I know that not much had happened in the past few months, and for that I am sorry. Rest assured that I still have plans to move forward, but new features - of which quite a few are planned - or releases most likely won't happen in 2019 anymore.

After four months of little work on it, I finally decided to make a new blogcpp release for you, including the new template system and a second theme, loosely imitating the werc framework. There may be some rough edges left in it, but I'm confident that they will be ironed out over the next few months.

Some of you might have noticed that blogcpp's NLTemplate engine was not really the best choice: it lacked features like conditional blocks, requiring workarounds like catch(...) { block.disable(); } in the C++ code; it was not really compatible with other popular template engines, making it harder to port existing themes; it collided with blogcpp's threading a lot; and its upstream development had mostly been halted years ago.

I came across the Commento commenting system a while ago. Since it required a separate script tag when I found it, I decided to make the comments integration slightly more flexible.

Long-term readers might have noticed that the list of features which have been waiting to be added to blogcpp since its very first commits included article series which I had planned to develop "soon".

As I tried to implement this feature, I noticed that some of the article-related code in blogcpp was not written to be extended later.

As it has been a long-standing planned feature and the development of blogcpp is still going steady, I added support for plug-ins in a series of commits lately, meaning that you can add or remove your own features on-the-fly. In order to achieve this goal, blogcpp integrates the superb Duktape ECMAScript engine.

Since there have been reports that blogcpp won't compile on non-Windows machines, I made the switch to Clang for my own builds. Doing this, I - actually, clang - found a number of issues which were perfectly accepted by the Visual Studio compiler but failed to work with Clang.

From the beginning of BlogC++, people were wondering why I had not joined the large GitHub train where everyone and their mother seems to be these days. Well, I remember a time when everyone was on Sourceforge ...

Sad news, everyone: A number of unforeseen circumstances made us shut down the support board about:blogs, at least for a while.

I know this was actually planned for a later version, however, I added some responsive support to BlogC++ just now. Sadly, I had to add some JavaScript code for this to work as intended, but I decided to use the UmbrellaJS library instead of a full-blown jQuery solution (or even vanilla JS) to make this as little painful for you and me as possible.

Today, July 17, is the day of the annual World Emoji Day. A good day to start a blog with BlogC++ and its built-in emoji support. 🙂

As it's (somehow) a state of the art to use emojis in 2016, you can use shortcodes in BlogC++ now to add them to your posts. Enjoy.

Good news, everyone!

As you can see, blogcpp finally has support for RSS feeds, the first new feature of the upcoming version 2.