We decided to do a little review of the year. So here is what we have been up to this year!

January

Perch 2.1

Perch Comments app

Perch 2.1.2

Rachel broke her elbow

Rachel’s book CSS3 Layout Modules published by 5 Simple Steps

February

Updates to Blog app

Perch 2.1.3 and 2.1.4

Rachel was in Canada at ConFoo

March

Launched the People Love Perch section

Feathers for Infinite Scroll and Masonry

Perch Members app

More Blog app updates (Posterous import)

Perch 2.2

April

Perch 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 and 2.2.3 and 2.2.4

Perch Blog 3.7 (and 3.7.1 and 3.7.2)

Translations for Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish and Polish

Updated YouTube field type and new Vimeo field type

Started this podcast!

Started adding some resources to GitHub

Rachel spoke at Front Trends, Industry Conf, Digital Pond and Untangle the Web

May

Updated Sass support with the Sass Feather

New dashboard widgets for MailChimp and Campaign Monitor

Members app bug fixes

New editor plugin: Ace.

Updated Redactor, CKEditor

Perch 2.2.5

New Audioboo and SlideShare field types

Updated Gallery app with better upload handling

Updated PayPal Shop app

Perch 2.2.6

Norwegian translation

Small updates to Events and Blog apps

Perch 2.2.7 to fix small bugs

Perch is 4! We sent out silly party bags to people who bought a license that day

Rachel spoke at the Multi Mania conference in Belgium

June

Updated Upgrade app

Updates to PayPal Shop

Perch 2.2.8 and 2.2.9

Updates to Members, Forms, Comments, Blog and Twitter

Rachel spoke at Converge on support and Webinale on launching a bootstrapped product and we both ran sessions at ConfShop

July

New video tutorial

New demo sites

Version 2 of FoxyCart Shop

Updates to Blog, adding noresults support

Update to Gallery

Perch 2.2.10 and 2.2.11

Rachel spoke at Speak the Web and The CSS Summit on the same day

August

Control Panel video

Updates to Blog

September

Perch 2.3 and 2.3.1 and 2.3.2

Updated YouTube and Vimeo field types

Perch Forms 1.6 to support honeypot fields

Perch Events 1.8 to add page functions to create category listings

Drew spoke at MK Geek Night

October

Updated Twitter app to respect the site’s timezone settings for displaying tweets

Updates to Blog with workflow improvements for bulk editing comments

Updates to Forms app with ability to redirect after submission

New version of the API developers Sample App

We went to the US and Canada – held Perch Meetups in Toronto and Brooklyn

Rachel spoke at FOWA on CSS Layout and also ran her Shipping Your Product workshop

Drew spoke at Breaking Borders

November

Rachel had the metal taken back out of her arm, is now less of a nuisance at airport security

Smashing Book 4 published – Rachel has a chapter on support

Rachel’s new site design is live – on Perch of course – and she announced her new book The Profitable Side Project Handbook

Portfolio site deal

New Podcasts app

Perch 2.3.3

New MailChimp app to supersede dashboard widget

Perch 2.3.4

December

24 ways – we dedicated all of the last podcast to it

Rachel spoke at Breaking Borders and ran a Smashing Workshop in Berlin

What’s Next?

We asked for questions and what you really want to know is what is next for Perch. We have been referring to the next Perch release (2.4) as “Fix All The Things”. This release won’t particularly add new features but will double down on the basic content editing experience and address issues that we have seen in support. For more on that read our blog post, and let us know if you have workflow issues that might fall into this release.

You can follow what we’re up to from grabaperch.com/news.