Hello,
As we have finally built a first version of the API, we were finally capable of starting development on a first vBulletin Integration Pack. Although the integration pack is not fully complete, Thomas will be working hard at getting this ready for showcasing.
Hopefully this sparks delight in the eyes of the community! Stick in there, Couch Gamers is coming 
Best,
Custom CMS Team
Hello,
We’ll be pushing the version to 0.9.8 in this release. The following bugs & improvements have been resolved:
API:
An API has been introduced into the system opening up the ability to communicate an installation of Couch Gamers with the rest of the world. Along with the API will be an API Access List which will allow you to specify a whitelist of applications and websites which will have access to the API. Coupled with this is an API Log which will give you the ability to closely monitor who is accessing the API. More information will be made available as to how you will be able to interact with the API.
Also added new site option “Cookie Domain”. This allows you select where cookie are active. A useful option for integration with other software.
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Features:
- Integration of Rich Snippets on Reviews. e.g. Click to see example.
- If on game page and no site reviews have been created, but user blog reviews have been created the “User Review Tab” will show as active by default.
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Various Fixes:
- When creating a Post Type, an increment of .1 will now work for criteria.
- Fixed the “View More Features” link on the right side module. It now links to the appropriate Post Type.
- Vote Count fixed for default poll.
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Best,
Custom CMS Team
Hello,
We’ll be pushing the version to 0.9.7 in this release. The following bugs & improvements have been resolved:
Emugamer List:
- Empty reference http:// (in a case if the site address isn’t entered) at viewing of the list of the companies and the information on the company. (Emugamer’s request – 16.81)
- Doesn’t remain from the first variants of answers at addition of new poll in the administrator-panel. (Emugamer’s request – 16.82)
- Error with release date (in a case if release date isn’t specified). (Emugamer’s request – 16.83)
- Error with date of release (in a case if month and day, but only is not specified year). (Emugamer’s request – 16.84)
- Error with release date (in a case if day, but only month and year isn’t specified). (Emugamer’s request – 16.85)
- “1 Followers” in a profile right after registration. (Emugamer’s request – 16.88)
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Various Fixes:
- Admin Control Panel News feed fixed (changed from CURL to SimpleXML).
- Fixed 4 language masks in the Admin Control Panel.
- Cleared errors after turning on debugging mode (for the frontend)
- Fixed extra big input fields in the social sections.
- Improved image resizing. Now if the original proportions of an image are smaller then the proportions of a thumbnail, it will not to scale up. Thus quality will remain.
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Best,
Custom CMS Team
Hello,
We’ll be pushing the version to 0.9.6 in this release. The following bugs & improvements have been resolved:
Improvements:
- Added a new site configuration setting “Default Review Post Type”. The selected post type here is the default and proper review type used on your website for specific sections like the “Write a Review” link present on the right side when a piece of content is related to a game. Or other sections like on the Game overview page where it outputs reviews related to the game. This was added to prevent confusion on which review type takes precedence if you have multiple review types.
- Revamped the Permission System. We have also added a large amount of new permissions to limit control to parts of the Admin Control Panel.
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Emugamer List:
- SEO an error. (Emugamer’s request – 16.57)
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Best,
Custom CMS Team
Hello,
We’ll be pushing the version to 0.9.5 in this release. The following bugs & improvements have been resolved:
Improvements:
- Further Improvements have been made to the SEO Errors. If you find any other sections that are missing the URL tampering feature, please free to submit them in the bug tracking software provided to BETA Testers section.
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General Fixes:
- Fixed deleting a user.
- Fixed searching for Images and Videos titles.
- Fixed URLs which sometimes double up with forward slashes ever since forward slashes being appended to URLs were mandatory.
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Emugamer List:
- SEO an error (Thanks OlafKS for the found error). (Emugamer’s request – 16.57)
- Possible to send an empty message to the addressee(s). (Emugamer’s request – 16.58)
- The genre doesn’t remain from the first at game addition in the administrator-panel. (Emugamer’s request – 16.69)
- At viewing of the list of categories in module “Videos” language variable XXX_video_XXX is displayed. (Emugamer’s request – 16.70)
- At addition of a new category in module “Videos” language variable XXX_video_XXX is displayed. (Emugamer’s request – 16.71)
- The loaded images aren’t displayed at viewing of record from section ´Videosª. (Emugamer’s request – 16.72)
- At creation of a new category in module “Polls” the language variable is displayed. XXX_percent_XXX and XXX_count_XXX. (Emugamer’s request – 16.73)
- At creation of the new channel in module “Ads” the language variable is displayed XXX_module_XXX, XXX_is_any_off_XXX and XXX_is_not_any_off_XXX. (Emugamer’s request – 16.74)
- At section viewing ´Userª (Settings ñ User) in the administrator-panel the language variable is displayed XXX_yes_confirm_by_email_XXX and XXX_ yes_confirm_by_admin _XXX. (Emugamer’s request – 16.75)
- At post addition (on a site) at input of the address of a site in the field ´Sourceª references without http aren’t processed. (Emugamer’s request – 16.79)
- The filter doesn’t work at viewing of the information on game (sections). (Emugamer’s request – 16.80)
Notes:
- Authorization on a site without acknowledgement on an e-mail. (Emugamer’s request – 16.67) –> This will be fixed at a later version when permissions are set up.
