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When we released IP.SEO 1.0, we said that we were going to start small and regularly update with new features based on user feedback and SEO trends. We've been staggered by the response to the first release, and have read all of the feedback topics posted so far. So in the spirit of those regular updates, we're now releasing IP.SEO 1.1 to cover some of the most requested features. Here's what's new in today's release: Sitemap pings added for Ask and Moreover, to add to the existing pings to
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For our final entry on IP.Nexus 1.1, I'd like to sum up some of the additional general tweaks and enhancements since our last blog entry. Marking an invoice unpaid In IP.Nexus 1.0, once an invoice has been paid, there is no way to mark it "unpaid". While for most circumstances this makes sense, in the event a check bounces or something similar, you may want to undo everything done when the invoice was marked paid. In IP.Nexus 1.1, when you attempt to mark a paid invoice unpaid, you'll see
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IP.Gallery 4.0 is now available to use on our forums! Please keep in mind that this is beta software and still very much work in progress so expect to come across bugs and such. As there is bound to be a lot of feedback, I'll close this blog for comments and kindly ask that you post any feedback in the Gallery forum Please report all bugs in the tracker as usual Please let us know your thoughts!
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Email on new order You can now set packages to send an email when a member purchases that package. Usergroup Discounts You can now provide discounts to users in a particular group. Auto-resolve Support Requests You can now set support requests to automatically be set to resolved after a given time of inactivity. Group Name Limit We've increased the length package group names can be to 255 characters. https In IP.Nexus 1.0, there was a setting which when enabled would make
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IP.Nexus has an advertisements feature, allowing administrators to display advertisements on their community and sell advertising space to third parties. We've spent some time going over some of the suggestions we've received for the advertisements system and have made the following enhancements for IP.Nexus 1.1. Start/End Time Advertisements can now be specified with start and end times for time-specific campaigns. Advertisement Packages: Expire by length In hand with the option to
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IP.Nexus 1.0 has the ability for users to send in support requests via Email. Nexus handles these internally as "Guest" support requests and the users can reply by responding to the Email notifications Nexus sends when a staff member replies. In IP.Nexus 1.1, we've added a web-based interface for guests to create support requests too. This makes it easier for users to submit pre-sales questions without having to create an account, and is particularly useful if you are unable or unwilling to us
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As anyone with an interest in it will know, search engine optimisation is a difficult and contentious field, not least because of the amount of different opinions and the lack of any definite answers. There are a few things we all know to be good, and a few things that we all know are definitely bad, but the rest is a bit of a gray area. We've done a lot of work to make sure that all of the definite things are covered in IP.Board, and feel we've done a great job at this. Until now however, there
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In IP.Nexus 1.0, when a user visits the store and tries to make a purchase, they are redirected to the login screen where they can register or log in. Once logged in, they are redirected back to the checkout screen. While this works well, it can be confusing to some users to be removed from the checkout process. In IP.Nexus 1.1, we've made this process a little smoother. First of all, if a guest attempts to make a donation, they will not be prompted to log in - guests will be able to make d
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Next up in our round-up of changes you can expect to see in our application releases this holiday season: IP.Chat 1.2.0. For IP.Chat 1.2.0 we decided to hold back on some of the larger changes we would like to implement, in order to better evaluate the server requirements on our side and ensure we implement the big features in a resource-friendly manner for all involved. In the mean time, we hope you like the changes you can expect to see in IP.Chat 1.2.0! Friendly URL While IP.Chat really
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IP.Nexus contains a powerful support desk allowing staff members to provide support to customers. In IP.Nexus 1.1 we are adding an enhancement to this feature called Support Severities. Severities allows members to mark the importance of their support request. This allows support staff to triage incoming requests and give priority support to particular customers. You can create multiple severities, and specify which ones can be set by customers. Here I have set up two severities: one is for
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IP.Nexus allows members to earn account credit using referrals and the IP.Downloads integration. Members can then (if you allow) request payouts in their client area. Until now, these payouts had to be handled manually one by one. PayPal supports a feature called Mass Payments which allows you to make multiple payments at once. The way Mass Payments works is in your PayPal account you simply upload a "Mass Payment File" which instructs PayPal to send out multiple payments. In IP.Nexus 1.1 we
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I've seen a few topics in our feedback forum asking how media uploads are handled in IP.Gallery 4. The current version allows you to upload certain video files via a separate upload interface and displays them using basic embed tags which may ask the viewing user to download special plug-ins such as Quicktime to view them. Video encoding is beyond the scope of IP.Gallery 4.0 as such functionality would need server level software to be installed. Similarly, to fetch a keyframe or thumbnail fr
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As mentioned in my blog entry last week, even though IP.Nexus 1.1 is still very much in development, we're going to be posting periodic blog entries throughout development to keep you up to date with the latest new features. In IP.Nexus 1.1, we're going to be adding reporting features for a number of different statistics: The number of items sold (grouped by package). The amount of income made (grouped by payment method). The number of new support requests created (grouped by department).
