Total CMS is the ultimate solution for managing your RapidWeaver sites online with zero setup, zero database, just publish and go! Now with blog!
Weaver's Space
Total CMS is the ultimate solution for managing your RapidWeaver sites online. It supports editing of all text throughout your page. It contains all of the simplicity and power of Easy CMS text and image management, plus a whole lot more. Total CMS also supports galleries, file downloads, video, password protection, news feeds and blogs will be coming soon. All this with zero setup, zero database, just publish and go! Now with the awesome power to create a blog as well!!
Video overview of the 1.4 update - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzykatGgdqU
Version 1.7.10
Released Jan 13th, 2021
See full release notes on product webpage.
When the Blog List loads more posts, an event is not triggered to the browser so that 3rd party stacks that could be used in the layout can analyze new posts added to the page. This was done in particular this week so that the Offsite stack used in a blog list will load new iframes added via load more.
• Fix for depot + impact preview
• Preview performance improvements and fixes for upcoming RapidWeaver 8.1 update
###v1.4.15 • Fix for the displaying blog images inside of the Image Stack.
• Fix for some PHP errors when using hidden tags in the Blog List (that start with -)
• Fix for galleries and lightboxes not working in some themes.
• New %cmsData({cmsid})% macro to bring in the raw cms content with zero conversions. (cmsText converts returns to br tags).
• Fix for displaying tag and category images in the Blog Post page.
• Fix for blog author images on the Blog Post page.
• New Image Shim stack now supports multiple images.
• A lot of changes have been made in the backend to allow for the potential of using PHP variables (such as from Sitelok) inside the various text entry fields throughout the entire CMS. In general, the content based stacks can take a direct PHP variable inside the setting. Admin stack will require that you wrap the variable inside php tags.
Disclaimer: This is not an officially supported feature as if does require you have knowledge of code and how PHP functions. Support for Total CMS does not include teaching you to code.
• New Image Shim stack allows you to use CMS images inside almost any 3rd party image stack.
• Added the featured class to all gallery and blog gallery thumbnails. This also happens with the CMS Integration stacks for 3rd party developers.
• Fixed bug introduced in v1.4.5 that the totals were always displayed in the Blog Filter Links stack.
• Updated Hipwig libraries with bugfixes.
• Fixed double click issue in Hipwig that caused the toolbar to become position fixed.
• Fixed the Ken Burns effect inside the Total CMS Impact integration
• Fixed an Edit Mode conflict with some Bootstrap based themes.
• The -tag syntax will now show inside Blog Admin List (tags and categories).
• The -tag syntax now properly excludes tags and categories when using macros.
• New option inside the Depot Admin that allows you to hide already uploaded files. This is convenient when you might want to use the Depot admin on the content side of your site.
• Blog Tags and Categories that start with a dash (-) will not be included inside any link or filter lists.
• There is now an image preview inside the alt tag editor.
• All “exif_read_data Illegal IFD size” errors should stop populating the cms.log.
• Blog List detailed padding works now.
• File and Depot now support doc, xls and ppt extensions.
• CONTEXT_DOCUMENT_ROOT is taken into affect when determining DOCUMENT_ROOT.
• Fixed sticky toolbar in Hipwig inside Chrome.
• Blog Layout Filter fix.
• Fix for when there is more than one macro in the same line of content.
• Feed timestamp fix.
• Fix for when Feed items get duplicated in the admin list.
• Fixed deleting and editing existing Feed items.
• Fixed some UTF8 encoding issues with blog permalinks getting saved.
• Increased max width on Impact integration foreground content.
• Images for Author, Tags and Categories on the Blog Post page.
• Fix for drag and drop on various admin components.
• Fixed some misc PHP errors.
• Improved “No Post Found” logic on Blog List stacks. Its now done after all posts have been filtered.
• Fixed automated permalinks from adding double timestamps and UUIDs.
• Fix for Hipwig image styles on the content side.
• Improved admin blog list page load
• Fixed JS errors with new Category and Tag select stacks on Blog Posts
• Fixed alt tags in CMS images
###v1.4.0 This is a major update to Total CMS. Please review the below release notes.
There is a video overview of this update on our YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/weaversspace.
