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Do you have what it takes to join our Developers Team?
Posted March 4, 2013 by scotch33
Category: General, Announcements
Today sees the start of our 2013 recruitment drive. We are looking for motivated, talented individuals to join us in the CMS Made Simple Development team. The dev team works on a voluntary basis developing CMS Made Simple for you.
Read MoreThe next step: Developing CMSMS 2.0
Posted January 22, 2013 by scotch33
Category: General, Releases, Announcements
Since the release of CMSMS 1.11, whilst simultaneously supporting the 1.11.x series and fixing issues, we have also been quietly working on the next new feature version of CMS Made Simple. Though we do not have an arrival date yet, the version is progressing nicely and we felt it was time to give you a preview of what you can look forward to.
Read MoreWe are nominated in the CMS Critics Awards
Posted October 15, 2012 by scotch33
Category: General, Events, Community, Announcements
Now we need your vote!
Read MoreNominate us in the 2012 CMS Critics Choice Awards
Posted September 14, 2012 by scotch33
Category: General, Events, Community, Announcements
The very first CMS Critic's Choice Awards is open for nominations. We are hoping to get the recognition we think CMSMS deserves and hope you will help us by nominating your favourite CMS!
Read MoreAnnouncing CMSMS 1.11 - Galapagos
Posted July 28, 2012 by maksbud
Category: Releases, Announcements
The CMSMS Dev Team is delighted to announce the official release of our next major version, CMS Made Simple 1.11. There have been some significant and important changes. This release has undergone months of active, and careful development by the CMSMS Dev Team. Additionally, a very active six week public beta program resulting in more testing than in any other CMSMS release should ensure that this version is the stable, fast, powerful, feature rich and easy to use content management system that you have come to expect.
Read MoreA new CMSMS Docs Site
Posted June 20, 2012 by calguy1000
Category: General, Announcements
As promised, in conjunction with the start of the CMSMS 1.11 Beta process we are releasing a new documentation website to explain the starts of how to work with CMS Made Simple.
Read MoreAnnouncing CMSMS 1.11 beta
Posted June 20, 2012 by calguy1000
Category: Releases, Announcements
The CMSMS Dev Team is delighted to announce the Beta release of our next major version CMS Made Simple 1.11. There have been some significant and important changes. We strongly advise that if you are a Module creator, your participation in the beta testing cycle will not only be of great benefit to us but an extremely useful exercise for you to get an immediate and comprehensive understanding of the improvements. Particularly developers of modules that export custom content types should participate in the beta process (to experience changes in the content class as noted below), so that you can ensure compatible releases of the module are available at the time when CMSMS 1.11 is released.
Read MoreNominations are Now Open for 2011 Geekmoot Awards
Posted January 18, 2012 by kgriffith
Category: General, Events, Geek, Announcements
Every Spring the CMS Made Simple Community recognizes the "best of" the previous year at our Geek Moot Awards Ceremony. We are now taking nominations for best of 2011 in the following categories: Developer of the Year, Design of the Year, Community Member of the Year, Theme Builder of the Year. Read more to follow the link to Geek Moot's awards nomination page.
To nominate and vote visit the awards page, or READ MORE and nominate directly from the links in this blog post below.
Read MoreForge Project Rules
Posted December 12, 2011 by calguy1000
Category: Community, Announcements
The CMSMS Dev team recently discussed some difficulties that appear from time to time with projects registered on the forge. Individually they are minor problems to the Dev team but can accumulate as we have seen in the past. Also, these problems may have major implications for our user community. To that end we as a group have come up with some rules for forge projects that are in effect as of now (the following will soon be inserted as rules to read when registering a new project in the forge). In the coming days we will also be sending an email out to all registered project administrators.
Read MoreAnnouncing CMSMS 1.10.2 - Casa Pilote
Posted November 21, 2011 by calguy1000
Category: Releases, Announcements
CMSMS 1.10.2 is more of a ‘smoothing out the rough edges’ release. Only one of the issues we addressed could be called ‘critical’.. but some of them were rather annoying and caused confusion. As well, some were old issues that we finally addressed. So it was time to get them out of the way.
Read MoreAnnouncing CMSMS 1.10.1 - Le Lorrain
Posted November 5, 2011 by calguy1000
Category: Releases, Announcements
As usual, straight out of a major functionality release there are always some bugs spotted. And usually important ones. 1.10 has been no different, even with a longer than normal, and public beta process. This is an important bug fix release...
Read MoreAnnouncing CMS Made Simple 1.10
Posted October 22, 2011 by calguy1000
Category: General, Releases, Announcements
The Dev Team is proud to announce that CMSMS 1.10 (one point ten), the latest stable version of CMS Made Simple is now ready for download. This version continues the development of the 1.x series with some exciting new features that enhance the admin experience and make maintaining a site an even more efficient process. Our focus for this release has been to make CMSMS faster, lighter, and stronger.
Read MoreCMSMS 2.0 Project Shelved
Posted May 26, 2011 by calguy1000
Category: General, Announcements
Today we have an announcement about the future direction of CMS Made Simple. After extensive discussion amongst the development team regarding our roadmap, we’ve made a decision which we know is the best way to continue ongoing development of the software. This decision relates to the development and release of “CMSMS 2.0â€.
