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

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Ixxus has announced that it is contributing a valuable new tool which integrates the powerful faceted search capabilities of Apache Solr into Alfresco 4.
The contribution will aid Alfresco in fulfilling the ‘Smart Search' requirements of its 2012 Product Road Map, enhancing functionality and discoverability using metadata-driven; faceted searching. The contributed tool will be made available under an open source license in 2013, to be freely used and modified by other members of the Alfresco community.
John Powell, CEO for Alfresco commented, “Built on the foundation of Alfresco with combined code expertise from Ixxus, we are excited to collaborate on the new faceted based search against its rich content modelling capabilities. We are looking forward to extending this new feature so global organisations can greatly improve the discoverability of content and search results.”
“Ixxus has a high pedigree in search, and many of our clients had expressed an interest in faceted search within Alfresco,” said Steve Odart, CEO at Ixxus, “We’re offering this functionality to existing Ixxus customers now and are pleased to say that we’ll also be contributing the code to future releases of Alfresco.”
Fast, Scalable, Open Source
Faceted search is a powerful search feature that allows users to explore content in the Alfresco repository by applying multiple filters to search results. The choice of filters (facets) available is relevant to the search results and can be applied or removed post-search, meaning that they are more flexible and intuitive than the current pre-search filters. This hugely enhances the end-user’s search experience; which is highly valuable particularly to enterprises dealing with large amounts of content, or delivering a web-based content service.
Search scenarios which have been implemented by the Ixxus code include:
<ul>
<li>Property value facets, including properties on custom models and facets</li>
<li>Property date-ranges as facets</li>
<li>Content type facets</li>
<li>Mime-type facets</li>
</ul>
“Alfresco's search capabilities have always been strong thanks to its use of the Lucene toolkit, but the recent switch to Solr unleashes a raft of powerful new possibilities,” stated Dan Tuffery, the Ixxus consultant who led the feature development. “This Ixxus contribution to Alfresco targets a long asked for feature: massively improved user experience by guiding searches using Solr facets.”
Dan Tuffery will be speaking about this exciting new tool at <a href="http://devcon.alfresco.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">DevCon 2012</a> which is being held in Berlin this year. Dan was recently awarded <a href="http://www.ixxus.com/news/2012/09/ixxus-dan-tuffery-wins-alfresco-dashlet-challenge-2012/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">first place</a> in the 2012 Alfresco Dashlets Challenge; whereby he produced a dashlet that shows the search terms that have been executed in Alfresco, along with a number of filters that give users control over what search terms are displayed. The search terms are represented in a tag cloud and are weighted by how many times the search has been executed. Each search term in the dashlet is a link that when selected will execute a search.

