Dotclear

Let's continue our overview of the new features of version 2.6, which should be officially coming out very soon. Today, let's take a look at the pages that have been reorganized in depth.

Maintenance and backups

Reminders

Maintenance tasks, which include operations that are sometimes made necessary by the hazards of computer systems (power outages, network disconnections...), now come with regular reminders. Not unlike your car mechanic calling you one week before each oil change to remind you to make an appointment with him!

You'll have the possibility to define a general frequency for all reminders, or set a specific one for each taks (or even get rid of reminders altogether if you don't want them).

Backups

Backups, which used to be located together with imports, have been moved towards the maintenance page. This is one of the consequences of the ergonomics study we did... some time ago. The various backups (blogs, medias, and so forth) also benefit from the reminders described above.

Plugins

Because one must call a cat a cat, we've decided to stop using words such as "extensions" and "modules" to describe these little pieces of software that can be plugged on top of Dotclear to bring it additional functionalities and call them... plugins. Even in French. Purists may disagree, but we think that today everyone knows what this term means.

We've now completely integrated the (former) daInstaller plugin, which made it possible to automatically install and update plugins from the DotAddict directory. All actions related to plugin management are therefore now in a single place, which is more convenient for blog administrators.

Themes

The "Blog appearance" page has also been completely upgraded, and we have integrated, as for plugins, the "Themes" part of the former daInstaller plugin. It is now therefore possible to activate, configure, install and update themes from DotAddict or a (local or remote) archive on a single page.

Regarding themes, we are currently working real hard to integrate theme submission to the DotAddict console. This should make the life of themes developers much easier.

That's it for today. We'll soon talk about all the other pages, which have changed enough although not in as much depth to make it interesting to present them.