Two weeks ago, we have released some of the standalone core apps such as Music, Pages, Photos, CDN Service and Facebook Connect. You can check the article on this page. And as promised, phpFox released another set of standalone core apps and have been officially added to the phpFox store.What are these new Standalone Core Apps? EmojiWe are all using emoji nowadays, and this is one of the best ways to show our feeling to each other. phpFox provides the Emoji app which allows your users to insert more and more emojis while texting. Emojis are a fun and creative way that your users can use to connect with the other members of your online community. This has more become one of the essential features to a social network community. Learn more...PokePoke app allows members of the community to poke their friends to call their notice. Your users basically use poke to catch someone's attention without engaging into a conversation. When a user pokes his / her friend, this friend will get a notification. Learn more...NewsletterNewsletter makes it easy for you to share email to your members within your social network community. Sometimes you may want to send out emails to some specific users to notify about your site or your plan. For each newsletter, you can select the target audiences and write the content with both plain text or rich text. Learn more...Announcement"Announcement" in phpFox is a short functional text that contains some information of facts, such as promotions, events, updates, or intentions, that are presented in public or specific users set by the admins. It supports multi-language and can be shown on the homepage of your website. Learn more...These standalone core apps are now available for download in phpFox store. You can also find the installation instructions in each app detail.You may also submit a ticket in the client area if you have any questions about these apps.Just keep an eye on our future blogs to get the latest news and updates from phpFox. New to phpFox? Visit our website and ask our live chat agent.

Recently, we released one of the phpFox's standalone core apps which is the Blog App v4.5.3. And as we continue, we are releasing more standalone core apps of phpFox in the store.More phpFox Standalone Core Apps As we released these updated core apps, we made sure that all the issues from the current version have been fixed.  We also added new features and improvements that will absolutely benefit your site. Now, let's begin to check them out one by one. Music v4.5.3 Through Music app, you just don't make new acquaintances, you can also keep in touch with your friends. Music is a way that connects people more than words can do. Musicians can upload and share their songs and put them into albums and control the specific genre they are in. Your members can listen to these songs/albums and add them to their own profile. New Features and ImprovementsAllow uploading multiple songs Multiple genres Upload song thumbnail photo Integrate with CKEditor (Song description + Album description) Add new pages for owner can manage album songs Integrate with AddThis in Song detail page + Album detail page Add a tab to list user albums in user profile page Add new block "More From <<user>>" to display all albums created by the owner of the current one. Play all songs in album detail page. Repeat feature added for the music player. Support attachment, emoji for Song description and Album description. Statistic information of music (songs and albums) are shown now in AdminCP. More...Pages v4.5.3 In phpFox site, it is the place for your users to specifically create public profiles such as businesses, brands, organizations, public figures,  and other causes. Pages do not gain friends but fans or followers who choose to LIKE that specific Page. New Features and ImprovementsDisplay total like when browsing pages Admin/owner can delete/manage pages in listing page Mass action to delete/approve pages Thumbnail for main categories Invite to like pages via email CKEditor for adding/editing pages widgets. Support view more / view less in pages information block. Add new block "People also like" to suggest pages which have the same category with the current one. Support 3 modes for pagination Add the settings"Pages Limit per Category" "Display Pages Profile Photo within Gallery" "Display Pages Cover Photo within Gallery"Add 2 settings for SEO: "Page Meta Description" and "Page Meta Keywords". Statistic information of Pages is shown now in AdminCP. More...Photos v4.5.3 "Photos" is an essential section of all social network communities. We know that images have become more and more important and that is why we don't just provide you a simple core photo app but we have added many trending actions to make it more attractive. Your members can choose to upload photos to a public gallery or to their own set of photo albums. Your members can also select the privacy settings for the photo they upload and choose who can view their photos online. New Features and ImprovementsAll photos that shared from feed will be put in an album name "Timeline Photos" for each user. Add new feed when user update cover photo Integrate with AddThis Support 3 modes for pagination More...Facebook Connect v4.5.3 Since Facebook is one of the largest and most popular social network sites for the publicity, many people would like to use their Facebook accounts to join to other networks. By using Facebook Connect app, your users can join your community conveniently by logging in with their Facebook account.  Learn more... CDN Service v4.5.3 A content delivery network (CDN) is a system of distributed servers (network) that deliver content of websites to a user, based on the geographic locations of the user. This is one of the most popular solutions to deliver large scale websites to a global audience. It is effective in reducing latency, accelerating site load times. The closer the CDN server is to the user geographically, the faster the content will be delivered to the user. Hence, if you are seeking for CDN functionalities on phpFox, this app is for you.  Learn more...These standalone core apps are now available for download in phpFox store. You can also find the installation instructions in each app detail.  However, even they are all free and available for download in the store, you will still need to make sure that you are holding a phpFox license package which is legit to download the app. Every time you choose an app to download, the phpFox store will verify your license if you are eligible to download the specific app. As the LITE license holders can download Music App but not the Photos App while PRO license holders can download all the core apps. You can check the comparison page for phpFox license packages to see what are the features included in your license. You can also ask our live chat agent if you aren't sure about the features of the phpFox package you are holding.

We are pleased to announce the release of the latest phpFox core Blog App v4.5.3.It is now added to the list of phpFox standalone apps and can be downloaded and installed together with the other phpFox core apps in the store.  Check out the complete list of the core apps here. New Features and ImprovementsUpload banner photo for the blog Sponsor blogs Feature blogs Add new block "Suggestion" on Blog Detail page - show other blogs that have same categories with the current blog Support 3 pagination modes for browsing item: scroll down to load more, next prev buttons, paging with page number Integrate with AddThis in the blog detail page Admin can control show/hide blogs posted in pages/groups Add new block "Popular Topics"Check out the complete feature list at here.Find bugs with this version? Please report them at our Github tracker.Do you need support? Don’t hesitate to submit tickets right from your account to reach out or visit our website and ask our live chat agent. We will reply to you very soon then.We hope that you feel interested and joyful in this release. Stay tuned as we will get back with more updates soon.