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Happy New Year from everyone at concrete5! In November Andrew introduced community driven documentation. We definitely need more people helping out to keep the documentation up to date. More voices will make the docs better for everyone.
Plucky open source CMS realizes awareness matters as much as features.
Portland, OR (PRWEB)January 12, 2016
Today PortlandLabs announced Jessica Dunbar will join their team as Technology Evangelist. Jess brings more that 10 years of significant experience in the CMS space. PortlandLabs is the company behind concrete5, one of the world's most popular open source content management systems (CMS). Concrete5 is used for everything from government and educational websites to blogs and custom apps.
In November Andrew quietly launched a brand new concrete5 documentation site. How to develop add ons, how to make templates, how to upgrade concrete5, tutorials - its all there, and now its easier than ever to navigate.
PortlandLabs seeks an individual who wants to teach the world about the power of concrete5.
We need you to spread the word about the many things that can be done with concrete5 by creating ongoing documentation, how-tos, screencasts, example sites, press releases, bylined articles, white papers, and more. You will also train site owners and developers and manage a certification program.
With over 183,668 downloads of 5.7 this year, its past time for us to get our act together on documentation, training and certification. Weve decided to dedicate each and every Wednesday to this effort until it is done. While we have a lot of writing to do, running training sessions online is a great way for us to produce helpful video content that is tailored to your needs.
Thus Im pleased to announce this new schedule of training classes you can sign-up for. Help us help you, and buy a class to get your answers straight from the horse's mouth!
This nice info-graph from CodeGuard puts concrete5 marketshare above ExpressionEngine's and just a bit over half of Drupal.
That's pretty awesome feeling! Thanks for all the help concrete5 community peeps, it's great to see our baby growing up so well.
Have a great weekend.
-frz
In launching 5.7 we've certainly rocked the boat. Between the dramatically rethought UX, the completely revamped code structure, and the lack of the simple upgrade path we've always maintained in the past, it's no secret we've taken a pretty big gamble with concrete5.
We're going to start having a twice a month virtual meeting to review what's next on our agenda in Git. This will also open our process up a bit so you can influence how the core matures.
- Face-to-face online - we'll use google hangouts, skype or something similar so it's not us talking at you, it's a two way discussion.
- First Wednesday of the month at 8:30 PM Pacific (great timing for our friends in Asia)
- Third Wednesday of the month at 9:30 AM Pacific (great timing for our friends in EU)
- Recorded and shared on youtube later.
- Likely has limited slots, so if you have a question and want to be part of the live aspect - fill out the form below to let us know you're attending.
We've launched some new developer documentation today!
This section has more to come, specifically around the need to create block types. That's not quite done, but what is there is a comprehensive look at creating custom templates, including defaulting to a custom template in a package, overriding core block type views, including JavaScript and CSS with custom templates and more. We've also put together a detailed screencast on overriding a core block type view layer, and why you'd want to do something like that.
Additionally, we've consolidated some documentation sections in the header navigation, and cleaned up the Documentation landing page.