28 Christmas Special
We decided to do a little review of the year. So here is what we have been up to this year!
January
- Perch 2.1
- Perch Comments app
- Perch 2.1.2
- Rachel broke her elbow
- Rachel’s book CSS3 Layout Modules published by 5 Simple Steps
February
March
- Launched the People Love Perch section
- Feathers for Infinite Scroll and Masonry
- Perch Members app
- More Blog app updates (Posterous import)
- Perch 2.2
April
- Perch 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 and 2.2.3 and 2.2.4
- Perch Blog 3.7 (and 3.7.1 and 3.7.2)
- Translations for Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish and Polish
- Updated YouTube field type and new Vimeo field type
- Started this podcast!
- Started adding some resources to GitHub
- Rachel spoke at Front Trends, Industry Conf, Digital Pond and Untangle the Web
May
- Updated Sass support with the Sass Feather
- New dashboard widgets for MailChimp and Campaign Monitor
- Members app bug fixes
- New editor plugin: Ace.
- Updated Redactor, CKEditor
- Perch 2.2.5
- New Audioboo and SlideShare field types
- Updated Gallery app with better upload handling
- Updated PayPal Shop app
- Perch 2.2.6
- Norwegian translation
- Small updates to Events and Blog apps
- Perch 2.2.7 to fix small bugs
- Perch is 4! We sent out silly party bags to people who bought a license that day
- Rachel spoke at the Multi Mania conference in Belgium
June
- Updated Upgrade app
- Updates to PayPal Shop
- Perch 2.2.8 and 2.2.9
- Updates to Members, Forms, Comments, Blog and Twitter
- Rachel spoke at Converge on support and Webinale on launching a bootstrapped product and we both ran sessions at ConfShop
July
- New video tutorial
- New demo sites
- Version 2 of FoxyCart Shop
- Updates to Blog, adding noresults support
- Update to Gallery
- Perch 2.2.10 and 2.2.11
- Rachel spoke at Speak the Web and The CSS Summit on the same day
August
- Control Panel video
- Updates to Blog
September
- Perch 2.3 and 2.3.1 and 2.3.2
- Updated YouTube and Vimeo field types
- Perch Forms 1.6 to support honeypot fields
- Perch Events 1.8 to add page functions to create category listings
- Drew spoke at MK Geek Night
October
- Updated Twitter app to respect the site’s timezone settings for displaying tweets
- Updates to Blog with workflow improvements for bulk editing comments
- Updates to Forms app with ability to redirect after submission
- New version of the API developers Sample App
- We went to the US and Canada – held Perch Meetups in Toronto and Brooklyn
- Rachel spoke at FOWA on CSS Layout and also ran her Shipping Your Product workshop
- Drew spoke at Breaking Borders
November
- Rachel had the metal taken back out of her arm, is now less of a nuisance at airport security
- Smashing Book 4 published – Rachel has a chapter on support
- Rachel’s new site design is live – on Perch of course – and she announced her new book The Profitable Side Project Handbook
- Portfolio site deal
- New Podcasts app
- Perch 2.3.3
- New MailChimp app to supersede dashboard widget
- Perch 2.3.4
December
- 24 ways – we dedicated all of the last podcast to it
- Rachel spoke at Breaking Borders and ran a Smashing Workshop in Berlin
What’s Next?
We asked for questions and what you really want to know is what is next for Perch. We have been referring to the next Perch release (2.4) as “Fix All The Things”. This release won’t particularly add new features but will double down on the basic content editing experience and address issues that we have seen in support. For more on that read our blog post, and let us know if you have workflow issues that might fall into this release.
You can follow what we’re up to from grabaperch.com/news.