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Not All Heroes Wear Capes. Here's Why CMS Is Your 'Unsung Hero' in 2025

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Earlier this month, as you may have seen from our Twitter feed, we had the pleasure of being invited to join Jahia at their very first official conference in the beautiful city of Paris, France.
During this great two day conference, which you can read about <a href="/tag/jahia/">here</a>, I had a chance to sit down with Emmanuel Garcin, Vice President &amp; General Manager, Jahia North America for an interview. 
Here is that interview:
http://youtu.be/HiXZ0a20EcQ
To learn more about Jahia, visit them on the web at <a href="http://www.jahia.com">http://www.jahia.com</a>

Interview with Emmanuel Garcin of Jahia

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If you are a fan of PHPFox and are using it as your social networking solution of choice, then you'll be pleased to know there's a new update of the popular software.
Check out our <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/phpfox-review/">PHPFox Review</a> if you aren't familiar with the product, it's a great option for those looking to build a social network.
Version 3.7.5 is a maintenance release offering a number of bug fixes and security improvements. If you are on a version prior to 3.7, you can read all about the enhancements that came with these updates here: <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/phpfox-3.7.5-released/">https://www.cmscritic.com/phpfox/blog/v3-7-0-released/</a>
Check out PHPFox today to see if it's the right software for your social network and if you are currently running it as your SN of choice, be sure to make sure you update to keep your site safe and protected.

