBlog 1.3. This new version has quite a few enhancements and some very new ways of handling old features. Of the new features, two that will standout the most are the new template editor and the limit parameter for the ShortCode.

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CataBlog Version 1.2.9.9 Released

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Zachary Segal

Well, the first update to CataBlog in numerous months was just submitted today at 5pm. This update does not offer dazzling new features, but instead works towards a rock solid 1.3 release which should be coming up soon.

Besides a few bug fixes, including the Admin Menu Bar and some front-end CSS settings, this version offers a new LightBox option. You may now open the CataBlog Options Admin Panel and control if the LightBox's next and previous buttons should let visitors navigate from one ShortCode to another ShortCode.

I am hoping that this release is received well and that I am able to add new features to CataBlog in the up coming month. Some of these features would include customizable fields and a new template management system that would make controlling your catalogs appearance more intuitive.

Enjoy and look forward to some positive comments.

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CataBlog 1.2.9.8 Released

Posted on July 9, 2011 by Zachary Segal

This new version of CataBlog should fix numerous bugs and will now let you set separate width and height values for your catalog thumbnails. Please check the changelog for a complete list of bug fixes.

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New Update Introduces Multiple File Upload

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Zachary Segal

Version 1.2.9.5 of CataBlog is here, and with it is a new way to upload multiple images into your catalog. You may now select multiple files for upload and create an upload queue. As each image upload finishes, a mini editor is created so you may set the title and description of the newly upload image without disrupting the next upload. This interface might lack a few refinements, including great error handling and a cancel button, but it's a start.

UPDATE:
CataBlog 1.2.9.7 has been released, this is a bug fix or patch release for multiple file uploads. If you experienced problems with uploading multiple files in the past, please download the new version and try it again. Thanks for your continued support of CataBlog and report any error messages or difficulties you have below or at the wordpress.org forums.

Looking forward to feedback about the new upload interface, cheers and have a great weekend. 🙂

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