We're excited to announce the immediate availability of Escher CMS 0.9.2. This release is the culmination of sixth months of development, and it significantly enhances Escher CMS with several new features and capabilities.
Here are the highlights:
- Drag & Drop ordering of pages (complete with ajaxy goodness!)
- Unlimited custom metadata for images, files and links
- Beautiful new default theme
- Site search plugin
- Feed plugin for atom/rss
- Unlimited custom metadata for images, files, and links
- Support for separate read-only database(s) (for load-balancing MySQL queries to replicated slaves)
- Enhanced password security (PHPass integrated)
and the pièce de résistance...
Integrated development and staging branches. Update and preview changes to your production site without affecting what the live site is serving to visitors. No separate development server or staging server to synchronize to. You don't even need a separate installation of Escher CMS. Simply configure your DNS with a couple additional subdomains (eg. dev.mysite.com, staging.mysite.com) and you're good to go. Once your changes look good, push them to production to take them live. This is simply the easiest way to make and deploy design changes to production sites.