Development News

10 Jan

A new pattern

Well, not so "new" to be honest, but now it's official (kinda). Every control panel page will follow a - completely optional :) - specific pattern, following this order:

# login
# user rights
# page specific code
# include extensions
# start html
    css theme
    panel elements (i.e menus)
    action confirm messages ("welcome", "posted" etc.)
    any other html or php code needed by the page
    include plugins
# end html

All the years of making these pages bring us to the safe conclusion that this can be a nicely working page structure, for most cases.
This is going to be included in a new update, hopefully coming soon.
18 Dec 2021

Date fix

- New version with minor aesthetic changes.
- A small change in core files to fix the date still appearing when turned off from the settings.
10 Jun 2021

MonoCMS 2.0

Here is the first MonoCMS of 2021, finally available for download. Some of the changes and new features include:

  • New custom session
  • Search filters in posts
  • New classes and functions
  • A sidemenu, as the default navigation menu
  • Safety improvements
  • Easily build and include plugins and extensions
  • New xml files, like 'dates.xml'
  • Asynchronous javascript used instead of an iframe when saving a post or page
  • Theme and Navigation pages are removed (for now at least).

Some old elements are also gone. Nothing against iframes, but the iframe to load a user icon from a folder, in settings, is also removed and replaced by an input element.

See also the updated documentation page
26 Jan 2021

Refreshing website

A new version is almost here so some step by step changes are going to be made to the website as well in the next days. Some old blog posts are going to be removed and some pages as well, like the demo and the plugins page. Stay tuned.