What’s new in MongoPress 0.1.2 – The MongoDB, PHP NoSQL CMS

12:03 pm in MongoPress by Mark Smalley

It’s been just over two weeks since we first launched MongoPress 0.1 – since then; we’ve had over 1,000 downloads, which considering the niche server requirements needed to run MongoPress; is impressive. In the city of Shenzhen, we’ve even been ranked in the top 20,000 most visited websites!

Since the initial buzz of the release v0.1 we’ve concentrated on making MongoPress even more stable and easier to install. Valuable feedback from Mitch, means that all PHP notice and warning messages have been fixed. v0.1.2 is a big step up from our first release, we have successful installs on Windows 7 with XAMP, Debian Squeeze with Apache and Nginx.

Some highlights from the 40+ tickets we closed during the 0.1.1 and 0.1.2 development cycles includes:

  • Improved Plugin Functionality – but even still, this is our weakest area and will be vastly improved upon by 0.2
  • Improved Site Options – can now change the site name, description and cookie expiration rate from the administrative pages
  • Improved Core Mu-Plugins – download counter improvements and NEW contact form plugin added – these will be removed from core by 0.2
  • Working Enque Methods for Theme and Admin pages (in headers and footers)
  • Attribute Filters for all “a” and “img” tags – useful for SEO, etc
  • Fully Working Administrative Themes (see themes/default/admin/_README.txt)
  • Geo-Location Functionality at Core (add lng lat via custom fields then query objects based on location)
  • Short-Code Functionality for Adding Images and Downloads from GridFS
  • Pretty Media Slugs (such as http://yourdomain/media/image.jpg linked to GridFS)
  • Improved HTML5 Structure
  • Improved Language Detection
  • Improved Stability – now developed in an ERROR_ALL environment

MongoPress needs your help. We need people from all around the world to know that there is a NoSQL CMS that is powered by three of the most stable frameworks available in their fields. MongoDB, PHP and jQuery – by using this as our base, and derivations of several WordPress APIs – we have a platform that will be easy for developers to understand and manipulate, where we are allowing all facets of the installation to be customised and themed, from the administrative pages, structure and content; everything can be themed, translated and customised through hooks and filters and vast selection of unique functions only available with MongoDB; such as instant replication, load-balancing, distributed media storage and serving capabilities; right through to fully integrated geo-location formatting and querying. We have a LONG way left to go, especially in refining our administrative UX, but since this can already be fully themed, we employ you to do a better job for us! In the meantime, we want to continue focusing on unique features, and have a whole host left up our sleeves…

Let us know about your successful installations – on Mac OS, on WinXP on Android phones – we’re excited to know where MongoPress is being used or tested.

Thanks again for all of your support thus far!

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