Sorry for a few days delay, but we have now released Imagevue X2.6 Beta. We wish to maintain it as beta for a short period, because we have added some new features that need to be tested thoroughly.
If you are comfortable with the upgrade process and want to use the new features, I would say it is safe to upgrade. If you want to avoid the hassle, then I suggest waiting for X2.6 final to be announced shortly.
Download Imagevue X2.6 Beta
Features
We will be releasing proper documentation and explanations for the new features once we release X2.6 Final. For now, I have just made a quick list:
- Social Media Sharing - Check the demo gallery and view image, textpage and thumbnails to see how the sharing button is integrated. Also check in the menu -> Various examples -> Social for some cool new menu functionality. We also included a manual integration method for the Facebook "like" button, as seen in our demo gallery.
Read More - Multiple background images - Add multiple background images to your theme. Can be used creatively for logo, overlays, special functionality etc. We will cover this shortly in a new article.
- Thumbnail Editor - Now you can edit any thumbnail from the admin. Simply navigate to an image from your admin, and click the previewimage top left, or click the edit-thumbnail icon. A window will open, allowing you to resize and crop the thumbnail as you like based on thumbnail size parameters.
- Textpages - We have fixed some bugs with text editor and <p> paragraphs. Now text is properly formatted with <p>paragraph</p> tags, and also supports align. You may notice a small difference in your textpages, but all to the greater benefit.
- Dashboard - New dashboard link in admin, which loads news and updates from Imagevue RSS/Blog and Imagevue Twitter. Stay tunes with new releases from us!
- Gallery password - Now you can have a global gallery password by setting a password directly on the content folder in your root. Before the gallery actually loads, it will prompt the visitor for a password to log in to the gallery.
- Recursive passwords - Set a password for a parent folder, and the password will inherit to the subfolders of this folder. Just be aware that the password will have to be input for each folder by the visitor still.
- Added htaccess.txt - Rename this file to .htaccess to protect your XML files
- Auto expanding input fields for admin
- Fixed “jumping link” on contact form textpages - forum
- Added "open in new window" checkbox for menu links.