Read MoreCMS Made Simple Development Cookbook now on sale
Posted May 13, 2011 by scotch33
Category: General, Community, Announcements
A brand new book by Dev Team Member Samuel Goldstein is now available from Packt Publishing.
Read MoreCMS Made Simple 1.9.1 Released
Posted November 21, 2010 by calguy1000
Category: General, Announcements
The CMSMS™ Dev Team is happy to announce CMS Made Simple™ 1.9.1 This version is a bug fix release, solving a number of the issues encountered in CMSMS 1.9. We waited for over a week for this release to be reasonably sure that we had received all of the major bug reports, and that we had extra time to test them.
Read MoreThanks for your vote in the Packt Awards - WE WON!!
Posted November 19, 2010 by utter
Category: General, Community, Announcements
The CMS Made Simple™ Dev Team are pleased to announce that we have won the Packt Award for "Best Open Source CMS" for 2010. We would like to express our gratitude to the thousands of user-community members who took the time to vote for their favorite open source content management solution.
Read MoreAnnouncing CMS Made Simple 1.9 - Bora Bora
Posted November 7, 2010 by compufairy
Category: General, Releases, Announcements
Once again the CMSMS(tm) Dev team has joined forces over hundreds or thousands of hours of effort to release yet another milestone version of CMS Made Simple(tm). This release is a feature version where we expanded the flexibility of your favorite package while maintaining its famous ease of use. We are confident that you find this version of your favorite content management system to be the best one yet.
Read MoreVote for CMSMS in the Packt Pub Open Source Awards
Posted September 28, 2010 by ted
Category: General, Community, Announcements
We are proud to announce that, for the fourth time, we are a finalist in the Packt Publishing Open Source Awards. This year, we are nominated in the category of Favorite Overall Open Source CMS. We are again ecstatic to be included in the elite ranks of the Open Source CMS world and are glad that our community’s nominations helped us to get there.
Read MoreGeek Moot Award Winners
Posted September 27, 2010 by calguy1000
Category: Events, Geek, Announcements
We are happy to congratulate all of the winners of the CMS Made Simple™ awards that were presented at this year’s Geek Moot. The awards this year were sponsored by Duketown Systems Consultancy. A big fan of CMSMS, and author of many CMSMS modules and books.
Read MoreBeta Testers wanted!
Posted September 9, 2010 by compufairy
Category: General, Releases, Announcements
We're getting ready for the beta testing cycle of the new version of CMS Made Simple (Version 1.9). This will be a closed beta... Only the people accepted to the group will have access to the beta, and an advantage over everybody else. As the system is seriously evolving, we appreciate you help in the process of improving it. We are looking for ten to twenty experienced CMS Made Simple users that want to get involved, and have been looking for an opportunity to do so.
Read MoreCMS Made Simple workshops
Posted August 28, 2010 by compufairy
Category: General, Events, Community, Geek, Announcements
Have you always wanted to learn how to port static designs to CMS Made Simple? Or how to juice up and optimize your site design with jQuery? Or how to boost your SEO? How to style forms, news entries, etc.? Want to learn how to create modules and plugins for CMSMS 1.8 and beyond? And more?
Now's your chance! The CMS Made Simple dev team members and some of our most experienced users are giving pre-conference workshops on the first day of the Geek Moot 2010 in Amsterdam on September 15.
Read MoreGeek Moot 2010 Donation Drive
Posted August 16, 2010 by ted
Category: General, Events, Community, Announcements
It’s that time of year again. In order to fund some of the developers travel to the Geek Moot 2010, we’re going to require a bit of supplemental income. We’re looking to fund 3 developers coming over from North America as well as the remainder of the deposit for the event space. As with the last 2 years, we’re going to open up for help from the community. The goal this year is bigger than last year, but I’m hopeful that we can pull it off.
Read MoreAnnouncing CMS Made Simple 1.8.2 - Toliara
Posted August 12, 2010 by ted
Category: General, Releases, Announcements
This release is mainly to fix the issues that people with older sites had with the removal of the use_hierarchy option in config.php. To make sure that people don't mess up their SEO after an upgrade, we've put the option back in.
We've also done a few bug fixes, including a fix to the cms_stylesheet plugin, a bug in Menu Manager, and a few other things that should've been fixed awhile ago.
Read MoreNominate CMSMS for the Packt Publishing Open Source Awards
Posted August 9, 2010 by ted
Category: General, Events, Community, Announcements
It's time again for the Packt Publishing Open Source Awards. These awards give amazing exposure for CMS Made Simple, and we'd love to be a finalist again this year. Please nominate us as soon as you can. We need all the help we can get!
Read MoreAnnouncing CMS Made Simple 1.8.1 - Mankara
Posted July 13, 2010 by tyman00
Category: General, Releases, Announcements
This release fixes an important security vulnerability, we recommend that ALL users upgrade as soon as possible.
The local inclusion vulnerability fixed is old and affects many previous versions of CMSMS. Therefore it is important for ALL installations to be upgraded as soon as possible.
This release also fixes all of the issues encountered with the CMSMS 1.8 release due to the overhaul of the translation function. Your performance in the admin section should be back to normal following this upgrade.
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