The Monthly SpookyFirehose

October, 2023

Boo! Scary cool things have happened this past month at Statamic HQ. Now that shadows lengthen and the nights grow chillier, here's our spook-tacular (muah-ah-ah) Halloween firehose! 🎃👻

From eerie content tales to bewitching links, this newsletter promises to be a treat, no tricks, promise.

Statamic HQ Updates

Duncan's first month is coming to an end and he's been busy. Lots of updates and improvements to statamic.com are coming in the next couple of weeks and months, including automatic renewals for Statamic Pro licenses, a new site gallery, the ability for developers to offer addons as a subscription instead of just a one-time purchase, and more!

Slight Price Bump for Statamic Pro and the Annual Renewal

With the launch of Statamic 3 in early 2020, we changed the pricing model to what it is today and it has stayed that way ever since. But to keep up with inflation as well as increased cost of services we rely on, we will be increasing the price of Statamic Pro a wee bit from $259 to $275 and the annual renewals will now be $65 instead of $59.

This will go into effect tomorrow, November 1st, 2023.

To give you some more perspective: The inflation calculator says it should now be $308.01. Pretty crazy considering that's just from 2020 to 2023 🤯.

We believe that Statamic brings a lot of value to developers and users and hope you understand our reasoning for the slight price increase. We want to say "Thank You" to everyone who supports us and spreads the love of Statamic 💜.

Core and Ecosystem Updates 🦌

Apart from that, lots of things have happened in the Statamic ecosystem this past month. Here's a quick rundown of the highlights:

The long awaited multi-site permissions got merged and have now been available since v4.27.0. Have a look at the PR for all the details.
User-defined fields in the CP can now be translated. More info in the PR. This pairs really well with Ryan's new Translation Manager addon.
Multi-site duplicator support is now in core. Duncan, who initially developed the Duplicator addon, brought the feature into the core of Statamic a while ago. This only worked with single-site setups though. Until Statamic v4.30.0. When you now duplicate an entry, it can be duplicated across multiple or even all sites. Neat feature for sure!
New addition to the Rad Pack! The Meilisearch addon got taken over and got a fresh polish by the Pack. If you haven't heard about it yet, Meilisearch is a great alternative to Algolia and is self-hosted. They also offer a paid and hosted solution, similiar to Algolia's.

Flat Camp EU 2024 🏕️

The venue has been decided on and the dates are set. Now we are in the process of finalizing the last details to lock everyting in and will share more real soon™.

We're trying our best to make it an EPIC event and look forward to meeting lots of you in person, again or for the first time. 🤌

Newest Addons

Flexipic

Generate responsive images with placeholders and lazy loading on the fly

Alt Inbound

IP allow and deny list management via the control panel

Alt Cookies

Cookie and Google Analytics management via the control panel

New Partners

prepend Agency

At prepend, we blend innovation with expertise to deliver solutions that align with your business vision. Our partnership with Statamic empowers us to create seamless, engaging online platforms that cater to modern-day digital expectations. With a track record of success working with notable clients like Carhartt, Highsnobiety, and Strenger, we are poised to elevate your digital presence to new heights.