Apr 27, 2020

Twill 2.0, CMS Philly conference, COVID cancellations, and more — The Business of CMS Issue 4

By Chris Van Patten • Issue #4 • View online

Since my last issue, COVID-19 has wreaked havoc around the world, and the CMS industry is certainly no exception. This edition of Business of CMS covers a little over a month of news, including a number of virus-related event and product announcements. We’ll also look at some new features and releases in a few popular and up-and-coming platforms.

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DrupalCon 2020 moves online

As with most large events around the world, DrupalCon 2020, which was originally set to take place in Minneapolis, was cancelled in early March. Instead of the in-person gathering, the Drupal community is now organising a “DrupalCon Global” which will happen online in July.

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Latest updates on changes to WordCamps

In addition to Drupal event changes, a number of 2020 WordCamps have also cancelled while a handful have moved to online streaming formats. To my knowledge, WordCamp Central has not specifically set requirements around whether or not events can proceed (they have released strong recommendations) but it seems that all camps have taken action to stop the spread.

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Craft CMS extends Craft CMS 2 and Craft Commerce 1 security support until January 31, 2022

No context on this tweet, but it’s hard to imagine this isn’t somehow related to COVID-19. As the world slows down, development cycles slow down too.

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In non-COVID news…

TinaCMS introduces "Visual Open Authoring"

Complex name, cool idea: give your website a “suggest changes” mode. With this new TinaCMS feature, website owners will be able to open their site up to edits and suggestions from their users. Because TinaCMS content comes from a git repo, changes are represented as pull requests. Expect this to be very popular for documentation sites!

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Announcing Twill 2.0

Twill, from New York- and Paris-based agency AREA17, is one of the premiere Laravel CMS platforms. This 2.0 release comes with a number of developer experience improvements, as well as a new WYSIWYG editor (they’ve gone with Tiptap) and a bevy of bug fixes.

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CMS Philly

Virtual events aren’t quite the same as in-person, but they do have one advantage: anyone can attend from anywhere! That means that you too can attend this year’s CMS Philly event, which features talks on WordPress, Drupal, Apostrophe, and many more popular content management systems. The event costs $15 (you must pre-register) and their website indicates that even includes some swag sent your way. Very cool.

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How Tinder Used Gatsby to Build a WordPress Site in React

Headless WordPress continues its slow roll toward dominance, as explained by Kyle Boss, web developer at Tinder, in this talk about how they used a WordPress backend and a Gatsby front-end for a project. This is one of the more prominent organisations (that I’ve seen) to adapt the WP/Gatsby cocktail, and I’ll be interested to see more enterprises push the enevelope here.

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By Chris Van Patten

In 2020, every business is a content business, so every business needs a way to create and manage that content. The Business of CMS is a semi-regular newsletter which tracks content management systems — the software powering many of these businesses — and the industry around them.

Every so often, we'll send you a collection of curated links about the latest developments in the CMS world, covering proprietary and open source platforms, M&A news, technical innovations, and much more.

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