Website Updates

What's new (w/c 7 September)

Rich text editor for posts and messages

The big one. Every composer, thread replies, new threads, post edits, private messages and your signature — now has a rich text editor with a formatting toolbar and live preview, instead of typing raw markup.

• Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, super/subscript, highlight; headings, bullet/numbered lists, quotes, alignment and indent; inline code, code blocks, spoilers, dividers; text colour, size and font; links, email links, images and video.
• Syntax-highlighted code blocks, choose a language (PHP, JavaScript, SQL, CSS, HTML, Bash, JSON, YAML, Markdown, diff) and it's colourised both as you type and in the posted result.
• The Image button uploads a file, and you can drag-and-drop or paste an image straight into the editor.
• Your choice: Profile → Settings has a "Post editor" preference (rich text or plain Markdown), and every composer has a "Rich text editor" checkbox to switch just for that post.
• The classic Markdown toolbar and the rich toolbar now carry exactly the same set of buttons in the same order, so switching between them doesn't move things around.
• Fixes along the way: "Reply with Quote" now drops the quote into the rich editor, bullet/numbered lists render properly inside quotes, and the toolbar buttons reflect the active formatting correctly.

Plugin submission - support thread picker

When submitting a plugin, the "Forum Support Thread" step is now a three-way choice:

• Link an existing thread type to search; the list is scoped to the actual plugin support forums.
• Paste a link paste a thread URL; it's checked to be a support thread on this forum that you can view.
• Create a new thread, as before, but you can now edit the title (it defaults to the plugin name).

Smaller items

• Members search has an "exact match" option. search kim and get only the member called kim, not everyone whose name contains it.
• Your avatar shows a badge with the number of unread private messages.
• Staff can create a thread already locked from the new-thread form.

Plugin and release IDs are now visible to authors

Every plugin page now shows its numeric plugin ID — next to the plugin name, and
in a dedicated "Plugin ID" panel with a one-click copy button. Each entry in the
Releases list shows its own release ID the same way.

For encapsulated plugins there's a short note that this ID is written into the
package's manifest.php (pluginId) automatically the first time a release is
published, so it's clear where the value comes from. The same explanation now
sits under the "Encapsulated Plugin?" question on the plugin submission and
"add release" forms.

The approval emails also spell the IDs out: the plugin-approved email states the
plugin ID, and the release-approved email states both the plugin ID and the
release ID. Both IDs were already available through the marketplace API.

Smaller items

• The account menu no longer shows clipped lower corners on narrow screens.