PHPFox 3.7.5 released

Previously, I managed to derive some important lessons regarding <a href="/how-to-avoid-the-prevalent-pitfalls-of-deploying-an-enterprise-website/#.UwJGvfl_vhM" target="_blank"> enterprise website deployment via a Magnolia CMS Whitepaper</a>.
 But Magnolia CMS has far more to offer than mere advice. 
Magnolia's powerful platform enables customers to create their own bespoke suites with all the benefits of Magnolia's enterprise-grade Java foundation – otherwise known as <a href="http://www.magnolia-cms.com/campaigns/open-suite-cms-critic.html" target="_blank">Magnolia's “Open Suite Approach”</a>. 
 The Open Suite approach keeps companies agile, enabling them to use state-of-the-art customer and communications management as the digital world continues to evolve. 
This is all thanks to Magnolia's open architecture, which allows organizations to connect existing and future tools into an integrated platform for digital marketing, commerce and services. By allowing organizations to combine the best available tools for the job without any vendor restrictions, Magnolia helps to maximizing choice and future-proof digital investments.
<h2>The Importance of a Modern &amp; Flexible CMS</h2>
With new technologies constantly changing the way everybody experiences digital content, flexibility is key to marketing technology.
Your analytics, social sharing features and customer relationship management (CRM) system, not to mention your other existing tools, all have to work together for the benefit of both your organisation and its customers.
This is no easy task, but a solid and open content management system (CMS) at the core of your digital presence is by far the most effective way to meet such a challenge.
Let's take the online retail sector as an example. With mobile devices becoming pervasive, it is no surprise that smartphones are a common starting point for multi-channel shopping experiences. According to Google Insights, 65% of such experiences (known as sequential shopping) are started on a smartphone and 67% of shoppers start shopping on one device before continuing on another. Companies must therefore strive to offer optimal customer experience across all types of devices.
To deal with these constantly shifting trends, your CMS must now enable you to deliver compelling and personalized customer experiences that are assembled from a range of content sources, data sets and services. Social media, device information, customer-generated content and back-ofﬁce services must all be brought together across a wide range of devices to provide customers with a service worth their time. 
<h2>Magnolia's Open Suite Approach</h2>
Throughout the last decade, Magnolia has worked with forward-thinking organizations to develop an open, agile CMS that is able to integrate with marketing technology tools, third-party services and back-ofﬁce systems. Magnolia's Open Suite approach enables its customers to build their own suite of tools and services, precisely targeted to their current needs and requirements. 
Thanks to the Open Suite approach, you can build your digital presence step- by-step, and at each step, benefit from what you have already invested. 
For example, you can begin by using Magnolia CMS to build your main website. You can then add micro-sites, mobile sites or country-specific sites as you need them, all from within Magnolia CMS so that you have less systems to manage and can easily reuse website assets. Later, you can integrate the CRM you already use, add a commerce engine and plug in analytics. You can also integrate it with existing bespoke back-office systems or with third-party services.
<a href="http://www.magnolia-cms.com/campaigns/open-suite-cms-critic.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/magnolia_open_suite.png" alt="Magnolia Open Suite Approach" /></a>
This approach enables you to gradually build your online infrastructure and focus on the most promising next step, while adapting to change by replacing outdated components with best-of-breed innovations as they come to market. 
Magnolia's Open Suite approach stands in stark contrast to the “closed suites” offered by many vendors. A “closed suite” is one that comes pre-integrated with many tools which have to be adopted by an organization, increasing the complexity of transitions. In addition, such pre-configured suites are inherently less agile, because these types of software are not designed to easily integrate with new tools.
<h2>Wide Ranging Benefits, Enterprise Integration &amp; More</h2>
Magnolia's Open Suite approach allows you to create a complete enterprise solution built with multiple tools. These tools span various categories, including ecommerce platforms, analytics, marketing automation, social media, document management and on-site search.
On the Web, persuasive content and personalized experience are key to repeat business. Magnolia CMS lets you collect information from across mobile, social and in-store channels and integrate it with world-class ecommerce platforms, to ensure that your customers always have the best possible shopping experience. 
Below is a quick overview of the integrations on offer:
<a href="http://www.magnolia-cms.com/campaigns/open-suite-cms-critic.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/magsuite.png" alt="Magnolia Open Suite Integrations" /></a>
It's not just about integrating a number of external tools and services though. Magnolia's Open Suite approach allows you to enjoy a range of benefits. 
Below is a list of just some of the benefits brough about by Magnolia's Open Suite approach.
<ul>
<li>Choice: Magnolia's Open Suite approach enables you to integrate your choice of best-of-breed tools in each category, instead of being locked into the tools a closed-suite vendor thinks are best (or happens to have acquired by the vendor and bolted together over time). This ensures that business needs will dictate technology and not the other way around. </li>
<li>Value: Competitive marketplaces combined with diverse user needs, force vendors of most closed suites to offer all-in-one solutions encompassing a broad range of tools – at a high cost. When organizations purchase such a suite, they typically end up paying for components they don't want, need or plan to use. With Magnolia's Open Suite approach, users always only pay for what they need right now.</li>
<li>High Interoperability: For the Open Suite approach to be successful, there must exist the possibility of interoperability. Magnolia CMS supports many open standards for data exchange, including standards like Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS), a speciﬁcation for improving interoperability between enterprise content management systems. </li>
<li>Dynamism: With Magnolia's Open Suite approach, you can keep evolving parts of the suite as your needs change, while keeping the rest of your tools as they are. The promise of our Open Suite approach is that it allows you to upgrade different parts of the digital marketing mix at different speeds depending on your current priorities. If your business priorities change, our Open Suite approach gives you the ﬂexibility to change your technology to keep pace. </li>
<li>Efﬁciency: With Magnolia's Open Suite approach, different products and systems optimization, analytics, CRM, ecommerce and more – work toether around the core publishing tools of the CMS. This helps create efﬁiencies within teams, departments and companies. For organizations, it’s easier to react, by quickly launching new campaign microsites and landing pages. By using Magnolia CMS' built-in Apps provisioning to enforce access policies for staff and customers, regardless of how and where they log in from. </li>
<li>Flexibility: Think of Magnolia's Open Suite approach as an option on future technology: it gives you maximum ﬂexibility to move to different technologies and toolkits if existing ones aren't meeting your needs. Want to swap out your marketing automation tool for a better one when it comes along, or add new ecommerce functionality as your online store grows? With a closed suite, you'd need to start afresh, draining time and money. With Magnolia at the core of your Open Suite, on the other hand, your suite evolves with your needs.</li>
<li>User Experience: When other applications are integrated with Magnolia, it's done with a small, single-purpose App that behaves like the other Apps within Magnolia CMS. It runs across all browsers, users go to one place to ﬁnd it, and data can be accessed in a consistent fashion. On the administration side, too, controls for integrated applications can be managed within Magnolia, allowing disparate systems to be part of the same workﬂow system. By providing a consistent user experience across platforms, Magnolia's Open Suite approach reduces the learning curve, raises productivity and fosters higher adoption.</li>
</ul>
All of these qualities are essential to deploying and running a smooth digital operation, where the needs of both an enterprise, and all of its clients or customers are met.  Magnolia don't just understand these needs, but they cater for them too. It's no wonder then, that Magnolia CMS is the choice of a range of enterprises around the world. 
In fact, leading organisations such as aviation corporation Airbus Group, news outlet Al Arabiya and media company Foxtel all boast Magnolia's services, and all reap the assorted rewards and benefits listed above.
To explore the benefits of Magnolia's tried and tested open suite approach further, check out their highly detailed white paper, <a href="http://www.magnolia-cms.com/campaigns/open-suite-cms-critic.html" target="_blank">The Magnolia Open Suite Approach</a>.

Magnolia's Open Suite Approach: Maximizing Choice & Future-proofing Digital Investments

