Hammer for Mac — Preview: 0.16.2
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
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Version: 0.16.2
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Build: 1
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Release Date: 31st Dec 2025
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Platform: macOS 15.0
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Distribution: Private Invite Only
Highlights
This release introduces major new features for project management, content planning, and template flexibility. The Project Overview Dashboard provides a centralised view for managing projects, while the comprehensive Content Planning System helps you organise campaigns, research, and content creation. Collection loop sorting gives you powerful control over how content is displayed in templates.
Project Overview Dashboard - PREVIEW VERSION
Centralised project management: The new Project Overview Dashboard provides a visual interface for managing your projects. Edit project details, embed videos, and customise project headers with gradient presets. The dashboard offers a flow-based layout that adapts to your project structure.
Project editing: Enhanced project editing capabilities allow you to manage project metadata, styles, and visual elements all in one place. The dashboard integrates seamlessly with your existing workflow.
Content Planning System - PREVIEW VERSION
Campaign management (Phase 1): Organise your content creation with campaign management. The system automatically scaffolds directories and provides a foundation for planning workflows. Create campaigns to group related content and track progress across multiple projects.
Plan management (Phase 2): The plan editor lets you create, edit, and manage content plans with import/export functionality. Drag and drop reordering makes it easy to organise your planned content. Validation ensures your plans are structured correctly before execution.
Research management (Phase 3): Import, convert, and edit research materials to support your content creation. The simplified card-based interface makes it easy to manage research documents and convert them into content plans.
Unified content and planning view: Content planning is now integrated into the Content tab with a unified view. Switch between Content and Planning modes using the segmented control. The improved drafts workflow includes conditional generate buttons and better layout organisation.
Collection Loop Sorting
Powerful template control: Sort collection loops directly in your templates using sort attributes. Use single or multiple field sorting with ascending/descending order.
Syntax examples:
<!-- @loop post in collections.post sort="date:desc" -->
<!-- @loop post in collections.post sort="date:desc,category:asc" -->
Works with Date, String, and Number field types.
Flexible sorting: Sort by any field in your content metadata. Multiple sort fields allow for complex ordering (e.g., sort by date descending, then by category ascending). This gives you complete control over how content appears in your templates.
Enhanced Forge Integration
Three-state publish button: The Publish button now clearly shows your Forge connection status: Not Connected, Connected (not linked), or Connected + Linked. Forge branding with orange button colour and ForgeIcon badge makes it easy to identify linked sites.
Quick actions: When a site is linked to Forge, quick action buttons appear for opening the site (arrow icon) and managing it on Forge (cog icon). This streamlines your deployment workflow.
Draft Management Improvements
Update vs. Publish: The system now intelligently shows an Update button when a draft corresponds to existing content, or a Publish button for new content. This prevents accidental overwrites and makes the workflow clearer.
Improved draft cards: Enhanced draft card layout displays title, updated time, and file path in a clear, stacked format. Better visual hierarchy makes it easier to identify and manage your drafts.
Enhanced Markdown Processing
Better code block handling: Markdown code blocks now support language identifiers, proper whitespace preservation, HTML escaping, and language class support for syntax highlighting.
Example:
```swift
func example() {
print("Hello, World!")
}
```
Code blocks are processed first to avoid markdown processing inside code content.
Improved block-level elements: Enhanced handling of block-level HTML elements including headings, horizontal rules, and pre tags. Better whitespace preservation ensures your formatted content renders correctly.
See Changelog - Hammer for Mac for complete list of updates in this pre-release.
Feedback & Discussion
We’d love your input on:
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Your overall experience with this build
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How the Project Overview Dashboard works for your workflow
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Your experience with the Content Planning System (campaigns, plans, research)
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How collection loop sorting improves your templates
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The enhanced Forge integration and three-state publish button
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Draft management workflow improvements
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Markdown code block and formatting handling
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Any crashes, UI issues, or unexpected behaviors
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Feature suggestions or workflow feedback
Tip: When reporting an issue, include:
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Steps to reproduce
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Expected vs. actual result
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macOS version
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Logs, screencasts or screenshots if possible
Installation / Update Notes
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Don’t use Dropbox sync’d folder for your Site location due to system event chaos.
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Collection loop sorting requires proper field names in your content metadata. Ensure date fields are properly formatted as Date objects for best results.
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The Content Planning System creates new directory structures. Review the scaffolded directories to understand the organization before adding content.
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Enhanced markdown processing may affect existing code blocks. Review rendered output to ensure formatting is preserved as expected.
Resources
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Full Changelog: Changelog - Hammer for Mac -
Content Mode Documentation: Hammer for Mac Documentation
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