New Alfresco Faceted Search by Ixxus Delivers Enhanced Enterprise Content Search

mike-johnston

DotNetNuke Corp., the company behind the most widely adopted Web Content Management Platform for Microsoft .NET, today announced that it has signed a strategic alliance with Microsoft to offer its Social Content Management System (CMS) through Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud. The terms of the agreement include an investment from Microsoft to support engineering, sales and marketing over the next four years. Additionally, Microsoft is providing technology assistance, as the two companies work together to build a world-class cloud offering.
<blockquote>
“Over the last year, our customers in the upper mid-market and enterprise have been requesting a world-class cloud infrastructure to host their mission-critical content and functionally rich, web properties,” said Navin Nagiah, CEO of DotNetNuke. “We are working with Microsoft to bring our customers a powerful Windows Azure-based CMS that is both reliable and elastic.”
</blockquote>
The Windows Azure-based service will provide the power and flexibility of DotNetNuke’s Social CMS without requiring users to install and manage the software and hardware required to run the platform. Everything an organization needs to build content rich, social websites is provided as a cloud-based service including:
<ul>
<li>One-Click Installation and Setup – Customers select a service plan and a new DotNetNuke installation and a website are automatically created.</li>
<li>Full Feature Set – Access to all of DotNetNuke’s powerful CMS features, including site management, social collaboration, granular security, advanced content workflows, document management, page and module caching, analytics, and mobile site management.</li>
<li>App Store – Customers can build and customize websites by purchasing applications and design templates through the DotNetNuke Store.</li>
<li>Custom Development – Organizations that wish to develop custom functionality have full access to the DotNetNuke platform and API. Some service offerings include full file system access for developers.</li>
<li>Upgrades – The service streamlines and simplifies the process of upgrading a site to a newer version of the DotNetNuke platform.</li>
<li>Import/Export – Existing sites can be moved onto the cloud platform or exported to another hosting provider.</li>
<li>Backup and Restore – Sites are automatically backed and earlier versions can be restored.</li>
<li>Test Sites – Plans include the ability to test websites before they are made publically available.</li>
</ul>
DotNetNuke began offering Windows Azure-based trials of its professional edition software worldwide, localized into five languages, earlier this year. The company today opened up registration for a beta version of its cloud offering that will be available in Q4 2012. DotNetNuke is scheduled to make the service generally available in early 2013, with service plans for mid-sized businesses and enterprises.
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“Social experiences are ideal for cloud computing; they are consumed across many devices and browsers and they also need to scale based on fluctuations in usage,” said Kim Akers, General Manager of Microsoft. “With Windows Azure developers can build social experiences that take advantage of a reliable cloud backend and a scalable way to manage and continually refine their sites. DotNetNuke’s Windows Azure-based offering is designed to make it easy for organizations to build and deploy websites.”
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>The alliance extends DotNetNuke and Microsoft’s close collaboration across multiple initiatives including:</li>
<li>DotNetNuke Community Edition availability through Microsoft CodePlex, the open source project hosting service</li>
<li>DotNetNuke’s inclusion in Web Platform Installer</li>
<li>DotNetNuke’s inclusion in Web Matrix installer for developers</li>
<li>DotNetNuke’s participation in Microsoft Technology Adoption Program (TAP) for Windows Azure</li>
<li>Development of a RAZOR module for the DotNetNuke Platform</li>
<li>Microsoft’s Diamond Sponsorship of DNN World 2012</li>
</ul>
More info: <a href="http://www.dotnetnuke.com">DotNetNuke</a>

DotNetNuke Signs Alliance Agreement with Microsoft to Deliver Web Content Management in the Windows Azure Cloud

This is the last day of nominations for the <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/cms-critic-awards/">Critic's Choice CMS Awards</a>. As of this morning, we've had over 1,000 nominations, some of which have been quite surprising and amazingly, the big three do not have much of a presence in the nominations at this time (Drupal, Joomla, WordPress). It's great to see so many different projects being submitted for consideration.
Voting opens at 8:00 am MT tomorrow so check back to see if the project you nominated has been shortlisted. Voting will continue until November 12th, 2012 at which point, we'll have two sets of awards: People's Choice (based on # of votes) and Critic's Choice (based on judges decisions).
So <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/cms-critic-awards/">get your nominations in</a> and check back tomorrow morning to find out who was shortlisted. Nominations close at 3:00 PM MT today.

