Change History

MarkdownMaster CMS 5.0.1 - 2025-03-xx

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