The CMS Expert

Please reach out to Benny Degezelle and say “thanks.”
Benny Degezelle is a member of the Radiant Core Team. He’s been a long time supporter of Radiant and has created or contributed to many extensions and has even more hot code at git…

In part three of Radiant As A Blog, you’ll see how to use and configure the Tags Extension, to add tagging functionality to Radiant.

Content

Installing and configuring the Tags extension;
Adding tags to a post;
Tag clouds and tag lists;
Rel…

Radiant 0.7.2 Engravings is a simple bugfix release, recommended for developers using 0.7.1, who write or run specs.
We have discovered a very remote edge case when running specs, that if the default Cache directory, ResponseCache.defaults[:directory]…

In part two of Radiant As A Blog, you’ll see how to use and configure the Comments Extension, to add blog-like comment functionality to Radiant.

Content

Installing the Comments extension;
Basic usage;
Configuration and customization;

Resour…

At the heart of Radiant’s Page model has been the find_by_url method.
It takes a path, and finds the proper bit of content to display. I wrote a detailed explanation of how find_by_url works on my blog.
In the future things like this will be chan…

Radiant has always taken the design first approach to the user interface. Did you know that we use a really simple and easy to use prototyping project at http://github.com/radiant/radiant-prototype
It’s where we work out ideas for the application…

Andrew vonderLuft of AVLUX has officially joined the core team as our resident Sys Admin. Andrew’s been serving in this capacity for a long time now so we thought it fitting to give him rank and title!
Seriously, I can’t say enough about ho…

Part one of a series of episodes where you’ll see a quick rundown of extensions and techniques that can used to publish blogs with Radiant.

Content

Publishing blog posts with Radiant Archive Extension

Resources

Github repository for epi…

Thinking Sphinx is a popular choice for easily adding powerful, full-text searching to Rails applications. Find out how the Sphinx Search extension can bring the power of Thinking Sphinx to your Radiant sites in this screencast. We’ll install the Sphin…

Yesterday I committed a new core extension to Radiant: Sheets
With this new feature you can manage stylesheets and javascripts from the admin interface, but before I get into the details of it you should be aware that if you don’t want this featu…

A few weeks ago Radiant 0.9 was released. I’m sure you saw it, and if you watch Radiantcasts, you saw Radiant 0.9 in action. This episode outlines some of the best features this release brings.

Content

A few minor updates
Future publishing feat…

Snippets are small fragments of pages which get reused, but which do not need appear on every page. Two different layouts can share the same snippet without having to copy and paste between them. As a Rails developer you could see them as Rails partial…

A few weeks back I presented three ways to make the best use of Radiant Layouts. The third was by using the Nested Layouts Extension. From the feedback I got, it seems I didn’t show the full power of Nested Layouts, so in this episode you’ll see the wa…

One of the new features in Radiant 0.9 is the ability to load extensions from gems. This screencast demonstrates how to package your extension as a gem, how to load extensions through config.gem instead of vendor/extensions, and discusses why you might…

GitHub released features for managing organizations and we’ve converted the radiant account to an organization.
This means that you’ll see a message that you’re a part of the organization if you’ve been given commit rights to an…

Announcing the release of Radiant 0.9.0.
Radiant now has a new UI, support for internationalization, loading of extensions as gems, etc. See the CHANGELOG for the full details. Here are some other quick details:

There are new features for pagination …