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Not a full-blown release, so only available as a tag on github, it mostly consists of updates to the external repos: Bootstrap, Less, jQuery etc. jQuery 1.9 is quite a jump forward, dropping a...  more

Another 1.2 addition, snippets gives editors control over content that might otherwise be hidden away in templates, or needs to be used in multiple places but only edited once.  Usage is pretty simple, in Admin > Content > Snippets, create a new chunk of HTML using the editor, give...  more

A new feature in v1.2, this pseudo-filter gives editors the ability to split their text into columns of varying number, and change from split column to full width and back again, all in the standard page body field and without having to resort to the nightmare that is wysiwyg tables. To use...  more

 It's the mobile edition! Get it. Twitter Bootstrap now comes built-in to Jojo to make building responsive sites incredible easy, as well as a whole screed of other pre-built goodies. Full documentation at twitter.github.com/bootstrap On top of that we also have a separate mobile...  more

After nearly 15 months since our last release we are pleased to announce the second Release Candidate version of Jojo CMS. We feel we are now at a stage where we will not be making fundamental changes to the Jojo framework or plugin API, and have been running the latest release of Jojo on our...  more

Often we get asked by developers if they are allowed to replace the Jojo logo with their own logo, and whether there are any license issues with rebranding Jojo as their own product. Basically, rebranding Jojo as your own CMS product is fine with us. Here's a simple plugin you can download...  more

Today is the FireFox 3 download day. Mozilla are having a crack at setting a Guiness world record for the most number of downloads within a 24 hour period. Go on. you know you want to. Long live FireFox.  more

We are pleased to announce the first Release Candidate version of Jojo CMS. Very pleased. We feel we are now at a stage where we will not be making fundamental changes to the Jojo framework or plugin API, and have been running the latest release of Jojo on our own sites long enough to consider...  more

XML sitemaps are a way of telling search engines about the pages on your site. Their most important function is to prioritize pages on large sites. Because GoogleBot has limited time available to visit/spider your site, you want to make sure it's spending it's time on the important pages, not...  more

We have been really busy coding on Jojo in recent weeks, but everyone knows it takes more than good code to make a decent software product. One of the areas of Jojo we feel is letting the team down is the demo - it's more or less a default install and it's largely empty. We could use some...  more

So Google has just published their list of accepted projects for Google Summer of Code 2008. The list is approx 2 1/2 hours later than expected, and my F5 key has taken a fair hammering in...  more

Jojo are keen to be a part of Google Summer of Code 2008, and our beta2 changelog and jojocms.org site design have been getting a flogging as we try to prove to Google that we are up to the...  more

The first developer workshop will be held on Tuesday, March 4th 2008 from 12 noon. As discussed in our previous post on Jojo workshops, we will start off with some prepared material covering recent...  more

We will be launching the Beta within the next 24 hours, pending some final testing and tweaking. We figure our self-imposed deadline of Feb 5th is achievable, providing we don't go with New...  more

With a small amount of custom coding, you can have random header images appearing on your website. This is something that is used reasonably often, and is a good way to give the impression that...  more

Jojo CMS is what we call a "search engine friendly CMS". What this means is that we have spent a vast amount of time making sure that Jojo won't throw up any barriers to getting indexed like many...  more

In our recent development version of Jojo, we simplified the .htaccess rules in an attempt to, well, simplify things. Because the complicated .htaccess rules were difficult to replicate on other...  more

A lot of people have been asking me how to use a different sidebar on each page of their site. It's normal to want say Testimonials on the homepage, and product photos on another page etc. There...  more

In the last release of Jojo we added the functionality to have your own choice of URLs for the article / blog plugin. Previously, the URL was based around the ID and the title, and although it...  more

Earlier in 2007 we signed up for the GoPHP5 initiative - an agreement between a number of software packages to discontinue support for PHP4 from February 5th, 2008. The goal of this is to...  more