Firstly, the Pulse integration that @Norm built into Blocs is incredible. The fact you can design without coding and export a template ready to go into Pulse - just drop in two contents folders - still blows my mind.
When at exhibitions and meetups and people ask about making templates for Pulse I always say, “you can code the HTML, convert an existing template to Pulse in a few minutes… or you could design your own with Blocs”. The look on their faces when they see it in action (in Japan Blocs is relatively unknown) is priceless
OK update stuff…
Check out the notes on what’s new and how to get it:
I totally agree with this. It is a really fresh new approach and shows the way forward. Other systems seem clunky by comparison. I think that for the vast majority of users, that this is the best approach and solution.
This does sound really good. I don’t have a blog myself but I could see this being useful as a means of luring clients away from a Wordpress site with a combination of Blocs + Pulse CMS.
Thanks @Flashman and that was the main idea. So designers can start to dictate what software they use for the job (Blocs + Pulse) and not the other way around
Pulse Cloud - now one license for unlimited sites. Join the Pulse Cloud today to get unlimited sites, updates, premium addons, form builder app (to make multi-page interactive forms and surveys with form logic and stats), Pulse 5 when it drops, and many more exclusive things: https://upgrade.pulsecms.com
New Just Forms Tag included in the Pulse Core. Just add {{justforms}} to any page followed by options for form ID and form height and you can easily embed your forms e.g {{justforms:formid:height}} so {{justforms:1:300}} // Requires a Pulse Cloud subscription to make awesome forms
Gorgeous new default theme! Colourful, bright and simple - shows the power of Pulse and finally modernises the default site. Uses two alternate templates too, to show that in action
Standard Contact form auto responder for the {{form}} tag - any contact form submissions will automatically receive a thank you email from the admin address in config.php. You can change the message in the language files
Blog single posts now have “back” button to return to blog top page
Minimum PHP version now 5.6!
Fixes
Security fix for Contact Form - latest version of PHP Mailer added
Path bug crept in with Pulse installs in the root and galleries - all fixed up
Blog URL moved in config.php to “Blog” so not easily missed!
Sortable gallery list now shows no bullets
Archive button on blogs fix for RapidWeaver sites
Template.php and contact form errors are now fixed
We use datacenters in US and here in Japan.
But for users outside of Japan we’d use the US ones
We also have a CDN so it can be served around the world even faster. And if you want, you can add on Cloudflare for example too (https://www.cloudflare.com/)