The Perch Blog

A pre-announcement about our new add-ons directory.A central place for First and Third Party add-ons to be listed and promoted.

A post explaining how we are making decisions as to whether a feature belongs in Perch or is part of the Perch Runway feature set.

Perch 2.6 is now available and should be ready to download in your accounts against any Perch 2 license. Here are some of the core new features.

Perch 2.6 brings centralized category management to Perch, making it easy to create listings by category in regular Perch Content.

How to use template includes to tidy up your templates and same creating and copy and pasting repetitive code.

Google have announced that serving sites over SSL may give you a ranking benefit. If you decide to switch some or all of your site to be served via SSL Perch makes it easy for you to manage that.

A core value of Perch is that the CMS is based on structured data, and on the user of semantic markup. What does this mean and what benefits does this approach bring to designers and developers using it?

Google and other search engines support Rich Snippets, a way to indicate to the search engine that certain content is special. These snippets are then used on search engine result pages. Perch is ideal for ensuring that your content is correctly marked up to take advantage of this.

Support for responsive images using picture and the srcset attribute is currently being added to browsers. This can easily be combined with the template functionality in Perch to make it easy for your sites to take advantage of true responsive images without requiring your content editors to create by hand and upload multiple versions of every image.

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