###Dates
• Dates now support relative time. Ex: 2 months ago
• Dates now have better support for named date formats. Ex: January 31, 2018
• Dates are now localized in
English
German
Spanish
Dutch
Danish
French
Italian
• Date picker now localized to the above mentioned languages
• Date picker now supports time
• Date localization is configured via the Language settings inside Admin Core and CMS Core.
• There are more pre-made date formats now. Custom formats can be done using the rules found at http://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/
###Blog Post
• Warnings inside Blog Post stacks when moved outside of the Blog Post stack.
• Content, Summary and Extra Content are no longer always passed through a markdown parser. Assumes that Hipwig is used by default. This is controlled through a new Format setting inside those stacks.
• Double quotes from the Summary are stripped when used inside meta tags on the Blog Post page.
• New setting in the Blog Post stack that will not allow draft blog posts from displaying even if the URL/permalink is known.
• Blog child stack menus better organized so that stacks are easier to find
• New Blog Post Layout Rules for
matching text within fields
testing if a field is empty
testing the amount of words in the contents
###Blog List
• NEW STACK! The Blog List stack has been completely revamped with a better grid layout system.
• NEW STACK! Blog List & Blog post Words and Read Time stack.
• Blog filters no longer affect Impact CMS Blog integration. The Impact contents will always be the filter defined in the stack.
• When linking to blog tags and categories with special characters in them, they will now properly filter the blog list when clicked.
• Blog List Image now has border and round corner settings
• New positioning and hover options in Blog List Layout
• Background image and more options in Blog List Image
• New ability to have images for authors, tags and categories.
• Ability to add a filter link to the author
• NEW STACK! New Blog Delete child stack of the Admin Blog Post stack. This will allow you to add any button that you want for the delete button.
• NEW STACK! New Permalink stack with more advanced automated options. To use these new features, you will need to add a new Permalink stack to the page and replace your existing one.
• NEW STACKS! New blog form select stacks for author, tag and category
• Blog post backups now save last 10 edits for every blog post.
• Fixed blog posts getting erased when errors happened during edit/saving.
• If there is an error saving the Blog Post URL, it will be displayed at the bottom of the form.
• You can now hide the Blog date field. The date will remain the same as when it was saved to the CMS.
• You can now use oEmbed inside Blog Content and Extra Content. Ex: [https://twitter.com/weaversspace/status/901929362831712256]
• Feed images can be edited again
• Ability to sort Feeds oldest first
• The Image action bar (alt tag, reorder, etc.) can now be used immediately after the image is uploaded.
• Copy Image Path lightbox now has links to each image
• When PNGs are uploaded the a gallery, they will now get a white background instead of black.
• Old style macros will no longer work
• CMS Core and Blog Macros stack now have helper settings that let you copy & paste CMS macros much easier.
• Macros can now be defined with a heirarchy. Ex: group/title
• There are new macros for gallery and blog post featured images
%cmsGalleryImageFeaturedAlt(cmsid)%
%cmsGalleryImageFeaturedAltFormat(cmsid)%
%cmsGalleryImageFeatured(cmsid)%
%cmsGalleryImageFeaturedThumb(cmsid)%
%cmsGalleryImageFeaturedSquare(cmsid)%
%blogImageFeaturedAlt()%
%blogImageFeaturedAltFormat()%
%blogImageFeatured()%
%blogImageFeaturedThumb()%
%blogImageFeaturedSquare()%
%blogDateMonth()%
%blogDateMonthName()%
%blogDateMonthNameShort()%
%blogDateDay()%
%blogDateDayName()%
%blogDateDayNameShort()%
%blogDateYear()%
%blogDateYearShort()%
• Embedly support added to Hipwig. Another way to oEmbed.
• Hipwig quick insert toolbar
• Ability to customize the Font Size menu in Hipwig
• New image style added for full width images
• You can now uplaod & embed your own MP4 video files
• Admin Core styles settings now get applied properly to the Hipwig editor
• Full upgrade to new Stacks 3.5 API. Edit Mode should feel “zippier”.
• New checks to verify that the project website address is properly set for Total CMS
• New check for if the project web address properly ends with a “/”.
• Input field placeholder text now inherits from the outline color setting.
• Improved error checking when saves fail under some cases.
