Big changes are happening inside Elements — and it starts with saying goodbye to the blog. Yep, it’s gone. But don’t worry, it’s not a loss… it’s a serious upgrade. We’re replacing the blog with something way more powerful: a full CMS, built right into Elements. It’s faster, more flexible, and rea…

Hi @ben That’s looking really good. :+1: It would be useful to be able to specify the sort order for the CMS collections: Ascending | Descending. Use case is to show events planned for the future. Another thing would be to add the time to the post so that the publishing time can be set e.g. from m…

[image] astzweig: We work a lot with a headless CMS and would love to see Elements get the ability to retrieve CMS data via API calls Funny you should mention that because myself and Dan were just chatting about that yesterday. It’s not going to make it in to the 1.0 version, but it is defini…

[image] logrunner: specify the sort order for the CMS collections Yes, I forgot to mention that. Sort order will be available on all collections :smiley: [image] logrunner: Another thing would be to add the time to the post so that the publishing time can be set e.g. from midday on a par…

Wow, that’s just brilliant and even more than I expected. You guys rock :smiley:

Wow! This is going to have a huge impact on my sites. I can see so many use cases that are covered with this that will save me a lot of time and effort and make updating the data more straightforward. The one thing I did not see but which might have been covered in the earlier blog videos, was wha…

[image] Dev Diary Ep75 - Blogging Preview Right now my gut feeling is no, our servers won’t need to connect to yours. [image] ben: then we’ll get to the online editing and integrations with other services So is it now gonna require your servers? Or will that just be for those using the …

[image] DaveMac: So is it now gonna require your servers? No, what has made you think that? :thinking: Elements allows you to build sites and host them wherever you want - you’re not locked in to our servers in any way. The same goes for these CMS components - build your site in Elements , a…

[image] handshaper: what happens if I have images embedded in my markdown file. Especially, if they are images on my server that I’m linking, too. You can link to images in the standard markdown way. We are looking at if/how we can integrate nicely with project resources, but you’ll be able …

Wasn’t assuming either way, instead just wanted clarification between the two comments each of you @dan @ben shared that I included above. Thanks

Hey @DaveMac , totally fair to ask for clarification, I know these things can sometimes get a little mixed in translation between posts, especially when there’s such fast ongoing development. I appreciate you keeping us on our toes! By the way, just curious… are you using Elements yourself yet, or k…

Dev Diary 79: Why we've removed the blog 😭

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DaveMac (Dave) May 8, 2025, 7:10pm 11

So is it now gonna require your servers? Or will that just be for those using the Cloud Storage that is included with their licenses and not those whom self host?

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Dev Diary 79: Why we've removed the blog 😭

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