Viviti Blog

It's that time again! Most of this release was polish, optimization, and bug fixes - but we did get some cool new features added while we were at it. Some improvements made to the page management, which now allow you to password protect groups of pages as well as individual pages.

We've also improved the navigation management allowing you to link to pages outside of your site, files you uploaded, email addresses, in addition to pages on your site. This affects both the primary navigation of your site and the navigation component which you can add to sidebars.

Here are some other notable changes:

• Updated the toolbar to make it simpler and easier to use.
• Made content templates easier to use in the Visual Editor.
• Cleaned up the "My Content" menu to make it easier to find what you are looking for.
• Added "Copy Component" option - drag a component to another page in the page dropdown in the toolbar, and you can move or copy the component to the target page.
• Auto complete added to theme and component filter forms.
• Auto complete added to blog tags to make it easier to use tags you have used before.
• "Add it here" buttons for adding components to pages tweaked to make it easier to tell what scope you are adding to.
• Speed ups! Sites created with should now load much quicker.

For bloggers out there we made a bunch of improvements to the blog, one of the most requested ones was the ability to change the date of a blog post - so now when you go to create or edit a post you will see something like this:

For those people that want to write posts and have it auto publish on a certain date, simply set the Date Published as a date in the future, and it will remain unpublished until that date and then automatically publish for you. For users that want to switch from Blogger, we've added an automated import tool that will fetch all your blog posts, categories, tags, and comments from your old Blogger account. We'll work on import tools for other systems in the future.

To make managing comments easier we added some filters in the comment management dialog, so you can easily view only unapproved comments, only comments flagged as spam, etc.

Now that 0.1.6 is out the door we're already busy on the next release, which is likely to be the last release before we enter open beta. Have fun with the new stuff and as always, let us know if you find any problems!