The Monthly SpookyFirehose

October Recap, 2024

Boo! 👻

Hope you had a spooky and fun Halloween! We've been shipping the good stuff lately and there's plenty more where that came from. Here's what happened this past October in in Stataverse. 🪐

The New Importer Addon 📦

Migrating from WordPress to Statamic has never been easier. The brand new, Official Importer helps you import content and users from XML, CSV, and WordPress' Gutenberg.

Here are a couple of its niceties:

Allows importing entries, taxonomy terms, and users
Supports all CSV and XML files
Intuituive UI for mapping fields
Multi-Site ready
Special handling of Gutenberg content (WordPress)
Hooks for customizing the import process

Want to see it in action?

Stunning New Starter Kit 📸

In collaboration with Michael Aerni, one of our certified Statamic Partners, we've just launched a brand new Starter Kit aimed at photographers who want to showcase their images in a beautiful and performant portfolio. It offers all the features you need as a photographer, including:

Public and private (password protected) galleries
Image processing with options for watermark and low-res images
Download and like individual images
Download a zip of all or a selection of images
Pricing cards
Inquiry form

Head over to the Marketplace or visit the live demo to see it in action.

Also note that the Starter Kit is free for a limited time only.

Hot New Blade Components 🔪

With the most recent release (5.36.0), our Blade integration reaches a whole new level with a suite of Blade Components. This was another huge effort by the talented Mr. Koster. Head over to the docs to learn more about it.

Oh and all of our documentation has been updated to include both Antlers and Blade code examples. Huge thanks to John for working on this as well!

Upcoming redesign 💅

We've been really hard at work with this over the past year and are excited to finally bring you the redesign in the next couple of weeks. It's not just a redesign with fresh visuals but a brand new Statamic experience with new account features, improved landing pages for different audiences, and a better Marketplace.

Office hours / AMA 🎙️

Last week, we started hosting office hours on our community Discord server to answer your questions and demo new features like the Importer. Whether you're a Statamic veteran, seasoned Laravel developer, or are just moving over from another CMS like WordPress, hop on our calls and asks your questions.

You can join our Discord server here where you can also see the times and dates as well as enable notifications.