Changelog
Release Notes
PHP Melody v2.1. Released December 12, 2013
PHP Melody v2.1
December 12, 2013
New Features
Front-end
- Cleaner look for the 'Default' theme.
- Markup Schema support; good for SEO.
- reCAPTCHA support & honeypot traps for registration bots.
- Much improved 'online/offline' status detection for users.
- Improved search suggestion. Uses fewer resources and yields better results.
- Option to disable/enable the commenting system site-wide.
- Users can see their submitted videos as 'pending approval'.
- New function for users that suggests relevant users to follow based on a few factors.
- New translation for the 'Thai' language.
- New ad zones: 'floating ads' (new installations only).
- Improved page titles for categories, search results, tags, etc. (suffered from duplicate metas).
Back-end
- Editable video & article permalink URL.
- Updates for the WYSIWYG editor: cleaner look, spellcheck support and true 'what you see is what you get'
- HTML5 (<video>) and JavaScript (<script>) are now supported as embeddable videos.
- 'Pre-roll static ads' improvements:
- Option to add a 'Skip' button on individual pre-roll static ads.
- Option to target certain categories or video sources.
- Cleaner look & layout improvements. Works better with a larger range of screen resolutions.
Enhancements
New Video Sources
- vk.com
- video.mail.ru
- rutube.ru
- novamov.com
Bugs Fixed
Front-end
- Duplicate meta title and meta description for listing pages.
- Duplicate/generic meta title for user profile pages.
- Search engine crawlers caused videos to appear as 'being watched now' & wasting resources.
- Search engine crawlers indexed non-value pages such as embed links (www.you.com/embed/03898).
- The maintenance page was missing the title & some other issues.
- Notifications for actions related to articles were missing.
- Misplaced RSS links for article pages.
- Some issues with the text & links on large displays.
- Some banners were 'stuck' to layout elements.
- Other theme fixes and HTML syntax problems.
Back-end
- Big problem : Renaming a video title was updating its URL.
- While editing categories, the 'name' field was not updated.
- While editing a video, the 'duration' field went up to only a max. of 99 minutes.
- Replacing a YouTube video with an mp4 video was not possible.
- Replacing a self-hosted video with an embed video caused problems in the RSS feed.
- Updated the 'Yahoo! Mail' presets.
Other
- Broken RSS feeds in some circumstances.
- Problem with sites hosted on https://.
- Problem with embedded YouTube videos in the sitemap.
- PHP Melody is no longer logging the password from failed login attempts (potential risk).