Last Day of Nominations for the Critic's Choice #CMS #Awards

dotCMS, an open source, Java-based web content management system, is pleased to announce the release of v2.2.  Continuing to build on the solid momentum and marketplace success of the dotCMS 2.0 series, this latest release unveils dynamic plugins (OSGI), form-builder enhancements, front-end content editing, a starter site with mobile first Responsive (twitter’s bootstrap) design, improved index management as well as several other user and performance upgrades.
“Since introducing Spring MVC in the 2.0 series, we've wanted to take our plugin architecture to another level for dotCMS developers.” said Will Ezell, CTO of dotCMS. “2.2 brings in the ability to hot-swap Spring web apps, servlets and content hooks without a server restart and adds tremendous power for developers looking to use dotCMS as a platform for Rapid Java Application development.  Along with other improvements and upgrades in version 2.2, dotCMS’s R&amp;D is on pace to continue rolling out meaningful and practical features and functionality — meeting the real needs of developers and business users in the marketplace.”
<h2>Overview of Changes</h2>
<h3>Dynamic Plugin/OSGi Improvements</h3>
<ul>
<li>With the new dotCMS Dynamic Plugins, web app developers can hot swap Spring MVC Apps, Servlets, ViewTools, Content Hooks, etc. without a server restart.</li>
<li>Many more examples are provided under http://dotcms.com/docs/latest/DynamicPlugins.</li>
<li>Added framework controls to Dynamic Plugins in the UI.  Administrators can reload/restart the Framework from the UI without restarting the application.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Starter Site uses Responsive HTML Framework (Bootstrap)</h3>
<ul>
<li>Build mobile ready sites out of the box.</li>
<li>New responsive templating using Twiiter Bootstrap Framework.</li>
<li>Automatically size templates and images based on client viewport size, for phones, tablets and computers.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Front End Content Forms</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added the
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macro – content can be added and edited by site visitors with proper permissions.</li>
<li>Custom fields are now supported on the Front End of dotCMS Forms and SubmitContent Macro.</li>
</ul>
<h3>CMIS Library Update</h3>
<ul>
<li>Updated to the latest Chemistry Open CMIS 0.7 libraries</li>
<li>RESTful XML/ATOM read write access to content repository</li>
</ul>
<h3>Related Content Improvements</h3>
<ul>
<li>You can now select multiple Contents to relate at once.</li>
<li>When relating Content you can filter by language.</li>
<li>The Relationship Field UI is much improved when saving content for dotCMS installs with multiple languages.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Index Management</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added new methods to the Restful API for Index Management providing easier backup/restore functionality.</li>
<li>Aliases now work and SiteSearch Indices can now be managed from the API.</li>
<li>The following methods have been added getIndexName,getIndexStatus,getIndexRecordCount,getNotActiveIndexNames,StopReindexThread, startReindexThread, getReindexThreadStatus.</li>
</ul>
<h3>General Backend Enhancements</h3>
<ul>
<li>Error Pages – You can now control the logo on the default error pages ie.. 403, 404, 500.</li>
<li>dotCMS Browser – You can now copy/paste at root level of Host.</li>
<li>The Drop Old Assets and Fix Asset Inconsistencies are much improved in both performance and functionality.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Overview of Fixes/Improvements</h3>
<ul>
<li>Permission performance is hugely improved, especially on large installations.</li>
<li>Re-index performance is greatly improved – by a factor of 10 on some installs.</li>
<li>Upgraded WebDav library and fixed many bugs with WebDav including issues with limited users.</li>
<li>Upgraded CMIS from the aging Chemistry-1.0 libs to the latest OpenCMIS 0.7.0.  Implemented the RESTful atom interfaces for read /write access to the content repository.</li>
<li>Fixed issues with Site Search fields not be fully searchable.</li>
<li>Fixed the issue with the WEB-INF/binary directory needing to be on the same partition as the Assets directory in clustered installations.</li>
<li>The Autoupdater uses hardlinks for assets now to help with disk space.</li>
<li>URL Map Content has much improved multiple language support.</li>
<li>DOJO has been upgraded to 1.8 for latest Browser support.</li>
<li>Upgraded Elastic Search to 0.19.9.</li>
<li>Upgraded TinyMCE to 3.5.7.</li>
<li>dotCMS will now respect the URL you are trying to hit when not logged into the backend. This allows you to go right to the correct tooling/portlet in the backend.</li>
<li>Admin console fully translated into Chinese, French, Italian, Dutch, German, Russian, and Spanish.</li>
</ul>
More details, <a href="http://www.dotcms.com">dotCMS</a>.

dotCMS 2.2 Unveiled

There is no disputing that there are tons (and I mean tons) of premium WordPress theme providers out there but for those on a budget who are looking for excellent quality themes with solid support, there simply is no better option than ElegantThemes.
These guys offer 100% access to over 70 themes all for one price, $39! This is an absolutely tremendous price and for most themes you find in theme stores such as ThemeForest, you'll pay that price for a single theme, never mind access to over 70 of them which you can use as you wish.
Here are two of their most recent themes:
<h2>Nimble</h2>
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<h2>Lucid</h2>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/lucid_preview31-423x1024.jpg" />
Beautiful aren't they? Don't forget there are over 70 themes for various types of websites ranging from Business to Personal to pretty much everything.
Check them out if you want the best bang for your buck and are in the market for a solid WordPress theme. There's no point in paying hundreds of dollars for multiple themes when you can get them all for under $40.
<a href="/elegantthemes">Visit ElegantThemes now</a>.

