Kirby CMS

There are two Kirby meetups next week and just a couple days more until we meet in Düsseldorf at @btconf@mastodon.social

📍 Kirby Meetup Berlin • April 15
https://www.meetup.com/kirby-cms-community-berlin/events/313790581/

📍 Kirby Meetup Karlsruhe • April 16
https://kirby-ka.carrd.co/

📍 Kirby Meetup Düsseldorf @ Beyond Tellerrand • April 27
https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2026/side-events/kirby-meeting

Are you looking for a way to scan your Kirby site for broken links? Scott Boms has a brand new Link Scanner plugin for you: https://plugins.getkirby.com/scottboms/link-scanner

Today is Spring cleaning day:

🧹 Kirby 5.3.3
🧹 New login method for our license hub
🧹 Upgrade prices announcements
🧹 EULA updates

Here we go …

While we are awfully quiet with our own channel, Justus is coming up with one video after another on the awesome Moinframe channel.

His latest videos:

📺 How to generate QR codes with Kirby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK_g3DB3DP4

📺 How to extend Panel components
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDWPLXPgTsE

Our sale ends today! It's your last chance to grab a 20% discount on all licenses: https://getkirby.com/buy

🛍️ Volume discounts save you even more
🛍️ You can buy licenses in bulk and activate them later
🛍️ Each license includes free major upgrades for the next 3 years after activation

Not much time left to save 20% on all licences: https://getkirby.com/buy

It's been almost ten years since Sonja sent out the first issue of the Kirby Kosmos Newsletter. Today, we are celebrating 100 issues full of incredible resources around Kirby and the web.

If you don't want to miss our anniversary edition, subscribe before 3 pm CET: https://getkirby.com/kosmos.

Here's to the next 100! 🥂

Our Spring Sale starts today! Save 20% until March 23rd https://getkirby.com/buy

You know the drill:

🛒 Volume discounts save you even more
🛒 You can buy licenses in bulk and activate them later
🛒 Each license includes free major upgrades for the next 3 years after activation

PSA: The Kirby Meetup in Bremen had to be moved to next week (19.) https://bremen.design/events/kirby-get-together-5

Manage your design system directly in the Panel with the new Token Field plugin by @medienbaecker@mastodon.social: https://plugins.getkirby.com/medienbaecker/token-field 🎨

It allows you to select visual options and save whatever you want. You can use it not only for colors, but also for fonts, spacing values, shadows and any other design tokens.

Kirby 5.3.2 is here: https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/releases/tag/5.3.2 🚀

Our StatiCache 2.1.0 release comes with a significant performance boost by pre-compressing cache files on write: https://github.com/getkirby/staticache/releases/tag/2.1.0

Thanks to Tobias Möritz for his contribution 👏

Justus' video production output is really on fire recently 🔥 In his latest video, he's showing you how to build a custom Kirby Panel section plugin with the help of kirbyup and kirbyuse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1S3B0bhcFM

A fantastic new German initiative turns the first Sunday of every month into "Digital Independence Day", showcasing ways how to say goodbye to big tech: https://di.day/.

We couldn't be happier that their site is running on Kirby.

Are you looking for a way to adapt your blueprints according to the role of the current user? The new Role Blueprints plugin by Husken Medien GmbH could be just what you need: https://plugins.getkirby.com/huskenmedien/kirby-role-blueprints