Last week, CMS Critic were in Paris, attending Jahia's first ever international conference, <a href="http://www.jahiaone.com/home" target="_blank"> Jahia One</a>.
 I previously covered <a href="/jahia-one-day-one-jahia-7-glowing-feedback-and-more/#.Uv5Mu_l_vhM" target="_blank"> day one of the conference</a>, along with <a href="/jahia-one-day-two-jahia-7-release-date-demos-surprises/#.Uv6OQPl_vhM" target="_blank"> day two</a>, detailing some of the biggest Jahia news of the year so far, including Jahia 7, Portal Factory and eCommerce Factory. 
 Today however, I wanted to delve into other aspects of Jahia One – away from keynote quotes and product announcements. 
I'd like to take you through the experience of a typical Jahia One attendee, exploring the smaller details which usually go unreported at such events. 
<h2>The Venue</h2>
Jahia One was held at the <a href="http://www.pan-piper.com/corporate/" target="_blank"> Pan Piper conference and events centre </a> , deep in the heart of Paris. 
Spread out over two floors, with multiple conference rooms being used at once, the Jahia conference was well housed, allowing attendees to freely roam between talks, or sit and enjoy presentations within a comfortable setting. 
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/conferencedayone5.jpg" alt="Pan Piper Venue Jahia One" />
The Pan Piper
The modern design of Pan Piper suited Jahia perfectly. Seating was comfortable, and the well-lit main stage created the perfect setting for Jahia executives to talk everybody through what was to come for the company.
<h2>The Food</h2>
A menu can say a lot about an event organiser, and when it comes to conferences hosted by companies such as Jahia, the same rule applies. Thankfully, the food was absolutely fantastic.
Soups, salads, Salmon, assorted breads and even miniature hot dogs were on offer, all beautifully presented, and pleasing to the taste buds.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/conferencedayone2.jpg" alt="Jahia One Food" />
Presentation Goes a Long Way
However, it wasn't just the quality of the food which was impressive, but the way in which the entire lunch break was set up. 
Not only was there a large table being constantly re-stocked with food, but waiters and waitresses were also on hand to take dishes to attendees, who were standing around in conversation. A small task, but one which helps keep a talkative room alive.
Courses were also changed periodically, with starters turning into fuller meals, and eventually into delicious deserts.
<h2>The Atmosphere</h2>
A pleasant atmosphere is made up of more than just polite greetings at the door of an event. A great atmosphere also needs bubbling attendees who are excited to be a part of the conference. Additionally, conference organisers and speakers need to be amongst the crowd, answering questions and making connections. 
 As mentioned in my <a href="/jahia-one-day-one-jahia-7-glowing-feedback-and-more/#.Uv5Mu_l_vhM" target="_blank"> day one coverage</a>, Anne de Forsan was active during the lunch break on day one of the event, interacting with attendees with a microphone and a cameraman in tow.  She was capturing attendees on camera answering questions about their experiences so far, sharing their views and airing their observations. It was all good fun.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/conferencedayone1_2.jpg" alt="Anne de Forsan Jahia One" />
Anne de Forsan
Overall, the lunch session embodied the event, with a bubbly atmosphere full of professionalism, but not without a hint of fun and friendliness.  
 Another noteworthy aspect of the conference, was it's size. 
 With around 170 attendees, Jahia One can be considered as a relatively small conference – which worked brilliantly in its favour. The smaller, cosier feeling on the conference grew as it went on, allowing attendees to meet and build relationships throughout the day, instead of losing sight of each other within minutes of greeting. 
 The Gala Dinner on day one helped solidify these relationships further, allowing attendees to relax more around those they had already met. Essentially, thanks to its smaller size, the conference was able to have its very own mini-community by the end of day two.
<h2>A Roaring Success</h2>
As an attendee, I feel it's fair to say that the Jahia One conference was a roaring success. 
All Jahia executives and guest speakers were easy to listen to as they presented on stage, whilst CEO Elie Auvray kept both days flowing nicely with some light humour peppered throughout his own presentations.  
 The Gala Dinner capped off day one off perfectly, and allowed attendees to mingle just a little further in preparation for a smooth, yet exciting day two.  
All in all, this may have been Jahia's first ever international conference, but they pulled it off with perfection anyway.

Jahia One: Observations of an Attendee

As you know, last year we launched our innovative new <a href="/products/">CMS Directory</a>, which we are constantly in the process of ramping up and improving thanks to your awesome feedback.
Yesterday, we launched another service that we think is pretty awesome, our new CMS News page.
<h2>What's cool about it?</h2>
For starters, every single product in our CMS directory that has an RSS feed url attached to it, gets to have their latest news displayed on this page. What we are doing is pulling the latest news items from the last 7 days from around the CMS world and showing them to you in an easy to use list. This isn't some mom and pop aggregator, though. This list can be filtered by product name and you can toggle the summaries quickly for easy browsing.
<h2>Help us make it better!</h2>
How can you help? If you are a vendor, make sure your product is listed in our CMS Directory and has an RSS feed url within. How do you do this? Easy. Just submit it using this handy Add a new CMS form.
One your product is accepted and approved (usually within 48-72 hours) your latest news items will begin showing on our CMS News page! It's that simple! The best part? You get the added bonus of having an entry in our directory, so make sure you include videos and screenshots and as much detail as you can to give your product the best exposure possible.
Not a vendor? Maybe your just a fan of a particular product? That's ok! You too can submit a CMS to our directory, we just ask that you make sure the form is as complete as possible (and check first to see if it's already listed) and we'll do our best to fill in any blanks.
<h2>We hope you like it!</h2>
We work hard to make sure we offer you as much content and useful information as possible when it comes to this ever evolving market. If there's something you feel is missing please let us know.
Go check out the new CMS News page for yourself and be sure to bookmark it for regular reading!

