SiteApex Changelog
POSTED | March 20, 2019
SiteApex 9.13
Banner Ad Rotator
- Updated to improve the format of text descriptions in rotator layout.
BBS
- Update to error handling for default "no photo" on a profile.
Blog
- *New Feature* - URL Rewriting for Blog posts and News articles now modernized!
- Ex: Previous URL "yoursite.com/blog.php?postID=123&article=my-blog-article"
New URL: "yoursite.com/blog/my-blog-article/123"
- Ex: Previous URL "yoursite.com/blog.php?postID=123&article=my-blog-article"
- Update to improve CSS styles.
- Update to ‘View All’ link logic.
- Update to eliminate 404 requested CSS files.
Calendar
- Update to restore ‘Add Event’ functionality on front end administration.
- Added custom support for displaying locations to calendar event detail pages.
- Updates to ensure compatibility with newer server platforms.
- Improved code standards to satisfy WCAG 2.0 (AA).
- Style update to coming events plugin.
Directory
- *New Feature* - Added optional captcha to the "email me" form to prevent spam and security.
- Updated error checking on "email owner" interface.
- Improved loading of directory maps on all devices.
ED Tools Data Generator
- Updated new reports to improve usability of the new graphical charts.
- Update to Utilities report to preventing loading issue.
Form Builder
- Restored capability to hide empty fields when displaying form response summary.
- Moneris Payment Gateway security update to eliminate page refresh resubmissions.
- New default Payment Gateway option "Interac / e-Transfer" similar to Cheque with separate "Thankyou".
- Update to error handling for amounts in excess of $999 using PayPal gateway.
- Added SMTP account display when Choosing a Newsletter to send from the FormBuilder administration.
- User Interface improvements for "Choose a Newsletter" list.
- Update to user interface for editing "Birthday" field in a form response.
Job Posting
- Updated to display a warning message if a site visitor attempts to directly access a deactivated posting.
Listings
- GUI enhancement for managing listing images for administrators and listing owners.
- Updates to listing notification emails:
- Displays more listing information above the customer details.
- Replaced Listing ID text with a convenient link back to the listing.
- Improved email formatting with Title and Short Description styles.
- Eliminated emailing of blank fields containing no data.
Media & Resource Library
- Improved "podcast" mode to achieve WCAG 2.0 (A) accessibility standards.
- Improved the library login screen to achieve WCAG 2.0 (A) accessibility standards.
News
- *New Feature* - News Article URLs modernized using SiteApex URL Rewriting.
- Ex: Previous URL: "yoursite.com/news.php?ID=123&command=viewArticle¤tFeed=1&t=my-news-article"
New URL: "yoursite.com/news/my-news-article/1/123"
- Ex: Previous URL: "yoursite.com/news.php?ID=123&command=viewArticle¤tFeed=1&t=my-news-article"
- Restored Mini News plugin capability to open articles on a selected news page.
- Added the "read more" link to the featured image for mini-news articles.
- Updated styling of the news image.
- *New Feature* - Added cross module functionally so audio and video media library can be embedded in news article.
Newsletter
- Update to Click Thru generator to support different variations of ampersands in supplied URLs.
Shopping Cart
- New front end design upgrades.
- Updated Product and Category export/import to support more fields, improve usability, and improved error checking.
SiteApex Marketing
- "Popout Form" plugin" updates:
- New mobile responsive styling for the overlay popup plugin.
- Provided captcha support when submitting form in real time.
- Updates to ensure the popout "X" is always clickable.
- Update to ensure the popout mode on load trigger honours the cookie to determine if it should display or not.
- New "Quick Links" plugin provides modernized interactive call to action visual elements.
SiteApex Control Panel
- Asset Cleanup Utility: Restored functionality to top Delete button.
SiteApex Core
- Improved the main login screen to achieve WCAG 2.0 (A) accessibility standards.
- Update to restore View link on form response activity on Site Map landing.
- Update to remove 404 requests to old admin files.
- Upgraded Canonical plugin to provide consistent URLs to search engines for BLOG postings/categories and News articles.
- Major upgrade to sitemap.xml generation to provide entries for Blog posts and categories, as well as News articles.
SiteApex User Importing
- Update to ensure User Names are matched against the database correctly.
- New feature to skip first row of import file.
- New status report display at the end of user importing.
