Hi Mario,

I must admit I am not sure if Joe's Sitelok stacks are compatible with Stacks 6. I think it is still beta so it might not be ready for all stacks. Best to check with Joe just in case.

Kind regards

Adrian Jones
Vibralogix Ltd

New

• "Built by" badges — the Badge stack has two new styles that credit you, the designer, on a client's site: a "Built by" pill and a small text line for the footer. They show your studio name (or your own name), taken from your totalcms.co profile
• Member login pages — if your members sign in through their own collection, a protected file or page now sends signed-out visitors to that collection's login, not the admin login. After they sign in, they go back to the page they wanted. Choose the login in the collection's Access Controls settings
• Image captions in Markdown — give an image a title and it shows as a caption under the image. A link with the title "external" opens in a new tab
• AI assistants can reorder galleries — ask an assistant to change which image comes first, and it can now do it

Improved

• Profile badges — your profile badge now links your site to your totalcms.co profile, with nothing to set up
• JumpStart — an export now includes the access groups it uses, and every collection keeps its name and settings when you import it on another site
• Total CMS orange — the admin now uses Total CMS orange as its default accent color

Fixed

• Front-end edit forms no longer remove the owner of an entry, or any admin-only fields that the form does not show
• Members can download files from collections where each member sees only their own entries
• SVG images uploaded into a text editor stay SVG and are no longer turned into JPEGs
• Image Batcher finds every gallery and image, so you no longer see "No images found" when there are images
• The file links, image editor and Image Batcher tools load their latest version after an update
• Members can use the image editor and file links tools on front-end forms. These tools also check that the person can see the entry they open
• The admin's main login collection can no longer be deleted by mistake

Check out Total CMS 3 at https://www.weavers.space/stacks/total-cms

I have read docs and watched some videos but I am probably confusing myself now 🙂

Thanks in advance.

I don’t have kids or grandkids of my own, but I kept thinking about how special it is when someone you love reads you a story, and how often families live too far apart to do that at bedtime. So I built something in Stacks to help families connect over reading, and I’d love your eyes (and ears) on it before it goes out to them.

Storybook: 3D picture books you drift through page by page. A storyteller reads them aloud, and the words light up as they’re spoken.
👉 https://frameanddot.com/storybook/

The part I’m proudest of: tap Record it in your own voice, and Grandma (or Uncle, or you) can record the whole book on a phone. When the kids play it back, the book is read in Grandma’s own voice, and each word lights up as it’s spoken. You can send the reading to family far away with a private link and a family code. The recordings are scrambled on the phone before they leave, so the server never hears them.

A few things to try (5 minutes is plenty):

1. Open a book on your phone and tap Read it to me.

2. Tap Step inside and turn the pages yourself. Tap a picture to see it bigger.

3. Tap Record it in your own voice, read a page or two, then listen back.

Then tell me what you think. Every book has a Tell us what you think button on its opening card, and you can even speak your answers instead of typing. Or just reply here. I’d especially love to know:

• Was anything confusing, or did you get stuck anywhere?

• How did it run on your phone, tablet or Mac?

• Who in your family would you want to hear read a story, and which book would you pick?

It’s all built in Stacks, with custom stacks I made for it, so if you’re curious how something works, ask away.

Thank you! Every bit of feedback helps bring families a little closer at story time. 🙏

James

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I'm not a developer, but I do spend a fair amount of time checking and tweaking my websites, so I thought a quick technical SEO checker would be rather handy.

The result is SEO Inspector, an Alfred 5 workflow that checks page titles, meta descriptions, heading hierarchy, image alt text, structured data, internal links, redirects and quite a bit more. It displays a quick summary in Alfred and opens a detailed, interactive report in Safari.

It also saves snapshots, so you can compare a page before and after making changes.

ChatGPT Work did the coding. I came up with the requirements, tested it on real websites, found things that needed fixing and sent it back for improvements. Several iterations later, we've got something that seems to work rather well!

I've been using it on my site, but it should work with websites built on any platform - I've also tested it on apple.com and one of our local competitor's Squarespace site... 😈

It's free, requires Alfred 5 with Powerpack, and comes as a single installable workflow.

I've put it on GitHub if anyone fancies trying it:

https://github.com/jacksona69/alfred-seo

I'd genuinely welcome feedback, bug reports and suggestions. It's had plenty of testing on my own site, but I'm sure other websites will throw up things we haven't encountered yet.

I appreciate the irony of spending Sunday creating a tool that gives me even more things to fix on my website. 😂

https://www.weavers.space/hangout

While hangouts aren't recorded, I thought it would be interesting to start a thread for each hangout and post interesting ideas and links of things that came up.

Subscribe to the Weaver's Space Calendar, so that you never forget a hangout again!

The hangouts are on Zoom. You will need to install the Zoom app in order to attend the hangout.

New

• Badge stack — add a "Built with Total CMS" badge to your footer. Choose the one-line, stacked or text style with a light, dark or automatic theme. Designers can show their own totalcms.co profile badge instead, and it updates on its own
• Activity Log — find it under Utilities. It lists every content change, login, file download and refused request, and says who did each one: a person, an API key or an AI assistant. Filter by user, collection or date, and export to CSV. Entries are kept for 90 days, and you can change that in Settings
• Member content — in a collection's settings, choose the field that holds each object's owner. Members then see and edit only their own entries, which is all you need for directories, job boards and member listings
• Protected fields — mark a field so only admins can change it, such as an "approved" checkbox that a member can't tick themselves
• Public registration settings — turn on sign-ups, email verification and the groups new members join from the collection's settings, with no config file needed
• Bot protection for forms — a hidden trap and a time check block spam submissions without a CAPTCHA. Turn it on for one form or for every public form on a collection
• Install extensions from a zip — right on the Extensions page

Improved

• One set of access rules everywhere — a rule you set in an access group or on a collection now applies to forms, templates, the REST API and AI assistants alike
• AI assistants — an assistant approved only to read no longer sees editing tools, and API keys get the same limits over MCP as over REST
• Dark mode images — show a different image when a visitor uses dark mode, with no extra CSS
• Countries list — select fields can list every country, named in your site's language
• Speed — listing pages render faster, and image processing uses about a third of the memory it did, which helps on small hosting plans
• Extensions — an update no longer turns off an extension for code you already approved. If one is turned off, every admin page shows a warning

Fixed

• Total CMS no longer logs visitors out of other add-ons on the same site, such as VibraCart carts emptying themselves. Thanks to StacksWeaver for the report
• The Save button always works after a failed save, and saving right after fixing a field no longer says "Error in form, cannot save"
• Autogenerated IDs, calculated fields and show/hide rules now react to every field type
• Cropped images get the right size
• The WordPress import no longer times out on image-heavy sites, and it keeps categories
• A new form on a page no longer jumps the page down to it

Before you update

• Stacks 6: you'll be signed out of the admin once after updating. Just sign in again
• API keys used with AI assistants: a key that lists only /mcp now reaches no content. Add the collections it needs in the key's settings
• Server check: the PHP that runs your scheduled tasks now needs pdo_sqlite. Run the Server Checker to confirm

Check out Total CMS 3 at https://www.weavers.space/stacks/total-cms