Looking for CMS News? Check out our new CMS News page

Liferay Social Office is a unique app that has been around for some timebut up until recently, it hasn't been compatible with the most recent release of Liferay, namely Liferay 6.2. Well, no longer will you have to wait. Social Office is now available and updated to work with the latest release of both the Community Edition and Enterprise Edition of Liferay.
This new release now takes advantage of all of the great new features provided by Liferay 6.2, including the upgrade to AlloyUI 2.0, the revamped Calendar and Document Library and a new, extensible Notifications portlet.
Here's some more info (and some sweet, sweet screenshots) about Social Office for those who are not familiar with it:
Liferay Social Office is a dynamic team workspace solution that provides holistic enhancement to the way you and your colleagues work together. By adapting today's most innovative social technologies to the unique needs of productivity and goal-driven enterprise teams, it enables an important shift in how and why communication happens. Key features include, but are not limited to:
<ul>
<li>Documents: shared document repository with Microsoft Office integration.</li>
<li>Communication: instant notifications, team calendars, webmail, task management and contact management.</li>
<li>Collaboration: integrated threaded discussions, blogs, and wikis with related assets and federated search.</li>
<li>People: searchable user profiles with user tagging, friending, integrated chat and simplified Social Office user management.</li>
</ul>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/contact_center_notification.png" alt="liferay social office" />
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/site_home_strata_scheme.png" alt="liferay social office" />
Check out more about <a href="http://www.liferay.com/web/vicki.tsang/blog/-/blogs/announcement-social-office-3-0-ce-ee-released-for-portal-6-2">Social Office</a> or learn more about <a href="/products/liferay/">Liferay</a>.

Social Office updated to work with Liferay 6.2

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The popular content management framework <a href="http://www.kajona.de/" target="_blank">Kajona</a> today announced the release of Kajona version 4.4.
Since its founding in 2004, the open-source, PHP5 based platform has grown into a comprehensive and powerful framework that provides a wide range of use with a wide range of modules. According to developers, the main focus of the framework lies in usability and performance.
With version 4.4, Kajona are hoping to enhance their platform like never before, with a long list of improvements. So, let's take a look at what's new for Kajona users.
<h2>Fastsearch Capabilities</h2>
More than 400 changes were integrated by the Kajona team in order to build the new version 4.4 “fastsearch”. Besides the optimization of existing functionality and modules, the new, index-based search engine is the biggest change shipped with Kajona 4.4.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/v4_4_search700x0.png" alt="Kajona 4.4 Search Engine" />
While still being enabled for the backend only, tests prove that the index-based approach provides results way faster, especially for large databases. Complex search queries with combined filters and terms are possible using the API but not yet integrated into the user-interface.
Future releases will concentrate on a flexible, user-friendly query box. The search index is updated automatically as soon as a record is being modified. The definition what contents will be added to the index is made on object / class level; each property marked with “@addSearchIndex” is added to the index during index-updates.
<h2>Messaging, Backend Polishing &amp; More</h2>
The layout of the backend was polished and optimized for Kajona 4.4. Input fields supporting the user by autocomplete suggestions indicate the availability of this functionality by default. The path navigation is able to handle a large number of entries and adopts to the screens width automatically.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/v4_4_toolbar700x0.png" alt="Kajona 4.4 Toolbar" />
When working with a data-record, the different actions are available using a toolbar directly. This avoids the time-consuming navigation via the list-views.
The messaging center integrated into Kajona is now also configured using a new configuration panel.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/v4_4_messaging.png" alt="Kajona 4.4 Messaging" />
The activation of message-providers is now way more user-friendly. The dependency management of packages is now formatted more user friendly, spotting unfulfilled dependencies is now way easier then before.. Built and implemented especially for developers, the new, parametrizable properties reduce the effort to localize interfaces.
Kajona makes use of established and well known syntax, e.g. from the Java-world: It is possible to inject values for the placeholders {0} and {1} into the expression “hello my {0}, today is {1}”, depending on the use case and other conditions.
Since Kajona 4.4 includes several bug fixes, security updates, and updates for compatibility with current web browsers and web server systems, the upgrade to 4.4 is recommended to all users. The update is available and recommended via the integrated package-management.
To find out more about Kajona 4.4, check out their <a href="http://www.kajona.de/en/News/newsdetails.Kajona-V4-4-fastsearch-available.newsDetail.925cc9f52f8a07b45fa8.html" target="_blank">official news release</a>. Additionally, you can dig up some more information on Kajona via our CMS Directory.

