It's been a long time, but today I'm happy to announce the release of pecio 2.0.5 which comes with some nice new features and improvements:

• hierarchial menupoint order in the administration
• file/directory-permission check before and after the installation
• filemanager accessible outside of the editor
• new default height for the editor
• updated to the latest CKEditor (version 3.3.1)
• email notification option for new comments on blog posts
• "disable comments"-option for single posts
• "blog on start"-option is now also accessible via the blogposts area
• template chooser for articles is back again :)
• little bug fix in slug generation
• further code documentation
• perhaps some more little things I don't remember

I'm sorry that you had to wait so long for this release but there are a lot of other projects I'm working on, that's sometimes a bit difficult to coordinate ;) However I hope you feel comfortable with all those new features and improvements!

There are also two new Plugins that you can download:

• PHP Code - for inclusion of php code into articles/posts/texts
  • please note that it's a bit tricky to use this inside the CKEditor. But if you're turning into the "Source" mode of the editor, everything should be fine
• Pecio URLs - can be used to insert urls of articles/posts/categories/etc. into your content

The administration area of the contact form plugin has a little issue with the stylesheet at the moment, but I think I'll fix that soon.

Please also note that, if you are updating from a previous version of pecio, this version will make changes to pecio's database table layout, so do not forget to backup your database and your pecio installation! To make the update you just have to follow the update guide.

I hope that I can set up a wiki with some tutorials for template and plugin development etc. very soon. Some more templates are also planned.

I decided to use Launchpad's bug tracking system for pecio, because it offers a lot more possibilities than github's simple issue tracker. On Launchpad I can set Importance and Status and you can add attachements or patches to a bug.

Bug tracker URL: https://bugs.launchpad.net/peciocms/+bugs

For some weeks now, pecio's source code is available on github: http://github.com/iperatoner/peciocms

Github offers, as most of the project platforms out there, the possibility to add issues (bugs, feature requests, etc.) to a project. Today I added the things that were on my todo list. If you have any further ideas for features/improvements or if you found bugs, just create an account on github.com and add your issues.

There's also the possibility to vote on issues. So, if you like a feature request or if you are affected to a bug, you can vote on that issue and I can see which things are most important for the users.

Today I'm releasing version 2.0.2 of pecio cms. I had not much time to work on it but nevertheless there are some new and useful features and improvements. So here they are:

• The setting "Blogposts per Page" is now also accessible on the blogpost-administration page
• I've implemented the visitor counter of Philipp von der Born (Link)
  • Statistics are displayed on the administration overview screen
• There now is a permalink to the article/post you're currently editing
• Plugins can now add additional localization files to the CMS
• Markus has created a german translation for the CMS which is added by default
• I've replaced a lot of CSS3 style definitions with images because of bad performance in some browsers (e.g. Firefox)
  • Further I polished the design of the administration interface

Just take a look at the demo (Username: admin - Password: demo123) or at the screenshots.

Because of the new plugin localization feature I've also added a german translation to the contactform plugin (which is not anymore compatible with 2.0.1).

To install the CMS, follow the installation guide. If you already have an older version installed, follow the update guide.

I hope that all of you will be happy with this release :) If any errors occur, please contact me via the contactform on this site.

In the administration interface I'm currently using almost completely CSS3 to define the styles of e.g. buttons, text inputs, etc. This looks great for the most part but in most browser which support CSS3 this turns into bad performance.

So I decided to replace some elements with images or make them more simple with not so much box-shadows. But all my tries creating a simple but nice (and scalable!) button using images failed. Can anyone of you out there create such buttons? That would be very great :)

In the last few weeks I had to work a lot with Wordpress because I'm administrating a website using it.

While fiddling around with templates, plugins and Wordpress itself, I've discovered many great features in Wordpress. And some days I'm asking myself: "Why are people using pecio cms when there are other ones with -  for some part - a lot more features and better usability?".

So today I want to ask you, why you like pecio cms or why you dislike it (also compared to other ones).

I hope I can find some tips in what direction to go with the CMS.

I'm happy to release pecio 2.0.1. Approximately one month ago I released the first version - 2.0 - but since then many modifications have been done on pecio. This includes bug fixes, improvements and new features.

These features and/or improvements are new in version 2.0.1:

• More possibilities for plugins to integrate into the system. But there is still work do be done for the future.
• Automatic installation of plugins which need one.
• Update system which automatically detects if the installed version is newer or older than the uploaded files.
• RSS-Feeds for the whole blog, the categories and the tags.
• Some kind of an overview on the start screen after logging in. There will be more work on this in the future. Any ideas what else I can put on that start screen?
• Some bug fixes

I have also worked on code documentation (finished the first folder and all its files). The file header (license, version, etc.) is included in all files.

There now is an installation guide. If any errors occur, just contact me.

Overall I hope I'm able to give you a simple but great content management system

I have currently not much time for working on pecio, but I could take some hours implementing RSS Feeds for the blog.

I'm using the FeedCreator PHP-Class to generate the RSS Feeds. There will be a feed for the whole blog, for the different categories and for the different tags. An HTML-Link element for the appropriate feed - depending on which site view (blog, category, tag) is displayed - will be automatically placed in the -section of a template.

I also started to bring some headers and documentation (phpDocumentor) into the files, but It'll take some time until I'm finished.

For those who want to test the CMS, I have set up a demo installation of the current snapshot. You can find it here: demo.pecio-cms.com.

Admin Frontend: pec_admin/
Username: admin
Password: demo123