We are glad to announce release of many exciting enhancements in our popular SocialEngine PHP plugin: "Directory / Pages Plugin". These enhancements will be very useful for your website, and will also be a fresh change for your users:

- Page Profile - Cover Photo and Information widget: Displays the Page Cover Photo with Page Profile Photo, Title and various Action Links like - Join Page, Like, Follow, etc.

- Pinboard Layout: [DEMO] This layout is very useful if visual appearance of Pages content is important for your website. With this feature:
   - You can choose to enable attractive Pinboard Layout for Home and Browse pages.
   - New "Browse Pages' Pinboard View" page to display search results in pinboard view.
   - On-the-spot commenting on Pages from the pinboards.
   - Mouse-over action links appear attractively on various Pages.
   - You can choose to display Pages' search results based on member's current location.

- Singular / Plural Page Entity Title: In addition to changing the texts for URLs in "Directory / Pages Plugin", you can now change the default entity titles: 'Page' and 'Pages' of this plugin to any other word like: 'Directory', 'Directories', 'Company', 'Companies', 'Group', 'Groups', etc.. If you already have this plugin installed on your site, then you can change these titles by visiting the Global Settings section of this plugin. This enables you to highly customize the use of this plugin on your website.

- Multiple Locations for Pages [DEMO]: With this enhancement, Page Admins will be able to add multiple locations and their names along with a google map for each Page location. Page Admins can select a main location for their Pages.

- Approximate Distance Calculation: In "Browse by Locations" for Pages, user's current location is detected automatically to display results around that. With this feature, an approximate distance to the searched result will also be shown now. Users can also change the location as per their choice. This makes location based search results more comprehensible.

- Attractive Grid View for Pages: [DEMO] This feature will enhance the visual appearance of Pages in Grid View:
  ~ You can now enter the width of each grid item.
  ~ Title is highlighted with a shadow effect above the profile picture of Pages.
  ~ Members count shown (This feature is dependant on "Directory / Pages - Pages as Groups / Page Members Extension")
  ~ You can choose to display various statistics for Pages like - Views, Comments, Likes, Location, Featured marker, etc.

- Enhancements in Like Functionality: If liking of Directory Items / Pages is important for your site, then you will surely love this enhancement:
   ~ Page Admins will get a notification when members Like their Pages.
   ~ New Page Content Creation Privacy - Who Liked This Page: With this new privacy option Page Admins can choose the Creation Privacy of various contents like Notes, Events, Documents, Photos, Videos, Music, Polls, etc. in their Pages (content from various Extensions of Directory / Pages Plugin) to only those members who liked their Pages. This is admin configurable.
   ~ Pages will be automatically 'Liked' by their Page Admins after their successful creation.

- Follow Directory Items / Pages:
   ~ Page Admins will get a notification when members "Follow" their Pages.
   ~ Members get notifications when Page Admins update status and add various contents like Notes, Events, Documents, Photos, Videos, Music, Polls, etc. (by using various Extensions of Directory / Pages Plugin) to the Pages that they are Following. (Notification for status update is dependent on the "Advanced Activity Feeds / Wall Plugin").
   ~ "Follow Button" and "Most Followed Pages" widget: If "Directory / Pages Plugin" is already running on your site, then you should place these widgets manually after upgrading the plugin.  

- Page Admins will get a notification when members Comment on their Pages.

- Manage Notifications: With this enhancement, notifications for the following actions will be sent to Page Admins which they can manage from the Manage Notifications section of their Page Dashboard:
  ~ When someone posts an update on their Pages. (This feature is dependent on "Advanced Activity Feeds / Wall Plugin".)
  ~ When someone creates any content like Notes, Events, Documents, Photos, Videos, Music, Polls, etc. (by using various Extensions of Directory / Pages Plugin) in their Pages.
  ~ When someone Likes their Pages.
  ~ When someone Comments on their Pages.
  ~ When someone Follows their Pages.

- Allowing Description in Pages: Using the new "Allow Description" setting, you can now choose whether to allow Page Admins to write descriptions for their Pages or not.

- New widgets:
    ~ Page Profile Timeline Cover Photo and Information
    ~ Follow Button
    ~ Most Followed Pages
    ~ Search pages Form (Pinboard Results)
    ~ Popular / Recent / Random / Location Pages: Pinboard View
    ~ Browse Pages: Pinboard View
    ~ Sponsored Pages Slideshow
    and more...

- Enhancements in  extensions of "Directory / Pages Plugin":
    ~ Categories in "Directory / Pages - Events Extension": You (Site Admin) can now add, manage categories for the Page Events on your site.

    ~ New setting in "Directory / Pages - Photo Albums Extension": New setting "Show / Hide Default Albums" enables you to show / hide the default photo albums like Overview Photos, Cover Photos, etc. in the Photos tab on Page Profile pages, etc. on your site.


- WYSIWYG Editor for "Directory / Pages - Discussions Extension": We’ve added WYSIWYG editor to the following related to Page Discussions: Post Topic Create, Post Edit, and Post Reply.
    ~ New Page Content Profile Discussions widget enables you to place this widget on the Profile Pages of any extension of "Directory / Pages" like Page Document View Page, Page Events Profile pages, etc. to enable Discussion in various page extensions also.

Note: To enable these enhancements on your site, please upgrade "Directory / Pages Plugin" and its extensions on your site to their latest versions. 

Please find below the screenshots for these enhancements: