News

Earlier this month, I tested and released version 2.2.1 of Grayscale Content Management System. This release contains only a handful of new features and changes.

New Features

A handful of new, minor features were added, mostly to aid in site maintenance and spam fighting.

• Banning a directory or classified submission will now also add the submitter's IP and email to ban lists.
• Added a new option to lock RSS feed title and description. Essentially this disallows overriding these items when the feed is updated
• Final implementation of bad e-mails/ bad words blocks on web forms
• New feature now requires link exhanges to be confirmed just like blog comments and mailing list subscriptions
• New "clean up" cron job performs the following functions:
  • Remove e-mails from mailing list if they've gone unconfirmed after 3 days
  • Remove blog comments from database if they've gone unconfirmed after 3 days
  • Delete unapproved classifieds after 3 days
  • Delete unapproved directory entries after 3 days
  • Delete unconfirmed site registrations after 3 days
  • Delete unconfirmed link exchanges after 3 days

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the CSS class for the dates on the mailinglist archives so they will be the same size as those in News
• Added a flag on the page to print mailing list labels to check whether any subscribers have selected snail mail as their delivery
• Trimmed the file name when displayed in the file admin
• Breadcrumb text repair on the page to add new files in admin
• Trim the length on the URLs in the junk traffic admin
• Mailing list confirmation page, removed the 'confirm' or 'id' parameters to be in the confirmation URL