Find out what's on Publii's roadmap
With the new year celebrations slowly disappearing into the distance, we think that now's a good time to lay out our plans for Publii over the coming year.
Our team are very happy with the core functionality of the app, but we've had some great suggestions from our community on new features that we'd love to implement. We can't get to them all, but options such as support for multiple users to edit a site are definitely on the list. We've also got plans to continue rewriting the core app code so we can get Publii running faster, and give users more control over the base elements that get added to their site.
But enough preamble; what are our plans for 2022? Have a look below, where they have been conveniently laid out in list form for your perusal. Make sure to take this roadmap with a grain of salt though; we never know if things are going to go horribly wrong and require a lot of work to get back on track, so unfortunately nothing can be set in stone!
Features for 2021/2022
The features listed here are planned for 2021/2022, but we can't give any exact dates just yet; look for these options to become available as the year rolls on:
- Implemented in v.0.39
Initial plugin support (This will be the first phase, and will give us a nice foundation to expand the plugin system from).
- Implemented in v.0.39
Publii UI Translations
- Multilanguage support
- Update Center
- eCommerce - adding functionality with a 3rd party e-commerce services
- Separate implemented deployment methods as individual plugins to reduce the app install size and make updates to the system faster.
- Separate other, non-essential features such as WP Import as plugins.
- Update existing GitHub, Netlify and AWS deployment methods to make them smoother and more reliable.
Features for 2020
The featured listed below were implemented in 2020.
- Implemented in v.0.37
The Tags Page
- Implemented in v.0.36
New post editors: Block and Markdown
- Implemented in v.0.36
Spell Checker
- Implemented in v.0.36
Implementing native Lazy Loading
- Implemented in v.0.36
Dark mode
New features for 2019
The featured listed below were implemented in 2019.
- Implemented in v.0.35
Main Tag Option
- Implemented in v.0.35
Exclude Post from Frontpage
- Implemented in v.0.34
Batch Post Operations
- Implemented in v.0.34
Post as Frontpage - display any selected post on the homepage
- Implemented in v.0.33.1
Rewritten SQLite engine.
- Implemented in v.0.33.1
First iteration of parallel editing for multiple users on a single site (you'll be able to thank the rewritten SQLite engine for this feature!)
- Implemented in v.0.33.1
ASAR support; this new archive format will allow for faster installs and reduced app startup time.
- Implemented in v.0.33.1
More startup time optimization.
- Implemented in v.0.33.1
Separate page for themes in the app, away from the general theme settings.
And that's it for our roadmap. Note that this isn't an exhaustive list, only the most notable. Since development is fluid we'll be keeping an eye on things and doing our best to add in other improvements and bugfixes as we go, or implementing additional features if the cycle runs smoother than expected.
As a final note, thank you to all our users who have tried, tested and continue to use our app; your support and feedback have been invaluable to us, and we hope you'll continue to help guide Publii's direction through the coming year! Don't forget, you're always welcome on the Publii GitHub if you feel you can contribute, or drop us a line via our Community Hub on Ticksy if you want to report bugs, give feedback, or just have some suggestions for future features.