Kajona Release Version 4.4 of Their Content Management Framework

Magnolia , the open source Java content management system (CMS) company, has announced the initial details for <a href="http://www.magnolia-cms.com/conference."> Magnolia Conference 2014 </a> . The event will be held June 24 – 26 in the Pathé Küchlin Cinema, Basel, Switzerland. Following last year’s successful event with more than 200 Magnolia developers, users and partners from across the globe, Magnolia has secured the multiplex cinema again
Magnolia Conference 2014 will deliver a mix of hands-on workshops, business case studies, technical presentations and digital marketing talks. The event will provide insights for everyone from non-technical newcomers to the most experienced end-users.
This year’s conference introduces two significant structural changes. Firstly, Magnolia will run a third digital marketing conference track in addition to the business and technical tracks.
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“Magnolia is is used by some of the world’s biggest brands – customers like Nissan, Allianz and Sony. We are excited to finally offer their marketing teams a dedicated track at the Magnolia Conference. It will be an excellent opportunity for Marketing Technologists to catch up with real-world marketing challenges and approaches to solving them” says Boris Kraft, Co-founder and CTO, Magnolia International.
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Secondly, the first day of this year’s conference will now consist of a selection of hands-on workshops, led by Magnolia staff members. The workshops will be open to all. Topics include apps development, Spring framework integration and more.
The full program is available here: <a href="http://www.magnolia-cms.com/conference/program.html"> http://www.magnolia-cms.com/conference/program.html</a>
Early bird <a href="http://www.magnolia-cms.com/conference/register.html"> registration </a> is available until March 31st, 2014. The <a href="http://www.magnolia-cms.com/conference/call-for-papers.html"> call for papers </a> is now open with a deadline for submitting papers by April 1
The Magnolia Conference 2014 is open for all to attend and will take place June 24 – 26 in Basel, Switzerland. A day of workshops (June 24) will be followed by two days of presentations (June 25 and 26).

Fifth Magnolia Conference Introduces New Digital Marketing Track, Adds Workshop Day

<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/pwpwpw121x0.png" />Numerous upgrades and refinements make ProcessWire 2.4 our most friendly and powerful version yet!
ProcessWire 2.4 is focused on listening to the feedback from of our users and answering with the best CMS experience for web designers/developers and their clients. 
<h2>What’s new in ProcessWire 2.4</h2>
<h3>Field Dependencies</h3>
Thanks to the sponsorship support of <a href="http://www.avoine.fi/">Avoine</a>, we now have support for field dependencies in both the admin and from the API. Your admin form fields can now be shown or hidden based on values in other fields. Likewise, fields can be made required or not required based on values in other fields. <a href="http://processwire.com/talk/topic/4323-field-dependencies/">More</a>
<h3>New Admin Theme</h3>
<ul>
<li>New and fully responsive default admin theme with 4 color scheme options (configurable from the Default Admin Theme module settings).</li>
<li>Support for admin themes as installable modules. <a href="http://processwire.com/talk/topic/4650-new-processwire-admin-theme-on-dev-branch/?p=53671">More</a></li>
<li>Support for multiple admin theme modules to be installed at once. When more than one is installed, admin theme becomes a user profile setting. </li>
<li>New drop down menus providing direct access to fields and templates (for superusers).  </li>
<li>Add New drop-down option for shortcuts to adding predefined page types.</li>
<li>New auto-complete search box with support for searching pages, fields and templates. <a href="http://processwire.com/talk/topic/3768-processwire-231-dev-branch/?p=43930">More</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Admin Upgrades</h3>
<ul>
<li>New ability to install and upgrade modules directly from the Admin Modules page. Think of it as a Modules Manager Lite. </li>
<li>The modules screen now separates modules by Site and Core. (Site modules represent user installed modules). </li>
<li>New grid mode available with Image fields. Now you can view all your images in a grid rather than just a verbose list, and you can easily toggle between the two views. <a href="http://processwire.com/talk/topic/3768-processwire-231-dev-branch/?p=45453">More</a></li>
<li>New double-click to select all mode for marking all files or images in a field for deletion at once. <a href="http://processwire.com/talk/topic/3768-processwire-231-dev-branch/?p=45453">More</a></li>
<li>Core support for font-awesome icons with templates, fields and API level support with Inputfields. </li>
<li>New Link to Child option in the rich text editor link dialog box, along with other enhancements. </li>
</ul>
<h3>Language Support </h3>
Major upgrades to ProcessWire language support for page names/URLs. ProcessWire 2.4 now gives you the simplest, most powerful and stable options for creating multi-language websites. 
<h3>Database Change</h3>
ProcessWire now uses PDO rather than the mysql database driver by default. The mysqli driver will continue to be supported for backwards compatibility. The PDO driver provides better support for named parameters and offers more options for future database portability. 
<h3>New API Additions</h3>
<ul>
<li>New $log API variable for super-easy writing to log files. <a href="http://processwire.com/talk/topic/3768-processwire-231-dev-branch/">More</a></li>
<li>New $database API variable for direct access to the new PDO driver. The mysqli driver continues to be accessible with the $db API variable. </li>
<li>New WireArray functions: implode(), explode(), and(), data(). <a href="http://processwire.com/talk/topic/5098-new-wirearray-api-additions-on-dev/">More</a></li>
<li>New $pages-&gt;add() method for creating new pages more quickly and easily. <a href="http://processwire.com/talk/topic/3768-processwire-231-dev-branch/">More</a></li>
<li>Conditional autoload modules. Now module authors can specify an anonymous function or selector string to trigger if the module is autoload. <a href="http://processwire.com/talk/topic/3768-processwire-231-dev-branch/">More</a></li>
<li>New wireUnzipFile() function for unzipping a file to a destination directory, and wireCopy() function for copying all files from one directory to another (including recursively). <a href="https://github.com/ryancramerdesign/ProcessWire/blob/master/wire/core/Functions.php#L264">More</a></li>
<li>Support for sharpening and auto-rotation of images. You may define defaults in your /site/config.php file, and/or specify arguments to any image resize function. <a href="https://github.com/ryancramerdesign/ProcessWire/blob/master/site-default/config.php#L114">More</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Other updates and additions</h3>
<ul>
<li>Built-in abstraction of URLs in textarea fields. <a href="http://processwire.com/talk/topic/3768-processwire-231-dev-branch/?p=41651">More</a></li>
<li>New locked mode for Inputfields where a value can be shown but not edited.</li>
<li>Upgraded installer that now includes selection of color theme, timezone and more. </li>
<li>Support for an HTTP hosts whitelist for added security.</li>
<li>Countless optimizations, fixes and improvements. </li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/ryancramerdesign/ProcessWire/commits/master">See the full list of changes</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>About ProcessWire</h2>
<h3>ProcessWire is a friendly and powerful open source CMS and CMF with an exceptionally strong foundation.</h3>
With all custom fields, an easy-to-use jQuery-inspired API, and a powerful page selector engine, ProcessWire will rise to any task.
Clients love ProcessWire for its no-fuss simplicity and ease of use when editing their site. Designers and developers love ProcessWire for its thoughtful, easy and powerful API-driven approach that keeps them in control of the markup and makes development fun again. Not to mention, ProcessWire's API can also be booted from other applications or command-line scripts, bringing entire new levels of accessibility to your content.
ProcessWire is a modern SEO specialist's dream come true. It uses logical, readable and search-friendly URLs that always reflect the content's home in the tree. Meaning you'll never have to worry about multiple URLs or play duplicate content games. With full markup control, all custom fields, and support for runtime URL segments, ProcessWire lets you take full advantage of all the on-site SEO possibilities without wasting your time on long irrelevant tags and tricks.
ProcessWire is an incredible multi-language solution. With support for multi-language fields, multi-language URLs and a built-in static translation engine, ProcessWire 2.4 makes building and managing a multi-language website incredibly easy!
ProcessWire is designed for the needs of today and not limited by the past. It is equally at home powering small-to-large scale standards-friendly websites, mobile websites, JSON/XML web services, Flash applications, AJAX-driven content, iPhone/Android applications, and more. This output agnosticism drives ProcessWire's simplicity and makes it support, rather than interfere with your work.
ProcessWire is a mature product that comes from a strong bloodline of content management systems developed over more than a decade. ProcessWire runs beautifully on web servers running PHP 5.3.8+ and MySQL 5.
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<li><a href="http://processwire.com/">Learn more about ProcessWire CMF/CMS</a> and <a href="http://processwire.com/download/">download</a> »</li>
<li><a href="http://processwire.com/demo/">Try out a demo of ProcessWire</a> »</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/ryancramerdesign/ProcessWire#upgrades">ProcessWire 2.4 upgrade instructions</a> »</li>
</ul>

