Community
I’m Joe Workman, and I make Total CMS on my own. Around it is a community of designers who have been building client sites together since 2009: live on YouTube most Wednesdays, on Zoom every Friday, and in the forum in between.
On YouTube
What shipped, what’s coming, and whatever you ask in the chat. The recordings stay up.
The recordings2
Latest
A live tour of the new member side of totalcms.co: designer profiles, the showcase, the extension directory, badges, site verification and Available for Work.
Release 3.6.3 notesThe two new Markdown fields from 3.6.2, and every other place Markdown lives in Total CMS: rendering, footnotes and tables, and collections stored as .md files.
Release 3.6.2 notesOff the record
For more than ten years we’ve met on Zoom every Friday. It’s been one of the RapidWeaver community’s best-kept secrets, so consider it told. Bring a question, help with someone else’s, or just listen in. We talk about everything from web design to knights’ helmets.
The next hangout
1:30pm Pacific
You’ll learn, you’ll teach, and mostly you’ll have fun.
No recordings, on purpose: what happens in the hangout stays in the hangout. The Join button appears here on Fridays while we’re on.
Once a year
Three days of talks, online, with hangouts between the sessions. Design, development, SEO and freelancing, from people in the community and a few from outside it. It’s in its tenth year, and every talk since the first one is in the Academy, including a lot of Total CMS.
Total CMS at the Summit6 talks
Building the Company Brain with Total CMS
Matthew Turco · 2026
Navigating the Deck: Building Client-Editable Menus with T3
Joshua Omilian · 2026
Dynamic Layouts 2.0: Taking the Training Wheels Off Total CMS 3
Joshua Omilian · 2026
From T1 to T3: The Migration Playbook
Joe Workman · 2026
Total CMS 3: Your New Best Friend
Bill Burden · 2025
Next Level Magic with Total CMS 3
Davide Fanchin · 2025
In between
The forum for questions, the designers for help with a project, and the showcase for what they’ve built.
I answer the forum myself, and so do designers who have hit the same thing. Years of answered questions are there to search first.
Studios and freelancers who build with Total CMS, with the sites they have made. Some are taking on new work.
Real client sites from the community, each one reviewed before it goes up.
Since 2009
Before Total CMS there was Weaver’s Space: add-ons for Stacks and RapidWeaver, the Summit, and a lot of videos of me explaining things. Many of the designers here have been around for most of it.
Along the way: 130+ add-ons for Stacks and RapidWeaver, and 700+ YouTube videos. The whole story
Next hangout: Friday, 1:30pm Pacific. Or start a site first and bring your questions. The trial is 45 days, every Pro feature, no credit card.
