We completed several major and several minor improvements to the CMS in this update:
- Cleanup: minor publishing cleanup
- Cleanup: preview sites should be much more up-to-date now.
- Feature: scheduled publishing and unpublishing
- Feature: object history
- Feature: version control management
- Feature: default meta data
- Feature: default browser title prefix and suffix
- Feature: site favicon
- Bugfix: search indexes failed to populate for the management database
Scheduled publishing
It is now super easy to schedule a future publish (or unpublish - or even both!) of any publishable object in the CMS. Want to have a limited-time special but don't want to have to hit "Publish" as soon as it starts? Schedule it in advance!
Object History
View who created/updated/published/etc... any object and when! This does not currently tell you what they changed.
Version Control
Want to save your work before making a change and worried that you won't be able to undo it? Never fear! Just "Save Version" and make your edits. Now you can always go back and revert to previous versions if you make a mistake. It even auto-saves your work every time you publish an object. Note, however, that there is a 10-version limit, so if you create too many permanent versions, you may not get much benefit from the automatic versions.
Setting Improvements
Default Meta Description
Want to ensure that every page on your site at least has something in their meta description? Set a site-wide default meta description in the site settings, and any page with an empty meta description will use the site default. This will not have any effect on pages that do have a meta description.
Default Browser Title Prefix and Suffix
Make it easy to add "yourdomain.com" in front of every browser title, or "Your Company Name" after. With the new Browser Title Prefix and Suffix settings, you can add it by default whenever a new page is created. Note, however, that content editors can always edit the browser title to be whatever they want, and that this only applies to creating new pages. If you change the setting, it will not affect any existing pages.
Site Favicon
Set the favicon once for all domains on your site. Simple upload your favicon, select in the site template settings dialog, publish your site, and navigate to "yourdomain.com/favicon.ico". Easy.