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It's been a while since the last video so I wanted to take a moment to run through the interface and explain a little more about the album types we have in IP.Gallery now. The video below takes you through the major screens and notes some of the important functionality available. I recommend you watch in HD and at full screen. Feel free to comment below or make a topic in the Gallery feedback forum.
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Since the release of IP.Nexus 1.0 we've had a great amount of feedback. Even though the next version of IP.Nexus 1.1 is still a ways off, I'm going to be introducing new features as we go along so that you know what to expect. One of the most frequent suggestions is some way to have multiple stock and pricing levels for products. IP.Nexus already has custom package fields to allow the user to select different variations of products, and now with Nexus 1.1, you can control stock and pricing bas
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Since applying IP.Downloads 2.3 to our company forums this month, we've noted a few features that we felt would be really handy to add. Given the fact that all of these features have been requested by customers recently, we took the time to add these features now, for IP.Downloads 2.3.0, in an effort to ensure we release a solid product that has everything you need to manage your file repositories. We hope you enjoy these few small but useful changes coming in IP.Downloads 2.3. Featured Files
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We had previously posted a release schedule for our product line through the end of this year. When we made that schedule we neglected to factor in that our staff in the United States would be off work for the Thanksgiving holiday. Obviously releasing a new version of a product when two days later a good percentage of our staff will be off would not be good for our customer service. Therefore, we will not be having a release on Tuesday, November 23rd. Along this same subject: Please note t
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Note: Since this entry was published, our Resources area has been updated with the new version. Go there now to see these features live! One of the main aims for IP.Downloads 2.3 was to overhaul the interface to bring it up to scratch. To that end, we have focused on 3 major areas in this revision, which we'd like to show you now. File Submission The current submission screen in IP.Downloads became unwieldy as multiple options and configurations appeared in each release. We've redesigned t
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We have added some new features to IP.Downloads 2.3 that have been requested by our customer base and that we believe will help you better manage your files. Most of these features we pulled directly from our feedback forum, and we'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who participates and shares their ideas through this channel. Your feedback directly helps shape the future of IP.Downloads, and we hope you like the new functionality that you have requested and will be available wi
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As part of our application updates schedule, we've been quietly working on IP.Blog 2.3. Initially planned as a maintenance release, we've gone through the bug tracker and fixed a lot of bugs, but we've also expanded our plans for the release to include many of the things you'll come to expect from our product line. Here's some of what we've been working on: 1. You guessed it, "Like" and comments We've implemented the new, centralised Like and comments systems from IP.Board 3.1.3, allowing us
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The term "consistency" can encompass many facets of a software package. Consistency can refer to backend code, ensuring that one piece of the application is utilizing available classes and methods to ensure it behaves as similar as possible to every other piece of the application when executed. Consistency can refer to the user interface, ensuring that users navigating a piece of an application can easily familiarize themselves with it, whether that be comparing the interface to other establis
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I blogged previously about updates to Gallery which include a brand new commenting system. This new commenting system is a core feature in IP.Board 3.1.3 and although we've not fully implemented it in the forums, it is in use by Blog, Gallery and Downloads. As it's a core feature, you can easily add it into your own application just by writing a plug-in class. A feature recap for the new commenting system: - Makes full use of "ajax" so that there are no page loads between adding a repl
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Early on during development of IP.Downloads 2.3, one key area we identified that we wanted to improve was the notification capabilities of IP.Downloads. In previous versions of IP.Downloads, you can elect to be notified when a file you are watching is updated, and you can elect to be notified when a file you submit is approved or denied. These are necessary and useful notification options, however they do not encompass all of the scenarios users might want to be notified of within the applicat
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I blogged in a previous entry about the new "like" system that is coming to IP.Gallery, IP.Downloads and IP.Blog. This is a brand new feature in the core of IP.Board and even though we plan to make more use of it in the actual forums in 3.2, it is ready to be used by modification authors in 3.1.3. Before I get into the mechanics of the system, I wanted to give you a brief overview of how it works. This screen shot shows the "like" bar directly underneath the image. The pop-up overlay show
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