ElegantThemes Review - Quite Possibly The Best Value for WordPress Themes

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Create your own social community at <a href="http://www.hoop.la">hoop.la</a>. Bring everything and everyone together on one site. One site with forums, blogs, photos, videos, chats, events, tweets, and more!
A hoop.la website is easy to set up and manage. It offers quick access to editing content from any page and has options and settings to easily customize your site. Building a community website has never been easier. Bring your social networks together in one place. Increase community involvement by letting members easily see conversations from Facebook, Twitter, and other social communities.
The standard community site at hoop.la has the following sections:
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
<li>Blog</li>
<li>Gallery (also known as clips)</li>
<li>Calendar</li>
<li>Forums</li>
<li>Chat Events</li>
<li>About</li>
<li>Members</li>
<li>Search</li>
<li>Activity</li>
</ul>
<h2>Setting up the Website</h2>
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All the settings for the website, monitoring community involvement, editing content, etc. are inside Site Setup. It's also very easy to get to these individual settings from any page of the site.
<h2>Themes</h2>
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Not only can you select any of the available themes, but you can easily customize your theme or create your own.
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Each section can be designed to your liking. This gives you a lot of flexibility and options in customizing your website.
<h2>Modules</h2>
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Any of the standard pages for the initial website can be turned off/on inside the Modules/Configuration page. You can also rename any of the standard pages to your liking.
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You can customize the menu under the Community Menu option. You can easily move, add or delete menu items. A nice-to-have option would be the ability to add and manage drop down menus – especially when setting up custom pages.
<h2>Custom Page</h2>
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You can easily add your own pages to your hoop.la site. This can include any html content and can inherit the same headers/footers as the rest of the site, or you can include your own. Add custom pages to the menu by updating the menu through the Community Menu.
<h2>Blog</h2>
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You can easily set up your own blog. You can allow anyone to post or allow only certain members to post. You can also connect to a Twitter account so posts from your Twitter account also post to the blog.
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Adding a blog post is very straightforward. You can assign a post to a collection (similar to categories in WordPress) and can add tags. A post can also be assigned as premium content (see Premium Membership section below).
<h2>Forums</h2>
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You can easily add forums and topics within a forum. It's easy to monitor who can view, post, and reply within a forum. Hoop.la also lets you set up a customized url for the topic (common throughout all modules) and choose specific ads to show in the right side bar for that particular topic. This is great if you have sponsors that are a good match for a particular topic.
<h2>Calendar</h2>
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The Calendar module includes all the common options. It's easy to add events, manage events, and track number of attendees. A nice-to-have feature would be to integrate this with registration options for events that require registration.
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Adding an event to the Calendar is straightforward. Google maps are integrated with an event if an address is provided.
<h2>Widgets</h2>
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One of the great features of hoop.la is the ease in adding widgets to sidebars – whether it's for the home page or for an ‘inside' page. You can add a standard widget that comes with hoop.la or any 3rd party widget by selecting ‘Create New Custom Widget'.
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The option to manage widgets is readily available on each page from the sidebar area. It is also very easy to move these widgets up or down from within a sidebar or to a different location (up or down, right or left sidebar) on the home page.
<h2>Social Network Integration</h2>
Combine and view all your social network conversations in one place by integrating popular social networks into your hoop.la website. Community members can sign in using their social network account information and connect their hoop.la profile to their social networks. This expands your community exponentially. The instructions provided by hoop.la to integrate the various social networks are thorough and easy to follow.
<h2>Premium Memberships</h2>
You can easily charge members for access to premium features or content. All transaction processing is handled by hoop.la and you keep 70% of the revenue. They also automatically handle the membership list.
I think this is one of the best features of hoop.la. Where else can you so easily set up a membership site within minutes? Give the membership level a name (VIP), enter the fee and you are off and running. You can even set it up for members to sign up for a trial period. One nice feature to add would be to have multiple membership levels.
<h2>Manage Content</h2>
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Hoop.la provides a lot of flexibility in setting up your moderation rules. Do you want to moderate everything? You can do that. Do you want to moderate just Event posts? You can do that. Do you just want to moderate content with attachments, or content by a certain member, or content that contains certain words? You can set up rules to do so. The options provided within Moderation Rules covers it all, giving you as much flexibility as you want.
<h2>Permissions</h2>
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It is easy to add member groups and assign permissions to a group. Permissions range from type of 
events group members can view to which forums they can view.
<h2>Conclusion</h2>
Hoop.la has it covered when it comes to setting up a community site. The features and options are all encompassing in giving you all of the flexibility and customization choices you would expect when setting up your community site. Take hoop.la for a <a href="http://www.hoop.la">trial run</a> and try it out for yourself.
Are you a fan? Have you used it? We'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments below.

