Thursday, 23 May, 2013

We add RSS feeds - Part 2: Title and Description

On 13 May we added support for RSS feeds on Skrivr powered sites. Today we release part two of the RSS functionality. Next time you view your settings page there will be two ...Read more >

Monday, 13 May, 2013

Service update: 6 minutes

This morning the hosting company we work with had a network disturbance in their data center between 08:34 and 08:40 Stockholm time (UTC+01:00).

We were alerted via our monitoring service ...Read more >

Sunday, 5 May, 2013

We add RSS feeds

Today we release another requested feature on Skrivr, the ability to add an RSS feed.

It comes with a new Skrivr template tag {{ rss }} that renders the URL to your RSS file. Complement the tag with an RSS ...Read more >

Wednesday, 24 April, 2013

Coming up next, and why Skrivr is for real

The Skrivr journey started in 2010 when we built a tool for ourselves. A tool that did away with the fiddly adminy bit of publishing. Since then much has happened.

A closed beta, ...Read more >

Saturday, 20 April, 2013

How to use your own domain with Skrivr

Using your own domain with Skrivr is not a default option as it will be a 'pro' or premium feature once we step out of beta. However, we'll gladly enabled it for you for free during the beta period. Just email us at info@skrivr.com or tweet us at @skrivr and we'll take care of it!

/Andreas

Sunday, 14 April, 2013

New Skrivr is live!

[Update 19 april] 100 invites sent

[Update II 18 april] Yet another 100 invites sent.

[Update I 18 april] Another 100 invites sent.

[Update 17 april] The first 100 invites are now sent.

So, today ...Read more >

Friday, 15 March, 2013

Rebuilding the sync

In December we took the first step in rebuilding Skrivr's sync to serve pages faster than before. Since then we've worked on improving it further to manage very large amounts of ...Read more >

Monday, 19 March, 2012

Live preview your Skrivr posts

Skrivr blog preview Using Mou App for previewing Skrivr articles on OSX.

[UPDATE] MarkdownPad does roughly the same job on Windows; live preview, custom css and more. Thank you very much @introvertial and Read more >

Wednesday, 18 January, 2012

The body now has an ID

Today we added the template tag {{ body_id }} to the Skrivr templates.

To use it you just add it to the body-tag like this:

<body id="{{ body_id }}">

And then you add the actual id at the very ...Read more >

Sunday, 1 January, 2012

Use our new body_class template tag to create even better themes

Body classes are something you have told us you want more control over when designing themes. Starting today the body class is available on your Skrivr site.

Instead of the old <body the body-tag ...Read more >

Friday, 23 December, 2011

A faster more stable Skrivr

Skrivr was put to the test a bit yesterday. The problem was that Skrivr's sync functionality did not handle the load well when a large number of visitors visited a site at the same time. Roger ...Read more >

Thursday, 22 December, 2011

Initial thoughts from Roger Byrne

We sent out a batch of Skrivr invites today and Roger Byrne, @imrogb did a writeup with his initial thoughts.

It's a fair and objective writeup and the issues Roger points out are nicely ...Read more >

Tuesday, 20 December, 2011

New Skrivr is here! It's important that you update your themes.

Today we finished our largest ever update to Skrivr. Clean URLs, category pages, extended template-tags, updated default themes and a ton of improvements under the hood are all part of New Skrivr.

To ...Read more >

Thursday, 20 October, 2011

Our dashboard keeps us focused

The dashboard close up

We're inching closer to the official release of Skrivr. Apart from all the stuff we're doing with the app itself, we're also prepping behind the scenes.

Our latest addition is the Skrivr ...Read more >

Friday, 30 September, 2011

View and download themes straight from the gallery

We made a small addition to the settings view last night; a theme gallery. You can now preview the available themes before downloading them. Next we'll add larger ...Read more >

Thursday, 29 September, 2011

We have themes, and settings.

In case you don't feel like creating your own Skrivr theme you now have two new ones to choose from in addition to the pre-installed "Skrivr_default_theme".

Ledtype theme

Inspired by ...Read more >