Ever since its launch, our free Gallery app has been one of the most popular. As is so often the case, when an app gets a lot of use we begin to see how its flexibility and usefulness can be improved.
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Supercharging the Gallery app
Wednesday 4th January 2012
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Tip: sizing textareas to keep edit forms tidy
Monday 12th December 2011
One of the great strengths of Perch is the flexibility to construct content forms that match the nature of your content. Often you know when a field like a
textareashould expect a little or a lot of content.Posted by Drew McLellan at 16:46 - 0 comments
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Tip: using before and after to output mark-up wrapping a repeating region
Friday 9th December 2011
The
perch:beforeandperch:aftertags enable you to wrap a region with mark-up that will only be displayed if the region has content.Posted by Rachel Andrew at 10:00 - 0 comments
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Tip: Creating excerpts using words and chars
Thursday 8th December 2011
This tips explains how to use the
wordsandcharsattributes to create excerpts.Posted by Rachel Andrew at 16:11 - 1 comment
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Tip: numbering items in a template
Wednesday 7th December 2011
Sometimes, when outputting a multiple item region, it’s useful to be able to number the items. This can be achieved with
perch_item_index.Posted by Drew McLellan at 11:52 - 0 comments
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Tip: adding customised help to your edit forms
Tuesday 6th December 2011
The
perch:helptag gives you the ability to add instructional information, images and even video to any administration form in Perch.Posted by Rachel Andrew at 12:20 - 0 comments
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Tip: Adding help text to your admin form fields - the help attribute
Monday 5th December 2011
The help attribute for template tags enables the developer to provide help next to individual form fields in the admin area.
Posted by Rachel Andrew at 09:35 - 0 comments
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Tip: Identifying first and last items in a template
Friday 2nd December 2011
The
perch_item_firstandperch_item_lastspecial ID values can be used to identify the first and last items in a multiple-item template.Posted by Drew McLellan at 12:44 - 1 comment
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Tip: Switching between odd and even items in templates
Thursday 1st December 2011
There are a few little gems in the Perch templating engine that are easy to miss in the documentation. One such gem is the special
IDvalueperch_item_odd.Posted by Drew McLellan at 00:00 - 0 comments
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Perch documentation Cheat Sheet
Tuesday 8th November 2011
We’ve created a “cheat sheet” quick reference as a way to explore the template tags offered by Perch.
Posted by Rachel Andrew at 10:21 - 2 comments
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Perch add-ons - what should we develop next?
Thursday 22nd September 2011
Our official add-ons are free for anyone with a Perch license. We strongly believe that you should know what developing your site will cost in license fees. If you have paid for Perch – you can download and install every single one of our add-ons if you like, with no additional cost.
Posted by Rachel Andrew at 10:00 - 28 comments
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Customer Stories: Ryan Singer of 37signals
Friday 9th September 2011
In an interview for our Customer Stories series of posts, Ryan Singer of 37signals explains why he uses Perch.
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Perch 1.7 - Forms and Search
Thursday 18th August 2011
Today we have made live the Perch 1.7 release which contains, in addition to a few bug fixes and tweaks, two huge new features – Perch Forms and search.
Posted by Rachel Andrew at 14:38 - 14 comments
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The Perch Registered Developer Programme
Tuesday 26th July 2011
Yesterday we launched our new Perch Registered Developer Programme. This is open to any individual freelancer or company who develops sites using Perch. Our aim is to promote companies who use Perch and also to provide a listing for people who are looking for someone to build a site or Perch add-on. In this way we hope the network will be beneficial to the members but also to the entire community.
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HTML5 Templates for Perch
Thursday 21st July 2011
As the solution for using HTML5 with Perch shows, Perch can easily be used to manage content on an HTML5 site as you have complete control of your mark-up. For those of you working in HTML5 we’ve created a set of default templates for Perch which are a direct replacement for the existing templates (found in
/perch/templates/content) and can simply be dropped in and used or edited.Posted by Rachel Andrew at 09:24 - 0 comments
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How to use the new support system
Monday 18th July 2011
If you’ve needed to ask for help, or visited the forums in the last couple of weeks you’ll be aware that we have moved over to a new, integrated system for support, forums and documentation. We hope that this will help to end confusion about where to post and make it easier for us to support you and for the community to help each other.
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What keeps you from being able to use Perch?
Wednesday 1st June 2011
On the most recent project where you chose not to use Perch – what stopped you? What is Perch currently missing that would enable you to choose it for more projects?
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Perch is Two plus our new Pages app
Tuesday 31st May 2011
Perch is two years old today, to celebrate we’ve launched a completely rewritten version of the Pages app.
Posted by Rachel Andrew at 13:54 - 2 comments
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Running Perch on PHP Fog
Wednesday 11th May 2011
New startup PHP Fog is an interesting prospect for Perch customers looking to host their sites in the cloud.
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Meet the Perch team
Thursday 14th April 2011
Drew McLellan and Rachel Andrew, the team behind Perch, are speaking at and attending various conferences this year.
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