{"id":573,"date":"2013-12-12T20:01:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T17:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phpsugar.com\/blog\/?p=573"},"modified":"2014-02-28T18:25:58","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T15:25:58","slug":"php-melody-v2-1-the-last-update-of-the-year-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phpsugar.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/php-melody-v2-1-the-last-update-of-the-year-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP Melody v2.1 &#8211; The Last Update of 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we&#8217;re making available the last PHP Melody update for 2013.<br \/>\nVersion 2.1 has a little bit for everyone but most importantly it addresses some recent troubles that some of our customers has with their sites.<\/p>\n<p>Without further delay, here&#8217;s what <strong>PHP Melody version 2.1<\/strong> has to offer.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>Fixed Bugs:<\/h2>\n<h3>Front-end<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Duplicate<\/strong> meta <strong>title<\/strong> and meta <strong>description<\/strong> for listing pages.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Duplicate<\/strong>\/generic meta <strong>title<\/strong> for <strong>user profile<\/strong> pages.<\/li>\n<li>Search engine crawlers <strong>caused videos to appear as &#8216;being watched now&#8217;<\/strong> &amp; wasting resources.<\/li>\n<li>Search engine crawlers <strong>indexed non-value pages<\/strong> such as embed links (www.you.com\/embed\/03898).<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>maintenance page<\/strong> was missing the title &amp; some other issues.<\/li>\n<li>Notifications for actions related to articles were  missing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Misplaced RSS links<\/strong> for article pages.<\/li>\n<li>Some issues with the <strong>text &amp; links on large displays<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Some <strong>banners were &#8216;stuck&#8217;<\/strong> to layout elements.<\/li>\n<li>Other theme fixes and <strong>HTML syntax problems<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Back-end<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Big problem <\/strong>: <strong>Renaming a video title was updating its URL<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>While editing <strong>categories<\/strong>, the <strong>&#8216;name&#8217; field<\/strong> was <strong>not updated<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>While editing a <strong>video<\/strong>, the <strong>&#8216;duration&#8217; field<\/strong> went up to only a max. of 99 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Replacing a <strong>YouTube video with an mp4<\/strong> video was not possible.<\/li>\n<li>Replacing a <strong>self-hosted video<\/strong> with an <strong>embed video<\/strong> caused problems in the <strong>RSS feed<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Updated the &#8216;Yahoo! 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