GB3 - Empowering Apps With The New CMS

At GoodBarber we’ve been creating apps since 2009. And with all of our experience from thousands of clients, we realized that a great number of people chose our service because they were able to create, as well as manage, their own content using a simple interface, in order to bring their beautiful app to life! 

With this in mind we decided that we should expand and improve our built-in CMS for GoodBarber 3.

The process of creating CMS sections with the brand new V3 backend is very simple, so in order for you to picture it I will speak about all the four different types of sections that you can add to your apps. But bear in mind that I will mention only a few examples, there are many more possibilities. It just depends on your creativity!

Are you ready to take this tour? Let’s go!

If you want to create an application with diverse content sources, such as texts, images and videos, you just need to add a CMS article section and have fun creating your posts! Also as for all CMS sections, you have the possibility to choose to publish immediately, or to save as draft or to leave it pending. This is useful when you don’t want to lose the content you just created but still have some things missing that you are going to add or change later (save as draft), or if you completed the article, but you want to publish it on a specific date (pending).

In case you are searching for a way to make an application to showcase your photography work, to put together an astonishing personal portfolio, you can use the CMS photo section. This is a powerful way to direct your user’s attention to your photos, and in addition to adding photos and their titles, you can activate the search engine to allow your users to find that specific photo they are searching for.

The CMS video section is great if your are a vlogger, an online lecturer or even a movie director! From your backend, you’ll be able to add not only videos, but also texts, photos or even quotes that you find relevant. Also, let’s say you are an online teacher and you have different levels or lessons: you can organize those video files in groups by naming a category of your choice. To do so, you just have to go to the Settings tab inside your CMS section and define as many categories as you want.

Having the possibility to manage and share your own sound files directly from the backend of your app is an all-new feature on GoodBarber 3!

If you have a band or if you are musician/singer, a good way to promote your work would be by creating an application where you now can include not only such things as your biography, the photos from your studio recordings or concerts, connecting your social networks... but you can also add audio samples from your album! In addition to the audio files, you can add a thumbnail picture and content such as videos, texts and other images to better define the track. This is possible for each and every audio file you add to your CMS sound section.

There are many advantages in using CMS sections in your app. For instance, all the content you add in the backend of your app is managed on the same page and you don't have to worry about the response of an external server when you make modifications, because it will be displayed automatically in the app. The diversity of formats you can add in a single article brings a much more dynamic feel to your app, due to the fact that you are not restrained to only texts, or just photos, you can use all available media formats and mix them and enrich your content.

Using both the search engine and the filter option, you can take the display of your content and its structure to a whole new level, and doing so will lead to a better user experience.

But as you must have noticed, this is one among a whole range of new features in the new backend of GoodBarber 3. The good news is that it's all there for you to enjoy, stay tuned as we reveal all of the V3 novelties, to find out how to use each new feature to it's highest potential!