Ideally I want to be able to add a gallery very quickly with the minimum of work as typically this will be a blog post as opposed to a key web page. As a photographer galleries are a crucial function of Blog / News section on a website. Web pages tend to show off the single best image from each completed project. The blog is the background story and galleries allow me to show off sets of images from recent projects / shoots. Rockbeare Manor shows such a project
Often magazines or commercial clients will only use one or two images for an ad campaign or an article. A gallery allows me to show the other images that have been shot; the whole story if you like. Galleries in a blog are also an opportunity to show off personal projects that would not otherwise be published. Somerset Levels shows this, not the finest images, but a record of a time and place.
Galleries can comprise a set of individual images, added one by one to a blog post , as is possible in Instacks Gallery 3 now or, more ideally, it is the visual representation of a set of images contained in a linked folder - my understanding is that this is described as displaying āwarehousedā images. Hopefully we may see this soon?
Jannis @instacks has certainly done a brilliant job with this, and Gallery 3 stack has some superb functionality. To give credit where it is due though: Jonathan @nimblehost has worked very hard to develop a great CMS platform (and importantly, the first for RW).
Armadillo CMS has solved many problems and made a lot of people very happy
I love Armadillo, but there has been nothing new for years. Is there a 3.0 version going forward? I would love to see an updated media manager, some more options for embedding images, and some updated functionality for blog post feature images / blog post toppers.
I love Armadillo also and would gladly pay for a 3.0 upgrade. I 2nd @thebugnut feature requests and would like an āundoā capability added to the content editor. An updated file and media manager that supports folders to organize files and urlās to all files would also be a nice addition.
Yes, @thebugnut@RapidBase@bwdorsey, there is a 3.0 version under development. Thereās a LOT of work involved as Iām bringing the entire codebase into the modern age as opposed to just bolting new features onto an aging infrastructure. Couple that with ongoing support, a separate full-time job, a new baby, and currently in the midst of moving house, and development of v3.0 is taking longer than I expected and hoped.
I realize the wait can be frustrating for Armadillo customers, so many, many thanks for your patience - please do let me know what you all want to see in the new version. To address whatās already been brought up, yes, there will be a new content editor, and also an updated file/media manager, ā¦ and much more~ Some of that āmuch moreā may end up getting released in v3.1 or later so that v3.0 can be released sooner rather than later.
Thanks again to you all. Iām continually humbled and grateful that Armadillo remains a much-used tool in the RW community.
Iāll put in a request for additional filter options so you could use the blog as a product page, ideally 2 step ones (shameless request as Iād love a RW stack that could do this) so you could select a primary filter and from those selected by the primary have a secondary filter. Iād want to user that feature to setup a cars for sale section where you could filter listings (well blog entries) by Make then Model, and also other filter options like transmission, body type etc. The php script I have just now is ok but a pain to integrate and lacks a lot of modern features.
Flexible/user definable blog summary and blog entry layouts.
GDPR compliant share buttons.
Also as @bwdorsey said support for text/image macros that could be used anywhere, rather than Armadillo stack.
A WordPress Importer would be the absolute best addition. I would pay very handsomely for that feature alone. (Assuming it was able to maintain article link structure.)
Any news regarding what 
