• journal

    15 Apr
    cdn

    Grav is already one of the fastest CMS options available, but it's possible to easily transform your Grav-based site into a world-class performer. A CDN or Content Delivery Network and some new Grav features can make this possible.

  • journal

    13 Apr
    roadmap

    It has been a little over 10 months since we launched the first public beta of Grav. We quickly reached our 0.9.0 release goals as outlined in the Grav Roadmap, and have spent the subsequent months bug fixing, adding requested features, and laying the groundwork for our upcoming 1.0.0 release.

  • retina

    30 Jan
    responsive

    Going through the issues on the Grav GitHub repository, I noticed someone was asking for Grav to support Retina images and immediately thought this is my chance to start contributing to this awesome project. As per suggested in the comments, I quickly came up with a solution using the new srcset a...

  • journal

    22 Jan

    A common question has been raised a few times on the forum, and it usually goes something like this:

    "With traditional CMS platforms such as Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, etc, I can easily change themes and my site is instantly transformed. How does this work in Grav?"

    In an effort to answer this question, I will endeavor to provide some of the fundamental operating paradigms behind traditional CMS platforms and how Grav's approach turns them on their heads.

  • journal

    15 Jan
    phpstorm

    I was asked on our Slack chat the other day about the best way to debug Grav plugins. I started to type out my process but quickly realized it would be better to show rather than tell. Yesterday I did a quick 30 minute Google Hangout and because it was of the Air variety, it also recorded it for posterity on YouTube.

  • journal

    13 Jan

    I thought I would mention that OSTraining has published an interview I did with them that outlines what Grav is about and its place in the universe.

  • plugin

    09 Jan

    Today along with Grav 0.9.13 being released, we have made several updates to five of our plugins that could cause your site to break. If you use Breadcrumbs, GitHub, Pagination, SnipCart or TaxonomyList plugins on your Grav site, you need to read this!

  • tutorial

    02 Jan
    vagrant

    Back in October I penned a two piece series on setting up Yosemite with Apache with PHP, APC, Virtual Hosts and other goodies. There are other options available however, and one of the more popular ones is to use Vagrant to easily spin up a pre-configured virtual-machine.

    In this tutorial, we'll step through the process of getting an RTD (ready-to-develop) environment installed on your Mac, Windows, or Linux desktop.

  • journal

    16 Dec

    Today we have made several updates to the getgrav.org site. The most obvious of which is a refresh in header images, but also there several other updates throughout, but most focus on improving the downloads section.