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Today the serendipity team released a minor update to our favorite blog engine. The update adresses two security issues.
Here is the link to the official blogpost, please update your installations.
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The plugin is now available at spartacus so you can install it easily in your serendipity backend.
There are some ways to compress images. There are also some webservices to do that. TinyPNG is one of them. You can send your pictures to an API and get the compressed image back. TinyPNG promises to do the compression without remarkable loose of quality.
To come to serendipity; core developer Onli made a new plugin to automaticly use TinyPNG when uploading your images to the media library. The plugin isn't available on spartacus yet, because it needs some more testing before going there. If you want to give it a try, you can download it from the forum. Just unpack the tarball and put the resulting directory in the 'plugins' directory of your serendipity installation. After that you can install the plugin in your backend.
(Disclaimer: If you don't understand what I'm even talking about above, just wait for the plugin to be available on Spartacus. 
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If you want to use the plugin, you have to create a developer API on the TinyPNG website which is pretty easy. The API is free to use whith 500 compressions a day. If you want to compress more images you can use one of their paid plans. After getting an API code just put it in the settings of the plugin and you're done.
If you have issues testing the plugin or feature requests to the developer, please provide feedback at the corresponding entry at the forum.
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A lot of news this morning. There are updates for Serendipity. You can download the stable version 2.0.4 which includes security fixes and some approvements. The actual beta is updated to 2.1beta2, too. You can find all changes in the official blog post.
If you followed the link above you may have noticed that the s9y.org website has been relaunched. We have a new fresh and responsive layout now. The documentation has been updated.
I wish to thank all developers and community members for their work. Have fun!
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As Thomas stated in the comments, the newest Version 0.11 of the plugin now implements the OpenGraph metatags wich are used by Facebook, Twitter Cards and other social networks. In the settings there is a new parameter "Fallback Image" where you can set the image shown on Twitter and Facebok if the entry contains no own image. Set to "none" to deacivate.
Also in an earlier update the possibility to use the Shariff Backend was added. With these feature you can show a counter number on the sharing buttons for several networks which shows how often the article was liked, shared or "plused" there. You can download the backend and store it on your webspace. Then you have to set the plugin parameter "Backend for sharecounter" to the path where you stored it. The default of that setting points to a backend which is hosted on a webspace of a serendipity community member. You can use this backend but if you want to make changes to the configuration or if you have perfomance issues it is necessary to use your own. If you don't want sharecounters at all just set the parameter to "none".
The plugin provides all services that are shipped with Shariff. If you want more services to be supported you can get in contact with the Shariff project on Github. If they update their tool it will be implemented in the plugin periodically.
Sharing is caring. To help your readers to share your blogposts with several social networks and other services there is a new Serendipity plugin called "Share Buttons" (serendipity_event_social). This plugin will add some share buttons for the networks and services you choose in the configuration of the plugin.
The plugin uses the free tool Shariff which is provided by the german computer magazin c't. This tool cares about the strong data protection laws in Germany an the EU. So there is no data transfered to the external sites until you click on the buttons.
The following services are supported for the moment:
And this is how it can show up in your blog:
You can also see the plugin working live here in this blog.
So if you wish to allow your readers to easily share your posts, install "Share Buttons" and give it a try. It is available via Spartacus. If you find some bugs or have some suggestions to the developers, feel free to give feedback at the user forum.
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You want a new look for your Serendipity blog? No problem. There are some beautiful themes you can choose from and here is one of them: Timeline
Timeline is a brandnew theme written by Don Chambers. It has many features and options you can set in the theme configuration wich make it easy for beginners to modify the design of the theme. The articels are sorted along a "timeline" from wich the theme has its name. If you don't like this view you can turn it off via the theme options.
Of course timeline is optimized for mobile devices so everyone can enjoy your blog on every screen size.
I also use the theme here for abouts9y.org and i like it very much. There is a demo page where you can try many features live clicking the button with the gears on the upper right of the page. There is also a short documentation how to use and configure the theme for your S9Y blog. Have fun and thanks to Don for his work.
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