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Here, you'll find news about feature releases, happenings in the industry, and Payload announcements in general.

Payload 4.0 Announcement

Payload 4.0 Beta: A Redesigned Admin, TanStack Support, and More

Payload Team

Payload Security Update

Payload Team

Payload Security Update Available for 3.x and 4.0

Payload UI Components Blog Post

Sean Zubrickas

We Finally Documented Payload’s UI Components

An early look at Payload 4.0

Sean Zubrickas

An early look at 4.0: Admin UI Redesign, TanStack, MCP, and More

Critical Security Notice Affecting React & Next.js

Payload Team

Critical Security Notice Affecting React 19 and Next.js

Deploy Payload onto Cloudflare in one click

Payload Team

Deploy Payload onto Cloudflare in a single click

Payload is joining Figma!

James Mikrut

Payload is joining Figma!

Next.js security patch

James Mikrut

A quick note on the latest Next.js security patch

How to migrate from Contentful to Payload

Sandro Wegmann

How to migrate from Contentful to Payload, a Next.js native CMS & app framework

Meet the first and only Next.js CMS

James Mikrut

Payload 3.0: The first CMS that installs directly into any Next.js app

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James Mikrut

A world without WordPress: Payload as an alternative to ACF

How to migrate from Wordpress to Payload: Part 2

Sandro Wegmann

How to migrate from WordPress to Payload: Part 2

How to migrate from WordPress to Payload

Sandro Wegmann

How to migrate from WordPress to Payload: Part 1

Next.js and Payload: 3.0 Beta Release

James Mikrut

3.0 beta: Install Payload into any Next.js app with one line

2024 Roadmap: What's To Come for Payload

James Mikrut

2024 Roadmap: We've Made a Next.js Decision

Payload on Next.js

James Mikrut

Should We Move to Next.js?

Payload and Next.js icons

Jake Fletcher

The Ultimate Guide To Using Next.js with Payload

Image Size Previews

Jessica Rynkar

Integrated Image Cropping, Focal Point Selection and Resize Previews

Announcing Payload 2.0

James Mikrut

Announcing Payload 2.0: Postgres, Live Preview, Lexical RTE, and More

Website Template features and ui

Jake Fletcher

How To Build A Website, Blog, or Portfolio with Next.js

Redesigned Rich Text Editor

Tylan Davis

Introducing a Rich Text Editor That is a Game Changer

Show and hide date of birth text field with a relevant code snippet

Patrik Kozak

The Power of Encryption (and Decryption): Safeguarding Data Privacy with Payload Hooks

Status of a recent transaction on an order history page

Jake Fletcher

How To Build An E-commerce Site With Next.js

Error States Update: Nested Fields and Accessibility

Tylan Davis

Enhanced Error States and Nested Fields in Payload

Create a Custom Select field in Payload

Jessica Rynkar

How to Create a Custom Select Field in Payload: A Step-by-Step Guide

New Payload Plugin Template

Jessica Rynkar

How to Build Your Own Payload Plugin

Easily move your rows around with custom components

Jarrod Flesch

Managing Array and Block Rows with Ease

Sentry Plugin: Error Management within Payload

Jessica Rynkar

Error Management Magic: Introducing the Sentry Plugin for Payload

Payload Relational Database Support - Drizzle ORM

James Mikrut

Relational Database Table Structure RFC

Code snippets using interfaceName property

Jarrod Flesch

InterfaceName: Generating Composable GraphQL and TypeScript Types

Use a multi-tenant app to serve the same application on several different domains

Jake Fletcher

How To Build A Multi-Tenant App With Payload

10x your digital agency - optimize dev efficiency

James Mikrut

How to 10x your digital agency part 1 - optimizing developer efficiency

Simplified Authentication for Headless CMS

Jessica Rynkar

Simplified Authentication for Headless CMS: Unlocking Reusability in One Line

Payload Cloud is out of beta

Sean Zubrickas

Payload Cloud has officially left beta—what's new and what's next

Custom CSS

Patrik Kozak

How to Customize the Look and Feel of Payload with CSS

Payload + Nodemailer

Jessica Rynkar

Payload + Nodemailer: Free and Extensible Email Integration

SQL vs NoSQL

James Mikrut

SQL vs. NoSQL - cutting through the Tech Twitter noise

Payload Form Builder Plugin

Patrik Kozak

Create custom forms with the official Form Builder Plugin

whats-next

James Mikrut

Q2 2023—what's next for Payload?

