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.
With the announcement that Posterous was to close down at the end of April, we had a number of people ask if it would be possible to import a Posterous blog from the export file they provided. We have updated the official blog addon to make this easy and, at the same time, released a couple of Feathers that can help you add extra style to your blog listing pages or any repeated content.
Announcing a price increase for new licenses bought from April 2013. Read this post for full details.
Perch 2.1 has improved image support, enabling you to use regular templates to deliver both responsive and compressive images in your content managed sites.
We are sponsoring New Adventures later this month. Pop along to our stand to say hello, ask us questions or pick up some cute Perch Merch.
We are working on content for a new section of the site showcasing how people use Perch. This post explains what we are looking for and how you can get involved.
Perch 2.0.8 has just shipped. This minor release includes two interesting pieces of functionality; scheduled tasks and the ability to add your own dashboard widgets.
You know that Perch is the really little CMS, but we frequently find that our customers are not aware of all of the power and flexibility built into Perch. Perch is highly extensible in a number of ways, can be used alongside another application or as the framework for a comprehensive add-on incorporated into the Perch admin UI.
Here are some tips for developers who might want to take advantage of the flexibility built into Perch.
Today we have made live a new version of the Blog App for Perch 2, Blog Version 3.5. This includes a WordPress importer, simpler friendly URLs and a number of tweaks and performance optimizations.
Perch Feathers is a new type of add-on, aimed at making it possible to manage front-end assets, CSS, JavaScript and images through Perch.
There are a number of content management systems available that, like Perch, seek to solve the small CMS problem. Some of those use the fact they have no database as a feature. We sometimes get asked why Perch uses MySQL and this post is to explain some of the reasons behind that.