Welcome to the discussion thread for this Hammer for Mac Preview Build.
Use this space to share feedback, report issues, and discuss your experience with other testers and the team.
Build Information
Version: 0.14
Build: 1
Release Date: 21st Nov 2025
Platform: macOS 15.0
Distribution: Private Invite Only
Highlights
This release introduces automatic navigation state management — Hammer now automatically adds CSS classes to your navigation links to indicate the current page and parent sections, making it easier than ever to style active navigation items.
Navigation Helper Feature
Automatic current page highlighting: Navigation links that point to the current page automatically receive a ‘current’ class, making it easy to style active navigation items. The parent list item also gets the ‘current’ class for nested navigation structures.
Parent section highlighting: Links pointing to index.html files in the current directory or parent directories receive a ‘current-parent’ class, allowing you to highlight parent sections in nested navigation menus.
Smart path resolution: Navigation helper intelligently handles relative paths, directory references, and index.html resolution to accurately identify current and parent pages across your site structure.
Works with existing classes: The navigation helper preserves your existing CSS classes and adds the navigation state classes alongside them, so it works seamlessly with your existing styles.
See Changelog - Hammer for Mac for complete list of updates in this pre-release.
Feedback & Discussion
We’d love your input on:
Your overall experience with this build
Any crashes, UI issues, or unexpected behaviors
Feature suggestions or workflow feedback
How the new navigation helpers work with your existing navigation structures
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Installation / Update Notes
Don’t use Dropbox sync’d folder for your Site location due to system event chaos.
Where do you want issue reports to go?~
As a new user, I’m struggling rather. The editor icon and the folder icon next to it don’t have tooltips. Clicking the editor doesn’t work as it says the editor doesn’t have access, even when I tried another editor. Granting access doesn’t change anything. Not sure what that’s about.
I tried the help, but there isn’t any. I shall have to find a page to explain things. I sort of expected to have a UI that allowed me to add a page, adjust it’s values, and then perhaps do basic editing, but would be happy for the content editing to be farmed out to the editor. But that’s just me being new I guess.
Hi Steve. I might be missing something here (forgive me it’s been a long week) - where can I download 0.14.2? I think I’m a couple of revisions behind.
EDIT
Scratch that - I’m clearly not with it today! I need to RTFM more
Reports / feedback related to a specific version can come here in the topic thread.
Tooltips for icon buttons - got it, will add.
Clicking the editor doesn’t work as it says the editor doesn’t have access, even when I tried another editor. Granting access doesn’t change anything. Not sure what that’s about.
Which editor are you using? Screenshots or screen capture would really help me here to reproduce and investigate.
I tried the help, but there isn’t any. I shall have to find a page to explain things.
I’m building the docs in parallel at Hammer for Mac | Documentation etc. WIP. Will add Help topics into the app in future. You can help inform the FAQ.
I sort of expected to have a UI that allowed me to add a page, adjust it’s values, and then perhaps do basic editing, but would be happy for the content editing to be farmed out to the editor.
In basic terms, all content editing is done in the editor. I’m working on Hammer’s CMS-like feature now, and that will have some UI support, but as a general rule, you’re using the editor as normal and using Hammer’s tags to build your site in a more easily manageable way.
Do keep the feedback coming, there’s no wrong questions!
Thanks, Steve - It’s been a long week. Just downloaded and giving it a shakedown at the moment. I must say, this is exactly what I’ve been looking for, for literally decades (no joke). This tool perfectly fits my needs. Brilliant work
Thank you so much. It’s early days, so don’t get too carried away (in case you’re dissappointed), though I love the enthusiasm.
I’m enjoying working on it and using it in parallel for my own needs, and really looking forward to getting the feedback to feed into it. Any issues, just head back here!
Looks like Pinegrow doesn’t support the same URL schema for loading the app / editor. You can open your Hammer project directly in the Pinegrow editor, make changes and when you save them Hammer picks up the filesystem changes and triggers builds as normal. I’ll need to see what specific approaches Pinegrow supports to enable one-click opening from Hammer, but this should enable you to still work with Hammer in the meantime.
Interesting editor. You would probably want to open the Build output in the preview window and the raw html in the code editor and you’ll see the content update on file save.
Thanks for checking. VS Code works here (after a few permissions). Not sure PineGrow is what I’d use, as it probably will complain about the meta-inserts or something. It is very full featured, but doesn’t have any idea of the sort of component idea to make things easy.
Hammer for Mac — Preview: 0.14.1
Build Information
Highlights
Feedback & Discussion
Tip: When reporting an issue, include:
Installation / Update Notes
Resources
Full Changelog: Changelog - Hammer for Mac
Navigation Helpers Documentation: Hammer for Mac Documentation
