Sort of!
I have a preview release of 2.0 (Yep, skipped right past a real v1.0 release) @ the new aLinks website. I call this a “preview release” because I haven’t done any serious beta testing with it yet. I’ve only used it on my own sites, and haven’t found any bugs, although I’m sure a few exist.
Additionally this release does not include multibyte character support. I’ll be adding that soon.
It’s been a long wait, but the next version of aLinks is just on the horizon. I spent the past couple months rewriting it from scratch to give it better performance than previous versions, and to add some new features.
Requirements:
WordPress 2.x
PHP 5.x
Yes, this version of aLinks will require PHP 5.x. I’m sorry if your web hosting provider hasn’t upgraded yet, but PHP 5 has been out for years!
Some of the changes coming up in this version:
Renamed “Modules” to “Factories” - One of these days I want to port aLinks to other CMSs like Drupal, where the term “module” is being used in a different context. So I’ve renamed the modules to “factories” to avoid future confusion.
Factories that create their own keyphrases - Now you can install factories that create their own keyphrases. For instance, think of a factory that is constantly — and automatically — creating keyphrases based on new release and best selling products from Amazon.com.
With these new factories you simply install them, and they do all the work.
Greatly improved performance - aLinks now uses low-level caching to avoid parsing your blog posts for keyphrases on every single page load.
In addition the factories API has been rewritten so they load faster.
Wildcards in keyphrases - You can now use the * wildcard character in your keyphrases to linkify the words to the left and right of the defined phrase.
If you define a keyphrase like *headzoo*, your blog post will look like this:
Go visit headzoo which is my other website.
Or if you define it as *headzoo***, your blog post will look like this:
Go visit headzoo which is my other website.
The new wildcard feature will make your links look more natural.
New export formats - The standard export format is now pure XML. In addition you can also export your keyphrases as CSV, Microsoft Excel 2000, and Microsoft Excel 2003 XML.
New keyphrases grid - The old keyphrase grid has been ditched in favor of a new cross-browser compatible grid created with the Dojo Toolkit.
Linkify comments - You can turn on a setting to linkify keyphrases found in user comments.
No more keyphrase tracking - The build in keyphrase tracking has been removed, and it will be offered down the road as an additional WordPress “aLinks enhancement” plugin.
Max links per post - This broken feature now works as expected!
Ignore some posts - You can tell aLinks to skip linkifing a post by including the HTML comment <!– alinks ignore –> in the post.
Define keyphrases in-post - You can define keyphrases while writing posts.
Some screen shots from the new version:
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The new keyphrase manager.
The new settings menu.
The import/export menu.
The factories menu.
Subversion
Tech savvy users can grab builds from the subversion repository @ http://headzoo.com/subversion/alinks/branches/2.0/. I strongly recommend not installing the current builds on a live blog.
Hi all,
Today I released a new version of aLinks. This version is not a major change from the previous version. In fact, if you’re not having any problems with 1.0rc1, then I don’t even recommend upgrading.
This version just takes care of some low hanging fruit, and fixes a few long running — and very annoying — bugs. The keyphrases grid — which was always breaking — is now fixed. This version also works with WordPress 2.5rc1. Plus I took care of a couple other small bugs.
You can read more and download it from the aLinks page.
So many times I wanted to switch the theme on my blog, but I wanted to see if I liked the theme first. The problem is there’s no way to switch the theme to see if I like it, without the rest of my site visitors seeing the new theme.
So I created the Theme Test Run plugin. With this plugin you can “test run” themes to see if you like them, or even tweak them, without your site visitors seeing the switch.
When you test run a theme, logged in administrators will see the new theme, but regular visitors to your site will not. They will still see the real activated theme.
You can read more about the plugin, and download it from http://headzoo.com/theme-test-run.
Today I released the next version of my Live plugin. Here is a list of some of the changes:
You can read more on the Live page
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