The Monthly SpookyFirehose

October Recap, 2024

Boo! 👻

Hope you had a spooky and fun Halloween! We've been shipping the good stuff lately and there's plenty more where that came from. Here's what happened this past October in in Stataverse. 🪐

The New Importer Addon 📦

Migrating from WordPress to Statamic has never been easier. The brand new, Official Importer helps you import content and users from XML, CSV, and WordPress' Gutenberg.

Here are a couple of its niceties:

• Allows importing entries, taxonomy terms, and users
• Supports all CSV and XML files
• Intuituive UI for mapping fields
• Multi-Site ready
• Special handling of Gutenberg content (WordPress)
• Hooks for customizing the import process

Want to see it in action?

Stunning New Starter Kit 📸

In collaboration with Michael Aerni, one of our certified Statamic Partners, we've just launched a brand new Starter Kit aimed at photographers who want to showcase their images in a beautiful and performant portfolio. It offers all the features you need as a photographer, including:

• Public and private (password protected) galleries
• Image processing with options for watermark and low-res images
• Download and like individual images
• Download a zip of all or a selection of images
• Pricing cards
• Inquiry form

Head over to the Marketplace or visit the live demo to see it in action.

Also note that the Starter Kit is free for a limited time only.

Hot New Blade Components 🔪

With the most recent release (5.36.0), our Blade integration reaches a whole new level with a suite of Blade Components. This was another huge effort by the talented Mr. Koster. Head over to the docs to learn more about it.

Oh and all of our documentation has been updated to include both Antlers and Blade code examples. Huge thanks to John for working on this as well!

Upcoming redesign 💅

We've been really hard at work with this over the past year and are excited to finally bring you the redesign in the next couple of weeks. It's not just a redesign with fresh visuals but a brand new Statamic experience with new account features, improved landing pages for different audiences, and a better Marketplace.

Office hours / AMA 🎙️

Last week, we started hosting office hours on our community Discord server to answer your questions and demo new features like the Importer. Whether you're a Statamic veteran, seasoned Laravel developer, or are just moving over from another CMS like WordPress, hop on our calls and asks your questions.

You can join our Discord server here where you can also see the times and dates as well as enable notifications.

Community Content

Articles ✍️

• Creating an accessible page builder in Statamic by Rob de Kort
• Should you use Statamic coming from WordPress? by Rob de Kort
• Case Study: Making donation forms fun again! (Statamic case study) by Michael Scruse
• Statamic as a WordPress alternative for developers by Marty Friedel

Videos 📺

• Laravel Community Spotlight with Eric Barnes and Jack by Laravel News (staff pick 💜)
• Statamic Roundtable with Jack McDade, John O'Nolan, Caleb Porzio, & Adam Wathan by Mostly Technical (staff pick 💜)
• New Statamic Importer in ACTION! by Statamic
• Page Builders: Looking at Bard and Replicator Fields in Statamic by Michael LaRoy (from WP to Statamic)
• Landtamic Pro - Statamic Starter Kit by Lucky Media
• Creating a Page Builder in Statamic by Morten Bak
• Custom fields in Statamic and WordPress by Michael LaRoy (from WP to Statamic)
• Awesome WordPress Alternative Built on Laravel // Statamic CMS by Dorian Develops