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According to a recent survey, there are more than 920 million* websites on the Internet—almost all are costly mistakes. More than 95% of these sites fail to follow Google’s recommendation to build and maintain one website that works across all devices, including desktop, tablets and smartphones. Moboom today announced the launch of Moboom3, a development tool and content management system that future proofs websites and brings together the very best of both responsive and adaptive design philosophies, all while allowing developers to build responsive websites 100 times faster than if they were to code them by hand.
Moboom3 includes a range of features that helps website owners and developers quickly deliver smarter sites that perform well on any device, putting an end to the responsive vs. adaptive debate and proactively responding to the next frontier in web development. 
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Features Include:
<ul>
<li>Patent-Pending Server-Side Media Queries: Moboom’s platform ensures faster and more adaptive website performance because all decisions are made server-side. This way, devices only get the content that’s intended for them and isn’t slowed down by elements that ultimately get hidden by the device browser.</li>
<li> Import Content from Anywhere: Moboom’s adaptive content management system allows users to import and sync content in any format. Once imported into the Moboom system, it can be managed directly from the Moboom CMS or from abroad.</li>
<li>Code In Any Language: Moboom allows developers to write widgets using any programming language from PHP to .NET and Python to Perl. Plus, because Moboom delivers widgets from their own servers, widgets written in different languages can run on the same page as one another.</li>
<li>Faster Responsive Sites: Moboom websites render differently than other sites on the web. Instead of rendering in a serial fashion, from the top of the webpage to the bottom, Moboom sites render synchronically, delivering websites to the user faster than any other platform out there. </li>
</ul>
Today, 77% of all mobile searches happen at home or work—even when a desktop or laptop is readily available. People prefer their handheld devices and need an optimized experience. Moboom’s v3 platform helps companies and developers build websites that work well on all devices—even those that haven’t been invented yet. Moboom websites smartly adapt to any device on the market without having to invest in a redesign, outperforming other responsive websites in various areas such as load time, user experience and search engine ranking.
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  “Google rewards responsive web design, yet developers have been reluctant to adopt its methodology because of some well-known flaws like slow load times and a one-size-fits-all user experience. Moboom fixes the flaws of responsive design,” said Gavin Burnett, Founder and CEO of Moboom. “People are demanding the ability to consume online content on a wider variety of mobile and smart devices, yet most platforms only offer bolt-on solutions to accommodate new device types. Moboom was founded for this very reason. Adaptability is in our DNA, and the newest version of our web design tool and CMS makes it easier for developers to build smarter, faster websites that respond to any device.”  
</blockquote>
Leading the conversation, Moboom will be hosting a conference on Wednesday, February 12 in San Francisco focused on Responsive Web Trends. Keynoting the event will be leading mobile strategist, Jason Grigsby, co-founder of CloudFour and author of Head First Mobile Web.
 About Moboom 
Moboom was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, with a satellite office in Perth, Australia. The company’s mission is to inspire everyday successes by offering a better way to organize and deliver content on the ever-growing plethora of new devices. Founder and CEO Gavin Burnett, a veteran of the digital media world, and COO Jef Rice, a mobile-first tech visionary, set out to create the world’s best adaptive content management system and responsive design platform, combined into one powerful tool. For more details about Moboom, please visit <a href="http://moboom.com/">http://moboom.com/</a>.

