Upgraded Joomsayer and Hyphenation for Movable Type

Joomsayer and Hyphenation for Movable Type are now both released in version 1.0. Sociotags and Curvaceous are both released in version 1.01.

The previous version of Joomsayer contained a bug that appears to break functionality of either Joomsayer or (worse) other plug-ins in MT 4.2 RC2. There is no formal bug fix; however, the bug is believed to be caused by a dependency that has been completely removed in version 1.0, and the defect is currently not reproducible.

Perhaps the most important new feature in Joomsayer is that you no longer need to rely on a hardcoded HTML block; it is now completely configurable in your plug-in preferences.

Also, the screendump showing the customized Joomsayer quotation box with white background, dropshadow, rounded corners, and blue quotation characters is available as a download.

To upgrade Joomsayer from version 0.2, unfortunately you may have to revisit the plug-in preferences for each of your blogs and set the quote box alignment and the quote source positions anew. The reason for this inconvenience is that the automatic upgrader is not able to migrate your settings due to an obscure bug in Movable Type that has survived for quite some time.

The release 1.0 version of Hyphenation adds the option to explicitly remove all hyphenation tags from output regardless of whether the Hyphenation plug-in is enabled or not; this is useful for your blog feeds.

Two other Movable Type plug-ins have received minor updates: Sociotags and Curvaceous are both available in version 1.01. Both of the releases include a minor bug fix that could potentially cause problems in future upgrades. Neither of the updates are critical, but they could save you some trouble in the future. In addition, Sociotags includes the Danish service Anyhed.dk.