• Fixed errors when trying to register a domain that has already been registered.
• Minor PHP warning fixes to reduce errors that could show up in cms.log in some circumstances.
• Custom Styles now work for the Blog List loadmore button.
• Improved marking text admin fields as unsaved. It was a bit liberal in marking things as unsaved when no changes were actually made.
• Fixed some API key errors when still in trial mode.
• Performance improvements with blog lists when there are a lot of images.
• New hyphenate setting in Blog List and Blog Post stack. This is turned off by default. For those that want hyphenating enabled, you will have to check this setting.
• Fixed issue where multiple posts would get added to RSS Feed and Sitemap.xml.
###v1.3.12
• Fixes missing images when having Blog List + Impact Blog List on the same page.
• Fixes for when a content Blog List is used on an admin page.
• Background colors work on Blog List Layout stack.
• Admin Blog List filter form works again.
• Fix for processing blog macros.
• Fixed PHP errors when no blog posts are set to draft or featured.
• Fixed issue with All Posts count in Blog Filter Links.
• Blog List is now an inline stack. This means that the background, border, margin and padding settings have been removed. If you want the same effect, simply add the Blog List stack inside of a 1 Column stack.
• Massive speed and memory optimization when you have a lot of Blog List and Filter stacks on the same page.
• Improved link options for the Impact Blog List integration.
• The CMS ID can not longer be set to a blank value.
• Improved video poster images for Impact Depot integration.
• Enter key is disabled for submitting forms.
• Fixed Datastore bulk edit.
• New Blog List child stacks for Tags and Categories.
• Fix for some server setups with the License key not being read properly.
• Admin Blog List filtering for Only Draft or Only Featured.
• Imapct Depot integration now uses image name for alt tag.
• Blog Filter Links and Select now have better filtering options for date, draft and featured.
• With the new enhancement to Blog Filters, actual CMS data in the lists will only show on publish.
• Admin Blog List can now filter by date. Someone was bound to ask for this….
• Blog Post stack can now be used to bring in a blog post dynamically.
• Improved Blog Permalink hide feature. Checkmarks no longer display.
###v1.3.8 • Beta release only
###v1.3.7 • Blog List Admin now has more elaborate sort setting that matches the content side.
###v1.3.6
• The autocomplete for Blog Post form author, tag and category can be toggled off.
• When double clicking the autocomplete fields, this now also marks that field as changed.
• Blog Post summary and content now also have text overflow wrap enabled (I’m looking at you, Brett!).
• Admin Blog list filtering now includes Draft and Featured settings to control how those posts are handled.
• Admin Core styles now also style the filter form on the Admin Blog List stack.
• More advanced input styles for admin components: font size, height, padding, margin, border and radius.
• Form styles from Admin Core now also available in CMS Core. These are used for Datastore and Blog Filter forms.
• Reverted Hipwig editor libraries back. Will update again in the future when the issues are ironed out.
• Minor bug fixes.
• Fixed random timer for slideshows in Blog List. They should not fire at the same time now.
• Search engines will no longer be able to source any Total CMS server files.
• Fixed php warnings with macros where the image does not exist in the cms.
• Fix for registration failing errors inside RapidWeaver.
• Disabled Hipwig save for Blog Forms. It was causing corruption when also saving multiple images.
• Hide Blog List load more button when there are no more posts to load.
• Load the featured image for Blog Post Image and Blog List.
• New Image and Blog Image stacks will default to Grow to Container width. This is so when you are using the thumbnail as the default image, the page will load nicer.
• Depot sort by date features work properly now.
• Blog RSS title and descriptions now get populated with the settings.
• Toggling draft on a blog post will now cause the RSS to get rebuilt.
• Blog Post form after submit actions will no longer fire if the form has incured an error on submission.
• Blog post titles now wrap when you have super long words (looking at you, Germans! ;-P).
• Blog Layout Rules stack now works with author and category.
• Blog List Layout stack now supports background color and images.
• CMS Core now supports the ability to add a prefix to all CMS IDs that are used inside macros. This could help speed up changing all ids on a page very rapidly. However, this only works with macros. Not when the CMS ID is defined inside a CMS stack setting.
• Added max execution time to to the debug output.
