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February, 2024

Vote Statamic as Your Favorite CMS! 🗳️

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It's time for the yearly CMS Critic People's Choice Awards and we would deeply appreciate your support in voting for Statamic! It takes under a minute, they kept the process really simple 👍

We won best Flat File CMS the past two years and are nominated in the following categories this year:

  • Best Flat File CMS
  • Best Static Site Generator
  • Best Headless CMS
  • Best Digital Asset Management
  • Best Composable Solution
  • Best Free CMS (via Statamic Solo)
  • Best Al Solution in a CMS or DXP (they might have confused Google Bard with our Bard Fieldtype lol)

Go Vote Statamic 🚀

Thank You for voting 💜

Radical Design is Finally Here 🦩

Jack has been working on this for years and now it's finally here!

What it is, you ask?

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A rebellious, potentially life-changing design course by Jack McDade

We know that Statamic is used by a lot of creative freelancers and agencies. So if you want to make your designs really stand out and turn it up to 11, you should check it out. It's designed for developers and burnt-out, running-on-fumes designers and will fire up your creative engines.

More details at radicaldesigncourse.com or go watch the intro on YouTube.

Since you've been subscribed to this newsletter and are part of the Statamic gang (thanks, dawg!), we set up a special discount code for you. Use THERADFAMILY to get 10% off.

Experience Flat Camp in Rome 🇮🇹

Flat Camp tickets are on sale and half of the tickets are sold. Or are still available, if you're a glass-half-full person.

If you can't decide if this is the right type of event for you, or you're having a hard time justifying a conference without any talks that looks like a vacation — watch this video from Jack before you make your judgement.

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The ticket includes:

  • 3 nights lodging in our own private Italian villa
  • A private chef for us
  • Access to all workshops, intimate talks, and wine cellar chats
  • Exclusive Statamic/Flat Camp swag

If you need any help or assistance with this just let us know. Even if it's convincing your boss to pay for the ticket 😅

Get all the details on flatcamp.com.

Interested in sponsoring Flat Camp? Just reply to this email and let's chat.

Newest Addons

Flexipic

Generate responsive images with placeholders and lazy loading on the fly

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Alt Inbound

IP allow and deny list management via the control panel

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Alt Cookies

Cookie and Google Analytics management via the control panel

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New Partners

Sylvester Damgaard Freelancer

Seasoned tech architect specializing in scalable hosting solutions. At Cbox, I deliver robust hosting infrastructures designed for growth. With 25+ years in development, I ensure your digital presence stands strong under pressure.

imos GmbH Agency

Our focus is on the technical implementation of sophisticated websites and the development of functional CMS extensions.

Michael LaRoy Freelancer

I help software companies to execute their website marketing strategies with ease. With Statamic, I build easy-to-use, accessible web sites that you don't need to babysit. I've been building for the web for over 10 years, and love to help bring your ideas to life!

Community Content

Articles

New Site Launches

By Pink Yellow 🇳🇱
By Jack McDade 😜🇺🇸
By Mity Digital 🇦🇺
By Erin Dalzell 🇨🇦
By orangetalent 🇳🇱

Have you built a Statamic site recently you'd like to show off? Reply to this email and let us know about it!

The Water Cooler

“Finally - after a sucessful soft launch of #statamic yesterday, full release today. It works like a charm. Thanks a lot @statamic. Now we will have lots of fun extending CMS functionality and our journalists creating content.”

“@statamic is good ‘cause there are good people behind. It was such a pleasure to meet @jackmcdade @_duncanmcclean and #joshua in @LaraconEU #amsterdan”

“I have more than 25+ examples. WP is lost. We see at minimum a 25% reduction of cost for clients that dev with Statamic, and 2 fortune 100 companies we work with won’t dev on WP because of security & lack of new PHP support. WP unfortunatly is old and has lost its way.”

“We took over a @statamic v2 site, migrated to v4, and boosted its performance by a whopping 81%! 🚀 Key Improvements: Offloaded blocking JS 🛠️ Implemented responsive images for faster load times 🌅 Enhanced accessibility for all users 👨‍🦽”

“Glad you found @statamic!”

“Hey @statamic got a shoutout @LaraconEU from @timacdonald87 talk about Thoughtful Performance! Did you do the math on this @jesseleite85 😁 Tim onstage at LaraconEU with a slide that shows a tweet from statamic. Which says, But wait there's more! The static site generator got 2 updates lately. We fixed bugs, add new features, and sped it up like a trillion percent if using php8 (rough estimate)”

“And that was @LaraconEU! Special thanks to @jackmcdade and the team of @statamic for the great time. See you next year! #laraconeu”

“I’ll be attending @LaraconEU next week in Amsterdam, and later this year (on June) to #flatcamp by @statamic in Rome. I can’t think of a better way to start this year!”

“Recently been playing around with @statamic in preparation for a few projects coming up and damn, @jackmcdade really thought of everything to make a developer's life easier. It feels like someone ran me a nice warm bath and put the candles out.”

“Our package was originally a function in Statamic's core we thought was so rad it deserved a way to be used anywhere!”

“Writing an email to a typically WordPress-based client to make the case for @statamic for the next project... one of the easiest emails I've ever had to write. The hard part was deciding what NOT to include. What would your email look like?”

“During Laracon I found a @statamic pin and put it on my fabulous Oh Dear beanie. So It's finally time to see what it's all about! I've always wanted my own website. Maybe Statamic can make my life easier!”

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