Preparing for Croogo 1.2

It has been over a month since Croogo 1.1 was released. And I am glad to say I have received good response so far. There are already a few blogs out there running on it, and hopefully we will see some cool applications built with it in coming months. Almost 1,000 downloads, and unknown number of checkouts from repositories - not bad for a project less than 2 months old, right?

I wanted to introduce you with a few important features that will/may make it to the next release.

What to expect from Croogo 1.2?

i18n (Internationalization)

If you keep yourself updated from the repository, you will already know that Croogo now supports multilingual content. But I am also looking forward to implementing i18n for Blocks and Links. This will make it possible to have a complete multilingual site.

Extensions plugin

Ever wanted to have the comfort of uploading themes, plugins, language packs right from the admin panel of a CMS? Extensions plugin will handle that!

Hooks

Hooks allow you to modify the output of Nodes (blog posts, pages, etc) sent to the browser. Just enable/disable your hook from Extensions plugin, and it will do the rest. If you are curious, check out this ExampleHook. At the moment, only helpers can be used as hooks. But it is likely I will add support for components too.

If you have any feature request, or just want to say hi to other Croogo users, join our Google Group.

When to expect Croogo 1.2?

Most probably by the end of this month. This could also be the final release for CakePHP 1.2.x, because I am considering migrating this project to CakePHP 1.3 since it has some new features for themes which will be very useful for Croogo.

Before you complain, I apologize for the lack of documentation. But I hope it will be up the day Croogo 1.2 is released. Till then, happy baking!