CTW Release Notes

Ver 5.0.6, 5.0.7 - 13th May 2025

• Theme & UI improvements

• General functionality enhancements

• Bug fixes

Ver 5.0.5 - 5th April 2025

• Fixed an issue sending emails, which was also affecting registration validation

• Various bug fixes

Ver 5.0.4 - 28th March 2025

• Improvements to the user interface (UI)

Ver 5.0.3 - 27th March 2025

• Improvements to error handling

Ver 5.0.2 - 22nd March 2025

• Improvements to the editor

Ver 5.0.1 - 20th March 2025

• Improvements to the customisation options

Ver 5.0.0 - 16th March 2025

This is a major upgrade

• A brand-new user experience

  • Faster and more modern interface designed for all devices (desktops & mobiles)

  • Topic summaries

  • Improved content discovery - bring content across different sections together with a followable tag page

• A brand-new editing experience

  • Easier composition of articles & comments

• Upgraded MariaDB (MySQL) from v5 to v10

• Migration to newer / bigger / beefier Linux servers

Ver 4.2.0 - March 2025

• Created new Event Brands section

• Started to convert various lists to tables (e.g. event history within DJ Profiles) + created a new stylesheet for light & dark table themes.

• Fixed names for 'Content Types' within the 'More search options' section - it was previously showing all database entries as 'record' so we couldn't tell which database was which (e.g. DJ Profiles vs Interviews vs Reviews vs Venues)

• Added album descriptions for key event organisers (e.g. Frantic, Tidy) with social media buttons (their homepage, Facebook, Instagram, SoundCloud, Beatport)

• Cleaned up most of the article sections, created sub-categories for easier navigation, added featured articles & fixed permissions so members can edit their own articles

  • DJ profiles

  • Interviews

  • Reviews

  • Venues

• Added new achievement badges & assigned to applicable members

• Rewarded members historical forum posts & content 

• Tagged loads more content (DJs, venues, DJ competitions, events ...)

• Removed a lot of bad characters from older calendar events & clubbing forum posts

Ver 4.1.0 - February 2025

• Added Soundcloud player widgets for Trance, Techno & Hard Dance to forum post index & ticket sections

• Added albums for flyers & graphics for better organisation & easier navigation

• Allowed all logged-in members to create articles within the following sections;

  • Blogs

  • DJ Profiles

  • Interviews

  • Reviews

  • Venues

Ver 4.0.0 - January 2025

• Added new tickets section for

  • Hard Dance DJs

  • Techno DJs

  • Trance DJs

Ver 3.7.0 - June 2024 

• Added new themes / colour schemes (click the 'Theme' drop-down on the bottom left of the page)

• Started adding tags to almost everything (forum posts, events, photos)

• Cleaned up DJ profiles, added missing profiles (from CTW 2002 website)

• Added missing interviews (from CTW 2002 website)

• Added missing reviews (from CTW 2002 website)

• Added new achievement badges & rewards

• Cleaned up & added new profile fields

• Added new links menu

• Started to remove duplicate posts

Ver 3.6.1 - July 2023

• Created new Venues section for bars & clubs

Ver 3.6.0 - June 20 2023

• Upgraded PHP to v8

• Upgraded forum software (v4.7.11) to address security vulnerabilities & open up new features

• Re-created all theme templates & customizations (blue, pink, black)

Ver 3.5.1 - June 17 2023

• Create new 'CTW Pink Theme'

• Uploaded all clubbing event flyers from all past articles, reviews, posts, calendar entries

  • https://clubtheworld.uk/gallery/category/5-clubbing-flyers-graphics/

Ver 3.5.0 - June 13 2023

• Fixed Emojis - each was showing 2 icons (1 broken, 1 ok)

  • fix: switched from 'Twitter Style' emojis to native

• Fixed Google maps integration - all calendar events now show a map of the venue's location

  • fix: renewed billing account

• Fixed Email notifications - were not working, which was affecting new registrations as users couldn't receive the registration email & approve their email address

  • fix: switched to using 3rd party SendGrid service instead of local (PHP, SMTP)

• Blocked Singapore robots which were constantly scraping the website & ballooning online user count

  • Added new Plesk Firewall rule: Deny 114.119.0.0/16 on 80 & 443

Ver 3.4.1 - January 27 2020

• New Updated Feature: Chatbox + - Security Updates, Donation Updates - for DJ's during sets etc (disabled for now) - UPDATED

• Merging on content into fewer posts / spam removed 

Ver 3.4.0 - January 19 2020

• New Feature: Chatbox improvements - rich text and P2P interactions

• Removed 'Forums' & 'Gallery' header from index page - Mobile devices only

• Remove ‘Past Events & Members Reviews Forum’ - topics will stay in their original regional forum.

• Created new ‘United Kingdom - Wales’ Forum

Ver 3.3.3 - January 18 2020

• Photo Galleries are now only viewable by logged in Members.  Guests can only see categories, not photos.

• Added Google Maps integration - Calendar Events now show map for venues, also addresses should now autofill.    If there is location information in Photos they should also now show a map.

• Uploaded original member profile pics (Avatars) for any members without a pic (shows a default - 1st letter of board name)

Ver 3.3.2 - January 16 2020

• Optimised forum layout and killed some bugs

• New testing for live section  

Ver 3.3.1 - January 14 2020

• Optimised forum colours and layouts 

• New feature - serious forum 

• Optimiser calendar and galleries

Ver 3.2.2 - January 12 2020

• Optimised forums and layouts 

• Blog updates 

Ver 3.2.1 - January 10 2020

• Optimised viewing experience, loading speed reduced, tiles moved to reduce page height

• Section added, events reduced to show 1 month in advance

Ver 3.2.0 - January 10, 2020

• New feature blog version two enabled tested and working perfectly

• removed spam and other irrelevant content

Ver 3.1.2 - January 8th 2020

• Background picker enabled - currently just solid colours, we will be creating CTW-Style backgrounds.

• New Blog section still a work in progress - several issues to fix, ongoing but becoming much more functional. Rev1 - blogs are now working ! 

• Spam purge - as always please notify if anything missed.

Ver 3.1.1 - January 7th 2020

• Calendar Events can now have RSVP enabled.This means members can now confirm whether they are attending or not + other members can see who is going

Ver 3.1.0 - January 6th 2020

• Post / User signatures. These are back on. Please edit via your profile.  If an older user some links will need updating .

• NEW FEATURE - Chat box,see foot of main page and right hand menu at the top - this WILL be integrated soon into a pop up overlay box with richer features very soon. 

Ver 3.0.2 January 5th 2020.  

• Spam - deleted a tonne of spam, fixed some links and images.    If anyone sees any spam etc please let me know.

Ver 3.0.1 - January 4th 2020 

• Photos - due to larger pics and better quality phones, the max upload size has been increased from 0.98mb.  

Ver 2.0.0 - January 1st 2004

Ver 1.1.0 - January 1st 2003

Ver 1.0.0 - January 1st 2002

Ver 0.0.1 - January 1st 2001