Partial Image Embed Code – If there is a partial image embed code in the HTML then when you try to publish your post Blogsy will just close. This will no longer happen after this update. Until this update comes out you can resolve this problem by flipping to the HTML Side and deleting any partial image embed codes.
Tistory Blog – If the publish date is set to automatic then the categories do not get posted with the blog post when the post is published. This only effects Tistory blogs. Until this update comes out you can set the date of the post and the categories will get published with the post.
[Changed]
German Language – “Automatisch” changed to “Autom.”
Other apps now have another option for sending content to Blogsy. For quite sometime Blogsy has been using the following URL scheme – blogsy:”URL” – which allows other apps to send a website to Blogsy and Blogsy will open that website in its built-in browser. This is what is used if you set up the Blogsy Bookmarklet (find this in the Settings menu in Blogsy). Also, the Mr. Reader app uses this URL scheme so you can send blog posts to Blogsy.
Now we have added a new URL scheme – blogsy://post?entry=”post body” – which if other apps use it will allow you to send information from the other app directly into Blogsy and it will start a new post and put that information into the new post.
Here is an example of this.
Notice that there is content with no HTML tags along with some content with HTML tags. You can send content to Blogsy that has HTML tags or not. (We made this dummy program to test the URL scheme.)
When you send it to Blogsy you will get a message asking how you want to bring it into Blogsy.
Rich Side – This is what we are sure most people will choose in most cases. When you choose this option the content will be pulled in and parsed and if there is HTML in it then Blogsy will use that HTML. If there is no HTML then Blogsy will add the appropriate HTML.
HTML Side – We added this option because if the content you are importing has HTML in it that is not correct this can cause problems in Blogsy. If this is the case then you can choose the HTML Side option to open it on the HTML Side then fix the HTML before flipping to the Rich Side.
Markdown – If the content you are sending to Blogsy has Markdown in it then you need to choose the Markdown option. When you choose the Markdown option Blogsy will parse the Markdown and convert it to normal HTML so the dragging in of images and videos works. If you choose Rich Side or HTML Side then the Markdown will be wrapped in HTML tags and therefore will not work.
We added versions in Blogsy. This means you can open an earlier version of your blog post.
To get to older versions tap on the plus button “+” for your local drafts then tap on the clock and arrow icon to the right of the local draft title.
You will see the 20 most recent saves Blogsy has done. Blogsy is regularly saving you posts and you will see this in this view.
We also decided to add a save button in Blogsy. We realize that this is not the standard iOS way but we got quite a few requests for this so we just decided to add it so users feel more comfortable. Blogsy is regularly saving your post but you can tap on this button to force another save whenever you want.
We made a couple of other UI changes to make things easier for users for find and use.
We moved the “Default Photo Upload Location” setting from the Settings menu to the Post Info. menu. This means that now it will be easy to change this when you change the blog you are posting to.
We also changed the location of the button to get between the “Direct” drag in view and the “Envelope” view in Blogsy. Now it will always be at the top of the iPad photo library panel.
We got quite a few requests from high-end bloggers asking for Markdown support so we have added it to Blogsy.
If you want to use Markdown then you first need to turn it on in the Settings menu. Settings -> General Settings -> Markdown.
When Markdown support is turned on there will be a Markdown icon on the dock.
Tap on the Markdown icon in the dock to open the Markdown editor.
When you first open the Markdown editor you will see a full white screen. Tap on the screen to open the keyboard. As you can see in the image above we have added an extended keyboard for Markdown.
Write your post using Markdown or paste your Markdown in. When you are done typing tap on the “Done” button in the extended keyboard.
Blogsy will convert your Markdown to standard HTML so you can then drag images and videos into your post if you would like and publish your post to your blog.
*** In the version of Blogsy currently found in the App Store you can write Markdown on the HTML Side and publish from the HTML Side without flipping to the Rich Side and the Markdown will be sent to your blog.
1. Photo Library – Fixed a crashing problem if you’re running pre iOS 5.1 and try to access the iPad photo library.
2. WordPress – If your blog did not have the title set then Blogsy would not set up the media library.
3. Link Setting – If your link URL had a space in front of the URL Blogsy would crash.
4. Naver Blogs – Blogsy would show an error report popup when Naver blog users tried to publish a post which had unicode data in it.