Build a Community at Hoop.la - Review

As you know, we offer private audits for companies looking to get our feedback on their products. We have two remaining spots for this year available.
Here's how the process works:
We review your system and write an unbiased review that focuses on the good and bad including any bugs we find during the use of the system. We assess your website landing page for the product and provide you with feedback as to how well tailored it is towards what customers are looking for.
We send the final document to you for your review. Your team then has three choices:
<ol>
<li>Ask for the review to be published, in which case, we will do so.</li>
<li>Ask for the review to not be published, in which case, you can retain it for your records.</li>
<li>You can take up to 90 days to resolve any issues identified within the review and ask us to re-assess those areas once complete, after which, we will publish the review.</li>
</ol>
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Ben Vallack's unique CMS, SetSeed, has just seen a major new update. SetSeed 7 beta.
The idea behind SetSeed has always been to create a central website development platform for developers to create complete websites for their clients. Developers can build websites using the powerful template system, and their clients get to edit their own content using the CMS itself. As such, the CMS application is designed to be wonderfully slick and easy to use.
It's that distinction between content and style that is the absolute backbone of SetSeed's design and user experience principles.
That's why, when editing content in the CMS, you won't see a WYSIWYG editor or, in fact, any stylistic representation of content. You simply see your content. Each paragraph and heading is it's own selectable item, making it effortlessly easy to apply formatting, reorder, delete and copy or paste. Just double click an item to edit text using a standard bullet-proof plain-text editor with short-codes for inline formatting.
Speed of development is also at the heart of SetSeed's raison d'etre. SetSeed is fully featured right out of the box – that means no plugins to faff about with. It also powers all your sites from a single installation, which means you don't need to install the same software over and over again each time you deploy a site. What's more, it means you can update your application just once to keep all your clients' sites up to date. They'll love you for that.
SetSeed 7 adds a host of exciting new tools at the developer's disposal as well as radically reinventing the CMS user experience. SetSeed 7 even works gracefully on iOS devices and desktops thanks to a completely responsive application interface.
Creating a responsive interface for a CMS is not a challenge for the feint hearted. Most CMS's try and emulate the front-end page layout within the back end, or overlay editing tools on the front-end itself. That just isn't going to happen on a 320 pixel wide device.
The solution is to make a bold decision to do away with front-end emulation completely. For example, multi-column layouts in SetSeed are represented by full width droppable content zones. No room for ambiguity and it all works just as well on a tiny screen as it does on a big one. When you use it, you'll wonder why all CMS's aren't like this.
Editing content efficiently requires a streamlined interface; not one distracted by front-end styles. WYSIWYG and front-end live editors need not apply.
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Another significant improvement with SetSeed 7 is workflow. The all-new user interface has been built from the ground up to make working in all areas of the fully-featured CMS consistent, fast and enjoyable. Keyboard shortcuts play an important role in that for power users, and a familiar list + toolbar graphical UI makes it foolproof if your'e only using a mouse or touch.
One area that's always posed a problem for CMS's is how to handle image scaling and cropping. As a design, you'll probably have designed a beautiful page layout with a certain image size/ratio in mind. So what happens to your layout when your client uploads an image straight from their camera and in the wrong ratio?
SetSeed 7 now features an elegant and powerful way of handling images. Your clients can go ahead and upload whatever size and ratio image they like. They can then choose from a list of present crop/size profiles which you create when building the theme. You can choose to constrain or crop images and scale by one or both axis. Images can also be rotated in the CMS too. This all happens on the server-side and the images and cached once they've been modified. Your clients won't see all this happening, but they'll love how their website always looks ‘just right'.
SetSeed has always included a comprehensive set of training material to help your clients get to grips with the CMS. SetSeed 7 takes this to new levels with a fully integrated interactive step-by-step walkthrough mode. Gorgeous animated arrows guide the user through complete tasks, showing them how to work with the system as they proceed with the walkthrough. This is going to be a much loved frustration squasher.
SetSeed 7 has also seen a big update to the email newsletter system. Email newsletter templates can now feature multi-column layouts and use template Sections. This really makes SetSeed a solid contender for a business-in-a-box platform.
Other highlights in SetSeed 7 are the Embed Codes feature, theme variables, multiple gallery styles, cut/copy/paste (when working with content and pages) and loads, loads more. Check out <a href="http://beta.setseed.com">http://beta.setseed.com</a> for more information.

