BlogSense – Update – 4.0 Release Notes

Hello Gang,

I’m pleased to announce the largest and best BlogSense update yet, where many new features and improvements have been added as well as feature requests answered. There is quite a bit of information to go over so bare with me read every bit so you have a good understand of the new changes.

ADDED FEATURE REQUESTS

• Completely rebuilt Yahoo Answers module to provide the maximum amount of criteria selection for improved search search results

As many of you may already know, the Yahoo Answers Module was a wild performer, often giving broad results for search terms even when you were using exclude keywords. This problem has been solved by including the ability to narrow results by : category, target region, date range, as well as limiting search results and sorting by relevance or date.

• Completely rebuilt Youtube & Hulu Module, changing it into Video Module

This time around we got rid of the feed based youtube search and plugged BlogSense directly into Youtubes API, allowing for searches by keyword. This has improved the quality of search results.

Youtube video descriptions are now optional, and when include will been formatted to sit under the video with the video thumbnail floating to the right. Looks pretty sharp. Special css class has added for further customization if user desires.

• ALL campaigns now have the option to be temporarily disabled and re-enabled.

• Tagging system improved

You can now create a custom tag database to assign tags to posts. Import a comma delimited batch of tags into the appropriate area, and BlogSense will select a random number of random tags that you specify and assign them to the post.

Also added capability to use already established WP Tag Database as a custom tag database. BlogSense will select tags already in wordpress at random and assign them to posts.

Also, useless tag filtering has been improved for the titles-to-tags method of tagging.

• Logout Button Added.

OTHER IMPROVEMENTS

• General Maintenance on RSS Scraping Module.

• Fixed Issue with Yahoo Answers preview function.

• Added improved interface to Articles Module for easier browsing and editing (Now Sources Module)

• Articles Module(Sources Module) : Fixed link cloaking bug, link stripping bug, and added capability to strip all images.

• RSS Module & Articles Module(Sources Module) : Improved post scheduling options to allow up to 20 days per post.

• Added capability to add and remove categories to items in-sourced from Articles Module (Sources Module)

• Added TinyURL url shortening to Twitter Posting due to random failings of bit.ly shortner.

• Added capability to preview a video campaign, just like RSS and Yahoo Answers Module.

• No more having to run /auto/update_sql.php manually. From now on just replace files to upgrade.

• Changed Spyntax requirements to accept industry standard spyntax.

{word1|word2|word3} rather than [word1|word2|word3]

Also improved the code to spin spyntaxd articles for faster output.

MAJOR ADDITIONS

• Index Spy

This little module is in the wordpress section of BlogSense, and was designed to give you the heads up on what pages of yours are indexed in google, and which pages are unindexed. Use this information to better promote your blog and expect some cool things to be done with this feature in the future.

• Content Hooks

This is the probably the strongest addition to BlogSense. Content hooks will allow you to attach random images and youtube videos into your header and footer profile Blocks.

There is no limit to how many hooks you can add, allowing you to create mix and match profiles to attach to other content campaigns.

• Articles Module becomes Sources Module

Now you can easily manage all article source locations from once central management window, changing and saving scrape settings. You can even ADD YOUR OWN sources, declaring what parameters you want to use to scrape this particular location with. If the location has a commenting system with active comments, you can even set parameters to scrape those as well.

This was just a briefing of what is new . Expect video tutorials on all new features as soon as possible. Its been a long month of developing for me and believe me there is already more to do to keep BlogSense a front runner of WordPress automation platforms.

This release is still in beta, but i have spent allot more time pre screening this release than I have any of my other prior releases. It has not escaped my attention that in the past BlogSense has been buggier than any of you deserve, as a growing developer I am taking steps to grow in the right direction, striving to ensure you have a good experience as well as a good product.

To download BlogSense 4.0 Beta please follow the link below. If upgrading, please inspect all campaigns after replacing file.

http://blogsense-wp.com/upgrade_download.php

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