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Clone pages, leave yourself notes, and let content expire

A week of page-editor improvements: clone a page, hidden notes with Ctrl+/, a Review status, images from Media, and shortcodes that expire.

By Darryl Waterhouse · · 2 min read

A run of page-editor improvements from the last week, all in Domma CMS 1.6.30 to 1.6.35.

Writing pages

  • Clone a page from the editor. The small icon beside Save is now Clone. Give the copy a title and address, and it is saved as a draft with everything you have changed so far. Save and Ctrl+S work as before.
  • Images from Media, straight in. Insert Image is now first in the editor's Insert menu, and carousel slides and hero backgrounds have a button that opens Media to choose or upload a picture.
  • Notes to yourself. HTML comments, and lines starting with //, are hidden from visitors. Ctrl+/ (Cmd+/ on a Mac) comments out the selection or the current paragraph, and pressing it again brings it back.
  • The editor's title follows the page, in the banner and in the browser tab, as you type.
  • Page history names who saved. Every save, named version and restore point records the person who made it.
  • A Review status. Right-click a page in the list for Transition to Published, Draft or Review. A page in review stays hidden from visitors until it is published.

The page editor's Insert menu, with Insert Image at the top above the layout and content shortcodes

Content that expires

Any shortcode can now hide itself, either after a date or after a visitor has seen it enough times:

[card expire-after="60" expire-scope="ip"]Shown for an hour after the first view.[/card]
[text expire-views="1" expire-scope="session"]Shown once in this browser session.[/text]

Use expires-at for a date and time, and expire-ip to show something only to certain addresses. Editor previews never use up a visitor's views.

Smaller things

  • A favicon generator. Site Settings has a Favicon tab that turns any Media image into an icon file with all the usual sizes.
  • Carousels take background and arrow colours, with arrows at the top, middle or bottom.
  • Typewriter text ([scribe]) takes the theme's web fonts, plus size, weight, colour, alignment and spacing.
  • Timelines keep their event icons and show Completed, Planned, In progress and Blocked badges.
  • Admin themes preview instantly in Content > Theme. Save to keep one, or leave the screen to go back.

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