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Saturday, December 28, 2019

Blog / News / Archive of previous support forum is now available

Archive of previous support forum is now available

The previous support forum gathered the FlatPress knowledge of more than a decade. So many helpful comments, clever hacks and useful suggestions! Sadly, due to technical difficulties, it wasn’t available since the new support forum went online - this was one year ago.

But fear not! Finally, this mighty source of wisdom is online again:

Login is not possible, everything is just read-only. The wisdom may remain untouched and enlighten us with every visit :)

Monday, December 23, 2019

Blog / General / Goodbye 2019, hello 2020!

Goodbye 2019, hello 2020!

The ending year 2019 was the year of the FlatPress comeback. Our revival plan worked quite well: Since February, we have the new FlatPress version 1.1 that brought FlatPress to current PHP versions. Also, FlatPress regained a lot of publicity, especially in Germany by being featured in the LinuxUser magazine and being listed on Heise Download, the biggest German software download portal.

One of my greatest pleasures was to see that the FlatPress community – you! – also got back together. I am very proud to take care of this little blogging engine that is being used, enjoyed and enhanced all over the world. Throughout the year, I have received a lot of bug reports and enhancement proposals, there were new plugins and themes, and sometimes I just got a little “Thank you”. This all tells me that FlatPress as self-hosted blogging engine still is important, even (or especially!) in times of huge walled-garden platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

I’m excited to see what 2020 will bring. Franah is working on a completely new admin panel which already looks awesome, and we still have a few issues to be taken care of. Also, Matthias keeps testing the heck out of FlatPress which always brings some little glitches to fix ;)
As in 2019, FlatPress still won’t change the world, but it will stay your reliable choice when it comes to easily-set-up, self-hosted, standard-compliant, great-looking blogging sites.

For the last days of 2019, I hope you all have a peaceful time whereever you are. Take some days off, visit your families, and don’t forget to take care of those who need it. And then have a great start into a successful new year 2020!

All the best
Arvid