This is one of the biggest releases we’ve ever done and we believe marks the beginning of a very exciting time for Siteglide, the agencies that build sites with it and also the site owners/customers that manage their websites.

A huge thank you to the whole team, it’s been a monumental lift to coordinate this release and in record time.

Studio

It’s a name many will be familiar with, we’ve had 2 previous attempts at trying to realise the vision we’ve had from the very beginning: to separate content from code in a scalable and flexible way.

This is different, we’ve learned from our mistakes and we’ve gone back to the drawing board to ensure we get it right.

For those that have been using the Alpha version for the last month or two there are some substantial differences now and it’s best not to try and update those versions to the latest version (unless you have a site you intend to put live).

Rather than talking about it we recommend you give it a spin by installing, from the Siteglide Marketplace, our first of many Studio Templates, Photography. You’ll notice Studio now runs on admin.siteglide.com, there’s no need to use the temporary Studio-Alpha URL (this will be deprecated).

Here’s a list of the main changes but there are many more:

1. Pages are fully integrated with Siteglide (CMS > Pages)

2. Templates are fully integrated with Siteglide (Site Manager > Templates)

3. The Studio link is now ‘Studio Themes’ where you only manage the Theme and Sections (CMS > Studio Themes)

4. You can set User Roles to control what each user type can do (E.g only allow customers to edit content not insert, delete or create sections).

5. The Section Builder now defaults to AI mode to help you build sections quickly without learning the specific Studio or Siteglide structure.

6. You can now edit dynamic content (WebApp items, Module items) within the Studio editor itself.

Why is it in Beta?

Technically we could skip ‘Beta’, it’s a self-contained module that has no impact on the rest of Siteglide or your websites but we’re playing it safe and believe that a Beta period will help us focus on feedback and improvements. There are some extra features we’re keen to launch asap and once those are implemented we expect to remove the ‘Beta’ label.

You can use it to build sites right now, in fact, there are sites going live imminently that have been built with Studio. We would just recommend not using it on existing Live Production sites initially, start on Staging and get familiar with it first.

Docs and Guides

We have a new area dedicated to Studio (and SiteBuilder until this is fully migrated into Studio): Studio Introduction

We are trying to get Documentation and Guides ready as quickly as possible but we wanted to let everyone know as soon as it was released especially for those using the Alpha version, now is the time to switch to the latest:

Install Studio - https://docs.siteglide.com/en/studio-and-sitebuilder/studio-introduction/setup