Welcome to Core CMS v0.5.6! Today's release brings a sweeping visual upgrade with our newest premium theme, robust timezone handling for internationalization, and foundational upgrades to how we track content updates. We're also making huge strides in our real-world ecosystem deployments.
🌲 Introducing the Sylvan River Theme
We are thrilled to unveil Sylvan River, our newest premium theme built on our robust architectural skeleton.
- Nature-Inspired Aesthetic: Featuring deep forest green backgrounds, emerald primary accents, and river blue highlights, creating a calm yet highly professional vibe.
- Glassmorphic Foundation: Built upon the newly rebranded
Glassmorphismframework, Sylvan River inherits beautiful backdrop blurs, perfect text contrast, and elegant shadows. - Full Compatibility: Just like our other premium themes, Sylvan River fully supports the entire Core CMS ecosystem out of the box, including Editor.js Cover/Hero blocks, multi-column footers, and all active plugins.
🕒 Localization & Timezone Support
Running a site from a different timezone than your server? We've got you covered.
- Global Timezone Settings: You can now define your local timezone (e.g.,
America/Toronto) directly from the Site Settings panel. - Bidirectional Conversion: All dates are safely stored in UTC in the database to prevent data corruption, but dynamically rendered in your local timezone for the Admin Dashboard and all frontend views.
📅 Date Modified System for SEO
Search engines love fresh content. Core CMS now automatically tracks exactly when a post or page was last updated.
- Database Tracking: Added
updated_attimestamps that automatically trigger upon content edits. - Sitemap & Meta Sync: XML sitemaps, Open Graph metadata, and Schema.org rich snippets now prioritize the exact modification date, ensuring crawlers always know when your content is fresh.
- Admin Visibility: A new "Modified" column in the dashboard helps you spot stale content at a glance, keeping your editorial strategy sharp.
🍔 Navigation Upgrades & Refinements
- Mobile Navigation (Default Theme): We've implemented a lightweight, CSS-animated hamburger menu for the Core Default template. It includes body-scroll locking and smooth transitions, all without sacrificing performance.
- Theme Rebranding: The flagship
djaycatheme has been officially renamed toGlassmorphismto better reflect its role as the premium, generic UI layer for future theme forks.
🚀 Ecosystem Expansions: Drag0n & DragRiver
Beyond the core platform engine, our real-world deployments are rapidly expanding!
- Drag0n.ca is Live: We have successfully migrated the digital lair drag0n.ca to Core CMS. It acts as our first live demo, utilizing the high-contrast
Technomancertheme to showcase stories and myths from the aether. - On Deck: DragRiver.ca: We're officially prepping
dragriver.cato serve as our pilot site for upcoming e-commerce integrations. Connected to a custom TeeSpring/Shirtpress plugin, it will sell custom calendars and swag, while serving as the flagship deployment for the new Sylvan River theme.
— Jason Brain