Hello Resellers and Developers! We are happy to announce the 3.1 major release of MonkCMS. You can read our official release notes here. In addition, there are several new features and improvements that are exclusive to the reseller and developer crowd.

Features

We have released the help system and improvements to the dashboard that were discussed a couple of months ago. In addition, we have released a few other big ticket features.

New Permissions System

Our permissions system has been completely revamped.

• Sites can now publish content to private groups, which restricts viewing to logged in members of that group.
• Permissions can now be specified on a group-by-group basis, allowing you to give users access to add content, but only for specific groups.
• There is a new “login information” screen where users’ usernames and passwords can be managed, as well as their ability to log into sites, and the permissions they have on each site.
• We have introduced the concept of the “site group”. All content must be published to at least one group, and in most cases, this will now be the site group. The site group is the default public facing group. All members of sites are members of the sites group as well. Any users who previously had permissions over a module now have those same permissions, specific to the site group.

TinyMCE Profiles

TinyMCE profiles can be created and applied to different sites. For more information: http://help.ekklesia360.com/article/custom-styles-for-tinymce/

Discounts

Ecommerce enabled site can now set up discounts which can be applied to families, products and skus. Discounts can be based on volume, coupon code, or date ranges.

Discounts can also be applied to event registration, for example, to specify an “Early Bird” registration rate that only applies during a certain time period.

Improvements

We’ve made the following enhancements to the API:

• Wimpy audio player can now be skinned by specifying an XML file via the API.
• Added hide_category for event list and calendars.
• Added the ability to output a cloud of keywords aggregated from all modules.
• Added the ability to display the event category (or categories) in event list and detail.
• Added a tag to output the username of a blog commenter.
• Added the ability to list all the categories of branches.
• Series are now sorted by date of most recent sermon they contain.
• Added a tag for sermon audio file size.
• Added a tag to output preview of article content.
• Added a parameter to show a default image in product lists if one does not exist.
• The “name” parameter can now be piped into monklets.
• Pagination is now available for booklists.
• Added __date__ and __dateTwo__ for groupby:day and groupby:month in event list.
• find_tag can accept multiple tags.
• Added Releases for before_show in event list.
• Custom CSS can be specified for login boxes.

We hope these features and improvements make it easier for you to build high quality sites on the MonkCMS platform. As always, if you have any questions or comments, feel free to get in touch at http://support.monkdev.com/.

Our upcoming product, Cobblestone Community Network, is coming! Cobblestone is more than a social networking site; Cobblestone is designed to engage users in behaviors that help them be the church.

We've just launched our teaser site where you can sign up for regular updates as we get closer to launching. You can also follow us on Twitter, which we'll update with news and previews.

Hello Resellers and Developers! We are happy to announce the 3.0.2 minor release of MonkCMS. You can read our official release notes here. In addition, there are several new features and improvements that are exclusive to the reseller and developer crowd.

Features

Imports

We now offer direct imports into the following modules:

• Branches
• Articles
• Members
• Events

Display monklets for sermons

You can now power the output of the sermons module completely using display monklets, much like with blogs. This includes automatic filtering by month, preacher, category and series, as well as being able to place sermons wherever you like in the navigation. More info can be found at http://developers.monkcms.com/article/sermons-overview/

Link List Module

The Link List module can be used to assemble a list of links, much like a smaller version of the nav. You can associate text description and an image with each link. Lists can also be nested hierarchically. It's perfect for maintaining an image-based list of quicklinks. A user manual entry can be found here. In addition, there is an overview, and API reference available.

Improvements

There have also been a number of general improvements that we hope you will find useful.

• Events can be ordered by any field (http://developers.monkcms.com/article/events-api/#list-parameters)
• RSVP links available in event list using __registration__ (http://developers.monkcms.com/article/events-api/#list-show)
• RSS feeds for discussions using __rssfeedurl__ (http://developers.monkcms.com/article/discussions-api/)
• RSVP text can now be customized using __registration linktext=’Your Text Here’__ (http://developers.monkcms.com/article/events-api/#list-show)
• Number of images in gallerys can be displayed using __numberofimages__ for show_galleries, before_show_gallery and show_gallery (http://developers.monkcms.com/article/gallery-api/)
• __import__ tag for event lists (http://developers.monkcms.com/article/events-api/#list-show)
• New parameters for nav output, including find:$_GET[‘nav’] (which only outputs relevant nav branches) and toplevel:n (which limits upper nav level) (http://developers.monkcms.com/article/navigation-api/)

We hope these features and improvements make it easier for you to build high quality sites on the MonkCMS platform. As always, if you have any questions or comments, feel free to get in touch at http://support.monkdev.com/.

Hi Everyone! Hot on the heels of our 3.0.2 release, we have added RSS feeds to our Developer Forum. You can subscribe to the global feed, or drill down to any level to subscribe to a more targeted feed. We hope this makes the discussion forums an even better tool to foster cooperation as we all work to build the best site's possible on the best content management platform!

We are very proud to announce the launch of our new developer resources site. This site is a central place to view API resources, post questions, interact with other developers in the forums and track the developer blog, where we will announce developer/reseller specific announcements.

If you are a reseller or developer on the MonkCMS platform, contact to be added as a member of the site.

On Friday, we rolled out integrated user documentation/help into the CMS for reseller level accounts only. Please review this new feature and provide any feedback and/or suggestions.

We have tried to remove all references to 'brands' but in a few of the demonstration videos there are moments where the Ekklesia footer can be seen. There are a couple of options:

1. If you do nothing, you will use our help documentation.
2. If you would like full control, you can edit the URL it points to (see attached Help-URL) on a per page basis and/or select the root help domain (Help ROOT) for your clients.

There are a few pages that we are finishing either the documentation or the tutorial videos.

Additional information on using integrated help can be found here: Integrated Help Article

On Friday, we released our new ‘drag-and-drop’ Dashboards, to resellers only. We are asking that you please use the daylights out of this new feature and please provide any feedback, bug reports, suggestions or other comments. We'll be rolling this feature out to all users in an upcoming minor or major release and your feedback will help ensure a high quality release.