babygekko development blog

Baby Gekko v1.1.4 released

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:42:42 -0500

Baby Gekko v1.1.4 has been released. You can download it from here.

List of fixes:

Correctly identifies 404 page for files in the root html application (previous version will still return the main home/index page)
RSS now generates absolute path
Changed captcha colors so it's more visible (not just grey)

List of new features:

New TinyMCE skin (see the screenshot below)
Port number for installation - now accepts any port (used to be able to accept port 80 only)
Clear Cache button in the Settings menu
Block outputs are all buffered so you can correctly add CSS, Javascript, etc to the header instead of in the body of the HTML
SSL support - now you can force the pages to be displayed in SSL only. SSL can also be used for login
Saving aliases are now correctly check. e.g: if there's already an application called "blog", it will automatically save it as "blog-1"
Contacts and User signup - give admin control to display captcha or not during signup/sending email message
SortBy options in Editor
Page Counter if there's 'pageview' field if the application sets 'chk_enable_pageview_stats' to 1
When timed out in Admin session and Admin relogin, it will go to the intended page (also filtered for XSS just in case)

Sample of websites using BabyGekko CMS engine

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:05:23 -0500

Here's some websites created using BabyGekko CMS Engine

http://www.babygekko.com/site/showcase

Gekko Web Builder v1.1.3 has been released

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:16:15 -0500

Version 1.1.3 fixes URL rewriting bug (Apache/Linux) and also introduces compatibility with Microsoft's IIS 7.5 with a new web.config included by default.

All users are recommended to use the Auto-Updater, which can be found in the Extensions section.

You can download the latest version: v1.1.3

A screenshot of a Wordpress theme converted into BabyGekko CMS template

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:22:29 -0500

This is just an example of a Wordpress theme that has been converted into BabyGekko CMS theme. More templates are coming.

BabyGekko CMS API has been released

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:14:54 -0500

BabyGekko CMS API has been released and you can learn more about how it works and how to start building applications, blocks, and filters from here: http://api.babygekko.com.

Gekko Web Builder version 1.1.2 is released

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:49:56 -0500

We have just released version 1.1.2 of Gekko Web Builder. This is a minor release.

Fixes:
- Frontend search result ignored the summary field

New Feature:
- Added sub-application loading capability within an application (frontend and backend)

Download it here: http://www.babygekko.com/downloads/gekko_web_builder_v1.1.2.zip (or you can use the auto-updater in the extensions section)

Gekko Web Builder v1.1.1 is released

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:16:03 -0500

Gekko Web Builder v1.1.1 has been released. This release fixes a few minor bugs in the user login area. If you have used v1.1.0, be sure to go to the extension area and download the one-click updater extension so you don't have to manually update your CMS.

Download it here: gekko_web_builder_v1.1.1.zip

Announcing the release of Gekko Web Builder v1.1.0

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:04:38 -0500

Baby Gekko is a leading-edge content management system that continues to deliver innovative features to many users. Gekko Web Builder brings exciting new features for users and web developers. Highlights of these features can be found below.

Tested with over a million rows. Gekko Web Builder can hold large dataset
API Change: MD5 is replaced with salted SHA1 for user authentication
Enhanced frontend search
Added getBlockCountByPosition for compatibility with mosCountModules for those who wants to migrate their Joomla template
Enhanced frontend search
New icons
Many many bug fixes

Download it here: http://www.babygekko.com/downloads/gekko_web_builder_v1.1.0.zip

Gekko Web Builder v1.0.1 released

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:52:35 -0500

Gekko Web Builder 1.0.1 is now available on the forge for download here. This version also fixes the bug where creating thumbnail function fails on PHP 5.2 since the file type was determined with finfo_open, which is not available until PHP 5.3. We added a backward compatibility fix for this function.

Gekko Web Builder v1.0.0

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:40:06 -0500

Hello,

Gekko Web Builder v1.0.0 is finally out and you can download it here: http://www.babygekko.com/downloads/gekko_web_builder_v1.0.0.zip.

New features at a glance:

BabyGekko's own TinyMCE media manager
Enable multi-session login
XML-RPC ready (will be implemented as an extension instead of built-in for security reason)
YUI v2.9
More stable API
Many many bug fixes

Happy Thanksgiving!