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Jaws, developed by the Jaws project led by Ali Fazelzadeh, has now seen its latest upgrade in the form of Jaws 1.1.0.
For those of you who are unaware of <a href="http://jaws-project.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jaws platform</a>, it is described by its creators as a, “Framework and Content Management System for building dynamic web sites. It aims to be User Friendly giving ease of use and lots of ways to customize web sites, but at the same time is Developer Friendly, it offers a simple and powerful framework to hack your own modules.”
The open-source platform offers a user interface which is extremely user friendly, along with a host of “gadgets” which can be inserted into your website via a drag-and-drop system. To get a better idea of what it can do, check out our <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/jaws-cms-review/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jaws CMS Review</a>.
Now though, let's take a look at what's new for Jaws users.
<h2>Private Messaging, Emblems, Fixes &amp; More</h2>
Jaws 1.1.0 is the latest release of the CMS, bringing about a huge myriad of additions, updates and fixes. Below is a full list of what you can expect from Jaws 1.1.0:
<ul>
<li>Added new Private Message gadget</li>
<li>Added support separate layout file for index page in themes</li>
<li>Added support post image to Blog gadget</li>
<li>Added more tags tag to BBCode plugin</li>
<li>Added HTML5 WebSocket Server/Client API</li>
<li>Added support url rewriting in IIS 7.0 and above</li>
<li>Added new type to Emblems gadget</li>
<li>Fixed deprecated methods/modifiers in PHP 5.5</li>
<li>Fixed comments ordering in Comments gadgets</li>
<li>Fixed conflict between layout and normal actions in Comments gadgets</li>
<li>Fixed read more links in Comments gadget</li>
<li>Fixed error/notice in FeedReader gadget</li>
<li>Fixed fetching right trimmed data value in database wrapper</li>
<li>Fixed conflict between normal and layout actions in StaticPage gadget</li>
<li>Fixed double filtering posts in Forums gadget</li>
<li>Improved support drafted topics/posts in Forums gadget</li>
<li>Improved user experience in Forums gadget</li>
<li>Improved management by adding new dynamic ACL to Forums gadget</li>
<li>Improved request parsing in Jaws_Request core class</li>
<li>Improved user's dashboard usability</li>
<li>Improved and customized bbcode plugin of CKEditor for in front-end</li>
<li>Improved SEO by replacing h2 with h3 tag in all front-end outputs</li>
<li>Improved SEO via auto convert h3 to h2 tags in main requested action</li>
<li>Updated tinyMCE to 4.0.16</li>
<li>Updated CKEditor to 4.3.2</li>
</ul>
It's fair to say that the Jaws CMS team has been busy beefing up their platform, and the long list of new features and fixes above are a testament to that. To see more about Jaws 1.1.0, check out the <a href="http://jaws-project.com/blog/show/jaws-110-released" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">official release notes</a>.
To find out more about Jaws, visit the <a href="http://jaws-project.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jaws Project website</a>. Additionally, you can learn more about Jaws CMS via our CMS Directory.

