Preview3 brings an architecture that allows you to extend Fanray by creating Plugins, Widgets and Themes in a clean and maintainable way. This new extensibility will keep the system core from being bloated and let others build their own features and applications easily.

I’m releasing preview 2 today. For details please refer to preview2 milestone. Here I list some notable changes.

This preview incorporates what I worked on for the past few months, fixes, improvements but mostly a brand new widget system. Widgets provide a way for theme designers to optionally define regions (widget areas) on their theme for end users to drag and drop pieces of UI (widgets) onto these areas to customize their site.

I released Fanray v2.0-a4, building on v2.0-a3 released from two weeks ago. Now you can drag and drop images directly in Composer and they will be uploaded and inserted in the editor.

I released Fanray v2.0-a3, building on v2.0-a2 released from two weeks ago. Thanks to CKEditor5's latest release, now we can embed in our posts YouTube and Vimeo videos.

Today I release Fanray v2.0-a2, building on v2.0-a1 released from last week. This release provides the ability to preview a post (issue #208) and other fixes.

Fanray v2.0-a1 has been released! Fanray v1.0 was a minimal viable blog, you could only post through a client like the Open Live Writer. Fanray v2 builds on v1 and introduces a brand new Admin Panel you can now easily manage your blog's posts, tags, images etc. Here are a few highlights and tips to get you started and please check out the Wiki for more details.

It's been a year since v1.0 was released, to be able to release more often I need to put in more effort to issue management and planning. As part of that I want to have a Roadmap that highlights roughly what's coming in the foreseeable future, but first I need a versioning scheme that could work for me.

Fanray 1.0.0 is out! It took me three and half months to go from the initial commit to the v1 release today. I’m right on track to achieve what I started out to do, learning in the open, building something I can use everyday, and sharing all aspects of this process with the community.

Thank you for trying out the Fanray project. A blog is like the Hello World program for a real world application, I created Fanray to learn new technologies and share their best practices. I hope this app is useful to you as well on your journey of learning and building!