SetSeed CMS Gets New Update with SetSeed 7 Beta

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The popular open source CMS, MODx, has seen an update with the release of MODx Revolution 2.2.5. This update promises improved Media Source function, Caching enhancements and a handling to prevent blank pages occurring on some older hosting environments.
Here are the highlights of the 2.2.5 release:
<ul>
<li>Media Source fixes with Elements and Static Elements</li>
<li>Corrected Media Source errors with modParser-&gt;getElement()</li>
<li>Corrected Media Source errors with static element paths</li>
<li>Optimized cache refresh query, big boost for sites with large Contexts, on MySQL 5.1 or earlier as well as addition cache fixes.</li>
<li>Added support for environments not supporting flock causing blank pages due to corrupted cache files</li>
<li>Corrected various Resource editing bugs related to changing template</li>
<li>ResourceGroup restricted TV's losing value when edited by users w/o access</li>
<li>Form Customization rules now applied when changing Template</li>
<li>Changing Template no longer unsets Empty Cache for Resource</li>
<li>For more details read the <a href="https://raw.github.com/modxcms/revolution/v2.2.5-pl/core/docs/changelog.txt">complete changelog</a></li>
</ul>
Interested? Check it out at <a href="http://www.MODx.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">MODx.com</a>

MODx releases Revolution 2.2.5 - Improves Media Sources, Caching & More

We are excited to announce that <a href="http://www.siteground.com">SiteGround</a> has elected to sponsor our <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/cms-critic-awards/">Critic's Choice CMS Awards</a> this year. We decided to interview them to find out more about their decision and to learn a bit more about their products and services. Here is the interview.
CC: What connection is there between SiteGround's hosting services and the CMS industry?
SG: We’ve always been very closely connected with the CMS industry; especially with the free and open-source CMSs like Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, Typo3, and others as we seem to target one and the same user group – people who need shared hosting. We are big on shared hosting and combined with our long-term experience and expertise on fine-tuning our servers for optimized CMS performance, we seem to be a good match!
CC: What CMS platforms do you support?
SG:  The list with our supported CMS is really long, but for the sake of clarity and brevity, we’re compatible with any PHP/MySQL based CMSs.
CC: What other involvement does SiteGround have in the CMS industry?
SG: We have been sponsoring and attending numerous JoomlaDays, WordCamps, DrupalCons and this has been a great experience – all those CMS have unique communities by itself and meeting up and talking to the people behind the CMS has given us an opportunity to know better their needs and thus – improve even further our solution for them!
Aside from that, one of our goals as a hosting company has always been to educate our customers and make it easier for them to get started with their preferred CMS, which is why we have created a lot of free resources like tutorials, templates and plugins/extensions for the most popular CMSs. They are available for everyone of course, no matter an existing client or not ☺
CC: Why did SiteGround choose to sponsor the Critic's Choice CMS Awards this year?
SG: Two reasons, we've been in that industry for a very long time and believe that we can contribute with knowledge and advise for the nominations and awards themselves. The other reasons is that a competition like the CMS Awards fosters competition and competition is what makes the CMSs out there innovate and grow further! In the end of the day, growing and developing CMS community is what we want to see!
CC: What can you tell us about your product offerings?
SG: We provide a wide range of hosting services, thus ensuring that we can accommodate the needs of your website every step of the way. We offer several shared hosting solutions, VPS, dedicated and reseller packages. Our most popular plans are the shared plans – standard shared hosting, shared PLUS and the semi-dedicated hosting offer. The standard shared is the entry level hosting package and thus suitable for any start up website. The next level is the shared PLUS plan – it is mainly for customers with multiple websites and is also used for upgrade when a little more CPU power is needed. The most advanced plan we provide on a shared platform is our semi-dedicated offer. This is a service we are particularly proud of, as it provides better performance than most of the dedicated solutions for a small fraction of their cost. We achieve this performance by combining RAID, SSD and internally developed security and speed increasing systems.
CC: Do you offer Cloud hosting solutions? If so, what makes them unique?
SG: Yes, we do. What is different and unique about our cloud offering is that it is a combination of VPS and a cloud. It is an all-inclusive VPS server with all the advantages of cloud hosting. Our Cloud VPS Hosting offer allows you to have a private server with guaranteed resources, typical for the VPS technology, together with the redundancy and storage distribution over multiple machines, characteristic of the cloud. And last but not least, it is extremely affordable compared to the competitive cloud offerings.
CC: What other resources, other than hosting, do you offer your customers?
SG: Aside from the free tutorials, templates and extensions that I’ve already mentioned, we offer our customers a lot of additional features like tools for creating a mobile version of their websites, free website promotion tools, tools for malware protection and many more. We also offer backups, CDN, caching services, SSL certificates, to name a few. The reason for offering so many other features and resources is that we want to offer not just a hosting plan, but an integrated hosting solution where you can easily get started with your website, promote it and develop it, while we take care of the technicalities for you.
CC: What do you hope to see as a result of these awards?
SG: We hope that we’ll see which CMS has been doing great throughout the years and am positive that the awards will be representative for the CMS industry trends so that we can all cross check if we’re moving in the right direction.
CC: Do you have any closing comments?
SG: Good luck to all participants in the CMS Awards and hat tip to you Mike and your whole team for the effort and time organizing this great initiative!
Visit <a href="http://www.siteground.com">SiteGround</a> to find out more about their exceptional hosting offerings.