Jaws Project Announce the Release of Jaws 1.1.0

For the second consecutive day on a lovely Parisian morning, the Jahia One conference was about to begin. <a href="/jahia-one-day-one-jahia-7-glowing-feedback-and-more/" target="_blank"> Day one of Jahia One was a success </a> , with Mike, his wife Karlynn and myself had all in attendance.
Day two however, had promised to deliver on some news for Jahia 7, and so we quickly grabbed our seats within the packed Pan Piper conference hall, and once again set up to live-tweet the event from the  <a href="https://twitter.com/cmscritic" target="_blank"> CMS Critic Twitter page </a> .
As the lights dimmed, we buckled up for some exciting product announcements and release dates which we – along with the entire Jahia Community, were eager to hear about.
<h2>News on Jahia 7 &amp; Other Products</h2>
In the build up to some major announcements, Jahia CEO Elie Auvray started the second day off with a short overview of what Jahia truly is. He touched upon Jahia's Open source nature and subscription concept before going on to praise the Jahia community as a whole.
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Elie Auvray, Jahia CEO
Much like in his opening keynote a day earlier, Elie Auvray's passion for Jahia was evident. His tone was full of conviction, and his words were laced with optimism.  
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“Our customers can really have an impact on the roadmap of Jahia” – Elie Auvray (Jahia CEO)
</blockquote>
Next, Elie Auvray got into the juicer stuff. He got talking about all the big announcements concerning Jahia, which the community is no doubt looking forward to. Below is a concise round-up of what's new.
<ul>
<li>Jahia 7 will officially be available on April 1, 2014.</li>
<li>Jahia xCM is being renamed and will now be known as Jahia Digital Factory.</li>
<li>Jahia Wise is being renamed and will now be known as Jahia Workspace Factory.</li>
<li>There is a new and improved Jahia Studio paired with the Jahia 7 release.</li>
<li>One of the key features of Jahia 7 is the introduction of Private App Stores.</li>
</ul>
After these announcements, Elie Auvray introduced Jahia VP &amp; General Manager of Jahia North America, Emmanuel Garcin. He addressed the crowd regarding Jahia's new partner program initiative and map, where certified partners – meaning those who are trained and certified, are now classified by their number of projects.
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Emmanuel Garcin, Jahia VP
Whilst Jahia's CEO and VP were announcing these products and upgrades to Jahia One's live audience, we here at CMS Critic were busy breaking the news to the wider community, which you can see in more detail right here: <a href="/jahiaone-day-two-the-opening-keynote/" target="_blank"> Jahia Day Two – The Opening Keynote </a> .
<h2>Making the Upgrade</h2>
Darcy Carrie, got into the technical stuff regarding the upgrade from Jahia 6.6 to Jahia 7 – which a colossal chunk of the Jahia community will soon be doing.
Before commencing with the demo, she explained how Java 6 and Tomcat 7 were both needed in order to run Jahia 7. The entire process was over in well under twenty minutes, which tells you everything you need to know about how quick and easy the move from Jahia 6.6 to Jahia 7 will be.
It is of no wonder then, that Jahia insist on calling it an upgrade, and not a migration – because that's precisely what it is, a quick and simple upgrade.
<h2>Secrets &amp; Surprises</h2>
Throughout the second day, Elie Auvray had hinted at some surprise announcements to come at the very end of the event. Thankfully, he didn't disappoint. 
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Elie Auvray, Jahia CEO
The Jahia CEO had not one, but two secrets to reveal – and here they are: 
 Jahia Portal Factory: A simple user interface which allows you to create, modify and deploy a range of different portals. 
 Jahia eCommerce Factory: A complete ecommerce solution with out of the box CMS and Portals. Huge array of features including multi-shop management, strong SEO capabilities, analytics &amp; sales report management, and much more. 
 Now that's what I call a surprise. 
 What's more is, both of these new products are set to arrive within three months of Jahia 7, which will be launching on the 1st April 2014. So, the Jahia community can definitely look forward to the upcoming weeks and months, as new products, content and possibilities begin to flow. 
 After these announcements, the event came to a close. Attendees were elated with the news, and the Jahia team were visibly content with the way Jahia One panned out. A roaring success, to say the least.
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Jahia One: A Roaring Success
Next week, I'll be looking a little deeper into the Jahia One event, giving you a more personal insight into how things went down, so be sure to watch out for that. 
 In the meantime, check out the coverage of <a href="/jahia-one-day-one-jahia-7-glowing-feedback-and-more/" target="_blank"> Jahia One: Day One </a>  to get an idea of how the opening day unravelled.

Jahia One, Day Two: Jahia 7 Release Date, Demos & Surprises

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It hasn't been a crazy busy week with regards to CMS news but there are a couple of new releases that might interest those of you out there.
I've decided to start doing CMS Release Roundup's when there isn't much to go on in the release announcements. Most of the time, if the release is a significant one, there will be screenshots and all kinds of great info to share with you guys but in some of the cases, there is so little that if I tried writing a single post on it, it would either be way too short or way too boring, therefore, this week, we are doing a CMS Release Roundup!
The first release was from Joomla and is a bugfix release labeled Joomla 3.2.2. I would give you more info on this release but I'd likely end up boring you to death so for the sake of both our sanity, I'll ask you to view this engaging breakdown of the changes: <a href="http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5531-joomla-3-2-2-released.html "></a><a href="http://developer.joomla.org/version-3-2-2-release-notes.html">http://developer.joomla.org/version-3-2-2-release-notes.html</a>
Next in line is the release of Umbraco 7.0.3. This is simply a small release that fixes some issues with media, domains and the embed button in the rich text editor. Details, as always, can be found here: <a href="http://umbraco.com/follow-us/blog-archive/2014/2/3/released-umbraco-703.aspx"> http://umbraco.com/follow-us/blog-archive/2014/2/3/released-umbraco-703.aspx </a>
Those are the main ones for this week folks that we are aware of. If we missed something that you know of, please drop us a line or let us know in the comments below and we'll make sure we get it covered!

CMS Release Roundup for the week of February 7, 2014

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