Details about the new functionality in v1.3
Ryan
includes several new features as highlighted in the blog post here:
http://www.cruisecontrolforappengine.com/2009/12/30/new-functionality-for-v1.3
** Feed imports **
You can now import an ATOM or RSS feed into the system as pages or
blog post entries. This uses Mark Pilgram's popular Universal Feed
Parser program for Python: http://www.feedparser.org/
We override some of the cleansing done in the feed parser so that
embedded YouTube videos and other material will remain included. So be
sure you trust the source of the feed you are importing from. There is
a preview button so you can see how the feed is parsed and an "I'm
feeling lucky" button if you are daring :)
So far we have tested using it for pulling in a feed from a Blogger
website, as well as some sample RSS and ATOM docs. Let us know if you
run into any problems and what the source was. Note that v1.3
currently does not preserve the date of your previous post entries.
You can edit them using the App Engine data viewer but we have a fix
coming for this in v1.4.
** Google Customer Search Engine **
All you need to do to add search to your site is to setup a Google CSE
here: http://www.google.com/cse/
Then paste the search control box code into the form field in the
admin settings screen for Cruise Control. The search results page and
code are already in place in the included templates. No code required!
** Replaced header and footer html file with base.html **
We now use Django template inheritance in the basic templates. This
simply makes it easier to override blocks of code in your base
template for specific pages and templates. More on how this works
here: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/templates/
** Changed "Blog" admin tab to "Settings" **
The previous Blog tab in the admin section was really "Blog settings"
and is now named "Settings" to better reflect it's use. All system-
wide settings for Cruise Control can be found there now.
** Added a setting for the "Links" template area title **
The default templates used the title of "Links" for spitting out all
links entered into the system. This was easily changed in the code of
your template but is not a configurable value so you can quickly
change the title as-needed without editing code.
** Toggles for displaying 'page info', 'post info', and 'comments **
Some sites want to use Cruise Control like a traditional blog and post
info and commenting is built-in for that. If you want to post without
those details, we now offer flags to turn them off via a simple
checkbox. Again, no coding required to make some basic changes to how
you configure your site.