Today I release a small new version to the new 0.2 series, which includes following changes:
- Links are now underlined, when you hover over them
- Simplified it to add the disqus comments
- Added and configuration option for setting a favicon
- Added the option to use Google Analytics
When you updating you installation make sure that your nor overriding your existing configuration. Check on GitHub what are the differences between the two versions.
Some huge changes happend to this blogging engine in the last few days:
- The name was changed from pBlog to Rangitaki
Since the early beginning I searched for a good name for the blogging engine and Rangitaki (from the maori language and means logbook) fits just perfect
- The default color changed to #ff4415
- I wrote a webpage for Rangitaki [marcel-kapfer.de/rangitaki](http://marcel-kapfer.de/rangitaki)
- I created a Twitter profile [@rangitaki](https://twitter.com/rangitaki)
- and a Google+ profile [+Rangitaki](https://plus.google.com/b/101437210222436501912/101437210222436501912/posts)
I figured out that there will be many changes in the engine which will require many changes in the files (especially the posts file) and in the filestructure. I can't say right now which things will change and what you have to change. Out of this reason I change the Version numbers and add an zero in front of them. So instead of 2.1 the latest version is now 0.2.1. The 0.2.x series is now on GitHub as an own branch and will recive bugfix updates. The series 0.3, 0.4, 0.5 and so own will be development releases which won't be compatible to the 0.2 series. I recommend current users to stay on 0.2.x - at least until the 1.0 release. I'm verry sorry for this and in case that there are requests I may write a small script that will help you switch to version 1.0.
This version introduces some very imporant features:
- **Own page for every article**
- Social **sharing buttons** (at the moment: google+, twitter, facebook but more will follow)
- **Disqus** integration
- Local **config file** -> no more editing the index file
pBlog 2.0 is only partially compatible with prior versions. You don't have to change anything in the posts or intro file (in case you have one), but to switch to version 2.0 you have to replace your index.php with the new one. With this step all your settings like the title will be lost and you have to set them in the new config.php file. For more questions write me a mail to marcelmichaelkapfer@yahoo.co.nz.
In the near future I will spend more time in writing a documentation about the blog engine and adding more comments (especially in the css file).
After I published the Version 1.0 last sunday I realized some problems with german umlauts. Now I added a function that converts every umlaut (ü, Ü, ä, Ä, ö, Ö and ß) into the html code.