Geeklog

I am pleased to announce the release of Geeklog Plugin Toolkit 0.3.0, a major update designed to simplify the creation of plugins for Geeklog 2.2.2 and PHP 8.1 or later.

The toolkit provides a command-line Plugin Generator called plgen.php. It creates an installable plugin skeleton containing the main files and structures required to start a new Geeklog plugin.

This release modernizes both the generator and the generated templates while making the creation process safer and more flexible.

Automatically create meta descriptions, keywords, and SEO titles for your articles

In modern SEO, small details often make a big difference. Meta tags such as meta_description, meta_keywords, and page_title still play an essential role in how your content is displayed and understood by search engines. They directly influence how your stories appear in results, and therefore how often users click them.

I’ve recently built a simple, lightweight utility that helps Geeklog site administrators automatically generate these fields using OpenAI’s API. It works with any Geeklog 2.x site and doesn’t require additional plugins or modifications.

Geeklog v2.2.1sr1 is now available for download and is the recommended version for all production sites.

This is a security update for Geeklog v2.2.1 with a few fixes and improvements as well. This is a complete tarball, to be used for fresh installs and upgrades from all previous releases.

There was 14 closed issues for this version of Geeklog which resulted in 68 code commits and 214 changed files. The important new features, improvements and fixes in this version include:

• [Security] [NA] XSS issue with the Plugin Admin interface (reported by Netsparker.com)
• [Security] [NA] Issue with the comment library (reported by Netsparker.com)
• [Feature] [#1016] Staticpages can now be set individually if they will appear in the search results or not
• [Bug] [#1043] Fixed hardcoded table names in upgrade for Geeklog v2.2.1
• [Bug] [#1043] Fixed issue where the install would fail in some cases because it did not know where the system directory was
• [Bug] [#1046] Fixed Users can only be set to certain statuses by Admins
• [Bug] [#1048] Fixed related Articles are Missing From the Article Page
• [Bug] [#1049] Fixed Print Pages for Articles and Staticpages javascript crashing issue
• [Bug] [#1058] Fixed URL Routing for Articles that could cause errors in some cases. Also disabled multiview by default for Apache servers in the htaccess file

... as well as a few other improvements and bug fixes. The complete list can be found on Github and in the history text file located in the docs directory of this release.

To expand on the functionality of your Geeklog website, check out the list of plugins that support this version.