Pulse 5.3 is here 🤩

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Pulse 5.3 is here

Thanks to all for your feedback and ideas to get Pulse to this stage.

30+ new updates in version 5.3

Ecommerce CMS Store is here! Plus two new Bootstrap 4 templates, more localisation features and many more updates.

Ecommerce

(Sell with copy and paste)

Add products, set the price, add your PayPal account and currency and then embed in your Pulse sites with the {{unishop}} tag. Edit anytime from the admin. Boom!

See this screen:

More on Ecommerce in Pulse can be seen in this post:

Pulse Ecommerce final release!

Pulse Ecommerce final release is here in Pulse 5.3! Which means, yes... (it's out of BETA) [3-promo-2] Thanks to all the BETA testers and their feedback, Pulse Commerce has now arrived in Pulse 5.3 - wahoo (read more on that here: https://forum.pulsecms.com/t/pulse-5-3-is-here/13690) Ecommerce CMS Build stores for any project, client sites or shops. Allow your clients to edit from their Pulse admin without needing to code or contact you. All without needing a database or furth…

Themes

Two great Bootstrap 4 themes, a beautiful portfolio site and a coming soon site for launch sites or maintenance pages.

See this screen:

We posted about this earlier here and also included info on the updates to the Templating and how to convert your own HTML sites more quickly:

Two new Bootstrap themes coming in 5.2.3

Oh yeah Two gorgeous new themes coming in the next version of Pulse (which will be available soon) [1] [2] We decided to convert a couple of templates from StartBootstrap and whilst doing this will release a short guide on how to process them so others have a blueprint to convert more and contribute to the community or know the steps to convert their own HTML templates > Pulse for their own projects Thanks to @sharif for his excellent work converting these over …

What happened to 5.2.3?

That is included in this update.

We bundled 5.2.3 together with all the great ideas we were getting in the forum with 5.3 and release at the same time.

Here’s a full run through of all the updates, new features and fixes:

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Pulse 5.3

NEW

• Pulse Commerce released! Add a quick shopping cart of products to any Pulse site and edit the products from the Pulse dashboard. No install nor database needed.
• Use the new Pulse Tag: {{unishop:"test@this.that":"USD":"US":"0":"/paypal_ok":"/paypal_cancel"}}
  The arguments are: PayPal email, currency, locale, no_shipping, return url and the cancel url.
• Manage your Products by going to Settings > Extend > Manage Store

Pulse 5.2.3

NEW

• Two new amazing Bootstrap templates from StartBootstrap.com: Creative and Coming Soon. Select them right from within Pulse - thanks to @sharif for these!
• Breadcrumbs are now localised
  Breadcrumb local habits. · Issue #82 · thecyman/pulsecms-tracking · GitHub
• Added Mailchimp lang settings and other tags
  Mailchimp · Issue #78 · thecyman/pulsecms-tracking · GitHub
• Developer: Theme selected has an added array for CSS, Saas, font, assets etc
  Theme-selected · Issue #84 · thecyman/pulsecms-tracking · GitHub
• Option to cancel Blog heading link if want a single page Blog
  Cancel blog heading link
• Navigation updated to allow for Classes if needed
  For the navigation tag you can use {{navigation}} still or something like {{navigation:"all":"css classes"}}
  The first parameter is the label parameter which is used to select a menu. The default is "all".
  Pulse Tag navigation - #6 by pulsecms
  Tag navigation · Issue #88 · thecyman/pulsecms-tracking · GitHub
• Allow other pages than home to be used via Settings in Admin
  Install page - Local customs · Issue #83 · thecyman/pulsecms-tracking · GitHub

IMPROVEMENTS

• Redactor updated to 3.1.7 with fixes to Vimeo embed, RTL text, ImageFigure and others
  https://www.imperavi.com/redactor/log/
• Changed order undo/redo and underline in WYSIWYG toolbar
• The filtering for submenu names has been improved. We've updated the filters to allow for UTF8 letters and digits.
  Menu in Pulse 5.2.2 · Issue #77 · thecyman/pulsecms-tracking · GitHub
  No special characters in the menu items - #7 by IvaRo
  German umlauts and spaces disappear in the navigation - #8 by annett
• UTF-8 now set in the backup emails
  Pulse-backup-mail. · Issue #81 · thecyman/pulsecms-tracking · GitHub
• Updated Font Awesome so now in sync. Backend and Default demo now both run off 5.2.0 with admin using local SVGs added also
  Font Awesome · Issue #79 · thecyman/pulsecms-tracking · GitHub
• Added error message now shown in user management. The status messages now have an optional level
  Winter 2019 update: Pulse 5.2.2 is here 🔥 - #3 by ralphlambiase
• When Editor is switched off it also won’t appear on the login
  User profile issues... · Issue #85 · thecyman/pulsecms-tracking · GitHub
  User profile issues... · Issue #85 · thecyman/pulsecms-tracking · GitHub
• Z-index of inline edit toolbar is higher as it was under elements on some page setups
• RSS importer improvements for WordPress feeds
  Blog Import Error for simplexml_load_string() - #9 by Speedbump
• The featured images are now used in the OGP tag. That can be changed by embedding an {{ogp:image}} in the blog item content.
  Images not showing up in social media shares - #4 by pulsecms
• The gal tag now handles sub folders properly. Added a third tag (values "yes" or "no", default "no" ) for showing all of the images in a folder or not.
  Images in the Media subfolder are not displayed - #9 by pulsecms
• Redactor image chooser now including images in sub folders
  Images in the Media subfolder are not displayed

FIXES

• Redundant text in the menus - submenu items have folder name removed
  No special characters in the menu items - #7 by IvaRo
• Fix for OTP password encoding in “forgot your password?” emails

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To get it, go to your Pulse account dashboard and download it today!

Happy Pulsing and please share the 5.3 sites that you make with us on this forum

Cheers from the whole Pulse Team