Interview with SiteGround, Sponsor of the Critic's Choice CMS Awards

[note color=”#cfcfcf”]This article is an opinion piece contributed by Hemant Prasad. You can visit him on his blog, <a href="http://ecmwise.blogspot.com">http://ecmwise.blogspot.com</a>[/note]
Gartner released 2012 Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management (WCM) sometime back and the next in line will be MQ for ECM. While the WCM player's positioning remains pretty much the same compare to 2011 report, it was quite surprising to see a sudden drop in the rating of Autonomy after being acquired by HP. Gartner has dropped its rating both in terms of ability to execute and in vision, primarily due to the uncertainty over HP's commitments and business plan for Autonomy.
Though there was no surprise to miss the name of one of the ECM leader, EMC from the WCM Magic Quadrant. The curiosity however grew over EMC's strategy for adding this missing piece in their ECM offerings. Now I'll be eagerly waiting to see the 2012 Magic Quadrant for ECM which is expected to be delivered by Gartner in Q4, hopefully in October itself and see how will the EMC's absence from WCM arena affect their position in ECM MQ.
A quick comparison of various players in Gartner Magic Quadrant for ECM 2009, 2010 and 2011 shows the following trends:
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EMC was not only lacking in ability to execute, but also in vision behind OpenText.

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IBM gained top spot back and the positioning was similar to 2009, except that EMC was performing below OpenText now.

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So what do you think is wrong with the once market leader Documentum? Where has EMC gone wrong in its overall ECM strategy? Or is it just that the sluggish license sales is pulling them towards ‘fancy' solutions like D2? which might help them acquire more new customers with the sales pitch of ‘new user', since Webtop was perceived as a very complex user interface with the arrival of SharePoint.
In ECM MQ 2011, Gartner had highlighted the (1) Lack of synergies with its hardware and services team (2) Lack of SI and ISV ecosystem (3) Confusion over its product strategy in Social collaboration and WCM space as the key caution points for EMC.
In 2012, the challenges seems to have not gone away. EMC still doesn't have a Social Collaboration and WCM solution and future for eRoom or CenterStage remains uncertain. With the arrival of D2, it's certain that EMC will not invest into Webtop and TaskSpace anymore, which might scare the customers who have been using either of these applications since long and have built critical business applications using either WebTop or Taskspace. While EMC has been proposing D2 for content applications, xCP is being promoted for the case management/business process applications. There doesn't seem to be an automated migration path to convert Webtop/Taskspace based applications to D2/xCP 2.0 and customers might have to spend hefty sum to redevelop the same on newer platforms, which will be a painful exercise and might drive customers towards alternate solutions.
Though EMC has made lots of noise about “ECM in cloud” partly relying on their cloud storage business, but the successful roll-out of the service is yet to take shape, wherein Microsoft has already left their rival behind with the successful operation of Office365 in cloud (including SharePoint).
OpenText on the other hand seems to be enjoying relationship with SAP with few small wins in recent past primarily in the area of SAP content archival (that's the only product OpenText sales team seems to be selling), but still lacks larger customer acquisitions, which isn't a sustainable business strategy, unless they have already got into the comfort zone of eventually being acquired by SAP in due course of time. While the OpenText corporate seems to be on an acquisition spree with recent <a href="http://business.financialpost.com/2012/05/01/open-text-announces-us232m-acquisition-of-easylink-services/">acquisition of EasyLink</a>, the sales seems to be enjoying honeymoon with SAP.
Oracle made a daring announcement in Oct 2011 to <a href="https://blogs.oracle.com/webcenter/entry/stop_maintaining_documentum_and_start">swap Documentum platform licences for free</a>. It reflected Oracle's desperation to get a few customers on their side quickly and set a precedent of acquiring rival's customers. The offer was shot down by analysts soon after the announcement, who proved that the clever math of Oracle was nothing but a marketing gimmick and customer didn't really have anything in the offer to be excited about. I haven't also heard if any customer picked-up the Oracle's offer till date. The outlook for Oracle hasn't changed much since then and they still seems to be spending lots of time in just renaming the product again and again (from Stellent to UCM to Webcenter now). Though I have heard few sizeable customer acquisitions by Oracle in recent past, but they have a long way to go in positioning their solution right against the well-established players like IBM, EMC and Microsoft.
IBM has its usual problem, a behemoth which has many dishes in its kitchen and is really confusing customers with the choices it can offer on ECM. It has IBM Content Manager, the Lotus suite and the FileNet ECM, so the sales folks seems to be often giving more than the required choices to customers or competing within. While analysts have rated FileNet BPM better than the rival's case management platforms, its facing competition within, by the Lombardi or Websphere BPM sales folks. Moreover in my experience, IBM is not known for doing justice with software acquisitions and we have a disappointing history of Lotus and Rational acquisitions, which have been fast losing market attention, though being the market leaders in their segment at the time of acquisitions.

