After three months of frantic development, the alpha (pre release) version of the popular simple open source content management system: Pixie 1.04a is available! Tony has been working exceptionally hard to patch bugs and improve the core architecture. As a result, there are plenty of changes. Here are some of the big ones:
- jQuery 1.4.2 - jQuery has been upgraded to the latest release.
- jQuery from Google apis - You can now choose to serve jQuery from Google's servers.
- Tablesorter - You can now sort the columns in the dashboard log.
- GZIP compression - You can compress your site's themes and the admin area using GZIP compression. This speeds up Pixie on slow hosts.
- CKEditor - TinyMCE just wasn't doing it. We now have the most popular WYSIWYG editor available built right into Pixie.
- More languages - We have added translations from contributors around the world to increase the amount of languages Pixie supports along with cleaning up existing ones.
- Installer - Improvements to the installer to further simplify the process and add some new advanced features. You can now install more than one copy of Pixie on a single database.
We would love to have your feedback on this release before we push it live as an official upgrade. You can post your thoughts, bugs and ideas to us on the Pixie forums. Once again I would to thank Tony for all his hard work. Lets get testing! Download Pixie 1.04a.
An early Christmas present. The next release of Pixie is ready for download, it is a bug fix release and recommend for everyone. One of the big changes in this version is that theme developers can now specify their own index.php file as part of a theme. This should increase flexibility when designing themes. All existing themes will continue to work as normal.
Upgrade instructions can be found in the wiki and if you require any help please post your questions and feedback to the forums.
A big thanks to everyone who has helped get this together (Isa, Sam, Tony, rm & everyone in the forums). Have a great Christmas break, you have earned it!
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Yeasterday Packt Publishing announced the winners of the 2009 Most Promising Open Source CMS competition and Pixie came runner up! This is a massive achievement for such a small CMS and I would like to thank everyone who took the time to vote for us. We came joint second with Pligg, while Impress CMS took the top spot. From Packt Publishing:
We are pleased to announce that ImpressCMS has won the Most Promising Open Source CMS Category in the 2009 Open Source CMS Award. While ImpressCMS took first place in this category, Pixie and Pligg weren’t far behind and settled for a tie in the first runner up spot.
ImpressCMS has featured in the top three in this category for the second time in a row, and has lived up to its reputation this year by winning the top spot.
Pixie and Pligg, on the other hand, featured in this category for the first time and managed to impress a lot of judges with their quality and support.
Here's the distribution of the prize fund for this category:
- ImpressCMS: $2,000
- Pixie: $1,000
- Pligg: $1,000
More news to follow (once we have heard from Packt). Thanks again!
This is for those of you who have downloaded Pixie and said "I cannot get it to work" or "my hosting does not do what its suppose to". We are super excited to announce that you can now get Pixie installed along with an excellent hosting package. We are calling it "Hosted Pixie" (if you had not noticed all the Pink banners around the site).
We have teamed up with Arvixe and Softaculous to bring you a one click install of Pixie on any Arvixe hosting package. It makes getting started with Pixie even easier. The hosting packages start at $4 and provide you with:
- Unlimited disk space
- Unlimited data transfer
- POP3 and IMAP email
- Unlimited email addresses
- PHP5
- Unlimited MySQL Databases
We look forward to seeing even more Pixie sites!
