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MarkdownMaster CMS 5.1.0 - YYYY.MM.DD

New Features

  • Add support for fediverse:creator meta tag on pages based on socials data
  • Add support for Twitter card previews
  • Add support for server-side plugin code
  • Add getFilteredTags to retrieve only tags based on current search filters
  • Add support for reverse search when using getTags (-r convention)
  • Add support for opengraph URL tags
  • Add support for opengraph type tags
  • Add support for backend hooks
  • Add limit attribute to cms-tags to restrict number of tags shown
  • Add support for blocks in cms-tags
  • Add support in pagelists to fetch full text of content

Changes

  • Pagelist plugin now defaults sorting of related pages based on relevance.
  • Add support for operation mode (OR / AND) on backend File lookups
  • Add kofi and external-link aliases to fontawesome
  • Dropped composer in favor of native include lookups
  • Add cms:pagelist:loaded document event
  • Add tag attribute on returned objects when using getTags
  • Add support for server-side type details on files
  • Force descriptions to be trimmed at 160 characters for SEO purposes
  • Add support for scripts to be injected in HTML pages (head and foot)
  • Add support for content to be injected at the end of the body
  • Add support for backend Config::GetExtraParameter to mimic frontend functionality
  • Matomo plugin can how handle tracking code injection automatically
  • Upgrade fslightbox to 2.7.4
  • Change rendering of cms-tags to allow for CSS to handle layout

Fixes

  • Include search parameters in default redirect to preserve campaign tracking and search parameters
  • Server-generated pages preserve existing body classnames correctly
  • Server-generated pages only add an H1 if one is not located in the content
  • Server-generated pages handle mailto: and other non-HTTP links correctly

MarkdownMaster CMS 5.0.4 - 2025.08.09

New Features

  • Add support for custom form submit buttons
  • Add support for select fields on forms
  • Add support for radio inputs on forms
  • Add support for checkbox inputs on forms
  • Add support for hidden inputs on forms
  • Add external-links plugin for auto handling links to external sites
  • Add mastodon-comments plugin for embedding Mastodon posts as comments

Changes

  • Handle forms with no success target
  • Auto-load extras requested from the server
  • Wrap inline script tags in IIFE to prevent scope issues
  • Rename extras from init.js to {name}.js to make them easier to find
  • Remove mastodon-share in favor of mastodon-comments

Fixes

  • Fix support for newlines within HTML and script tags
  • Fix '&' and other non-XML friendly characters in titles

MarkdownMaster CMS 5.0.3 - 2025.04.27

New Features

  • cms-pagelist now supports related attribute to retrieve related content based on tags
  • Links in Markdown content translate '.md' to '.html' automatically
  • Add support for Github-style task lists (Issue #2)
  • Add RSS support

Changes

  • CMS.getPathsFromURL now supports a string to be passed in, to parse arbitrary URLs.
  • Add CMS.currentPage to point to the current page being viewed
  • Add onUnload handler for pages and collections
  • Parameters scripts and scriptsLoaded are now reserved on pages
  • Add support for a default value for backend Config
  • Add links for RSS feed to blog and wiki themes

Fixes

  • Fix support for script tags within markdown content
  • Pages with no explicit title should render something (Issue #1)
  • Improvements to responsiveness support in blog theme
  • URLs embedded in content now get fully resolved when served from backend
  • Fix integration between cms-button and cms-icon

MarkdownMaster CMS 5.0.2 - 2025.04.13

New Features

  • Add "!~" and "!=" to the list of supported operators for filtering
  • New tag - cms-toc for generating a table of contents of the current page
  • New theme - basic-wiki for wiki-style sites
  • New tag - cms-theme-selector for switching themes between light/dark

Changes

  • Cleanup and expand file attribute filtering
  • Add getCollectionClone to CMS to allow manipulating collections independently

Fixes

  • Change cms-pagelist to use getCollectionClone to support multiple tags on the same page

MarkdownMaster CMS 5.0.1 - 2025-04-03

New Features

  • Add support for field:... on form email action for the to field
  • Add server-side search for full text searching

Changes

  • Change default canonical to /
  • Add default favicons and logo
  • Theme is optional, (to support legacy sites)

Fixes

  • Fix GetRootPath to return a trailing slash
  • Additional sanity checks for File paths
  • cms-pagelist now renders server-side (SEO Fix)
  • cms-button fixes to work again
  • Fix support for rendering files with invalid YAML headers
  • Fix for hosting on nginx

MarkdownMaster CMS 5.0.0 - 2025-03-08

New architecture, new features, new plugins, new everything!