• Blog Post Image can now be hidden when there is more than one image added to a post gallery. This means that you can now easily show and image stack when there is only one image and the gallery stack when there are more than one.
• Impact Blog List integration now supports showing of thumbnails for the images. This is great when loading Impact in a smaller space like the sidebar.
• Impact Depot integration with video has been fixed so that poster images can be loaded for the video on mobile devices. You simply need to upload an image file with the same name as the video file. Example: video.mp4 and video.jpg.
• Updated Hipwig libraries with a bunch of enhancements and bug fixes.
Video overview of update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF97YRFg83E
• Blog images now have a red border to indicate that the content has not been saved yet.
• Hipwig image sizing improvements
• API Key checking no longer gets triggered during initial trial mode
• Fixed some misc PHP errors
• The Blog Summary can now be automatically generated based on the blog contents typed in.
• Fixed button alignment in non-Foundation themes
• Gallery images no longer disappear when dragged before the image dropzone area
• Blog List images can not have the link to the blog post turned off
• Blog prefills for author, category and tags properly merge with data from CMS now
• Draft posts no longer show up in author, tag and category lists
• Fix for htaccess rule generator when site is published to a subfolder
• Uploading images into Hipwig now properly marks the text area as unsaved
• Fixed conflcit with Feeds and Blog Post on the same page
• Reduce PHP warnings about iptcparse not being installed when it is installed
• Updated Hipwig library to the latest version
• Hipwig tooltip localization into English, Spanish and German
• Improved Hipwig Pro Settings in Admin Core
• New Pro Setting: define the colors used in the color toolbar menu
##v1.3.2 • API Key warning now restricted to Edit Mode (as it should have always been)
• Update Hipwig and other open source libraries with bug fixes
• Some minor bug and compatibility fixes
This is a major update. Please review update video for details. Make sure to REPUBLISH ALL FILES.
Video overview of update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF97YRFg83E
##Security
• API Keys are now used to add an extra layer of security to the CMS.
• Your Total CMS license key must be added to all CMS Core and Admin Core stacks.
• All text content is encoded before sent to the CMS.
• Protect no longer relies on cookies
##New CMS Elements
• New Number admin stack. The contents is still saved as text in the CMS. However, this gives you another input type that really limits users from entering the wrong type of data.
• New Ratings stack to display static ratings or collect ratings from visitors
• New Datastore admin stack
Highlights
• New Image crop settings in all image and gallery admin stacks allow you to define where the crop for the square thumbnails is taken. You have different settings for both portrait and landscape images.
• New image validation rules on all image admin stacks. This will stop users from uploading images that will not look good in your layouts. Portrait vs Landscape. File Size, Min/Max height, Min/Max width.
• Completely revamped CMS Image stack! Circular images, borders, new sizing controls. It can also bring in images from feeds, galleries, and blog posts
• Gallery reordering is here! Simply drag and drop your images into place in the admin area. This applies to Blog Galleries as well.
• Default alt tags can now be user defined or can be auto-generated based on the meta tags of the image. • You can place in the filename, title, caption and copyright information directly into the alt tags.
• New Featured images for Galleries and Blog Galleries. This allows users to set a featured image that can affect the blog and gallery layouts through their content stacks.
More Updates
• Ability to hide first or last image in Gallery and Blog Gallery.
• When image uploads fail, the error is added to a tooltip when you hover over the red X.
• Galleries and Blog Galleries now keep the original file name that was uploaded. Well, the name is massaged a little bit. Only letters, dashes and underscores are allowed. Its also made lowercase.
• For the image copy paths lightbox on the admin page, the preview of the image is also loaded into the lightbox.
• The Gallery content stack can now display galleries from Feeds and Blogs.
• New Image settings (sizing, circle, etc) migrated to Gallery, Blog Image and Blog Gallery stacks.
• EXIF data is now stored when images are uploaded to galleries. This data is only stored at this time.
Highlights
• Automated workflow for Blog Post URLs. Setting up pretty URLs could not be easier.
• New Blog extra content field. Generic text area to make things even more flexible.
• TotalMove.app allows you to easily migrate your blogs into Total CMS. Supports Tumblr now. More coming soon.
More Updates
• You can add a custom Post View Page in Blog List (this is only recommended if you have multiple post view pages in your project.)
