Elxis 4.4 requests

[jesusto]

Hi,

I would like article subtitle not to be required.

Thank you

[nikos]

Image caption on lightbox display

As it is now, setting a caption for the main image of an article, it shows it under the image, but on lightbox image display it shows under this the article's title instead of the caption text. So I could expect on lightbox image display to be show the article's title only in case that is not set a specific caption.

[Dimitris Kanatas]

My request is about images in articles..

If you want to use a picture in an article and you click the button to insert one, you are directed to your local system to upload one, even if you want to insert an image which is still on server in your media/images/.. directory.

So you should be able to look on server first and -if the wanted image is not there- you should be able to upload it in second step.

+1

[datahell]

@maple CKEditor updated to the latest version (4.5.6). The new version will become available in Elxis 4.4.

@jesusto The article's subtitle is also used as META description. Also it is used on many cases except in article page, like in modules and sliders. So it is required and cannot be optional. And not only it is required but for SEO you must use good subtitles.

[maple]

@maple CKEditor updated to the latest version (4.5.6). The new version will become available in Elxis 4.4.

Thank you datahell!

[datahell]

@nikos Image caption is now used in images ALT attributes instead of article title (in both article and category pages).

[nikos]

@nikos Image caption is now used in images ALT attributes instead of article title (in both article and category pages).

Thank you for your immediate response!

[datahell]

@adus and @Dimitris Kanatas You are not forced to upload an image. From the same popup window (media manager) you can select an existing image or upload a new one. You can also select an image without going to its details page with Right click > Select. This procedure takes 2-3 clicks, I don't think it is too hard. I do agree that the media manager must be improved/modernized/beatify but I don't know if we have the time to do that in version 4.4

[datahell]

@newspaperman It is easy to do what you ask but there are 2 reasons for the blank field when you add a translation:
1. Must be clear to the user that there is no translation yet. If the field was a copy of the field in the original language he would thought that there is already a translation.
2. The user might write totally different text in the other language, add different media files, etc, and not a word-to-word translation. I have personally done this several times.

Tip: If you want to start from the original text it is easy to perform a copy-paste.

[newspaperman]

Thank you very much for taking the suggestion into consideration and sparing time to reply.

[adus]

@adus and @Dimitris Kanatas You are not forced to upload an image. From the same popup window (media manager) you can select an existing image or upload a new one. You can also select an image without going to its details page with Right click > Select. This procedure takes 2-3 clicks, I don't think it is too hard. I do agree that the media manager must be improved/modernized/beatify but I don't know if we have the time to do that in version 4.4

Thanks datahell for your reply.
But I didn't meen the image inside the article -which is selected by editor-. Then your advice is right
I ment the article image, which is selected in the DETAIL-Tab of an article.
You have to upload an image, it takes place in the media/images/articles folder and is named by elxis (f.e. article123_medium.jpg)
Better solution is -in my opinion- if you can use an image out of your existing folders and elxis generates the neccessary image-sices INSIDE this folder.
And if the wanted image is not there, you should be able to upload one -as it is yet

It would be great, if you can implement this.

[Amigamerlin]

Hello,
I don't know if this option is already scheduled to be realized but can be really useful having an admin interface for the Defender  .
What I means is to can have the availability to can administrate BAD host, Banned IP, etc. enabling disabling them all via a control panel without need to do this via FTP.

[datahell]

@adus : You are right but there is a problem. Article images should be assigned to articles unique because if you delete an article the image must also be deleted else you will end up with orphan images. If we do it as you say multiple articles will share the same image. If you delete an article and the corresponsing image also get deleted the rest article will stay without image.

@Amigamerlin : The concept behind Elxis 4.x defender is that it should work out of the box without the user to have to insert rules. The expirience from the 2006/2008/2009 series show us that users are unable to insert security rules. What we have done in Elxis 4 is to use a standard (general) rules file and let the user put custom ones in the "custom" file. The format of these files is a little tricky for non experienced users, for example in the new defender the rules are based on regex patterns, special characters should be escaped with backslashes and between rules the OR symbol should be used. I am sure most users dont undestand the REGEX patterns. What we could only do to manage the blocked ips but there is already an option to delete blocked IPs. Most IPs are dynamic, so there is no reason to keep an IP banned for weeks and months. Periodically clean the defender IP block file and you are OK. Moreover in the new defender there is the security.log file which you can see from the administration panel.

[Amigamerlin]

@Amigamerlin : The concept behind Elxis 4.x defender is that it should work out of the box without the user to have to insert rules. The expirience from the 2006/2008/2009 series show us that users are unable to insert security rules. What we have done in Elxis 4 is to use a standard (general) rules file and let the user put custom ones in the "custom" file. The format of these files is a little tricky for non experienced users, for example in the new defender the rules are based on regex patterns, special characters should be escaped with backslashes and between rules the OR symbol should be used. I am sure most users dont undestand the REGEX patterns. What we could only do to manage the blocked ips but there is already an option to delete blocked IPs. Most IPs are dynamic, so there is no reason to keep an IP banned for weeks and months. Periodically clean the defender IP block file and you are OK. Moreover in the new defender there is the security.log file which you can see from the administration panel.

I clearly understand what you wrote and and my post was done thinking not experienced users that need just to disable as isp (just you have done with retail.telecomitalia.it) without need to open file or delete all.

I clearly know that a non skilled users that edit a file can messed it up and will getting in trouble.
IMHO having a control panel for help this kind of users disabling (host, wrong banned ip, etc)  can be a good thing.

Obviously the user will know the risk doing this operation but as you clearly will understand this kind of control panel will prevent non experienced user to get in trouble modifying file that don't understand the importance (and believe me there are many may users that do some strange thing).

Datahell, this is only my suggestion and my point of view  .

[newspaperman]

Automatic update - not only for the plugins but also for the core Elxis as well.