Friday, May 22, 2009  

A new release adds significant power to EditMe's RSS capabilities, including the ability to create arbitrary feeds based on the page date property of child pages. Page-level feeds, user feeds and comment feeds are also now possible.

The standard /rss.xml feed containing Recent Changes has been enhanced with some customization options, and all of the additional feed types can be accessed at this same URL by specifying a parameter or two.

A more streamlined method of passing login information to authenticate the RSS feed has also been added. You can now simply include a user name and password as parameters to rss.xml to authenticate. This is useful for retrieving feeds from sites that do not have publicly viewable content.

The support wiki has been updated with detailed documentation of the new RSS capabilities as well as a quick reference for the impatient.

90 Days of Recent Changes

Also included in this release are some changes to the Recent Changes page. The report now makes 90 days of changes available - the previous limit was 30 days.

Other Goodies & Bug Fixes

• Also tucked into this release are multiple level formatting for ordered lists, as provided by a clever customer in the wiki forum. These are now a part of all skins and can be added to your site by re-applying your current Skin.

• A bug in how the Commenting security feature can be applied to a specific Group of users has been fixed.

• A new site.commentsDisabled property was added to the JavaScript API. This will return True if comments are disabled at the site level.

• Finally, a bug in the ability to delete a specific user's tracking data has been fixed in the User Tracker Module. This fix can get applied to your site by reinstalling the module.