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We are excited to announce the launch of Halogy 1.1 which includes some cool new features and full CodeIgniter 2.0 support.

CodeIgniter 2.0

You can now use Halogy on CodeIgniter 2.0 and we've made installation/upgrade a breeze. Simply replace your Halogy folder with the new one and that's it! There are no database schema changes to make. CodeIgniter 2.0 makes Halogy faster, and more secure.

Run in a Folder

We often got requests for the ability to run Halogy inside a folder, or to at least be able to run it from the default 'index.php' setup that CodeIgniter comes with. Previously this was not possible in Halogy 1.0, but now with Halogy 1.1 you can run from any path you want, just specify it in your config.

Nested Pages Within Nested Pages

Want a third level of navigation and pages? Done. Simply select a nested page as the new page's parent and you will benefit from a third tier of pages. We made some of the UI for adding pages and selecting parents a bit slicker too.

Bug Fixes and Speed Enhancements

We've fixed a load of bugs since version 1.0 and have sped things up a lot. You'll notice improved results when enabling gzip compression (from config.php) which is a native CodeIgniter function that now works nicely with Halogy.

License Changes

We've made a few changes to the license, most importantly we've made the Pro version a lot more affordable, starting at just $79 for the Shop, Email Campaigns and Forums modules. The Multi-site Manager has also come down in price to just $299 which also includes the Pro modules. You can now use Halogy on unlimited websites without having to buy multiple licenses and the Multi-site Manager helps you control all of these websites really easily.

To get hold of the latest version of Halogy 1.1 you can either follow our repository on BitBucket or you can just download from our website here. Feel free to submit bugs using BitBucket's Issue Tracker or on our Forums.

We really hope you enjoy using Halogy 1.1!

Please note: users of Halogy Core 1.1 can only use Halogy for 'personal use' such as a personal website, or blog. Using Halogy for commercial use requires the purchase of Pro. For more on this read our license.

We are pleased to announce that Halogy is now available as a Free and Open Source CMS! Get your hands on a really easy-to-use, modular CMS that is fast, solid and built on the amazing CodeIgniter PHP Framework.

Previously we charged to download Halogy with all the modules included. Now you can download just the Core of Halogy for free and purchase the modules separately in our shop.

This means we can grow a community of Halogy developers, allowing for 3rd party modules to be offered, making Halogy more stable and solid and also giving back to the community that has helped Halogy become what it is today.

Where to Download

You can download your copy and follow the latest changes at:

http://bitbucket.org/haloweb/halogy-1.0

We will be updating it as often as we can with tweaks to the Core, improving stability, speed usability, and how it interacts with modules.

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We are releasing Halogy to download completely free. This license will be the Core License and will be an open source, extendable, and free to download version of Halogy.

Halogy is a really simple, easy-to-use, solid, agile and fast CMS that is built upon the CodeIgniter PHP framework. The Core version of Halogy will include:

• The powerful, modular Halogy framework
• The in-place editor that lets you edit multiple regions of your pages as you browse
• The version controlled, multi-permission CMS
• The Website Import system that converts static sites into dynamic websites
• The online template, CSS and Javascript editor
• The Image and Files modules
• The Web Forms module
• The User management system for multiple administrators and content editors

Why?

We want to build a developer community around Halogy and we want the world to know how awesome it is. We felt the best way to do this was open it up to the world and let developers help us make it even more awesome. We plan to offer our official packages too (with the Blog and Shop modules that you can get on the buy page) but also we plan to open up a Marketplace where developers can sell their own modules.

By releasing an Open Source, free version of Halogy we can give back to the community that have helped us get where we are, but also build upon what we have already and make Halogy the most awesome, easy-to-use, PHP based CMS out there. So it's a thank you but also a step to try and grow even greater by teaming up with all the amazing PHP developers out there.

We look forward to releasing it shortly.

Halogy, the easy-to-use publishing platform, is now available to purchase and download! Get Halogy running on your server so you can get building websites quickly and easily and enable modules like E-Commerce and Blog with a few clicks!

We are offering two licenses that you can purchase for your server:

• Single Site - If you have one or two websites you want to put Halogy on, just purchase this license and get Halogy for as little as $99.
• Multi Site - Have unlimited websites running off the same installation and use the Multi-Site manager to access all of your websites from one login, for $499 per server.

Because Halogy is powered by the incredibly fast and robust framework CodeIgniter, you will find that Halogy operates in the same way - fast, solid, reliable and extendible. Build your own modules and extend the Core as you see fit utilizing CodeIgniters amazing native functions.

If you want to purchase Halogy now, go to our buy page and purchase a license.

We provide support and installation assistance for every purchase, just go to our Support for more info on this.

Free Hosting

Hosted Halogy sites are now completely free, so you can get your own subdomain (e.g. mysite.halogy.com) at our signup page.

With the hosted sites you get all the modules such as Blog, Shop and Forums all ready to run without any technical hassle or installation worries.

We want you to see for yourself how easy to use and powerful Halogy is so we are offering these sites completely free.

Undertaking the full documentation of Halogy was always going to be a mammoth task because there's lots of stuff you can do. But finally we have managed to get the Core functionality of Halogy documented in our User Guide.

There is still more to follow for example:

• Full Module Documentation
• Module Tags
• Tips & Tricks
• Tutorial Videos

But at least for now you can use Halogy, get to grips fully with the Templating engine, and know all of the tags without having to email us! If you do still want to email us feel free: support@halogy.com, as we're never too far away.

Ever since it was launched, Project Bubble has been proudly powered by Halogy.

Project Bubble is a simple project management app that was launched late last year and came out of Beta early 2010. It became so popular that they had over 5000 users after only being live for 3 months. The whole time Project Bubble has been helping small businesses manage their projects and invoices, Halogy has been powering the CMS side of the app. They are basically family.

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We are excited to announce the launch of the new Halogy website as well as the pricing plans for 2010-2011.

Up until now Halogy has been in beta (with the public beta ending in April). We had many people sign up to try Halogy out and had some great feedback. We are now excited to officially launch Halogy, along with a new business model for 2010.

What is new?

• We have updated the CMS to utilize modern technologies and make page editing even easier
• We have added new modules, such as a Community module and a Wiki and bundled them all in
• We have moved to very expensive and shiny new servers in the US
• We have set up our new business model and pricing plan

If you want to read no longer and want to just dive in and try the new Halogy out, then get your free demo site going and have some fun. Read on if you want to know more about pricing.

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