Esselbach Storyteller CMS 1.8 released

Esselbach Storyteller CMS 1.8 has been released to the members area

What's new in 1.8:

- Advanced search options in admin control panel
- A preview option has been added to news, downloads, and reviews while using the plain (non wysiwyg) editor
- New image blockcodes ([ imgleft ], [ imgright ], [ thumbleft ], [ thumbright ]) are available
- A option to turn URLs to [url] code is now available in admin control panel for news, downloads, and review
- Downloads can be now enabled for registered users only. It is no longer necessary to add subscribers.
- Added a teaser picture option for the forums overview
- Non admin users can be added now to private forums
- Forums can be merged in the admin control panel
- A mass thread move option is available in the admin control panel
- Instant Styles comes now with 50 themes, a wide option, as well a menu left/right/above option
- Added an option to display today's referers
- Admin user can define their own block codes in admin control panel
- Admin user can add their own smilies in admin control panel
- A lost passwort option is now available at the login screen
- "What's new on this website" has been enhanced to display the news headlines or forum topics of all websites
- Added multiple sort options at the forums/topics list
- Added quick reply in thread footer
- Added thread rating option
- A "PLONK" button is now available in comments and forums. Clicking this button will mask the users post with "*PLONK*". The original post is still in the database.
- There is now an auto plonk option available under troll management in the ban section of the admin control panel
- A posting that has been marked as solution can be unmarked by the topic starter
- Who is online has been added
- The thumbnail function is now using GD2 for resizing on newer PHP versions
- An additional filter has been added to the email news import function
- The login header bar (above) is now part of the site_header template and can be added with $insert[login_header]
- Persistent MySQL connection can be enabled under config
- A few minor bugfixes

The following files/templates has been updated/added:

Main directory: activate.php, category.php, core.php, download.php, forums.php, login.php, poll.php, printer.php, story.php, thumb.php, backend.php, comments.php, downloadget.php, faqshow.php, index.php, moderator.php, post.php, review.php, thread.php, whatsnew.php

cadmin directory: admincore.php, cupgrade.php, mod_ban.php, mod_faq.php, mod_news.php, mod_review.php, mod_users.php, cinstall.php, index.php, mod_community.php, mod_glossary.php, mod_pages.php, mod_stats.php, mod_words.php, cupgrade2.php, mod_admin.php, mod_downloads.php, mod_links.php, mod_poll.php, mod_templates.php

Images: plonk.gif, kstar.gif, forums/blank_image.png

Templates: comments_error_adminonly, forum_moderator_mergedone, forum_threadrating_alreadyvoted, login_lostpw, comments_plonk_done, forum_moderator_merge, forum_threadrating_done, mail_lostpw_message, comments_post_form_quote, forum_moderator_movedone, forum_topics_announce, mail_lostpwsend_message, comments_post_form, forum_moderator_move, forum_topics_footer, mail_lostpwsend_title, comments, forum_moderator_noforum, forum_topics_header, mail_lostpw_title, forum_answer_error, forum_moderator_threadlist, forum_topics_post, poll_error_novote, forum_answer, forum_overview_header, forum_topics_ufooter, profile_details, forum_boardtitle, forum_plonk_done, login_dologin, site_header.tmp.php, forum_category, forum_post_poll, login_error_inqueue, whatsnew_stories_header, forum_error_adminonly, forum_post_topic, login_error, whatsnew_stories_list, forum_error_firstpost, forum_reply_overview_footer, login_header_user_all, whatsnew_threads_header, forum_error_novote, forum_reply_topic, login_lostpw_bb.tmp.php, whatsnew_threads, forum_error_preview, forum_thread_footer, login_lostpw_done, forum_error_readonly, forum_thread_header, login_lostpw_invalid, forum_moderator_forumslist, forum_thread_post.tmp.php, login_lostpw_send.tmp.php

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