[Added]
1. Show “Can’t Use Emoji” message when you’re trying to use the Emoji keyboard. Blogs don’t recognize the iOS Emoji code so they delete post content after the Emoji in a post.
2. MovableType – support multiple category setting and fetching.
3. Blogger – Blogger chooses to us a tag instead of the standard
tag. For Blogsy to conform with this the post is parsed and
tags are converted to two tags and
tags are converted to a single tag when publishing. Now there is an option in the Settings menu to turn off this parsing and converting.
[Improved]
1. Memory usage improvement for using photos in the iPad photo library.
[Changes]
1. WordPress – Blogsy no longer publishes a post as “Standard” if the post format is not set. Instead Blogsy sends empty post format information and WordPress will set it to “Standard” itself. This means there will no longer be a second “Standard” post format created and a listing of your posts in the WP-Admin will no longer show “Standard”.
These are the things which can be found in this update.
Bug Fixes
WordPress – Geolocation locality no longer shows as “null” in the Geotagging section.
WordPress – If the value type of the Featured Image ID was a number instead of a string then Blogsy would crash. Fixed.
Blogger – The <br> tag in a <div> tag would get stripped out in a post fetched from the blog. Fixed.
Tumblr, Posterous – Corrected text in the photo attachment box to reflect when it is possible to drag in photos to attach them to a post.
Picasa – Blogsy now uses the longer image dimension to set the Picasa image display size source.
Instagram – If a user had their Instagram account set to private Blogsy would crash when trying to drag in an image from Instagram. Fixed.
Typepad – If a post was created in the HTML view in the Typepad admin and a user hit enter (creating a new line) when writing that post then Blogsy would treat this as a new paragraph even though Typepad did not. Blogsy now treats it the same way as Typepad and collapses those.
Cannon CR2 RAW photos – If a user had imported Cannon CR2 images and there were more than 6 of those images in an album Blogsy would crash when accessing that album. Fixed.
HTML / Photo Uploads - If the HTML sent from the iPad for embedded images was different than the typical HTML Blogsy would publish is as that HTML instead of first uploading the images. Fixed
Link Button – If a user selected more than one word to create a link the “Link” option would not appear in the text selection bubble. Fixed.
HTML / Lists – The placement of </ul> and </lo> in the HTML code would be incorrect in some situations. Fixed.
Delete Button – The “Delete” button in the Image, Video, and Link Settings menus would move when scrolling the menu up and down. Fixed.
Function Changes
Accessing iPad Photo Library – Improved memory usage so loading speeds are greatly improved.
iPad Photo Library – Changed default setting so Blogsy will open to direct drag in method instead of envelope view after first installing Blogsy.
Tumblr, Posterous – When a user is working on a Tumblr photo post or a Posterous post then Blogsy will default open to the envelope view when tapping on the iPad Photo Library. This is done because Tumblr and Posterous have the option to attach images to a post but do not have the option to embed photos from the iPad Photo library and have the embedded photos uploaded at the time of publishing.
Translation – Updated translation for all languages.
Blogsy 4.1.3 can now be found in the App Store. We have already started working on Blogsy 4.1.4 and have an Instagram fix in it if your Instagram account is set to private. If you are having any problem with Blogsy which is not fixed in this update (Blogsy 4.1.3) please email me so we can get it fixed and make it part of Blogsy 4.1.4. You can email us at info@fomola.com.
Blogsy 4.1.3 update
New Features/Changes -
Set Date – now MetaWeblog, Drupal and Joomla users can set the date of a post.
Clear Browser Cache – added a new option in the Settings menu to clear the Browser cache. The reason behind this is that Apple changed the way YouTube is integrated in iOS6. That caused Blogsy’s how-to videos to not play correctly. We fixed this problem but if users had already played a how-to video prior to our fix they would continue to have the problem. The only way to overcome that problem would be to clear the browser cache but there was no way to do that in Blogsy.
UTC Time – for MetaWeblog posting Blogsy will now use the UTC time. This should overcome the issue some users have with a time difference when posting.