MarkdownMaster CMS 4.1.0 - (UNRELEASED)

New Features

  • Add 'random' as supported sort parameter
  • Paginate now supports 'page' parameter
  • Page-list now supports 'limit' parameter

Fixes

  • Fix cms-* plugins trying to run before CMS was initialized
  • Switch example site to use minified version of app by default
  • Include default config for Apache expiry headers (for caching)
  • Fix paragraph stealing extended attributes for simple blocks

Changes

  • Mastodon Share is now an element as opposed to a plugin
  • Switch to is=... for all custom elements

MarkdownMaster CMS 4.0.2 - 2023-10-23

New Features

  • Include a simple background-slider plugin
  • Include fslightbox-basic for a simple lightbox

Fixes

  • Fix support for Apache web servers

MarkdownMaster CMS 4.0.1 - 2023-06-03

New Features

  • #18 support pagination for listing pages
  • #19 support for cms-icon (convenience helper)

Fixes

  • #20 cms-search preserves search query
  • #21 hash URLs were taking over route events

MarkdownMaster CMS 4.0.0 - 2023-06-03

New Features

  • New support for HTML attributes inline
  • Include Prism.JS as an extra for sites
  • Include FontAwesome as an extra for sites
  • Better error management
  • Better logging support
  • Better support for external scripts
  • Add fetchLayout and renderLayout
  • Add support for filtering files by date published
  • New convenience method CMS.getCollection
  • New support for complex filtering of files
  • Add CMS-Author tag for embedded author snippet
  • Add CMS-Button tag for stylized buttons from a-elements
  • URLs in FrontMatter now support multiple values
  • New support for sticky pages
  • New support for multiple sort keys
  • Include listing pages in sitemap.xml
  • New server-side support for loading page metadata
  • New debug parameters for DEBUG and crawlers
  • Filecollection getTags now can sort and provide weighted values

Fixes

  • Do not include DRAFT pages in taglist
  • Fix beginning newline on sitemap
  • Fix for FrontMatter overwriting functions
  • Fix parsing of files with no FrontMatter
  • Fix bug where images inside anchors were not dispatching the router
  • FrontMatter now correctly handles YAML parsing
  • Fix listing pages for crawlers
  • Fix draft pages from showing in sitemap.xml
  • Add canonical URL to crawler pages
  • Crawler pages now render the template to provide full links and previews
  • Fix support for abbr tags in markdown

Changes

  • Removed Github support (it was broken anyway on this fork)
  • Switch to new Configuration system
  • Switch to Promises for async operations
  • Move CMS-Pagelist to a standardized customElement
  • Move CMS-Search to a standardized customElement
  • URL-type properties now require src or href subattributes
  • The date formatting by default is now locale-aware
  • Switched default markdown renderer from marked to remarkable

CMS.js 3.1.0 - 2022-11-24

author: cdp1337

Version 3.1.0 features server-side scripts to better assist with crawler visibility, as evidently Google will refuse to fully index markdown content. The two included server scripts are sitemap generator and a crawler-friendly site renderer.

New Features

  • New server-side scripts to better support crawlers and bots
  • Add support for sorting in the page-list plugin
  • Add support for multiple filters to be applied at a time
  • Add support for lazy-loading markdown content in articles
  • Add support for custom URL-type attributes in frontmatter

Fixes

  • Fix support for sorting of articles
  • Refactor internal method names to be more consistent to their actions

CMS.js 3.0.0 - 2022-11-22

author: cdp1337

Version 3.x features a nearly completely rewrite of all core concepts of this utility and a large number of features and bugfixes implemented.

New Features

  • Better debug logging support
  • Switch to History API for page navigation
  • Include SEO and crawler support via rewrite rules
  • Add support for nested directories
  • Add support for subdirectory web paths
  • Add support for SEO page titles
  • Add support for automatic change timestamps
  • Fix support for images in meta attributes
  • Add support for full text searching
  • Add support for retrieving tags for an entire collection
  • Add support for dynamic body classes
  • Include marked.js for better markdown support
  • Better nginx support
  • Fix image URLs relative to the markdown source file in meta tags
  • Retool plugin functionality
  • Add several plugins to core system

2.0.0 - 2018-11-21

author: chrisdiana

  • Zero dependencies (no more jQuery or Marked)
  • Abstract types
  • Boilerplate separated from source code
  • Custom Templates
  • Tagging
  • Filtering
  • Search
  • Sorting
  • Events
  • Streamlined Config
  • Updated Github & Server Mode
  • Extendable Plugins
  • Extendable Markdown Renderer
  • Small size footprint

1.0.0 2016-01-20

author: chrisdiana

  • Initial release