Niche Video Script
Update 2.0.7 to 2.0.8
Changes, Fixes & Additional Functions
- - FIXED index page latest resources where not been shown on the index page
- - FIXED gallery images when displayed would scroll through images not in the same gallery album
- - FIXED newsletters when sending to all users would show an sql error
- - FIXED when user clicked on follow to another user the email link sent to verify went to a 404 page error
- - FIXED index page video tabs would only display using the root domain supplied in config.php now uses both http:// and http://www.
- - FIXED video upload page when (.) dot added to titles would direct to error 404 page and not the video
- - FIXED admin video upload & embed when (.) dot added to titles would redirect to 404 error page and not the video
- - FIXED when adding new video all titles would be made into (lowercase) this now allows for upper and lowercase charactors
- - FIXED video player page (suggestions) box videos would not display the correct videos for the category playing video was in
- - FIXED various css issues across the site where certain areas would fall outside of the DIV and not display correctly
- - FIXED admin panel jquery library for dropdown menus, main navigation menus, sorting options, tooltips and more
- - FIXED rss feed commenting did not enable or disable from the admin panel settings page
- - FIXED gallery comments did not enable or disable from the admin panel settings page
- - FIXED .htaccess broken links, 301 redirects and 404 better redirects also added new rewrites to support Go Daddy servers now.
- - REMOVED old facebook likes, tweet and google buzz from articles, blogs, rss feeds, galleries, videos, bookmarks, profiles
- - REPLACED new facebook likes, tweets & google plus +1 code using API's into blogs, articles, bookmarks, rss feeds, galleries, videos, profiles
- - REMOVED admin post to twitter cron as this was not working for many users.
- - ADDED new truncate tags sql tables from admin panel when sites load slow from too many tag entries will load sites again much faster
- - ADDED new settings in admin to change default commenting system across the site to use Facebook commenting system instead.
- - ADDED option to paste in your Google analytics code using the admin panel settings page so no template editing
- - ADDED ability to enable and disable commenting on users profiles from the admin panel settings page
- - ADDED order by on index, order by featured and order by disabled videos added to admin panel videos table.
- - UPDATED bookmarking functionality which was not functioning correctly & needed updating, change voting, removed thumbnails.
Installation
Installing this new update is pretty simple as long as you read through this documentation and follow any instructions given to make any edits required on your installation of NicheVideoScript.
READY! Here we go...
- Open the download folder and upload the /upgrade_2.0.8/ folder to your server where niche video script is installed.
- BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP your sql database as you are about to use the auto installer which will make changes to your database, we will not be held responsible if you don't backup and encounter problems.
- Once you have created a backup of your sql database its safe you run the sql installer, point your browser to www.your-site.com/upgrade_2.0.8/index.php
- Follow the onsceen upgrade instructions to update your database.
- Delete the /upgrade_2.0.8/ folder from your server for security
- Upload all the files and folders inside the /upload/ folder apart from the templates folder, but do not upload the actual /upload/ folder to your server.
- Now open the templates folder in your download and upload the /admin/ folder to your templates folder, you should see your admin folder within your templates folder on your server
There are template files inside this upgrade for all the themes you will only need the template files for your theme, so you can open the /templates/frontend/ folder in this download and upload only the template files for your theme EXAMPLE
- (green_machine)
- (dark knight)
- (blue beam)
- (crimson)
However there are also some CSS changes which means we have also supplied an updated stylesheet for each theme, if you have made any changes to your theme through your stylesheet you will need to refer to the code editing section from the menu
and add the new CSS manually otherwise continue to simply upload the new styesheet provided in the templates theme folders if you are happy to overwrite your CSS stylesheet.
Manual Editing Required
Follow the simple instructions below to both edit your sites files which are required, edit your style.css stylesheet which is optional and remove old files to clean up your install.
- open root/include/classes/ on your server and delete the file called AppSTW.php
open root/include/config.php on your server and delete the following line of code.
- include($config['basedir'] . "/include/classes/AppSTW.php");
Now continue with the following
- open root/thumbnails/ on your server and delete the folder /bookmark_thumbs/ and its content
- open root/ on your server and delete the /cache/ folder and its content
- open root/admin/ on your server and delete (twitter.inc) & (twitter.class.php) & (simplepie) & (cron.php) & (video_setup.php)
This has now cleaned up your install of Niche Video Script and removed all the old and unwanted files and folders from your server.
Next if you need to manually add the new CSS to your /css/style.css file in your templates folder because you have made changes to the one your using, simply paste the CSS code below into the very bottom of your style.css file and save it back to your server.
make sure you select the right CSS for your theme as all the different themes CSS is below.
For template Green Machine (default)
For template Dark Knight (default)
For template Blue Beam (default)
Please Note: no CSS editing is required for the (Crimson) theme.
Final Notes
For Those With Copyright Removal Licenses. Please go to your downloads area and download (NicheVideoScript_2.0.8_Copyright_Removed.zip) and upload the files to your server overwriting the old ones.
Many of the changes made in this update have fixed some bugs that have been nagging both you and us for some time so finally we had some time around our busy schedule to get this done for you.
IMPORTANT: many of you with larger sites with lots of videos have been having problems with slow loading sites and some hosts have been telling you the script is at fault, its actually the size of your video tags table in the database which can grow to huge levels very fast if each video you add has lots of tags. So we have now added in your admin panel under the left menu in the bottom box a new link under clear chatbox called clear tags table, this will now automatically clean your tags table and your site will load super fast again, its wise to use this function at least once a month, now the downside is you will lose your tags cloud on your site but that is all and that will soon fill again with new videos. You will not lose keywords for videos or the ability to search videos.
We have now changed the (Suggestions) scrolling videos next to the video player to pull videos from the same category the video that is playing is from, this way you have much more chance now of your suggestions box showing more videos and not been empty.
For the full list of fixes please go through the section above called (Changelog) as this will give you full details of what has been fixed and changed so its wise to go through that list.
If you need support please open a helpdesk ticket through your account by Clicking Here (Please dont ask us to install this update free of charge as its not a quick job & requires that we pay staff)