Bug Fixes -
Tumblr – Fixed “Not Authorized” error message. You would get a “Not Authorized” error message if you tried to publish a Tumblr post with multiple photos and multiple tags.
Joomla – Fixed “Featured” article setting bug. You would need to set “Featured” on or on and off once after first updating or Blogsy would crash when trying to publish to Joomla.
Link option in popup bubble didn’t always appear – fixed the “Link” option disappearing from the option bubble when selecting text. This was an issue for iOS6 users.
Link Menu off screen – If a word was chosen toward the right boarder of the post and the “Link” option was chosen in the popup bubble the menu would open off screen. This was an issue for iOS6 users.
Link Menu issues – Problem with doubling text and the placeholder text not disappearing when user typed in their own URL.
Translation – Version name and number were not correct for Russian and Chinese users.
Blogsy 4.1.2 update
WordPress, TypePad, SquareSpace and MetaWeblog - Now you can turn off category fetching in the Settings menu. If you turn off category fetching then Blogsy will remember and display the categories you have fetched in the past and will only fetch again if you tap on the fetch button. This is the same as the tag setting which has been in Blogsy for some time now. This means you no longer have to wait for Blogsy to fetch your categories every time you go to set them for a blog post.
Picasa – When Blogsy creates a Picasa folder to upload to it will be set to private. If you want to change it to public on Picasa you can do this without it effecting the photos in your blog posts.
TypePad and Movable Type – Blogsy will remember the comment setting you used for your last post when you start a new post.
Joomla – Now you can schedule Joomla posts. (for Joomla version 1.6 or later)
Joomla – Now you can set if a post is featured or not. (for Joomla version 1.6 or later)
WordPress – Improved uploading code so you are less likely to get a “Failed” message when trying to upload images.
SquareSpace and Joomla – These platforms send back a relative URLs for images so Blogsy would show that the images can’t be displayed when dragging them in after uploading images to their media libraries. Blogsy will now parse and construct the full URL to the root to override this so the images will be displayed on the Rich Side.
SquareSpace – If you used a more tag in a SquareSpace post all paragraphs after the more tag would get stripped out by SquareSpace. Now Blogsy will strip out the more tag before publishing so SquareSpace does not strip out the paragraphs.
Flickr - Improved uploading code.
Bug Fixes -
WordPress -
If you had set an image caption in the wp-admin when writing a post then fetched the post into Blogsy the paragraphs after that image would get stripped out unless there was a tag besides <p> or <div> after it.
If you didn’t have any photos in your WordPress media library yet but tried to set the featured image for a post Blogsy would crash.
If your image embed code had a opening tag without the appropriate closing tag Blogsy would crash.
If you had set a WordPress post to “sticky” then Blogsy had been cleared from memory the “sticky” setting would be turned off.
At the time of setup Blogsy will determine if the blog is running WordPress 3.4 or later so the featured image of a post will appear in the Post Info. menu if the first thing you do in Blogsy is fetch an online post.
iPad Photo Library – If you had imported a RAW only photo to your iPad using the Apple Camera Kit. Then used the photo editing features of the Photos app to enhance that image. When you tried to drag that image into an envelope or post Blogsy would crash.
Joomla – If the Joomla blog sent back an error code at the time of publishing the “publishing…” message would still appear.
Blogsy 4.1.1 Update
Feature changes -
1) Wrap raw text with paragraph tags(p or div) when swipe to Rich Side. – Now, even if you don’t type the p or div tags when writing on the HTML Side Blogsy will automatically add them when you swipe to the Rich Side.
2) Added hidden HTML formatting – This will make the HTML easier to read if you go to your WordPress admin and look in the HTML view.
3) Remember last Tumblr Markdown setting – Now if a user sets Markdown to “on” or “off” it will be set the same way the next time they start a new post.
4) Remember last Comments setting – Now if a user sets comments to “on” or “off” it will be set the same way the next time they start a new post.
5) iPad won’t go to sleep when uploading – The iPad will not go to sleep while images are being uploaded.
6) Showing Picasa username as title on uploading location – In the post confirmation popup it will show the username if you have chosen Picasa as the photo upload location.