• Removed post URL warning from Blog List stack since its no longer required to be set. You should be using the setting in the Blog Form stack instead.
• Fix for when commas and other characters are used in the author and other blog fields.
• Blog Filter Links can now have just year be displayed
• Blog Filter improved styling and alignment options
• Blog List can now be sorted alphabetically.
• New setting for not excluding posts from the Blog List on the Blog Post page.
• New Blog List HTML stack allows you to add custom HTML into the Blog List template
• New setting to disable links on Titles in the Blog List
• Max Images setting added to Blog Post Gallery
##General fixes and enhancements
• Admin Core stack will now warn you in Preview when the version of the CMS on your server is out of date.
• Fix for video in Impact integration with depot and file.
• Fixed various PHP errors that were discovered
• Added some Max File Size logic checks to Depot.
• Sort Depots by date
• Admin Core got some edit mode styling to make it a bit more useful like Site Styles in Foundation.
• Some misc errors and warnings resolved
• Alt + S should no longer trigger save on Windows
• Wistia Support for videos
• The delay between saves when using the save button hsa been removed.
• Updated Hipwig libraries with bug fixes
• Misc style fixes for some themes
• Improved uplaoding of large image files
• Input placeholder ghosting fixed in Safari
v1.2.7
• Fix a bunch of style issues on non-Foundation themes
• Some fixes for the Comments 2 integration with blog
• The Post View Page setting has been removed from Blog List. Its now automated.
• Resolved some PHP errors when the wrong cms ID is defined for a blog.
• Updated and optimized Hipwig libraries.
For more details check out the Total CMS Product Page. You can also view previous release notes.
v1.2.6
• Blog permalinks are now taken into account for search results. They also take the highest precedent
• Improved the document root detection on web servers. Take that Strato!
• New setting for alignment of the Blog Filter Links
For more details check out the Total CMS Product Page. You can also view previous release notes.
v1.2.5
• Fix for Hipwig file and image uploads
For more details check out the Total CMS Product Page. You can also view previous release notes.
v2.0.1
• Fix for when referencing a CMS date field and no date has yet been defined
For more details check out the Today Product Page. You can also view previous release notes.
v1.2.4
You must republish all files in order to publish the updated CMS to your server.
• Support for the new Today 2.0 stack
• RSS feed no longer adds author field since that requires an email address.
• Fix Hipwig toolbar dividers
• Improved Debug stack output
• Added more logging to Hipwig image and file uploads
• Fixed PHP warning in preview with Blog List
• Project theme designers can now add stacks.totalcmsdemo = true; into the JavaScript tab in the page inspector on Admin pages. This will allow you to publish a demo of the admin page, however, users will not be able to actually modify or save any new content. Backup your cms-data folder just in case though! :-)
For more details check out the Total CMS Product Page. You can also view previous release notes.
v1.2.3
You must republish all files in order to publish the updated CMS to your server.
• Fixed incorrect warning about CMS Core with Blog Admin List stack
• More debugging output added to debugger + PHP version checker
• Fixed conflicts with oh-so-fun-hosts like GoDaddy and Strato
• Fixed PHP error with blog posts that had no gallery images
• Fixed inline link floats with Blog Filter Links
• When a post is not found, you can now redirect or display custom content
• Hidden permalink fields stay hidden on edit now
For more details check out the Total CMS Product Page. You can also view previous release notes.
v1.2.2
• Better Blog Link List inline styling
For more details check out the Total CMS Product Page. You can also view previous release notes.
v1.2.1
• New CMS Core warning to help you know when you forgot to add the CMS Core stack to the page
• Improved EXIF php function exist tests
• The Text Admin stack now has the ability to set as a password field. This will make the actual text not viewable. However, there is a preview text toggle icon. This will work great for the new integration with the PageSafe stack.
• Blog Link Lists can now be made inline
• Tooltip improvements with more instructions
• Blog Links now has a History option to list links to your posts by month and year.
For more details check out the Total CMS Product Page. You can also view previous release notes.
MAJOR UPDATE: Please review the release notes and watch video overview
v1.1.7
• Fixed issue with regsitering new Total CMS passports
v1.1.6
• Moved passport check to only use https. Some hosts do not seem to handle the redirect from http.
