News updates, tips on using Perch and running a great web design business
Perch and Perch Runway 2.8 is now here. If you have a Perch 2 or Perch Runway license this is a free update and can be downloaded from your account. This post introduces some of the headline features.
The Perch 2.7.7 release has added some nice features to the Assets Panel for Perch and Perch Runway. I show you around in this video.
At the end of 2013 on the Perch podcast we did a review of the year, we thought it would be fun to do the same for 2014.
This year is the tenth season for our web design and development advent calendar 24 ways. Back in 2012 we switched the site to run on Perch, and this year I rebuilt it using Perch Runway.
One of the new features in Perch Runway is the ability to create relationships between items of content. This video shows a basic example of creating the relationship and displaying related content.
In Perch each page of your site is represented by an actual file on disk. Perch Runway is different, using a front controller pattern similar to other CMS solutions. In this post I explain the difference, what it means in terms of development and whether it makes a difference to your content editors.
Perch Runway maintains the clean admin UI, templating and underlying principles of Perch with a few big changes in terms of architecture and additional features suited to larger sites. In this post we detail some of the headline features.
Perch Runway includes a scheduled backup feature, which enables you to run automated backups of your site’s content, keeping your content safe. Backup and restore has uses beyond just disaster recovery, however.
How the Collections feature in Perch Runway will help you to represent content to editors that is not tied to pages.
One of great strengths of Perch has always been that you can drop editable regions into an existing site. This is down to the way Perch helps you manage content across a set of pages. If a site grows beyond a certain scale, maintaining that set of pages can become a bit of an overhead. What is an advantage for small sites becomes a disadvantage for larger ones.