Technical articles

The Preside 10.26 release is here bringing a trio of improvements to our open source platform. We have better email statistics, an alternative "grid view" for site tree pages and the ability to have form builder submissions automatically removed after a configurable period of time. Check out our release notes and watch our release video on our YouTube channel.

Today we made a hotfix release with a number of important patches. The following article describes them in more detail.

We have just released a bugfix PRESIDECMS-2566 for the adhoc task system. The fix addresses an issue where some tasks created with runnow=true failed to run at all and are now stuck in a pending state forever. This article addresses how to check for issues and deal with the situation.

Someone posted a very interesting problem in Slack today and so I thought I'd write about it as the solution may help someone else. The problem relates to naming a foreign key field using the same name as the object it lives in...

The use of environments can prevent you from accidents - See what happened to us

Preside 10.15 introduces a powerful new feature for controlling cropping of images, and to prevent the unwanted cropping of logos. Find out how it works...

If you're working with routes in your application and have created a custom page endpoint, you don't have a site tree page scope. So, how can you set page fields for meta information, breadcrumbs, etc.? The answer: Initialize a dummy Preside sitetree page.

After installing a new site with Preside your application is setup with a simple command. But there are some more parameters you can set.

Sometimes you need to upload files of a type that is not configured in PresideCMS. But it's very easy to configure additional filetypes and build your own mp3 player for your website.

We are thrilled to announce the public release of Preside 10.8.0, our biggest ever release. The release features 108 completed tickets, more than 40 pull requests from 17 contributors and over 100 feature branches.

Outline of our workshop for the into the box conference

A question was asked in slack about what our funky looking "presidecms:directories:mydirectory" injection syntax was all about. This video explains it in detail.

Links to Seb Duggan's awesome 3-part blog series on selecting data within Preside..

PresideCon 2016: Using LESS and the per-request asset inclusion framework Sticker with Preside

From PresideCon at CFCamp 2016: Combining several extensions to kick-start a RESTful web service project

The Preside team are very excited and proud to annouce the release of Preside 10.7.0 in time for our very first conference next week!