JReviews 2.3 Beta 6 now available!

[Alejandro]

I know last time I said it would be the last beta before RC, but we gave a time frame of 1-2 weeks for its release so we are still within that time frame :) This is a pretty good release candidate, but given that we have made many changes to the theme and still expect to make additional changes we are releasing it as beta 6. We expect to release the RC1 version next week as planned.

 

This version is now available for remote update and download in the client area.

 

The two most important changes in this update are:

 

1) Integration with Facebook Open Graph Protocol. We had some reports that the Facebook Like button in detail pages wasn't posting the correct image to Facebook and the only way to achieve that was through the use of the button's XFBML implementation which requires Open Graph. We had a head start thanks to Thomas who posted an Facebook Open Graph tutorial in tips & tricks a while back. The feature requires that you have a FB app id in the configuration and that the new Open Graph integration setting is enabled. We also added an object type setting in the listing types setup so you can choose from the many object types as defined by Facebook. If you use GeoMaps the integration will automatically generate the location tags as well. We'll be posting a bit more info on how to hack the code if you want to add additional tags based on your existing custom fields. Maybe later we can make this part of the configuration as well.

 

2) Lots of updates to the new theme. You really need to upgrade to see all the changes. We listened to some of the initial feedback to make some improvements and also added some of our own. More info below in the changelog.

 

IMPORTANT: You should still refrain from heavily customizing your themes because there's one final round of theme changes coming for the RC release. The most important ones are: bringing up to date the paidlistings theme, improvements for form styles, a dark theme and possibly one bonus theme with a more compact layout.

 

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2.3 Beta 6

 

+New: Facebook Open Graph Protocol integration http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/. This was included to improve the functionality of the Like button. It also helps Facebook to better index your site. New settings can be found in the Community tab as well as in the listing types setup.

+New: Lots of reloaded theme improvements. Content action buttons appear in lists on mouseover, new views (hits) icon, more compact listing header, autosize of listing column in geomaps list page, rating selector in review form now uses the same rating graphic as the rest of the site, improved layout of driving directions for geomaps, merged some css files and much more! +New: Show summary setting for listings module. Requires updating the module's xml file.

+New: GeoMaps - Max. radius setting in configuration which was previously hardcoded in the geomaps plugin.

!Changed: Re-dimensioning of module height-width even with pagination disabled.

!Changed: Added check for jQuery loaded by YooTheme Warp framework to automatically switch off jQuery in JReviews.

!Changed: Removed ununsed js/css files and updated jQuery UI to latest version 1.8.11

#Fixed: Updated JomSocial plugins so they show the correct description in the front-end.

#Fixed: Related Listing field not initialized for auto-suggest in adv. search module.

#Fixed: Better handling of html paragraphs in wysiwyg editor.

#Fixed: Fatal error breaks the page with auto-detect enabled in fields module when listing detail page.

#Fixed: Field admin page cannot be saved in Firefox and blank page when trying to view the field setup page in IE.

#Fixed: Text helper class not found error with FB wall post submissions.

#Fixed: Listing type configuration overrides for listing submission not working.

#Fixed: PaidListings - changed plan duration period strings to Day(s), Month(s) and Year(s).

#Fixed: PaidListings - updating plan changes to existing orders ignores the featured state of the plan.

#Fixed: Inactive pagination spans have an href attribtue.

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