- The icon of a game platform isn’t displayed on a site. (Emugamer’s request – 16.68) –> To be discussed with Michal. Might or might not be included in the default template.
- In a case if at post addition on a site the category the point “Platform Relation” vanishes isn’t specified. (Emugamer’s request – 16.77) –> We are not sure what the issue here is exactly but if a user selects a game and selects some platforms those games and platforms will stay selected if there is an error on the form. It works as intended.
- The filter of categories, in a case if the category name not the English-speaking doesn’t work. (Emugamer’s request – 16.78) –> Right now people can not add letters into the character map. So you have two options when the product is released.
- Absence of restriction of symbols in heading and comments (thanks Crimson for the found error). (http://couchgamers.c…test-big-title/). (Emugamer’s request – 16.59) –> Character limitations have been put in placed for blogs because they come from an untrusted source, however posts come from the admin so it’s trusted. We can still implement this feature upon request.
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BobQuentok List:
- My Settings – Birthday
- My Settings – Avatar @ BETA Testers: Please give it a go for us as we cannot duplicate the error.
- My Profile – Private Messages
- Account Creation @ BETA Testers: If you are still awaiting activation you should not be able to login.
- Frontpage Blogs @ BETA Testers: This is because blogs are not automatically saved with the setting for homepage. This is useful because not all users will get their piece featured on the homepage. Resulting in better blog posts with better content to reach the homepage. This can be easily disabled in the code by changing a 0 to a 1. So its not a massive issue. Comes down to personal preference.
- Blog Module @ BETA Testers: This is actually from a post section in the backend. So no admin will do this.
- Game Page – “Optional: Write A Review”
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Best,
Custom CMS Team
Hello everyone!
We’d like to ask all Couch Gamers BETA testers to help us out with some cleaning of the language strings in the CMS.
In 0.9.3 we ran a script to clean up language masks and if you happen to see a language string in this format XXX_mask_XXX, this means the specific language isn’t loading correctly.
Please submit the URL to the page with the missing language mask to the bug tracker using your BETA account & Bonfire.
Thank you!
Custom CMS Team
Hello,
We’ll be pushing the version to 0.9.4 in this release. The following bugs & improvements have been resolved:
Features:
- Added: New Setting added in Site Configuration for Registration page. The setting will ask you for questions and answers. The question must be answered correctly for the user to be able to register on the website. You can add as many questions as you would like, the more questions you have the harder it is for bots to register. To further security the question isn’t outputted to the page directly. It is encoded in javascript to make it slightly more difficult for bots to understand it. Question and answer is great because, a specific spam bot for all Couch Gamers websites would not work. Fine tune your questions regularly and have 5-10 different options. Do not use general questions already available on the web.
- Added: New setting added in Site Configuration for Registration page. The Setting will either turn on or off reCaptcha on the registration page.
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Improvements:
- Improved the usability when selecting an avatar in the user setting page. (16.61 Emugamer bug somewhat complete – we will not be offering a gallery view).
- Improved submit blog page so that when errors appear after hitting submit, it will keep your content. It now checks to see if title, post type, excerpt and main body is empty, if empty it will throw an error.
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General Fixes:
- When creating a skin and directory of skin does not exist, it should create the folder automatically.
- Cleaned Database column types and lengths.
- Improved handling of Source URL.
- Fixed Languages in Settings page.
- Changed Access Log format.
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Emugamer List:
- Follow/Unfollow doesn’t work anymore. (Emugamer’s request – 16.62)
- Can still send PM if no recipient is selected even though error shows. (Emugamer’s request – 16.58)
- Report Comment was failing. (Emugamer’s request – 16.60)
- Fixed the language which shows up after submitting a quick status update from the user dropdown in the header. (Emugamer’s request – 16.63)
- Member can see go to admin link in header. (Emugamer’s request – 16.64)
- On Post Addition the related companies isn’t saved. (Emugamer’s request – 16.65)
- Fixes to navigation on user blog list page. (Emugamer’s request – 16.66)
- Hitting Enter button on keyboard then pressing submit would allow a comment to be created. (Emugamer’s request – 16.43)
- Candidate Fix. This is a possible solution to the SEO URL issue. If users are happy with this fix, it will be committed into the code. (Emugamer’s request – 16.57)
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Bug-tracker:
- In relation to a couple of bug entries by Crimson and Emugamer. A new function has been coded to be able to support multibyte characters when using wordwrap. Wordwrap is now currently being used on the blog page. This has full support for multibyte characters so you can now safely set how many characters before a hard line break is inputted into the title. This function has been included as a modifier in smarty so it can be accessed on a template level. (Issue # CG-61)
- and… (Issue # CG-60)
- Too many results in PM Notification Menu – Now limited to 10 results. (Issue # CG-62)
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Best,
Custom CMS Team
Hello,
We’ll be pushing the version to 0.9.3 in this release. The following bugs & improvements have been resolved:
- Added: URL Alias History (Emugamer’s request – 16.52)
Example: If my url is “posts/view/test-post” and I change it to “posts/view/test-post-2″ in the Admin Control Panel, usually it will show a 404 error page when I access “posts/view/test-post” because technically that URL does not exist anymore, this is an issue for linkbacks. So what we decided to do was save all old URLs related to the piece of content, and if you type in an old url e.g. “posts/view/test-post”, it will then trace it back to the latest URL used and do a 301 redirect, and if no history is found it will redirect to a 404 page.
