We all love a good desktop image, what better than an awesome PyroCMS one?

Add-ons are one of the most powerful aspect of any Content Management System and PyroCMS is no exception. This is why we are pleased to announce that a great company: AppStucco has just gone live today with their first - of many - add-ons: LDAP for PyroCMS!

We know there are loads of you out there using PyroCMS. We have loads of followers, our site gets loads of traffic, and we have nearly hit 40,000 installations. But that said, we don't actually know who any of you are! This is because we are not evil big brother jerks, we don't track domain names, or IP addresses or anything evil. You can do what you like and that is cool, but the new Showcase section has been built to show off people who WANT to tell us about what they are doing with PyroCMS.

The CMSA Spotlight Awards recognize creative and technical excellence in web design and development and this year we're part of it. We'd really really appreciate our users casting their vote for us in this years awards, which will help give PyroCMS more recognition, a bigger community and in turn more features and add-ons for all of you. To find out how to vote please read on!

PyroCMS is a great project to work on, but it's not all fun and games. We're all working hard to get new versions complete, bugs squashed, demo's improved, addons built and all that jazz, but while we are doing that there are always questions to be answered, people who need help and documentation to be improved. So far we are a team of 4, but that is not enough - we need a part-time support member of staff

One of the most difficult part of an open source project is the documentation. It's critical for users to have great docs, but it's almost always an afterthought. So starting today, we're taking a few extra steps to make PyroCMS documentation more complete, accurate, and logically organized.

Leading up to the v2.0 release we have changed how our version control branches work. If you do not know anything about version control and do not use GitHub you can skip this article. If you are one of the developers who submits bug fixes and pull requests to our repository then please read on!

As PyroCMS has become more widely used and we have a more diverse community we would like to ask for your input. With v1.3.0 we launched PyroCMS Professional which allowed developers to rebrand the admin panel and manage multiple sites from one installation and we have a v2.0 coming out soon with a huge load of amazing new features and a great new Control Panel, but we would like your help in where we go next.

If you follow us on Twitter you'll know we've been busy little bees working on an amazing new Control Panel, we've added a ton of new features and were just about to release v1.4, but now we've decided to go a little further and release a full blown v2.0 next along with a great new feature: Lex. Lex handles Tags and is better, faster and stronger than the Tag system in v1.x. This article will explain why we are changing, how - if at all - this will affect you and what is happening with the new release.

It's been about two months since we launched PyroCMS Professional and we're so pleased to say that things are going even better than expected. Sales are good, feedback is brilliant, bugs are being fixed and the v1.4.0 is looking like the best update we've yet to see, but we just want to make one quick reminder: we're still an open-source project and we still need help from developers.