BlogJet 2.5 Public Beta
December 30, 2009 by Dmitry
We’re happy to announce a holiday present for you — a public beta of BlogJet 2.5!
What’s New
- Full Unicode support.
- New spell checker (you can download dictionaries here).
- Clean theme that looks awesome in Vista and Windows 7.
Download BlogJet 2.5 Beta (4.3 MB)
Full Unicode support is a big deal. You can write posts in any language and even mix languages:
Development and Next Releases
Now that we released 2.5 beta, the transition to a new code base (with most core parts completely rewritten) and a new development environment is done, so we’re ready to continuously improve BlogJet and release new versions faster.
BlogJet Beta Forum
We’re starting to be more open about BlogJet development, and replacing the closed beta forum with an open one. Please join us in BlogJet Beta Forum. You can report bugs in beta versions there.
Happy New Year! Enjoy the new BlogJet!
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I believe you’d better to add some kind of the demo mode. Where you can try the product without telling it about your blog. Maybe you should run your own test blog where everyone may post something.
This is a great suggestion, and I thought about doing something like this, however I couldn’t think of a way to provide the test blog without various problems with it. The easiest way for now is to get a free WordPress.com blog, which requires just going to http://en.wordpress.com/signup/ and filling in 4 text fields :)
Unfortunately, one of those fields is “e-mail”. It will be much better if besides both “I have a blog” and “Create blog” options, I will be able to choose “Use demo-blog”.
Otherwise, you may even create a virtual “blog”. It will live in my computer’s memory and will be available to the BlogJet only. Even without HTTP. Just to test the user interface without registering fake or providing the real blog.
Just my 2 cents.
Will you release a portable version?
See this forum topic.
Please consider including a fix to the problem mentioned in the forum - http://forum.codingrobots.com/topic/using-blogjet-in-different-languages-keyboard-combinations/page/98#post-2040
Thank you.
Greetings,
-Lech
BJ has still no vital functions that ALL foreign users needs: permalink editing before posting. Example: let’s say I write a post in japanese, BUT for SEO purposes I want the permalink to be 1) in english 2) add some additional keywords. In other words, I want to be able to edit permalinks of my posts the way I want them BEFORE posting. How do I do this in BJ? No way that I know of :/
Until this is implemented, a lot of foreign users (at least those who understand the very basic seo) won’t be able to blog effectively.
ONLY because BJ lacks this feature I have to keep blogging from the browser :/
adamas: I blog in Russian, and I have a plugin (for Movable Type and WordPress) that transliterates post titles to latin characters.
As for SEO, I don’t understand you: why do you want English permalinks (with additional “keywords”) when your blog is in Japanese? I don’t think many people searching for English words can read Japanese. It also doesn’t improve your positioning in search engines when your URL contains some “keywords” in one language and your posts is in a different language. This is a basic SEO :)
(There was a technical reason why you couldn’t not specify permalinks/slugs in BlogJet — most blog APIs didn’t support this. Now there are some blog engines that support this, so it’s definitely should go into our todo.)