This feature is available to: Posts, Post Types, Images, Videos, Games, Users, Companies, Platforms, Categories & Information Pages.
- Added: Character Map System - A section in the Admin Control Panel dedicated to replacing specific characters or words to other characters. Useful for adjusting URLs from non-English to English. e.g. Ë to e.
- Added: Template Image System – The system now allows users to set images on a template level. This allows users to make completely different skins for various platforms (as skins can be assigned on a platform level).
- Completed the Licensing System – It integrates with http://community.customcms.net, meaning that software purchases will be made with your community accounts.
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Emugamer list:
16.40 At viewing of another’s profile a superfluous tab “News Feed”.
16.41 At viewing of another’s profile at a clique on a tab “Blog” there is a redirect in my blogs.
16.43 Interdiction for empty comments.
16.46 At company creation at input of the address of a site references without http aren’t processed.
16.49 At video addition at input of the address of a site in the field “Source” references without http aren’t processed.
16.50 At post addition at input of the address of a site in the field “Source” references without http aren’t processed.
16.52 Changes of the reference and 301-redirect.
16.53 the form of comments doesn’t work.
16.54 At viewing of the information on the company the field ´Phoneª is duplicated.
16.55 references Incorrectly work at viewing of the list of the companies.
Notes:
16.56 In the list of my blogs strangers (in a case if the author is changed) are displayed.
We tried to duplicate this however everything worked ok for us. We submitted a blog with username Tom, then changed the author to Admin in the backend. Now ownership is with Admin, news feed shows up as having the blog posted by Admin.
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Bug-tracker:
- Spacing Issue. (Issue #: CG-58)
- and Mike? (Issue #: CG-46)
- Trivial Language variable (comments). (Issue #: CG-3)
- No title in comment?. (Issue #: CG-56)
- Source text description wrong. (Issue #: CG-22)
- The button to send. (Issue #: CG-4) - Also in regards to this fix. Text areas will now auto-grow site wide + when viewing galleries in a news feed works the same way on the image gallery page when submitting comments (refreshes the gallery view without refreshing the gallery popup).
- Multilangual error. (Issue #: CG-51)
- User Avatar upload bug. (Issue #: CG-59)
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Best,
Custom CMS Team
Hello,
We’ll be pushing the version to 0.9.2 in this release. The following bugs & improvements have been resolved:
- Installer Completed
- Weird button after clicking (Issue # CG-55)
Emugamer list:
16.28 At viewing RSS (Blogs RSS) at a clique on any record an error ñ page 404.
16.29 At post addition on a site there is no point “No Platform Relations”.
16.30 the Built in editor in the administrator-panel doesn’t process BB-codes in comments.
16.31 doesn’t work (games) section “Upcoming Games” are incorrectly displayed.
16.33 At game viewing (Overview) at a clique on “User Reviews” the material from a category “News” is displayed.
16.34 At game viewing (Overview) the reference “Couch Gamers Review” doesn’t work.
16.35 At viewing of the material in blocks “Related Posts”, “Related Images” the given material is shown.
16.40 At viewing of another’s profile a superfluous tab “News Feed”.
16.41 At viewing of another’s profile at a clique on a tab “Blog” there is a redirect in my blogs.
16.43 Interdiction for empty comments.
16.44 Old references, nonexistent pages.
16.45 It is impossible to be authorized on a site after registration.
16.46 At company creation at input of the address of a site references without http aren’t processed.
16.47 At viewing of the information on the company on a site the following information isn’t displayed: Phone, Country, Address.
16.49 At video addition at input of the address of a site in the field “Source” references without http aren’t processed.
16.50 At post addition at input of the address of a site in the field “Source” references without http aren’t processed.
16.51 the option “Homepage” in modules doesn’t work.
1.3.1. Blocking on IP. Moved to Site Options -> Security.
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Best,
Custom CMS Team
Dear Custom CMS Community,
Thank you for the great support over the last years. It’s communities like this that help push products to success. Remember that you ARE an elite. You are the designers, programmers, enthusiasts, business owners that will make a difference in this world simply because you believe in the success of another. You ARE the innovators of this product / trend – always remember that!
We hope to finally release this product in 2012. As we’re at version 0.9.1. we’re approaching the 1.0 gold status – meaning a first release! Stay tuned for an upcoming year of great changes, new challenges & love for the product.
We will one day make a change on the web with Couches.
Stay good & Happy New Year!!!!!
Best,
Custom CMS Team