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Kentico CMS 4.0 Brings Social Networking Features

Written by: Mike Johnston February, 09 2009

Kentico, a powerful and intuitive ASP .NET based CMS has come out with version 4.0. Version 4.0 adds a new social networking platform with blogs, forums, groups, friends, wiki, media libraries, message boards, one-click AJAX, URL aliasing, taxonomy, content rating and other great features.

This new version offers tons of exciting new features and improvements such as:

Membership improvements:

  • Improved user interface (alphabetical sorter, advanced user filtering)
  • Double opt-in registration through an e-mail
  • Registration approval by administrator
  • Avatar gallery
  • Customizable registration form
  • Display on-line users
  • Mixed mode authentication - use both forms and Windows authentication on a singe site
  • Mass e-mail to users
Community features:
  • Community Groups (similar to Facebook)
  • On-site management of blogs, forums, polls, etc. without accessing the CMS Desk
  • New Community Starter Site
  • Friends
  • Bad words
  • Badges
  • User profile – configuration of user information displayed on the web site
  • Report abuse
  • Content rating
  • Time zones
Blogs:
  • Categories, tags and tag cloud
  • New comments module with trackbacks
  • Ping
  • On-site editing
Message Boards:
  • with moderation and subscriptions
Notification engine:
  • E-mail or other notification when content is changed or some other event occurs in the system
Improved link management:
  • Internal document links without GUIDs (for better SEO)
  • Unlimited number of custom URLs for the given document
  • Configurable extensions for the files (e.g. .pdf instead of .aspx)
Forums:
  • Attachments for posts
  • Support for inserting images
  • Advanced moderation options
  • Improved search with advanced options
  • Quoting
  • Lock or hide forum/topic
  • Private messaging integration
  • Mark as answer
  • On-site administration
Media Libaries:
  • Build media libraries with pictures, music and video
One-click AJAX Support
  • Web parts can now be configured to use AJAX just by one click
URL aliasing
  • Support for creating unlimited number of URLs for a single document
  • Customizable extensions of URLs
  • SEO-friendly document links with history for keeping old links valid
  • Support for dynamic SEO-friendly URLs with macros
Taxonomy
  • Categories
  • Tags and tag cloud
Content rating
  • Allow visitors to rate content
Image Editor
  • New on-line image editor for basic operations (resize, rotate, convert, grayscale)
... and others. You can find the complete list in the version history.


Written by: Mike Johnston| February, 09 2009
  WCM

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