We’ve been working on it for the last 18+ months, it’s a great update, and I can’t wait to share more of the details with you. If you love RapidWeaver 7, you’ll love RapidWeaver 8 even more.
We have some big plans for 8.x and beyond, so once 8.0 ships we won’t be slowing down, you can expect some great updates and some new big features later this year and into 2019.
Thanks for all your support, and do feel free to ask any questions
will it be possible to select multiple stacks at one time (shift+klick)?
does it contain any internal function to manage/organize brand and project colors?
This has NOTHING to do with RapidWeaver, you will want to ask Isaiah about that. He makes the Stacks Plugin, you can contact him on his slack channel: http://slack.yourhead.com/
Would be great to finally have the alert sounds enabled in this new version. I never know when my local export is done (I take a break for the time of that task to stretch my old bones).
I know that Preferences in RW are supposed to do just that, but I have never heard any sound coming out of RW. Just to make it clear, my macOS settings allow for alert sounds (set to medium loudness) and all other apps take advantage of that.
Is there an uninstall app for RapidWeaver? I am having crashes with version 7 that I downloaded Saturday for my Mac. I need to clean uninstall so I can re-load it. Should I just upgrade from version 6?
Hi Dan, I’ve been a Rapidweaver user since version 3.1 and I am looking forward to see what new features are coming in Rapidweaver 8. Since I do not use stacks, I am hoping for the native Rapidweaver page types to continue to be updated an supported. Primarily I use the html page, blog page and photo gallery page. I use the mobile responsive, bootstrap friendly, AFFERO theme that was included in Rapidweaver. I hope to see some new themes also released in version 8. I would love to see native Bootstrap support and native drag and drop elements that would not require the use of stacks.
@dan
Great.
Would it be possible to expand on which features from the new version we can leverage to ensure GDPR compliance in our sites? For example:
– Will the new RW8 Contact form include GDPR compliance measures?
– Will there be a way to use Google Fonts in our native RW8 projects without the call out to the CDN?
Would love to know which features you guys have added to help us with these areas of mandatory compliance.
Keep watching the forums, Dan will make an announcement when they are ready for the open beta. Also might want to watch his or the Realmac Twitter accounts. Not sure if they announce that way first or not.
I can’t help it, but I think this question is little unfair. Out of the box, Rapidweaver is quite well capable of producing sites that are compliant with GDPR. Most of the problems stem from plug-ins or stacks that are not compliant, e.g. that load scripts from CDN servers and not allowing the user to replace those with self-hosted files. RW can easily handle, https as well, you can put a mandatory checkbox in your contact form, plus there are a bunch of more elaborated options for forms.
What’s left is mainly a task for the stack developers to solve, not for RMS.
