1. The gallery feature of Pulse Pro now has the ability to add captions to each individual photo.  Just click on a photo in the gallery admin to bring up the caption editor.  Captions will be displayed on the frontend in both the slider gallery as well as the thumbnail gallery.

2. Also in this update is an upgrade of the gallery uploader (plupload.com).  It fixes a memory leak as well as adds image resizing to uploads.  By default, the images will be resized to be a max of 800x800.  So if a user uploads an image that is 2000x2000, it will be automatically scaled down to 800x800.  This prevents the image from falling off the screen and also reduces the file size.  If an image is less than 800x800, it will not be changed.  Since large images will now be reduced in both dimension and file size, I have increased the max upload file size from 200k to 1mb.  A 1mb file is obviously too large and not web optimized, but upon upload, it will be significantly reduced. The last thing that this upgrade to the uploader does is enable safari drag and drop uploading, previously it only worked with chrome and firefox.

3. There is a small update to the block/blog editor adds the “Remove Formatting” button to the toolbar.  This is handy for when you are pasting text from Word and it adds a bunch of extra formatting. Clicking the button will strip out all formatting and allows you to start with clean, unformatted text.

4. Embed codes have been changed to shorter, relative paths. Existing embed codes will still work, this is only for newly created ones. This makes it easier if you develop on a local server and later move it to the live server.  You can use the same embeds whereas previously you would need to edit them.

5. Finally, the settings page has been slightly updated for better organization.

Pulse CMS Demo Page: http://pulsecms.com/demo/

Please report any bugs to: http://pulsecms.com/contact.php

UPDATE:

I have made some slight modifications to the rewrites and they now include the blog title for better SEO

A few weeks ago I mentioned I was playing around with a free "design pack" for Pulse Pro. (Preview Here)  I am making it available for download today for anyone who wants it.  Its a very simple concept site that utilizes all the major features of Pulse Pro (Blog, Gallery & Blocks).  It's just two files and a couple images and should enable anyone to set up a quick blog site in a matter of minutes.  

To set it up, just edit index.php and place your Pulse Pro embed codes in the areas noted in the file.  Thats it.  

Let me know if you find any browser incompatibilities or other issues.  Thanks!

To download, go to the download page here.

Pulse Pro 1.4.7 adds the ability to truncate a blog post and add a "Read More" button. There is a new button in the toolbar when editing blog posts (Far right). When clicked, it will insert a special tag that tells Pulse you wish to stop here, insert the button and display the rest inside. You can also manually create the break by typing the tag anywhere in your post.

Also in this update is an image deletion bug fix for the gallery.  

This will be the last update for the year, with lots more coming in 2011, happy holidays to all Pulse users and thanks for your support :)

Mark

PS

Let me squeeze this into this post also, I'm playing around with a simple front end design pack that utilizes all the Pulse features (Block, Blog, Gallery). Just two files, index.php and style.css. Will eventually package it up and post for free if anyone wants to use it as a starting point for a simple personal blog site.  Here is the demo: http://pulsecms.com/front/

Pulse Pro is another small update that adds a blog date format option to the settings page.  This is aimed at making things a bit easier for international users and eliminates the need to modify any code to change the format.

There are now two options for the blog dates:   MM/DD/YYYY  or  DD/MM/YYYY

The update also addresses an issue with the gallery that affected some users with Solaris based hosting.

http://pulsecms.com/getpro

Pulse Pro 1.4.5.1 is a small update that addresses a bug in the RSS feed that was introduced with the new settings page.  Only one file is affected (rss.php) so you can download and just replace that one file to fix the issue.