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Bear CMS's blog is the place to learn about what's new about the platform. Here we announce new features and publish useful information about your websites.

Bear CMS in 2024

December 30, 2024

Another year has passed. With this post we would like to remind you of the most interesting things about Bear CMS this year. We hope that you, like us, looking back, appreciate the progress you have made.

We’ve started the year releasing new designs that will help you make a beautiful personal website. If you do not have such a website - now is the perfect time to launch one.

Then we added improvements on linking pages. You can also quickly get to the current page’s settings.

Custom fonts support was added too.

Creating a newsletter became possible using our built-in tools.

We’ve added improvements to the admin screens. Now you can search and export data, easily manage global HTML code and add default social image.

There were also updates to the style editors.

There were lot more updates that we did not announce, but hope you saw or feel them.

That was it for 2024. See you in 2025.

We wish you even more health, happiness and success!

Improvements in Files, Visitors, Global HTML code and many more

December 28, 2024

Merry Christmas!

Today, we have a bag full of surprises for you. We’ve added some improvements to the platform and made your sites even easier to manage. Let's take a look.

Files

In the file management screen, you will find search and sorting buttons. In addition, you can now add personal notes to each file. This way, you can organize them more easily.

Visitors

In the Visitors’ screen, in the Statistics section, there is a button to download the data as PDF, Excel or CSV. It’s available for Bear CMS hosted sites only.

Global HTML Code

This field, which is located in your site settings, allows you to add HTML code to be applied to each page. Now you can add different codes to different fields. Until now, you could only add them to one field, which made editing a bit difficult. You can give each code a name to make it easier to know what it does.

Social Media Image

There is a new field in your site settings where you can upload an image to be used when sharing a page from your site on social networks. There is such a field for each page, but this will only be used in cases where you have not specified one for the page itself.

New units for sites in the style editor

For those of you who customize the look of your site yourself and pay attention to the small details, we have added the latest units available in CSS. You can now use svw, svh, lvw, lvh, dlvw, dvh.

We hope that with these improvements we have contributed at least a little to your holiday mood.

New: Add a newsletter to your site

August 28, 2024

We are pleased to announce the latest update to BearCMS - Newsletters.

Newsletters enable you to add a form to your site so that your visitors can subscribe for news and other up-to-date information from you. With just a few clicks, you can send emails to your subscribers.

This option is available for websites with Plan PRO and Plan MAX. There is a different maximum allowed number of emails sent per month. If you would like to send more emails, please contact us.

Take a look at the new functionality at our support pages.

New: Add custom fonts

May 28, 2024

Those of you using Plan PRO, Plan MAX, Plan PRO/S or Plan MAX/S now can add custom fonts to their site. They will help you create even more unique sites and help you easily create textual content that meets specific marketing/branding requirements.

You can find the new option in the settings of your website.

More improvements coming soon.

Improved linking and other improvements

February 8, 2024

With the latest improvements in Bear CMS, managing your content is even easier.

Let’s take a look.

When linking to other pages on your site, you can now select the target pages instead of copying/typing their URL addresses. In addition to saving time and potential errors, when a page's address changes, all links to that page will automatically be updated and will work as expected.

There is a quick actions button on the toolbar. Here you’ll find an option that will take you to the settings of the page you have currently opened. There is such an option for blog post pages too.

A small icon is now visible in the element’s toolbar that shows the type of the element. This makes it easier to find your way around when you have multiple elements nested within each other.

We'd love to hear your thoughts on these improvements in the comments below.