Payload Headless CMS Ecommerce Starter Kit - replacement for Shopify

James Mikrut

Launch Week Day 5 - Replace Shopify in Your Headless CMS Stack

The Future of Headless

James Mikrut

Launch Week Day 4 - The Future of Headless

Bulk Operations

Dan Ribbens

Launch Week Day 3 - Bulk Operations

Community Help

Patrik Kozak

Launch Week Day 2 - Community Help

Launch Week Day 1 - Payload Cloud

James Mikrut

Launch Week Day 1 - Payload Cloud is here

Payload CMS Virtual Fields

Jessica Rynkar

Learn How Virtual Fields Can Help Solve Common CMS Challenges

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Sean Zubrickas

Redirects in Payload — Retaining SEO Value and Avoiding 404s

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Sean Zubrickas

Announcing the Write for the Community Program

Open-source repo with zero GitHub issues

James Mikrut

On GitHub Issues and Engineering Efficiency

Version 1.6.0 Released

James Mikrut

Version 1.6.0 Released

Remix Payload monorepo

Daniel Söderling

Remix, Payload in a Single Express Server Monorepo

Launch Week Day 5 - Admin Internationalization

Dan Ribbens

Launch Week - Day 5

Launch Week Day 3 - Nested Editing

James Mikrut

Launch Week - Day 3

Launch Week Day 2 - Funding, Features & Fixes

James Mikrut

Launch Week - Day 2

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James Mikrut

Our First Launch Week (And Building in Public)

Overview of Access Control (Video + Example Repo)

James Mikrut

Overview of Access Control (Video + Example Repo)

It's 2022 - time to stop using headless WordPress and ACF

James Mikrut

It's 2022 - time to stop using headless WordPress and ACF

Payload vs. Directus vs. Strapi — GraphQL Performance Benchmarks

James Mikrut

Payload vs. Directus vs. Strapi — GraphQL Performance Benchmarks

Version 1.1.1 Released

James Mikrut

Version 1.1.1 Released

Handling authentication in NextJS on Payload CMS

Dan Ribbens

Handling authentication in Next.js with Payload

Announcing the official Cloud Storage Plugin

James Mikrut

Announcing the official Cloud Storage Plugin

Payload launches 1.0

James Mikrut

Payload launches 1.0

Can a headless CMS be used as the admin for managing a video game?

Dan Ribbens

Can a headless CMS be used as the admin for managing a video game?

1.0 is coming soon—here's what you can expect

James Mikrut

1.0 is coming soon—here's what you can expect

Tutorial - Configuring TypeScript, Express, Jest, Payload, and VSCode Debugging from Scratch

James Mikrut

Tutorial - Configuring TypeScript, Express, Jest, Payload, and VSCode Debugging from Scratch

Payload is now completely free and open source

James Mikrut

Payload is now completely free and open source

Payload has been accepted into Y Combinator S22

James Mikrut

Payload has been accepted into Y Combinator S22

Public Discord Server

Dan Ribbens

Public Discord Server

Payload CMS Version 0.15.0 Released

James Mikrut

Version 0.15.0 Released

White Label the Admin UI

Jessica Rynkar

White Label the Admin UI

New Feature - Auto-generate TypeScript Interfaces

James Mikrut

New Feature - Auto-generate TypeScript Interfaces

Building a Professionally Designed Website Episode 4 - Heroes, Layout Building Blocks, Animations & Design

James Mikrut

Building a Professionally Designed Website Episode 4 - Heroes, Layout Building Blocks, Animations & Design

Roadmap Released

James Mikrut

Roadmap Released

Add Dynamic Descriptions to Customize the Editor

Dan Ribbens

Add Dynamic Descriptions to Customize the Editor

Payload just got more powerful with Plugins

James Mikrut

Payload just got more powerful with Plugins

Build Your Own Role-Based Access Control in Payload

Elliot Denolf

Build Your Own Role-Based Access Control in Payload

How To Swap in Your Own Field Components

Dan Ribbens

How To Swap in Your Own Field Components

Building a Professionally Designed Website Episode 3 - Header & Footer, Hamburger Menu, Animating SVGs

James Mikrut

Building a Professionally Designed Website Episode 3 - Header & Footer, Hamburger Menu, Animating SVGs

Building a Professionally Designed Website Episode 2 - CSS Framework, Baseline Grid, NextJS Structure

James Mikrut

Building a Professionally Designed Website Episode 2 - CSS Framework, Baseline Grid, NextJS Structure

Building a Professionally Designed Website with NextJS & TypeScript - Ep. 1

James Mikrut

Building a Professionally Designed Website with NextJS & TypeScript - Ep. 1

Our New Free Forever Personal Plan

Dan Ribbens

Our New Free Forever Personal Plan

NextJS, Payload, and TypeScript in a Single Express Server Boilerplate

James Mikrut

NextJS, Payload, and TypeScript in a Single Express Server Boilerplate

Introducing Payload - 2021's Node + React Headless CMS for JavaScript Developers

James Mikrut

Introducing Payload - 2021's Node + React Headless CMS for JavaScript Developers