What I Learned Today
There's a lot of exciting stuff happening with Radiant right now. I've used Radiant on some work projects and felt like it was so-so. Don't get me wrong -- it's a great piece of software, but there were always features that didn't exist or, worse, were unpolished.
The thing that came out today that got me all excited is the Chronicle Extension.
This extension gives you a sweet interface to have versioned pages in Radiant, including the ability to work on a draft version of an already published page.
This cat Aissac is my new hero for his set of extensions:
- Custom Fields Extension - gives Radiant custom fields like in many other CMSs.
- Tiny Paper Extension - adds TinyMCE as an option for editing pages. I hate some TinyMCE, but lots of people want to use it. This also adds image uploading and embedding.
- Member Extension - walls off part of your site, making it members-only.
- Stereotype Extension - lets you define templates for child pages.
The video above taught me about Radiant development mode, which I somehow missed before. I also caught a glimpse of the page attachments extension, which I'd be very prone to use if I'm not using the Tiny Paper extension. The page attachments extension has a simple interface that I really like.
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