7) Add Instagram, Facebook and Vimeo to the default services on the dock – New users will see all services Blogsy supports in the dock when they first install Blogsy. They can remove ones they don’t want to use through the Settings menu.
8) MovableType multiple users – Now multiple users on the same blog can be set up.
Bug fixes -
1) WordPress – SelfHosted : Invalid Attachment ID problem fixed.
2) Tumblr – Blogsy would crash on the first attempt to publish a Tumblr photo post.
3) Tumblr – Would get an error if trying to post a Tumblr photo post with more than one image attached.
4) SquareSpace – Couldn’t fetch uploaded images to display in the Rich Side if the blog was using a custom domain
5) Method Type (null) and incorrect platform information in error code reports.
6) Added br tags in lists – Blogsy would add br tags when fetching posts with ordered or unordered lists. If users published from the HTML side these br tags would be added to their published posts.
7) Formatting iframe bug – Formatting buttons didn’t work if a post had an iframe object in it.
8) White background problem in toolbar icon – At the far right of the formatting toolbar white corners can be seen on iPad 1 and iPad 2.
9) Browser not opening problem fixed.
10) Empty rich side issue fixed.
11) Prevent Javascript parsing crash.
12) Direct embed paper/envelope toggle button disappearing fixed.
13) Browser home button URL not saving if it has http fixed.
14) Photo library full image preview crash fixed.
15) Direct image drag in portrait image dimension problem fixed.
Blogsy 4.1 (Cerberus)
Cerberus (Blogsy 4.1) brings three big new features.
[Features]
1) Offline/Direct adding of photos from the iPad photo library – Yep, we finally figured out how to make it possible to add photos from the iPad Photo library to a post without having to upload the images first. This also means that you will be able to add photos to a post when you are offline. We will have a how-to video up later today showing how this new feature works.
2) Facebook integration – That’s right, now you can drag in photos from your Facebook account to your blog posts. This means you can easily blog about photos on your Facebook account and also photos you have been tagged in. Also, Blogsy now give you the ability to upload photos to your Facebook account with. This way you wont have to have the same photo on Facebook and also in your blog media library. Photos that you upload with Blogsy to your Facebook account will not be added to your timeline. If you want them to be added to your timeline then you can go to your Facebook account in a desktop browser and add them to your timeline.
If you are a current Blogsy user and want to add Facebook go to the Settings menu -> Service Settings -> Manage Dock Items -> Add A New Item -> Then tap on Facebook. This will add it to the dock in Blogsy and you can set up your Facebook account.
3) Featured Image – Yes, Blogsy already had Featured Image support. But that required you to make some changes to the PHP files on your server. Now, if you are running WordPress 3.4 or later then Blogsy will detect that and you won’t have to make those PHP file changes. This also means that WordPress.com users will now be able to set the Featured Image with Blogsy.
[Bugs Fixed]
1) If users tried to post with custom fields that included location data the user manually put in, Blogsy would crash.
2) Metaweblog conflict – If a user had a TypePad, Joomla or SquareSpace blog set up then would try to set up a metaweblog blog Blogsy would crash.
3) In certain circumstances Blogsy would crash when uploading images to a Drupal media library.
4) Metaweblog blogs – incorrect date type problem when trying to post or update.
5) Joomla blogs – some servers required a specific URL to the xmlrpc file.
5) XMLRPC blogs – Blogsy won’t clear a post if an error occurs while posting or updating a post.
6) NAVER blogs – Blogsy would always publish the post as private.
7) Browser button – Infrequently, Blogsy would crash when tappong the browser button in the dock.
Blogsy 4.1.1 (look below for things added in Blogsy 4.1)
Feature changes -
1) Wrap raw text with paragraph tags(p or div) when swipe to Rich Side. – Now, even if you don’t type the p or div tags when writing on the HTML Side Blogsy will automatically add them when you swipe to the Rich Side.
2) Added hidden HTML formatting – This will make the HTML easier to read if you go to your WordPress admin and look in the HTML view.
3) Remember last Tumblr Markdown setting – Now if a user sets Markdown to “on” or “off” it will be set the same way the next time they start a new post.
