On April 7th, 2009, ClassiPress 2.8 was released. This is a maintenance release and all customers should upgrade. Fixed 46 tickets total. A break down of tickets can be found below.

Upgrade Information

To download v2.8, visit your dashboard by logging into your customer account.

Fixes

• fixed multiple spelling errors
• overall page width has been increased to 980px
• search box returns default text when click out of box
• fixed many trivial bugs
• optimized code and created multiple new functions
• category images now have transparent backgrounds instead of white
• after submitting ad the “post a classified” button now works
• pre-populates known ad fields for registered users

Changes

• four new color schemes easily changable via options page
• made image buttons blank for easy translation
• description snippet added under ad title
• posted date column now shows more detailed info (posted 2 hours ago, etc)
• comments page added and feature enabled
• 404.php error page has been added
• created search.php page
• created page.php page
• added new widget sidebar for pages
• wrote new search function to include custom fields
• new pagination added to replace next and previous buttons
• moved values to custom fields instead of using post description field
• created expires date custom field
• breadcrumb category path added to single.php page
• next and previous links added to single.php page
• email this post plugin support
• print this post plugin support
• tagging is now enabled
• top posts of the day plugin support
• post hit counter plugin support added
• currency symbol field is now a text box. Was broken before
• optimized and cleaned up options page
• added “expand inquiry form” option
• support for multi-languages by creating a .pot file
• feedburner rss support
• google analytics support
• adsense support
• deprecated all instant messenger fields from new ad form
• optimized layout for ad form
• increased description max character amount to 5000
• added custom text box area on ad form
• removed redundant “listing details” section on single.php
• created several new admin menus for easier management
• added new icons to ad information column
• included several placeholder 125×125 ad images
• post expiration date being saved in a custom field
• improved seo for page meta title tags

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