Plenti CMS Devlog (ep 14): Date Formats and Component Widgets
Channel: Jantcu
Date: 2022-03-31

This is a Dev Vlog series where Plentico maintainers work on the git-backed CMS for the Plentico project (https://github.com/plentico/plenti). We are building in public, so feel free to watch along, ask questions, or even contribute if you're so inclined.

This video goes over some new features in the discoverable CMS for adding a date widget and saving date string formats from your data source to be used in your display. It keeps with the theme of having all your data being simple strings (not standardized dates), while allowing an improved editing experience and increased consistency.

We also take a look at the current state of components based on JSON arrays. This allows you to reorder and even remove aspects of the site, as well as nest components within each other to create widgets. We discussed adding the ability to add new components, both from a discoverable perspective by looking at the current content source of the page, and a standardized perspective by allowing defined lists that a developer would create.

Next steps: Publishing workflow from the visual editor, Media browser capabilities, creating new nodes from a Type's blueprint, saving changes locally.