4) Remember last Comments setting – Now if a user sets comments to “on” or “off” it will be set the same way the next time they start a new post.
5) iPad won’t go to sleep when uploading – The iPad will not go to sleep while images are being uploaded.
6) Showing Picasa username as title on uploading location – In the post confirmation popup it will show the username if you have chosen Picasa as the photo upload location.
7) Add Instagram, Facebook and Vimeo to the default services on the dock – New users will see all services Blogsy supports in the dock when they first install Blogsy. They can remove ones they don’t want to use through the Settings menu.
8) MovableType multiple users – Now multiple users on the same blog can be set up.
Bug fixes -
1) WordPress – SelfHosted : Invalid Attachment ID problem fixed.
2) Tumblr – Blogsy would crash on the first attempt to publish a Tumblr photo post.
3) Tumblr – Would get an error if trying to post a Tumblr photo post with more than one image attached.
4) SquareSpace – Couldn’t fetch uploaded images to display in the Rich Side if the blog was using a custom domain
5) Method Type (null) and incorrect platform information in error code reports.
6) Added br tags in lists – Blogsy would add br tags when fetching posts with ordered or unordered lists. If users published from the HTML side these br tags would be added to their published posts.
7) Formatting iframe bug – Formatting buttons didn’t work if a post had an iframe object in it.
8) White background problem in toolbar icon – At the far right of the formatting toolbar white corners can be seen on iPad 1 and iPad 2.
9) Browser not opening problem fixed.
10) Empty rich side issue fixed.
11) Prevent Javascript parsing crash.
12) Direct embed paper/envelope toggle button disappearing fixed.
13) Browser home button URL not saving if it has http fixed.
14) Photo library full image preview crash fixed.
15) Direct image drag in portrait image dimension problem fixed.
Blogsy 4.1 (Cerberus)
Cerberus (Blogsy 4.1) brings three big new features.
[Features]
1) Offline/Direct adding of photos from the iPad photo library – Yep, we finally figured out how to make it possible to add photos from the iPad Photo library to a post without having to upload the images first. This also means that you will be able to add photos to a post when you are offline. We will have a how-to video up later today showing how this new feature works.
2) Facebook integration – That’s right, now you can drag in photos from your Facebook account to your blog posts. This means you can easily blog about photos on your Facebook account and also photos you have been tagged in. Also, Blogsy now give you the ability to upload photos to your Facebook account with. This way you wont have to have the same photo on Facebook and also in your blog media library. Photos that you upload with Blogsy to your Facebook account will not be added to your timeline. If you want them to be added to your timeline then you can go to your Facebook account in a desktop browser and add them to your timeline.
If you are a current Blogsy user and want to add Facebook go to the Settings menu -> Service Settings -> Manage Dock Items -> Add A New Item -> Then tap on Facebook. This will add it to the dock in Blogsy and you can set up your Facebook account.
3) Featured Image – Yes, Blogsy already had Featured Image support. But that required you to make some changes to the PHP files on your server. Now, if you are running WordPress 3.4 or later then Blogsy will detect that and you won’t have to make those PHP file changes. This also means that WordPress.com users will now be able to set the Featured Image with Blogsy.
[Bugs Fixed]
1) If users tried to post with custom fields that included location data the user manually put in, Blogsy would crash.
2) Metaweblog conflict – If a user had a TypePad, Joomla or SquareSpace blog set up then would try to set up a metaweblog blog Blogsy would crash.
3) In certain circumstances Blogsy would crash when uploading images to a Drupal media library.
4) Metaweblog blogs – incorrect date type problem when trying to post or update.
5) Joomla blogs – some servers required a specific URL to the xmlrpc file.
5) XMLRPC blogs – Blogsy won’t clear a post if an error occurs while posting or updating a post.
6) NAVER blogs – Blogsy would always publish the post as private.
7) Browser button – Infrequently, Blogsy would crash when tappong the browser button in the dock.
What does this mean? Well, if you are a Mr. Reader user now you can choose an article and choose to open it in Blogsy. This action will open the article in Blogsy's built-in browser (like the Blogsy bookmarklet) so you can do a blog post about that article or use images from it.
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