PyroCMS 2.2.0
11 March 2013
PyroCMS version 2.2.0 is now available (major release).
Upgrading to PyroCMS 2.2.0
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What's New in PyroCMS 2.2.0
While v2.2.0 has all of the old familiar features that you depend on it brings a few game changers: page types with custom fields, custom blog fields, comments that close after a set period of time, file tags or keywords, and many more.
- Page layouts have been replaced by page types, which can have custom fields added to them.
- Custom Fields can be added to the Blog module using field types.
- Control panel search has been added for quick access to areas of the control panel.
- Comments are now integreated with Akismet.
- Added a "comment blacklist" to stop spammers from using the same email.
- Blog comments can be configured to expire after X amount of time.
- Modular Search allows you to search content from the frontend via a new "/search" page.
- New Admin Menu System lets module developers control the main menu.
- Improved the reset password system to use email OR username, not require both.
- Profiles can be accessed at /user/{username} instead of /user/{id}.
- Added {{ blog:categories }} and {{ blog:tags }} to generate a list of available categories and a list of tags.
- Added the ability to save page type layouts, css, and javascript as flat files.
- Upgraded to latest CodeIgniter 3.0.
- Updating jQuery to 1.8.3.
- Upgrading to Ckeditor 3.6.4.
- Added jQuery miniColors option to Theme Options.
- Translated to Brazilian.
- Translated to Simplified Chinese.