News updates, tips on using Perch and running a great web design business
Looking for quick tips that will help you develop Perch sites more efficiently? News and updates about Perch, web design inspiration? You have found the right place! The Blog is curated by Drew and Rachel.
We have had a MailChimp Dashboard Widget for some time, displaying stats about your list on the Perch Dashboard. This release turns that simple widget into a fully featured Perch App, with useful functionality both in the admin and on the front-end of your site.
Our latest Perch Release includes a new section in your Diagnostics Report, the Health Check. If you are running an old version of PHP this is going to start nagging you about it, this post explains why.
A short tutorial in using the new perch:repeater tag, demonstrating how it can be used to stop markup drifting if content editors need to make decisions about what to use.
We are offering a very special deal to freelancers, design and development agencies who want to try out Perch on their own website.
Thank you for coming out and meeting up with us in Toronto and Brooklyn. We really enjoyed meeting up with Perchers and friends of Perch.
We’ve had an API for Perch from early on. All of the official add-ons are built using that API, and we know that a large number of you build add-ons using the API for your own use or for specific projects. We feel there is a huge opportunity for some of you to start creating your own, commercial add-ons, and we’d love to know what we can do to encourage that.
We love to hear how much People love Perch and this interview is with Matt Gibson, Production Director at Cyber-Duck.
We will be on the east coast of the US and Canada in October to attend Brooklyn Beta and are going to run a couple of meetups while we are out there. So if you are a Percher in the area or in the area for the conference we’d love to see you there.
Today sees the release of Perch 2.3, the latest free update to Perch 2. It includes some big new features and a number of smaller fixes and enhancements to make your experience using Perch even better than before.
We have created a video to demonstrate how Users and Roles work in Perch, including the use of the new Role Action feature.