Product News

November 2009

Product Release: Photo Gallery Module
Thursday, November 5, 2009
EditMe released a new module today that displays a gallery of thumbnails for all the images attached to an EditMe page. If you frequently attach images to your pages, this is a great way to make them accessible quickly. Clicking the thumbnails provides a larger view with navigation and slide show capabilities.

October 2009

_ShowFeed: Display RSS Feeds In Any EditMe Page
Monday, October 26, 2009
A new include script is now available to all EditMe sites that allows the content of any RSS feed to be displayed within the content of an EditMe page.

Maintenance Release Updates Editor, Forums and To Do Module
Thursday, October 15, 2009
A maintenance release went live yesterday that includes many stability enhancements to EditMe's editor and maintenance releases of the Forum and To Do modules. No more having to click Paste From Word!

September 2009

Product Update: Captchas Now Required for Anonymous Comments, Edits
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
EditMe's Captcha feature is now turned on automatically for registrations, comments and page edits by users who are not logged in. Previously, site owners could disable captchas for public comments and page edits. This change was necessary to block automated spam scripts from flooding these sites with spam edits and comments.

Product Update: Page Counts, Login Customization & More
Thursday, September 10, 2009
A significant behind-the-scenes update was released on September 10th. The most notable change is that EditMe's plans now measure the number of pages on the site rather than "disk space" used.

August 2009

Product Release: SSL (https) for Custom Domains
Monday, August 3, 2009
EditMe now provides SSL certificates for custom domains, enabling the use of secure HTTPS connections with non-editme.com domains.If you use a custom domain for your EditMe site and want to take advantage of a secure connection when viewing or logging in, read on.

July 2009

Product Update: Blog Includes and Edit Link
Monday, July 20, 2009
A small update today affects the Blog module and any use of the _PagesByDate scripted page. Changes include a new Edit link for each blog post listed in full, the ability to include pages in blog posts, and removal of unprocessed include tags in search results.

June 2009

Product Release: To Do List Module
Monday, June 8, 2009
A new module has been released that allows dynamic To Do lists to be inserted into page content with a simple [[include:todo]] tag. Use them for managing tasks associated with page content, or as a web-based task management system.

User Tracker Module 1.3 Update
Friday, June 5, 2009
The User Tracker Module has been updated to fix a bad link to the User Changes report. You can re-install this module to update without losing your existing tracking data.

May 2009

Product Release: RSS Enhancements
Friday, May 22, 2009
A new release available today includes a major overhaul of EditMe's built-in RSS generator along with several other small enhancements and fixes.

April 2009

Product Release: Yorktown Skins 1.1 Update & New Designs
Sunday, April 19, 2009
The new Yorktown Skins have been updated to fix a few open issues with the 1.0 release. Also, three new design flavors have been added: Burgundy, Olive and Tundra.

March 2009

Yorktown Skins 1.0 Release
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
The final release of the new Yorktown skins is now available to all EditMe sites. Yorktown is now the default skin for new EditMe sites, though the Acton skins are still available.

Product Release: Search Attachments And Comments
Monday, March 16, 2009
The Search feature built into EditMe now includes the ability to search the content of comments and common attached file types. You'll notice a set of checkboxes now appears below the keywords box on the search form. These allow you to include any or all of the possible indexes in your search: page content, comments and attachments. Search results are ordered by relevance to the keywords entered, include an excerpt containing the first keyword entered, and indicate whether the result is a page, comment or attached file.

February 2009

Product Release: Yorktown Skins Beta Release
Monday, February 23, 2009
The next generation of EditMe Skins is now available in a beta release. The purpose of the beta is to give customers interested in testing the new skins access as early as possible. The goals of the Yorktown Skins are to make better use of screen space, standardize EditMe's front-end user experience, improve ease of use and provide more finely tuned customization options.

Product Release: Minimalist Skin
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
A new "Minimalist" skin is now available on all EditMe sites. This is an extremely bare-bones skin that can be used as a starting point for development of a custom design, or as-is for a skin without any design distractions and maximum space for page content.

December 2008

Product Release: Search Form Include
Friday, December 19, 2008
There is now a simple way to include a tasteful little search form anywhere on your site. The search form was borrowed from the one embedded into the top of the Newton family of skins. It has no button (by default) and shows a watermarked search icon in the text box as a visual cue. Drop one of these into your site's Menu page to make search one click away from any page of your site.

