Hope everyone had a happy new year! As long as nothing big happens, the next release will be out Friday. This post will just be a summary of what's been added this year and my goals for the scripts in 2014.
I didn't really live up to the goals that I set out at the beginning of the year, which were to get a major update out each month from Jan-April and then 2-3 major updates out from May on. I was able to get a new update out each month up through July, skipped August then got one out in September. I'm going to put this next update that comes out Friday as the December one since their will likely be another update at the end of January. So 9/12 months got a new update, isn't the worst. I was able to get a new theme out everyone month though, which I am pretty happy about. There were also some people that submitted their own themes, which was awesome.
Starting the year, the scripts were still extremely weak and I was telling people to still use v3 instead since v4 had almost nothing in it. Here is a list of the stuff that was added:
Added Manage Matches and Join Tournament, to the Tournament system (Tournament system is still not finished though :\ )
Change Name/Recruiter/Recruit Date
And these will be out Friday:
Social Media Plugins (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube - More will be added soon)
Set up forums that only certain members can post in, but are viewable to all or a selected set of members
IA System (with help from Nuker_Viper)
Individual-Level Settings for Awarding/Revoking Medals and Promoting/Demoting Members.
Add an option to add captcha’s to the custom forms and sign up form
Pretty solid year as far as adding new features.
Also have some pretty big personal news..... I quit my job :D. I'll be going back to school at the end of the month. I'm 25 so it was now or be stuck in a career I hated forever. Going to be doing computer science (I majored in accounting my first go around).
My goals for this year are to continue with monthly updates and new themes. Main features that I can think of now that I want to add are:
Units system (idea courtesy of PickleKillz), essentially will allow you to split up your clan into divisions/units with unit leaders who have control over the members solely in their unit, individual unit applications and more (kind of like a way more advanced version of the squads system that is currently in the scripts).
Polls, both on the main site and integrated into the forums
Finish the Tournament System
Well, that's all I can think of for now. Look out for the next update on Friday. And if you haven't seen it, go over to http://www.bluethrust.com/cs4demo for a look at the new theme.
Thank you to everyone whose supported the scripts!