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Pivot is a web-based tool to help you maintain dynamic sites, like weblogs or online journals. Pivot is released under the GPL so it is completely free to use. It is written in PHP, and does not require additional libraries or databases to function.

In the column on the right you can find downloads, as well as the online documentation. Please refrain from using the 'comments' on this page to ask questions about Pivot. You are much more likely to be helped, if you ask your questions in the Forum.

Pivot 1.40 released!

Sunday 24 December 2006 at 05:58 am

We've released Pivot 1.40, just in time for the holidays! Merry X-mas, everybody!

In case you haven't been following the Beta versions for this release, the major things that are new in this version are:

  • We've added Tagging functionality. (tagclouds, tagpages, tags for each entry)
  • We have a very fancy new Image Cropping Tool.
  • Major improvements to the Registered Visitors functionality.
  • We have a new set of default templates.
  • You can format the output of the search results to your liking.
  • Popups now use Thickbox to display images.
  • Comment Moderation (If you turn this on, new comments will not show up on your weblog until you’ve approved them. You can enable this from Administration>Configuration)
  • Greatly improved Metaweblog API support (so you can post to your Pivot log from other applications)
  • A new ‘Registered Visitors’ administration screen, so you can disable, verify and delete them.
  • The pages for Visitor Registration, Pivot errors and ‘self registration’ are now themeable.
  • And lots more smaller enhancements and bugfixes. See our changelog.

If you're new to Pivot you should get the full version below and read here on how to get started.

If you're upgrading, you should grab the updater from below, and follow these steps:

  • Extract the files on your computer.
  • Make a backup of your website. (really)
  • Upload all the files overwriting the ones already present.
  • Download the upgradechecks tool, unzip it and upload to your pivot folder.
  • Open pivot/upgradechecks.php in your browser and see if you have to make any changes.
  • Log in to your Pivot, and do the following:
    • Rebuild the index.
    • Go to Administration » Weblogs, and click through your weblog so, the weblog configuration is updated.
    • Add [[thickbox:head]] to the <head> section of your templates, if you want to use the new thickbox popups.
    • Rebuild all pages.
  • Enjoy your brand-new Pivot!
Alternatively you can use our Pivot Setup script, which takes care of the installation/upgrading. Read about it here: Pivot Setup.

The Files are here, on our Sourceforge page:
If sourceforge isn't working as it should, you can also get the files here.

As you can see above we have new Default Templates and they're very slick. (if we say so ourselves) Here are three screenshots of different portions of the templates:

You can see the templates in action here: pivotlog.net/templates/
There are two variants, a two column layout and a three column layout, and they come in three different color schemes.

Tip: We've heard about people (mainly on OSX) who've had their FTP programs wipe the folders clean before uploading. Make sure that doesn't happen to you by reading this forum thread.

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