Version 1.3.8 of Conductor (available Friday, July 24, 2009 at 11:30pm) has three updates worth noting: changes to the Dashboard, a new html to Textile utility, and a big update to the underlying code.
Dashboard Changes
A number of new reports have been added to the Conductor Dashboard.
The first new report is “Recently Updated Pages”. This report will list the Title, User and Date of the most recently updated pages on your site.
The remaining five reports will only be available to customers with Google Analytics accounts that are accessible by AgencyND.
- Conductor News – Here you will see the latest and greatest posts to the Conductor section of the AgencyND blog.
- Top Sources – These are the sites that are linking to you, and how many visits they’ve sent your way in the past month.
- Search Terms – This report shows the top search terms used by your visitors that ultimately lead them to your site.
- Monthly traffic – Shows you how many visits you’ve had each month over the past year.
- Daily traffic – Shows you how many visits you’ve had each day over the past month
HTML to Textile conversion
If you’ve ever had to convert existing html content to Textile (Conductor’s default markup syntax), you know how time intensive the process can be. This release includes a tool to make this process much easier. When you’re editing a page, you will notice a link for “Textile Converter” to the top and right of the content entry box. This will open an area where you can paste in some html, hit a button and get the content returned to you formatted in Textile. You can then copy/paste this content wherever you need it.
Ruby on Rails Update
This release of Conductor marks a move from Ruby on Rails 2.1.0 to the most recent 2.3.3. This change required a lot of updating to the underlying libraries of Conductor, including a large rewrite of the tests. If you’re curious, you can read the release notes for Rails 2.2 and Rails 2.3.