Gartner Magic Quadrant for ECM 2012: What to expect?

YikeSite recently hit its 5th birthday milestone and we're taking the opportunity to launch our new API with continued focus on developers.
Here is a list of new additions to our API:
JSON via REST Today we are announcing an expanded JSON/REST API that resellers can use to create websites and manage content entirely via direct calls to the YikeSite web service. This will allow app developers to create fully functioning websites in just a few lines of code. We're really excited about what developers will do with our API and we've put a few integration ideas on our new developers page: <a href="http://www.yikesite.com/developers" target="_blank">http://www.yikesite.com/developers</a> and we have updated our example app showcasing the new features at http://yikesite-api.heroku.com
MetaWeblog XML-RPC Each page in YikeSite comes with out-of-the-box XML-RPC functionality. We have configured each page in a site to behave like its own blog where sub-pages behave like blog posts. Because of the MetaWeblog API, customers can use 3rd party tools such as MarsEdit (http://api.yikesite.com/xml-rpc/3rd-party-apps/marsedit) or have content pushed to it from a content marketing tool such as Intigi (http://api.yikesite.com/xml-rpc/3rd-party-apps/intigi).
“Always On” RSS Each page in a site has an RSS feed. All you need to do is add “.rss” to any page and the RSS feed will return all visible sub-pages. Each sub-page shows up as an entry in any given page's RSS feed.
Customer Signup Notifications Each YikeSite reseller gets to have their own signup form to receive signups to their branded CMS. We notify Mailchimp or Campaign Monitor with the contact details of each signup. If you want to roll your own notifications into your own app, we also support webhooks (http://api.yikesite.com/webhooks).
More Features In addition to the above API features we are pleased to announce the following features:
1. Markdown Editor
Markdown is a markup language that is growing in popularity and allows people to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid HTML. In addition to our simple WYSIWYG editor we have just released a page setting which will allow customers to edit all or a portion of their site's pages using Markdown.
2. WYSIWYG Editor Enhancements
The new simplified WYSIWYG editor features integrated Flickr and YouTube embedding as well as advanced table formatting. And as always, this in-place editor allows the end-user to edit the content and see exactly how it will look while working.

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The Elxis development team are happy to announce the release of the next generation of their CMS, Elxis 4.0 Nautilus. Elxis 4.x is a brand new CMS built with object oriented programming.
Features include:
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<li>Uses PDO as a database layer</li>
<li>Supports multiple sites under one installation (multi-sites)</li>
<li>Extends the use of AJAX</li>
<li>jQuery ready</li>
<li>Mobile ready</li>
<li>XHTML5/HTML5 ready</li>
<li>Small footprint</li>
<li>Optimized for use on large scale sites</li>
<li>Supports logging</li>
<li>Automatic error notification alerts</li>
<li>Integrated web statistics</li>
<li>New Elxis Defender for extra protection against web attacks</li>
<li>APC caching support</li>
<li>New extension types</li>
<li>New search system</li>
<li>Much much more.</li>
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