This time we took an extra week to deliver nearly 40 improvements and fixes across the board. Most of the effort was focused on Videos and improving the most recent Video Uploads feature.
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1111 Is believed by some to be an Angel Number, to quote:
Angel number 1111 is a special message from your guardian angels indicating your ability to connect with the Ascended Masters in the angelic realm.
To that I say: Ok, that’s enough of that, perhaps I should focus more on the actual release. Which is awesome, by the way, thank you for asking… It’s amazing how much we can get done in a week, let’s get down to business, shall we?
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It’s been about 4 weeks since the previous release but this is a big one. Not only it’s a new big number in PeepSo version numeration, I mean… Eleven… It’s a release containing Stranger Things than usual… like Video Uploads… oh yea, we got those now.
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“In five years, most of Facebook will be video.”
That was Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook’s first community town hall meeting in 2014. He’s since gone further. In a Facebook-based Q&A a year later, he predicted that future content would be immersive. The picture that accompanied the interview showed a pair of the company’s Oculus Rift virtual reality glasses on his desk.
Video is currently the most immersive and the most engaging form of content on community sites. A short clip is easy to watch even on a mobile phone and more engaging than any other form of content. Researchers have found that video promotions are 600 percent more effective than print and direct mail combined, and can generate purchase rates as high as 12 percent.
When you’re looking to improve engagement on your private social network, you need your members to share videos.
Tell them what kind of videos to share. Explain to them how to share. And teach them how to shoot simple videos that relate to the subject of your private social network and that people want to see.
Now that everyone carries a video camera in their pocket, there’s no reason that your members shouldn’t be filming all their community-related activity. Remind them to pull out their camera every time they climb on their mountain bike or bake a cake. You should find that, like Facebook, most of your community content is video too.
That’s all for now! In the next post, I’m talking money!
In version 1.3.0, we focused on tweaking some of the features. These tweaks are important for future versions.
We’ve started the process of preparing PeepSo for one-click updates. Instead of uninstalling then re-installing all the plugins, for future versions you’ll be able to just click the update link next to each plugin. Very simple.
This function will start working in the next version of PeepSo. This should be the last time you update manually. Please remember that this is still work in progress. It will look somewhat like this:
One click updates and upgrades for PeepSo and its plugins.
Now that PeepSo has been out for a while, we have had reports of a few URLs and third party plugins not working well with PeepSo.
To improve the compatibility and stability of the plugins, we wrote the router. That should avoid issues with popular plugins like WPML which change the URL of the page by making additions like:
‘?lang=french’
This improvement is strictly under the hood. The only change you’ll see is the construction of the URLs. That’s usually just the addition of a question mark.
This is how the profile link appears in PeepSo 1.2.1:
http://sampledomain.com/profile/eric
And this is how the link appears in PeepSo 1.3.0:
http://sampledomain.com/profile/?eric
We also changed the behavior, look and feel of the action buttons on user profiles. Adding friends is now a three-state button with no modal confirmations needed. It’s all ajaxified too.
3-state friends buttons on user listings
Those action buttons have also been added to all user listings. You can see them on members pages, user profiles, and your friend list. The design is consistent to give users a feeling of confidence and to avoid confusion.
We made a few minor changes to the profile pages:
Profile view after styling tweaks.
We’ve made sure that PeepSo styling is consistent. That’s why we went with square and sharp edges over rounded corners and round avatars. If you feel like all square is not your thing, feel free to check out our documentation on how to override PeepSo CSS.
In addition to those design and functionality tweaks, we also fixed a number of bugs. You can see the full changelog here.
The chat plugin is almost ready. It just needs a few design tweaks and some testing. It will be released next. Watch out for it!
To update to Version 1.3.0 you’ll have to un-install and re-install all the plugins. Last time! Here’s the documentation on how to do it.
The free core version is fantastic on its own. If you want to unlock the true potential of social networking for WordPress, get the other plugins today. You can buy them by clicking the link below.
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If you’d like to see what’s coming up next, check out our roadmap here.
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We’re proud to announce the release of PeepSo 1.2.0. This release focuses on Core PeepSo and MsgSo. We added a bunch of new features and improved others.
PeepSo 1.1.0 introduced a Members Page that listed community members and included a search field. This version adds sorting and filters.
You can sort users by:
You can also select members by gender and only view users who have uploaded avatars. Combining filters means you could search for “female users with avatars who were recently online.” Cool, right? You could even filter further by adding a name and looking for “female users with avatars who were recently online and called ‘Jane.’”
We used Ajax to power the search which means there are no reloads and everything is superfast. Want to see how fast? Check this out.
Members page user filtering
Twitter link fetched on PeepSo Stream
Paste a video link or Instagram link into a Web page and you immediately get a preview of the destination. It’s very cool… so we now do the same thing in Peepso. Paste a link and those oEmbeds (that’s what they’re called) will give your audience a preview. This is how it looks.
Cool, right?
Ajax worked so well in Search that we decided to use it to improve Messages as well. Now there’s no need to reload a page when sending a message and when someone contacts you, you’ll receive both a notification and the message itself. It works exactly like a chat.
You can even see when someone is in the process of typing to you, so no more crossed messages or wondering whether you’re being ignored.
Messages indicate when someone’s typing.
We’ve added many more small improvements and fixes. You can read about all the major features of this release here. The full changelog will tell you everything we did. To see what we are planning next, check out our Roadmap here.
Don’t wait. Upgrade to the latest version today. You can find upgrade instructions here.
