Version 2.0 of Blog System is already available!

You may find below information about the main new features ...

Facebook Login and Sign up The facebook sign up feature allows the users to create their blog by skipping the default registration procedure and simply confirming their blog name and password (the other information is taken from their facebook profile after they sign up using the facebook login button and authorize the application). Also the facebook login makes possible to log in on the blog portal by using their facebook user name and password. (instead of entering their blog name and password for the blog portal).

Community functionality The entirely new Community functionality in Blog System strives to make the website powered by the script more funny for the bloggers, allowing them to define their profile, search for new friends, make friendship proposals, exchange messages and others.

New blogger templates With the new blogger templates added, the bloggers now could choose between 72 pre-made templates. They can design also their own templates and customize their colors and settings.

Automatic pinging of blog ping servers A new feature allows the bloggers to ping automatically ping servers like weblogs.com, blo.gs and ping-o-matic on new blog posts. The benefits are to help improve the speed at which search engines index the content - many of the large search engines access websites like Weblogs.com ping stream and use it to update their search indexes. It also helps distribution and visibility across the web and blogosphere in general. Not just search engines access websites like Weblogs.com, but blogging platforms, web services, ISPs, aggregators, social networks and more.

Newsletter functionality for the bloggers The new newsletter functionality allows the administrator to send newsletter to the bloggers and inform them for important updates, news and other information.

New dashboard on the blogger's admin space home page The new dashboard provides quick information for the current blog posts, comments and site visits. It shows the recent comments and community messages. It has also direct links to change the blog theme and make a quick blog post.

New WYSIWYG editor The new WYSIWYG editor has more user friendly interface and better browsers compatibility.

New anti spam features Special features to prevent the spamming including new improved captcha images, anti spam questions (sum of numbers), analyze of the blog posts an user makes (calculation of their frequency and number of links in them, in order to prevent posts with too many links and high probability to be spam etc.) and others.

Functionality to share the content on twitter and facebook This new functionality allows to share directly the blog posts content on twitter and facebook.

Speed and performance A lot of improvements to optimize the loading speed have been made (like optimization of the mysql queries, management of the uploaded pictures and files etc.), the new system can work up to several time faster compared to the previous version. It has already also its own caching system especially designed for heavy loaded websites, it decreases to the minimum the sql queries being executed when rendering the blogs and front site pages. This helps to increase considerably the website performance.

Images upload directly from the WYSIWYG editor Following the feedback of our customers, we have made possible in the new version for the bloggers to upload directly pictures from the WYSIWYG editor and insert them inline with the blog posts content.

Posts Voting The visitors can vote already with ease for a post by rating it from 1 (the lowest) to 10 (the highest). The administrator could show the top rated posts on the front site and also the top rated bloggers and top rated posts show up in the bloggers admin space in the Community section.

Blogs admin space template The blogs admin space is already using the same design as the main website (in difference of previous version where it was using a default system layout). The blogs admin space template can be customized separately if necessary from the main website template.

Improved security New way of encryption of the user password and new forgotten password functionality. Better protection and data input validation. Functionality to restrict the access to the main admin panel only to some authorized IP addresses.

New admin panel design New design for the admin panel - larger and with new icons, as well as improvements in the admin panel menus and pages.

Auto populate blogs using external RSS feeds The new auto populate feature makes quite easy for the blogger to import external content in his blog. This could be very useful if the blogger has already a blog on another portal and would like to import his posts from it to his blog on the website powered by Blog System. Or it can be used to import quite fast some news or other data using the external feeds for it.

Others Other small improvements like the multi level menu on the front website is already supported also for the "customized" menu (which can be defined from the admin panel), new backgrounds for the blogs, "who is online now" feature showing the online users for the community functionality and others.