Got CSS skills? Good at choosing a colour scheme? Then this is the contest for you! Unlike many content management systems, BlockPress enjoys a seperation of layout theme from colour palette. Palettes

Allow us to introduce ourselves. This is the official account of the team behind the BlockPress CMS launched at the SteemFest2 hackathon in Lisbon, 2017. Seven (and a bit) months later and we have released

Part of the power of BlockPress lies in its extensibility. Writing a module is fairly straight forward, only a few simple rules need to be followed. In order to reveal this simplicity ready for our beta

Details As BlockPress is prepared for beta release, the time came to ensure the documentation was comprehensive and up to date. Themes and palettes Our wiki now has a list of both themes and palettes.

One of our medium term objectives for @blockpress is to get it working on IPFS. If you haven't heard of IPFS, it is basically the decentralised web. It has its limitations, in that it can only really deliver

Why would you use BlockPress? BlockPress is a themeable front-end coded content management system, and this has its limitations. Since content loads using javascript and jquery functions, it doesn't lend

As BlockPress nears a release candidate for initial beta launch, it has become a powerful and versatile piece of software for potential theme creators. @dana-varahi has developed three great themes, and

New Features Javascript support for themes This new feature means that theme creators no longer need to embed their scripts in the HTML. Having separate javascript files in the theme folder makes the structure

New Features Tags and Mentions The BlockPress Steem module allowed links on tags in the profile description and now I enabled this feature in posts and comments. I decided to also add links to mentions

New Features Permlink support One of the challenges in building a functioning AJAX application is the problem of permanent links. Changing the content displayed on the page is one thing, but if you do

New Features Whilst @dana-varahi was making a range of improvements to BlockPress, I was working on several improvements of my own. All my improvements focused on improving how BlockPress displays a steem

Overview I am pleased to introduce a lot of improvements to BlockPress, including a great new feature. It is now possible to theme steem post thumbnails separately from the preview text. This allows theme