See what’s new in RapidWeaver 5.0
Build
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Projects Window
The all-new Projects Window keeps your recently-opened projects along with handy links in one convenient place.
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11 Built-in Plugins
RapidWeaver 5 has nearly a dozen page types that can be added to your next RapidWeaver site, from blogs to photo albums.
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Site Resources
Adding resources to your site (such as PDFs) has never been easier: just drag in resources and organise them from within the RapidWeaver sidebar.
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Refined UI
We’ve made RapidWeaver even easier to use, with an bucketload of UI refinements in version 5. Creating websites has never been so simple!
Themes
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Over 45 Themes Built-in
There’s a theme for everyone with almost four-dozen built-in, customisable themes to choose from.
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6 All-New Themes
We’ve added six gorgeous new themes to RapidWeaver 5, all from world-renowned designers, to help your sites stand out.
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Theme Consolidation
No matter how many stylesheets your theme uses, RapidWeaver 5 now consolidates (and optionally compresses) them to ensure your site loads as quickly as possible.
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Organise your Themes
The built-in theme browser supports folders for themes, allowing you to organise your favourite designs and easily find them in other projects.
Publish
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Bookmarks Manager
The all-new Bookmarks Manager allows you to easily save and quickly re-use publishing details across multiple projects.
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Easy Publishing
RapidWeaver uploads your site using FTP and SFTP, which are supported by almost every host on the planet. Publishing your site has never been easier.
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One Click Publishing
Making changes to your site is easy: with one click, RapidWeaver exports and uploads all the changes made to your website.
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Smart Publishing
RapidWeaver’s Smart Publishing means you only ever need to publish the files that have actually changed to your webspace.
SEO & Stats
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Statistics
RapidWeaver 5 makes it easier than ever to track who visits your site with GoSquared LiveStats and Google Analytics support. RapidWeaver 5 customers even get ad-free use of the basic LiveStats package!
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Sitemap
RapidWeaver 5 ships with a new dedicated plugin that generates an HTML sitemap for your website. Visitors will always be able to find the page they’re looking for!
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XML Sitemap
RapidWeaver generates an XML sitemap for your entire website and lets the major search engines know that your site has been updated.
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Great Code, Everywhere
RapidWeaver generates code using all your favourite web standards - and it’s easily indexed by the search engines.
Go Pro
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Mix Code and Rich Text
If you need to add some custom code to a page it’s no problem. You can easily mix HTML code alongside Rich Text-formatted content.
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Navigation Automation
RapidWeaver automatically creates the navigation menu for you: and tracks when you change any page names to ensure there’s no broken links. Move pages around, without needing to re-build links between pages!
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Web Developer Tools
If you need to analyse your RapidWeaver pages, the Safari Web Developer Tools are now available when you preview your pages.
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Code Snippets
If there’s code you frequently use within RapidWeaver, the built-in snippets window lets you save them for re-use.
Addons
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Browse & Install
The all-new Addons area makes finding new addons a breeze, with a comprehensive listing of all the third-party addons around.
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Stay Up-to-date
RapidWeaver 5 not only keeps itself up to date, it also helps keep your third-party addons up to date too thanks to the new Addons area.
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No Relaunch Required
RapidWeaver 5 now allows you to install new themes and plugins without needing to re-launch RapidWeaver, meaning it’s quicker than ever before to extend your site.
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SDKs
If you’re a web developer looking to build your own themes, or a Cocoa developer looking to build a plugin, there’s SDKs for you! We also publish all our SDKs on GitHub.
All reviews are based on RapidWeaver 4.x and will be updated accordingly.