The latest CMS news from around the world
We try to stay hip to the funk with what's going on in the world with new CMS releases and other related news. But if we happened to miss something that you think should be here, then feel free to suggest it!
Content Management News and Events
Jun
10
Proposals for Plone 4 Solicited
The Plone Foundation is looking for feedback and ideas that go beyond the typical bug reports. They are looking for substantive suggestions/improvements they call a Plone Improvement Proposal, or PLIP. Think of it as a mini essay that describes your idea, how it would work, what the downsides are. These ideas will be considered by the foundation for inclusion in Plone 4. Anyone can submit new ideas, but you have to be willing to take responsibility for the idea should it be chosen.
Jun
4
Zenphoto 1.2.5
Zenphoto 1.2.5 has been released out the the public in its final form. It contains a few new features worth noting: there is now a plugin to allow cropping of images, there are now options for grey images, they added a jQuery datepicker, some search improvements, and lots of other stuff on the backend. Check it out.
Jun
2
CushyCMS Upgraded
Stateless Systems has updated their offering named CushyCMS which powers 30,000 websites worldwide. Some of their improvements include capabilities to edit XML for flash sites, support for 10 more languages, better reliability of embedded PHP scripting, and some other display improvements. In addition, if you’re paying for a Pro plan, you can customize the WYSIWYG editor per site, and define custom styles for it.
Jun
1
Dries Buytaert on Drupal 7 usability
There’s a lot of news surrounding the work on the upcoming Drupal 7 and its big focus on usability. You can read some more about it straight from the man himself, Dries Buytaert. In addition, you might want to watch this video that Mark and Leisa have posted that starts to outline some major changes for the next release of Drupal.
May
30
SixApart & WordPress
We found this story on CMS Wire entertaining: Aparently Six Apart, the creators of the TypePad blogging system recently announced some new features for WordPress blogging users, who would actually be using the competition. But as the old saying goes “if you can’t beat them, then join them.”
May
30
Textpattern admin theme
The next Textpattern release will likely feature one user-contributed admin them in addition to the default theme. The contest hasn’t even started yet as they’re still looking for people to organize the contest. But keep an eye on this if you’d like your admin theme to be the one.
May
30
TYPOlight 2.7.1 released
2.7.1 is a small maintainence release, but it does feature an all new 2 column back-end layout that might be nice!
May
29
Yooba Studio for Flash Websites
This is an interesting CMS we ran into the other day that was created to allow for interactive Flash websites called Yooba. It’s more than just a simple XML creator, its actually even more focused on designing a Flash website, we don’t think it even requires you to own a copy of Flash! Anyway, get an idea what its all about with the feature tour.
May
29
MODx Revolution Beta Available
The development team at MODx has been working on two projects: Evolution and Revolution. I’m assuming that Evolution is continuing the old framework of MODx that is already out there, and Revolution is the new deal. Well, the first beta of Revolution has been released. It features a whole new core that promises to be super flexible to build any kind of website on. It’s still buggy, but if you’re feeling dangerous, go ahead and give it a download.
May
21
Devot:ee Launches
A new community site covering ExpressionEngine was just launched recently aptly named Devot:ee. Ryan Masuga and his team have been hard at work on this site for a loooong time, so we’re happy that its finally ready for the public. In order to get more people to the site, they’re giving away 24 giveaways that you can read about. All you have to do is register for the site before June 14th. While it is a great resource for everyone, in order to register and become one of the Devot:ed it will cost you $39 a year.
May
21
Lots of New Versions Due Out Soon
Many release candidates and betas of your favorite CMS’s have been released and that means that new versions are drawing near. Here’s the wrap up: WordPress 2.8 Beta 1 has been released, Zenphoto 1.2.5 RC1 is out for testing, SilverStripe 2.3.2 beta 1 which adds multi-language support, and Drupal 6.12/5.18 are out and fix a security vulnerability.
May
14
SourceForge Community Choice Awards
If your favorite CMS is hosted at SourceForge, then you should nominate them for the Community Choice Awards before nominations close on May 29th. e107 is one of the CMS’s making the bid for nominations. Check out these search results to see if your CMS is hosted there.
May
12
New Symphony Website
The folks who created the Symphony CMS have combined their previous two website into an impressive new website. There is no longer the split between “the pitch” and “the community”. The impressive thing is that the whole website, including the forum is powered through Symphony. Now if they could just improve their documentation section a bit more for us newbies, we’ll all be set.
May
5
ExpressionEngine 2.0 Developer Preview Ending
EllisLab has said that after a few more features are added into the preview to help plugin and extension developers get their code working, it will be ending. They have also promised that they will be announcing nothing else new about 2.0 before it is actually released, which is a bit sad for sites like ours. This is a ray of hope, however, that it may someday be released.
May
5
New Drupal “Front-End” Book
A new book has been published by Prentice Hall called Front End Drupal: Designing, Theming, Scripting. Authored by Emma Jane Hogbin and Konstantin Käfer, this book focuses on teaching readers how to customize how Drupal themes, with an emphasis on Drupal 6 and its theme engine. This seems like it would be a gopod read for those web designers looking to learn Drupal, which can prove to be a challenge.