• Fixed Cheatsheet
v1.1.5 • Preparation for improved Total CMS v1.2 support for HTTPS. Please republish all files.
v1.1.4 • Fix for passport checking failing on some servers after 30 days
• Select Show stack works on publish and not just in RapidWeaver. Oops…
• Fix for Hipwig and new Alert box when used in a lightbox
Raul Gammelone
1 year ago
I'm totallyt happy with it, I used this CMS with a nice theme and my site is now editable online in easy way. reccomended
RedMax
2 years ago
When I build a website my mission is always to turn it over to the client and expect that they will be self sufficient in the face of their changing needs. TotalCMS is literally indispensable in achieving that goal. Every new website for several years now has begun the same way, with Joe's Foundation and TotalCMS suites.
I'd be remiss if I failed to mention Joe's excellent level of support, whom I've always found going the extra yard. I don't have to contact them often but they can be depended on when I do.
Andrew Longfield
3 years ago
Took me a little while to sit down and gets to grips with Total CMS but I am really glad I did - what a great asset for a web designer. Once you understand the parameters (Joe's video tutorials are excellent) you can quickly put together great-looking sites with CMS areas your client will love and easily be able to access and edit. Regular text content, videos, galleries, togglable areas as per Easy CMS plus brilliant Total Blog and other tools which enable you to get creative not just with a standard blog but a variety of other clever variations. There is plenty of inspiration and pretty immediate help available from Joe and users at all levels on The Weaver's Space forum, too. As with all of Joe Workman's products this is a slick, well thought-out and contantly evolving tool and one that no designer should be without. I have tried and ditched other CMS stacks and plug-ins in the past and am delighted to have taken the plunge with Total CMS - there is nothing that even comes close.
Pete Northfield
3 years ago
Total CMS is easy to set-up and allows you to design the blog page to look the way you want, the flexibility of being able to design the client interface is an enormous plus as its allows you to design an easy to use, foolproof interface for each client. It is more than a blog as you can set it up to access most of the website and that gives the client full control of the majority of the website, if so desired. The flexibility to access it from mobile devices frees the client from his desktop. Every time I use Total CMS I learn to use its capabilities to a greater extent and I have not found its limit yet. This really is the best blogging tool available on Rapidweaver.
Brent
4 years ago
Rapid weaver was a game changer back in the day. Then Stacks was introduced and the game just got better. Add Total CMS to that mix and you have a home run on every site you build. Total CMS has taken us from making suggestions to clients on who to go to for web design, to landing wed development in house that not only competes with, but blows our competition out of the water. The game isn't just changed, it's Won!!
jsatt1816
4 years ago
I've tried other platforms like word press and also the rapidweaver built in blog. But I have to say that total cms blog is what I was always looking for without knowing it. It makes everything so much easier. Since I have been busy I've been adding posts on the fly on my phone and it works great.
iKeithW
4 years ago
I have so much more free time now that my users can update content in a safe and easy way. Now I don't have to do so much tedious work and concentrate on more fun stuff.
Marjan
5 years ago
Total CMS is a great, new CMS, this CMS is super easy to use for your customers! It is quite easy to build in Rapidweaver, especially since Joe Workman has made several video's on how to build a site with these new stacks. There is a handy docs portal as well. And if that is not sufficient, he has a Google+ Community.
I myself had some problems building a site with Total CMS, I really had great support from Joe Workman and his crew!! They really helped me out.
Richard
5 years ago
Allows me to create brilliant edit pages for my customers and really dynamic sites and really easy to use.
The sites using it run ultra fast, no difference in load speeds from static web sites.
Just brilliant, customers are amazed how they can edit their websites so quickly and easily, even from their iPhones.
Easy for you, easy for your customers, just brilliant, such a game changer for web designers without all the hassle you usually get with CMS systems.
Create in Rapidweaver, then just Publish and Go! That easy, no database to setup and you can even see your customer content in edit mode in RW itself.
Nothing like it, has a 30 day free trial so just get it and give it a go!
Jus303
5 years ago
This is what I've been waiting for - and it can only get better from here. My clients are going to absolutley love this. Easy to implement, a delight to design. Thank you!!!