I know there’s been a lot of talk about the CMS, but I’m a bit disappointed with the lack of updates regarding its progress and when we can expect it to become available. I’ve read that it has been said to be released “soon,” but that could mean 1 week, 1 month, or even 3 months.
My website has been finished for quite some time and is only waiting for the CMS so that I can transfer the blog posts I have on the current site.
I wish there was more information about the progress. I’m getting tired of checking the forum daily to see if there’s any new info about the CMS.
Come on! The last update to the CMS was eleven days ago. One of the developers was on vacation for a few days. It’s holiday season after all. I’m sure you can wait another week or so, like all of us are doing.
It’s a way to manage your content not quite there in Elements yet and it will be a while before you can do it remotely. Its not just for blogs and you can set up a page and let your clients manage there own content.If you are just doing your own sites locally then it can be a bit of an overkill. You can manage without it if you don’t need content management, but it will be a few weeks before the beta hits the streets and quite a while before remote access is available. This is simplified from another Luddite!
Alright, here’s your answer — perfectly crafted for Luddites, bloggers, and everyone in-between:
A CMS (Content Management System) lets you update your website’s content—like text, images, or blog posts—without touching the code. It’s like editing a document, but for your site. Perfect for updates, teamwork, and keeping things fresh!
Want to know how Elements’ CMS works, or if you need it for your site? Just ask!
CMS is an evolution of the code originally used to post blogs on websites.
With CMS, you can build pages with special sections, which you can then dynamically fill with content (text, images etc). This way, you can build a page once, and then use CMS to dynamically add, replace or remove content from it without touching the page itself. This can be classic blog style pages, or bits of text and images on otherwise normal webpages.
In Elements, the first itteration of a CSM is coming, but that will still require you to do the edits by opening the project in Elements. Later on, you’ll be able to edit the blocks from any device connected to the internet (after logging in of course).
If my understanding is correct, if you have ftp access to the server you can still add and edit content as the items are Markdown files. But as far as providing access to your website development clients, you are correct that ability is going to be a future addition.
So, the CMS is still progressing well, we’ve been focusing on publishing and stability improvements recently, along with fixing up and improving the core components… which has taken a bit more time than planned.
It’s worth mentioning that a proper CMS is basically an entire product in itself. We had originally planned to make it just a “blogging system”, but after the feedback we received from you guys it was clear we needed to extend the scope and turn it into a full-blown CMS… unfortunately this takes more time…
We also need to make sure it’s robust, secure, and tightly integrated with how Elements already works. That takes time to get right.
The good news is a lot of the groundwork is already done, and the CMS is really looking good. We’re aiming to ship the first proper “beta” version soon, I had hoped for it to be this month, but we’re a little behind schedule so it might drop back to early August. We will keep you updated.
We’ll do another video update soon to show it working and where we’re at with it. Appreciate the patience, we think the wait will be worth it. Lots more good stuff coming.
And, to the entire community waiting for the CMS (myself included), we must remember this fabulous company is making the best software for webdesign ever made - and great software is never at time…
I’m working as fast as I can on the CMS, however, last week I was on holiday as the sun was calling me for a well needed break.
I’ve had to spend most of my time this week fixing up a few issues on the core components alongside updating Forms to support multiple spam protection services (the next build will support recaptcha, turnstile, hcaptcha, and honeypots).
I’m hoping to be back on the CMS later this week. I don’t want to rush out the CMS, it needs to have a solid foundation before anyone starts using it on their production sites.
We really appreciate everyone’s enthusiasm around the CMS and can’t wait to ship it. All things being well, I think we are closing in on an initial beta version in the next couple of weeks
