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[jesusda]

GS BLOG MODIFICATIONS

Hi!

I've wornking on old GS Blog version (1.5). I just discover this new and exciting fork.

The thing is I think it will be a great idea to merge my changes on the new plugin.
I have no very much experiencie and knowledge on programing, so, I just have did some little changes, so I think someone could easily incorporate and improve the changes to main GS Blog 3.

The changes are these:

• Change the administration page to allow add a image to post (the old thumbnail system does not work fine)
  
• When a image is added, then, some images are automatically generated:
  • The original image is reduced to a 800x800 max file (this avoid users to upload extrmely high files. Useful for customers with no much knowledge about internet, blogs and image files)
    
  • A small thumbnail for the GS media explorer and the GS Blog administrator zone (the thumbnail is showed when editing a post)
    
  • A 100x100 cropped thumbnail -> this is used on public article list and the public GS Blog main page. If you clic on the image, you go to article view.
    
  • A 600x400 cropped thumnail -> this is used on public article view. If you clic on the image, full image is showed.
    
  • Obiously, a procedure to generate the thumbnails is crated on GSBlog source code.
    
• Change the administration page to allow edit or delete previows article image.
  
• Modified the article view, article list, etc. for using new thumbnails sizes.
  
• Created a new funcion to generate a Blog Breadcrumb.
  
• Modified the GSBlog funcions to show Title in Archive list, Search form, Lates articles and categories list.
  
• Added a "go back" link at the end of every GS Blog page to go back to the previous page (whitout JavaScrtip, just a real link).
  
• Show category link on article view. Useful on public GS Blog page to easily identify the article category and access it.
  

You can download the modified files here:
GS Blog 1.5 modified by jEsuSdA 8)

You can see a running version of my modified GS Blog here:
GS Blog fork demo

Note: the articles are nonsense, they are only for testing purposes.


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The fork advantage is focused on customer use:
They can create new article, easily add one image to article (no matters whatever size and megabyte) and clic publish button.

The modified GSBlog generates the image thumbnails and woks as any user expect to work.


Please, consider merge my modifications into the new GS Blog branch. I'd do it, but I recognize that I have no the level or experience enough to do that: :_ (