Exponent's Latest News

(updated 1/4/13, now slated for the next release!) Exponent CMS stands apart from most other Content Management Systems (CMS's) because the administration and management takes place on/in the frontend and not the backend.  For those not familiar with the frontend/backend disconnected nightmare; it is used in the more popular CMS's which have name letters of WP, Jmla, Drpl.  Because of this disconnect, the learning curve is pretty steep and makes a new user think they are in a separate program.  Recently, the WYSIWYG editor used in Exponent was upgraded to include an entirely new feature called 'inline editing' where you could click on the page and edit directly on the page without having to go to another view.  This feature could revolutionize the 'bread and butter' Text module which handles the site's static content!

(Updated Jan 18th) We will now begin to use Sourceforge.net to distribute our files https://sourceforge.net/projects/exponentcms/. This is because...We were just notified that GitHub (where we store and manage our code) is no longer allowing file uploads, and previous uploads will no longer be available in 90 days.  Needless to say, we'll need to look for a new venue to make the packages available.

As scheduled, version 2.1.0 named 'Tumbling Turkeys' is released on Black Friday 2012.  There are many updates and fixes in the version, most notably is the new calendar module called 'Events' and a new 'Mega' menu navigation view which allows a free-form menu item to embed modules.  Things to look for in this version are:

We keep uncovering some issues and have fixed them in v2.0.9.  It can be applied to v2.0.9 or V2.0.9patch1 or the short lived v2.0.9patch2, v2.0.9patch3, or v2.0.9patch4.  Sorry for so many patches, but we want to squash these permissions issues since most of them vary depending on the php version being run.  The patch fixes these bugs:

(updated 8 Nov) We thought we'd get out the first Black Friday 2012 ad on the internet!  This will be what every web site manager and maintainer will want for Christmas...ExponentCMS v2.1.0!  Here's what we're planning to incorporate in this next release:

An issue has been found and fixed in v2.0.9 released last week It can be applied to v2.0.9. The patch fixes these bugs:

Though a few days later than planned, the next version (2.0.9) was released today!  There are MANY updates and fixes in this version and we wanted to squeeze one more BIGGIE in!  We've finally made it past the YUI speedbump we hit about one year ago and have been stuck at YUI v3.4.0 since then.  We've taken care of those issues and plan to ship v2.0.9 with YUI v3.7.2 which has many improvements.

Several recent updates have pushed the Developer API documentation to the bleeding edge in both appearance and function.  This site is auto-generated from the code using phpDocumentor2. The API documentation is located at api.exponentcms.org.

(Updated Aug 22^nd) As we begin heading toward the next scheduled release near the end of September (v2.0.9), there are already several big features which have been implemented in the pre-release code.  In addition to the previously mentioned '2-column form display style' option (see this post), we've converted two of the remaining old-school modules into 2.0 style controllers...Simple Polls and Navigation.  This was no simple conversion (pun intended)...and though we've retained as much backwards compatibility as possible, you can begin preparing your custom themes and views for this valuable update.

Several minor bugs have been found in v2.0.8 released last Friday and a 2nd patch is now available which includes all the previous fixes in patch #1. It can be applied to v2.0.8 or v2.0.8patch1.  The patch fixes these bugs: