2. Feedback and ideas for the site rewrite that I can put to the boys (https://goatboys.org)

Thanks,

Steve

https://goatboys.org

A huge thank you goes to Jochen Abitz (Stackswork) for his tremendous support in developing that website with me.

It's been a month since the Summit, and I have been going full steam ahead on quite a few projects. A lot of them are starting to come to fruition all at once. I am sorry that I have been sort of radio silent for a while. This newsletter should get you all caught up with the latest.

The WS Summit 2026 was a huge success. We had a super strong lineup. Obviously, the overarching theme has been AI. How it is affecting web, freelancing, and our lives. Everyone that attended walked about with an amazing outlook on where we as a community of web designers are going. If you were not able to attend, the replays are available at the Weaver's Space Academy.

Today, I have made available to everyone, the State of the Space. This was my talk about the state of Weaver's Space, Total CMS, BetterSiteHost, and where we are going as a community. Obviously, a big part of that is Stacks 6. Isaiah showed off partials and the theme API enhancements that have been added to the app. Now all of the major pillars that we need in the app are complete. As soon as he ships a new beta, I will release his two talks on the community for everyone to watch.

I have been working on Total CMS 3.5 for about 3 months now. This is a MAJOR release. It really should be v4, but since I just shipped Total CMS 3 in January, it felt wrong to raise the version to 4 so soon. I don't understand devs that do that… I think it's just to make their app look more mature than it really is. Anyways, this release of Total CMS solidifies itself as a major standalone platform. Developers have already built over a dozen plugins for it. The built-in MCP server is going to be groundbreaking (don't miss the summit talks on that). I will stop myself now before I go on forever about the new features. Let’s just say that it's amazeballs. The last bits that I am working on are a new website. Rafael from the community helped me design it. I think that it's coming along quite nicely.

The next project that has gotten some love recently is Inky. If you don't recall, that is the open source email framework that I built. Inky 2.0 has been a complete rewrite where it's now basically its own email markup language that I have built direct ports into every major web programming language: PHP, Go, Ruby, Python, and Node. I actually plan on adding support to Total CMS 3.5; however, I ran into snags. So it will ship in 3.6. This new version of Inky will also be the basis for the next version of the Email stacks as well.

If you follow me on various social networks, you may have noticed that I almost never post anymore. I have not consistently posted on social media for a few years now. This is partly because when I open the app to post, I get sucked in and 20 minutes later, I am still scrolling. I really wanted to improve the reach of Total CMS 3 and part of that is trying to post on social media again. So I developed an app called PostOnly. It still has a little ways to go but I am really happy with it. It allows you to post to multiple social media sites at once. Since the app only allows you to post, there is zero risk of getting sucked in. Keep your eyes peeled on the community for when it's ready to ship. I will even post to Total CMS 3 Feeds!

Lastly, what about Foundation? Where is the innovation happening with that? I have been thinking about this for a couple of years now. My plan was to work on a Foundation 6 Next that essentially kept the underlying framework that we use today but rethought how swatches could be used for the masses. I still think that is the way that things will be going but with a slight pivot. I am going to be making Swatches, its own standalone product. Since 90% of swatches really have nothing to do with the Foundation framework, this makes sense. Swatches will be able to be used with the framework of your choosing. This project has quite a ways to go. There are a lot of swatches! I think that it will be a game changer for us.

OK, lets get into some awesome community posts that you might have missed over the past couple of weeks…

Total CMS 3.5 Goes from Beta to RC 11 — Automations, MCP, and a Whole Lot of Polish

Get the latest version of Total CMS 3.5 and start using it!

Total CMS Site from Scratch on Live Stream — And You Can Watch

If you've ever wondered how to get started with Total CMS 3 and Stacks, I went back to basics with a full live build from scratch. Whether you're brand new to TCMS or just want to see how to approach a fresh build, this stream is worth your time.

Linda Jennings Has Had It with Exact Hosting

Linda Jennings is fed up with the Chillidog buyout — changed passwords, broken logins, years of headaches. She asked me directly if BetterSiteHost would take her, and the community rallied behind the move.

Matthias Wolf's New Client Site Is a Looker

Matthias Wolf shared a new client site in Show and Tell — great scroll-triggered menu, rounded edges, and real photography instead of stock images. Hire a photographer, people!

Martin Waring Built a Blood Pressure Tracking Site — And Scored an Incredible Domain

Martin Waring is documenting his journey managing blood pressure through lifestyle changes instead of medication. He snagged blood-pressure.co.uk as his domain — a passion project that shows our community builds for more than just clients.

James Alton Thomas Had Some Honest Feedback on the TCMS 3.5 Stream

James watched the TCMS 3 live build and shared thoughtful feedback — he loves the product but noted the Terminal/CLI workflow can be overwhelming. Great thread about making powerful tools more accessible, and your feedback helps shape how I teach this stuff.

Foundation v6.25.0 — SpamGuard Gets Full Granular Control

Big SpamGuard upgrade — six individual layer toggles plus fine-tuned thresholds for submit time, form age, max submissions, and more. If spam has been slipping through your forms, this update puts you back in control.

Torsten Asks About WebP in Foundation 6

Yes, Foundation 6 supports WebP — just use the Warehouse option. The drag-and-drop image wells don't support WebP or AVIF directly.

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I have also been having fun watching the World Cup the past few weeks. Spain put on a master class today against France. I have not been a fan of the commercial, I mean water breaks. And VAR has probably now gone too far. I am looking forward to the England/Argentina game tomorrow. I am rooting for England to win it all. They have not won since 1966. I think they deserve it.

My World Cup Brackets website has actually gotten 35 million impressions on Google over the past month. I have never seen traffic like that on a website. I felt the need to try and capitalize on that a little and added some Amazon affiliate links to the site. However, I feel that I did it quite tastefully.

Tomorrow, I am off on a little road trip down to San Diego. We are going to tour my daughter's dream college, check out the famous San Diego zoo, and probably have some fun on the beach. We will be home by Sunday.

I hope that you have a wonderful rest of your week. Thank you for being a part of the Weaver's Space community. It's awesome because of you. Now go forth and make your websites great!

Cheers,
Joe

I wanted to share the talk that I gave to open up the WS Summit last month with everyone here. I review where the web design community is currently at and where we are going. More importantly, I show how Weaver's Space fits into that future and how we are blazing the path. Thank you for being on this journey with me.

I have a page set up for a custom collection/schema, and added a blog list at the bottom of the page.

I want to filter the blog posts based on blog tags from a field in the custom collection/schema.

Nothing I have tried filters the blog list. Unfiltered blog list works OK.

Any ideas?

Thank you

Greg

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I found a post from a few years ago ( https://community.weavers.space/stacks/post/my-client-s-site-is-being-being-bombarded-with-thousands-of-random-page-zXGYinbnDBEbaDt ) about bots looking at random page requests.

Im having a similar issue however it doesn't involve the index.php file but simply random pages that don't exist. The same issue appears with a page shows with no formatting.

I ran it through ai and it said it looks like legitimate bots - like apple and google - are getting stuck in an endless loop - maybe because of the docroot settings. (currently set to Relative to Page in RW)
This is causing GB worth of bandwidth for a single small use server.

Here are a few examples: (domain is orthopaedicswa.com.au)

Noting that most are with rwcache but also with the domain name placed within the middle of the url along with other variations which do the same.

I don't have anything overly complex in the htaccess file - only TCMS1 blog redirects, 404 redirect and cpanel generated php settings.

Hoping someone might have had experience with this?

Thanks.

I am having a strange issue with the impact stack. It has 3 images, and are set to pause on hover, but when I hover, after the mouse leaves the section and it starts scrolling again, it does two images in the time it should do one. Then if you hover and leave again, it does three in the time it should do one. I copied the section and put it underneath, playing with one, while leaving the other as is, to check the timing. When it doubles time, it doesn't do it evenly, it stays longer on one, then quickly flicks past the other.

I have tried it on two computers and it is happens on both.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you!

In the docs at Field -> Field Options -> Property Options -> Sources I am trying to use "collections". When I use this, I am getting a list of all of the headings I use to organize my collections in the admin side bar. Is this correct? It is not what I was expecting.

Thanks!