LightCMS 2015: Year in Review
Well, here we are… 2015 is in the history books and we all have our sights on 2016. As is our tradition, we spent some time reviewing last year’s top blog posts, important product enhancements, and other happenings in LightCMS Land. Take a look below.
Product Enhancements
Last year was jam-packed with product releases that improved LightCMS and also made life easier for many of our users. Here’s a list of our 2015 release notes, in case you missed any of them:
- Use the same email address across any number of LightCMS sites
- New Login and Register element
- Enhanced user profiles
- Store users can now be enabled on the Store Settings Options tab
- User profiles now show purchase history and allow for editing personal information
- Checkout has been updated into a two-step process
- Customize header image & background color of checkout pages
- Display your logo at the top of the checkout page
- Edit button colors and fonts
- Redesigned, full-screen source editor
- Quickly assign custom roles to pages from a central location
- Resellers can now create their own pricing plans
- Blog posts can now display a featured image at the beginning of a post
- Site elements now assigned Global IDs.
- New element token enables sharing across multiple pages by specifying Global ID
- Secure Sign In now controlled at the site level rather than user level
- Define default page elements that are automatically placed on your page when it’s created.
- Site settings Basic tab now includes a Favicon upload option.
- Greater SEO control - change all element titles to any heading level, from H1 to H6.
- Display thumbnail images next to blog title in a blog listing
- New sites now use Liberty as the default template
- LightCMS Starter Plan launched
- Order blog posts by title or publish date
- Display as a list by popularity, with body, and with summary
- Order calendars in chronological and reverse chronological order
- Improved billing process for LightCMS Developers
- New account dashboard redesign
- Specify the date and time a page becomes available on your site
- More intuitive design manager navigation
- Specify a CSS class for each element
- Select dimensions for gallery thumbnail images
New Templates
We launched 6 new templates in 2015, all of which are fully responsive and ready to be used. You can check them out by following the below links.
Sharing Best Practices
Throughout the year, we try to blog about topics other than our own product and share information related to web design. We had some awesome guest posts, so we thought we should share them again. Here are the five most popular blog posts from last year:
Looking Ahead
As great as 2015 has been, we’re even more exited for 2016 and we’re looking forward to sharing what’s in store for LightCMS. We’re so thankful for all the suggestions we received from our great customers and we always welcome your feedback. If you have any suggestions on how we can improve LightCMS, please send us an email at support@lightcms.com.
Thank you again for your continued support of LightCMS. Here’s to a great 2016!
Posted on Wed, January 20, 2016
by Brett Martin