October 2008

Product Release: Support for Page Hierarchies, Grouping and More
Friday, October 24, 2008
EditMe launched a new release this morning that includes some very powerful new features. This post touches on what's changed at a very high level. Look for additional posts coming up about how some of these new features can best be put to use in your site.

September 2008

Product Release: Upload Attachments to Your Site's Root Folder
Monday, September 29, 2008
Site administrators can now upload files to their site's root folder. This capability is typically needed to create a custom robots.txt file, to implement a Google Site Map for the site, or to prove to an external service that you're the site's administrator. Instructions for using this new feature can be found on the wiki.

Product Release: Forums Module
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
The forums module used on our wiki site is now available for installation into all EditMe sites as a Module. This module provides a Forums page on your site that can host multiple forums. Each forum consists of a page that lists topics within the forum and each topic is contained with its replies on a separate page. This means forum topics and replies are included in the site's Recent Changes, email notifications and RSS feed.

Product Release: Minor Update Adds Some Features and Fixes
Friday, September 12, 2008
Last night EditMe released an update that includes some things left out of the previous release for scheduling reasons, along with fixes to many issues customers have experienced since the last upgrade.

August 2008

Product Release: Editing Screen Enhancements
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
The most significant update in months was let loose on EditMe sites this evening. The primary area of enhancement was the editing interface, including a tabbed interface that combines several screens, an upgraded editor, a new Code editor, and more. Over the next few days, we'll be updating documentation and releasing some details for developers. Read on for a detailed account of what's new.

June 2008

Product Release: Site Export Module
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
A new module was released today that allows site administrators to easily export the content from their site for archival and/or off-line browsing purposes. Until now, EditMe has provided a MySQL/Zip backup for download from sites on a Professional or better plan. That mechanism is considered a premium service because of the need to essentially store a second copy of the site on our servers. For browsable backups of the site, we've pointed users to HTTrack, an open source application designed to create off-line copies of web sites. The power and complexity of HTTrack can be daunting, and so many customers have requested something simpler. We're glad to finally heed that request.

May 2008

Product Release: Acton Family of Skins
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Today EditMe released a new set of five designs that customers can apply to their sites. Dubbed the "Acton" family, the new design comes in blue, green, brown, red and gray flavors. The new skins give EditMe sites a fresh new look as well as a set of frequently requested tools to simplify design and layout customizations

Product Release: Widgets And User Pages
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
There are two new Modules available today: Widgets and User Pages. The Widgets module provides a set of tools to ease the task of importing HTML and JavaScript widgets from other sites into your EditMe site. It also provides a Page Widget that allows you export the content of any EditMe page as a widget for display in another web site. The User Pages module fills a specific need for teachers and other site administrators that need to create multiple users each with a private content page. Without this module, an administrator must create a user, a group, a policy and a page for each user. With this module, these tasks can be performed for multiple users with a single form post.

April 2008

Product Release: Modules, Page Counter & User Stats
Monday, April 21, 2008
Over the weekend we updated EditMe with a new feature called Modules. Similar to Skins, modules provide a way to package a set of pages and attachments for one-click installation into a site. While Skins change the look and feel of a site, modules provide new functionality. The release also includes many fixes, small enhancements and API updates.

January 2008

Product Update: Maintenance Release & Enhancements
Monday, January 28, 2008
We rolled out a bunch of updates over the weekend that provide some frequently requested enhancements, API additions and bug fixes. Nothing major, but its nice to clear the decks of some stuff that's been hanging around for a while now.

December Product Updates
Monday, January 7, 2008
We were so busy in December we hardly had time to post to the blog! There were a number of product updates in December.

October 2007

Product Update: "Newton" Family of Skins
Thursday, October 18, 2007
As promised in Sunday's post, the new skins are now available. These skins give EditMe a fresh new look and use CSS positioning instead of tables.

Product Release: Style Sheets and Layouts Upgraded
Friday, October 12, 2007
EditMe released an upgrade today that changes how Layouts and Style Sheets are managed. Layouts previously used XSL, which was limiting and difficult to use. The new layouts offer a simpler method of creating custom designs for EditMe sites, and offer a programmable API for accessing site content in a more dynamic way than was possible before. Several other updates were bundled along with this release.

June 2007

Product Update: Editor Enhancements
Monday, June 25, 2007
A product update released today includes many enhancements and bug fixes for EditMe's browser-based editor. Notable enhancements include integrated image and link management, improved performance, a new "Media" dialog to manage multi-media content, and improved Safari and Opera support.