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BranchCMS is now fully supporting Twig version 3. The previous version that was supported was Twig Version 1. We recommend that all websites update to use Twig 3 as soon as possible. Upgrading BranchCMS to Twig 3 lets us take advantage of better templating performance and best practices. It's also where we'll be doing all of our future updates. Twig version 1 will technically still be supported…

The last two days have certainly be challenging for us and for our clients. As you may know, our system has been sluggish for the last two days and at times your website may not have loaded for a few minutes. Here is an explanation of what happened. Starting on Wednesday, May 26 at about 5:30am one of our client's websites started to experience a DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack…

As we are moving our entire infrastructure to Amazon Web Services there will be some changes to how emails are sent out. In our old environment emails were sent from one of two dedicated web servers. The IPs were consistent and emails were sent using sendmail from the same web server. All of that is different with the new environment. We are now using Docker containers and an auto-scaling…

We have a big announcement to share. This is a good announcement, but also very important, so please read the whole post below. Over the last few months, we have been working on setting up an entirely new server infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Our old server environment isn’t easy to scale and has been having performance issues. We’ve been growing and we need a more scalable…

We pushed out an update today that renames a number of the internal app API methods to some more intuitive names. Essentially we removed "Filter" from the API method names and made the API method names plural. Below is a list of the updated API methods. The old method names will continue to work but we do not recommend using them anymore as they are deprecated. App Old Method Name New Method…

One of our goals with BranchCMS is to make it as easy as possible to get help while you work on your website. There is always room for improvement but one area that has proven to help is chat. Last fall we implemented Drift as a chat client in BranchCMS. While Drift is great and we would recommend them, we were finding a disconnect between our chat support conversations and email…

Websites today rarely live in isolation. Often they are either integrating other services like a Facebook feed or Disqus comments, or they are pushing content to other services like a Customer Relation Manager (CRM). With BranchCMS you can easily send data to other websites or services using the Request Object. As an example, let's say that you have a form on your website where you collect…

If you add a link to your website and you set that link to open in a new tab/window then you are opening your website up to attacks from malicious websites. This attack is known as the target=_blank vulnerability or tabnabbing. The attack is to switch a tab in your browser with a malicious website, where you could be asked to enter your login information again. Often these malicious pages are…

Previously the only way to add new Campaign subscribers to a subscriber list was to import a CSV file. While this worked great when adding a large number of subscribers, if you had to add just a few subscribers it was a bit of a pain. You can now add subscribers one at a time to a subscriber list. First, go to Marketing -> Email Campaigns -> Subscriber Lists Click on the subscriber list that you…

We have been working on changing our template engine from Branch Code to Twig over the last few months. To make it easier for developers to update their code we built a tool that will convert Branch Code to Twig code. It's a huge time saver! To get there go to Site Manager -> Tools -> Convert Branch Code to Twig. This will bring you to the conversion tool. Enter your Branch Code in the field on…