Synaptik CMS 1.4.0 is here

Until now, Synaptik CMS was built around one person: you, your content, your site. This release opens it up. You can bring other people in, give them exactly the access they should have, and stop worrying about anything getting lost along the way.

Here's what's new.

Bring other people in

The admin panel now supports several accounts instead of one. Each person gets a role: Admin, Editor or Author — so a guest writer can draft articles without being able to touch your theme, your plugins, or anyone else's work.

On sites with more than one account, you'll also see who wrote what, right in the content list.

Nothing gets lost

Three changes that all point the same way.

Trash. Deleting an article, page or project no longer means it's gone. It sits in the trash until you restore it, or until it clears itself after 30 days.

Revisions. Every time you save, the previous version is kept automatically. You can look back through the history, compare what changed, and roll back to an earlier version whenever you want.

Real drafts. Start writing and your draft becomes proper content straight away — its own link, its own history, its own spot in the trash if you delete it. No more fragile half-saved state that could vanish on you.

See what's going on

The Dashboard has been redesigned to be genuinely useful at a glance rather than decorative. If you use the Analytics, Booking, Comments or Newsletter plugins, each one can add its own summary there — a traffic overview, upcoming appointments, comments waiting for moderation, subscriber counts. Each has a switch to hide it again if you'd rather keep things short.

There's also a new Activity log under Tools: who logged in, who edited a template, who installed an extension, and when.

Make it yours

Running a blog and "Articles" doesn't fit? A portfolio where "Projects" should say "Work"? You can now rename Articles, Pages and Projects from Settings → Reading — including how they appear in your site's addresses. It was technically possible before, buried somewhere nobody would find it. Now it's where you'd expect.

Faster, and safer

Plenty of work and under-the-hood improvements went into places you won't see directly, but will hugely impact your daily usage of the CMS: quicker admin pages, lighter public pages, refreshed icons, a tidier editor, redesigned elements in the admin, and a round of security hardening across the board.

Plugin authors get something too — plugins can now shape content, meta tags and menus, not just add their own admin pages.

Updating

If you're already running Synaptik CMS, the update notice will appear on your Dashboard. One click applies it, and a safety backup is taken first, so you can roll back if anything looks off.

New here? Download Synaptik CMS — no database, no build step, no dependencies. Unzip it, open your site, and you're running.

The full list of changes is in the changelog.