There are a lot of things that I cannot do in CP5, some are much more annoying than others. I plan on updating this post with these things, as both a reminder and a constant reminder of what needs improved for College Publisher to truly have a solid CMS. In many respects, CP5 is a major step back from CP4.
- I cannot edit the <HEAD> of the document. This means I cannot add favicons, apple touch icons, javascript libraries, meta tags. lots of stuff I should be able to. You could do this in CP4.
- You cannot hide sub-navigation items in the tree of your site. Main items, such as Forums, can be hidden from the top nav bar. But something under Our Views cannot be hidden. This was not necessarily possible in CP4 as the structure is completely different, but you could chose which sections to include in a new issue...
- Newspaper issues do not exist in CP5 at all. This brings with it a lot of problems. For example, archive indexes do not exist in CP5 either, they do in every other CMS I have worked on. To make an issue index I have to do this manually.
- Error documents are not supported. I cannot use a custom error 404 page at all. Please look at the putrid color and non-descript nature of this 404 page on bgviews.com. This is absolutely horrible when considering we just switched domains from bgnews.com to bgviews.com. You do not know what site it is, anything. Error 404 pages were possible in CP4.
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