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

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Walrus CMS is an easy to use intuitive edit-in-place java based content management system. No admin dashboard at all – which makes Walrus rather unique. Walrus uses inline editing – just click and edit, like in your usual document editing software.
Walrus was built from scratch using Spring framework technology and a full stack of other Java frameworks – Hibernate, theTiles, Freemarker.
It's architecture is very lightweight and clear, so it's really easy to extend and integrate. Documentation is included within the demo bundle that is available from their website.
You can also test the online demo as well: <a href="http://walrus.lt">http://walrus.lt</a>

CMS with no admin dashboard? Why not!

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Following the release of new CMS connectors, EntropySoft, a specialist of content integration, released its Content Hub Appliance. Content Hub Appliance is a single platform that provides out-of-the-box connectivity for over 30 applications and comes with the ability to easily transfer documents.
In only a few clicks, an administrator can connect the organization’s document repositories to Content Hub Appliance. The repositories become available to all applications consuming or producing information in the company. This is done in a matter of hours. Content Hub Appliance provides a single point of access to all the connected repositories through the EntropySoft Web Services, CMIS (Web Services and REST implementations), Java, java remote and .Net.
Besides this single point of access, all companies using Content Hub Appliance are saving money thanks to the fact that all connectivity is now shared between applications.
Furthermore, for the past five years, by working with large corporate clients, EntropySoft has developed two domains of expertise that it is ready to share. The first expertise domain is to connect any document management system to any archiving platform; the second one is to synchronize two document repositories. Thanks to content transfer bridge templates that can be provided by EntropySoft, it is now a question of hours to be ready to synchronize two silos or connect applications to an archiving platform.
The virtual appliance can be downloaded from EntropySoft’s support site. It only takes minimal installation and configuration for the virtual machine to be ready to start operating in the customer environment. In a matter of hours, the single point of access is deployed and made-to-measure content transfer bridges can be uploaded to enable document transfers and repository synchronization..
“Large organizations use EntropySoft Content ETL in their environments to manage advanced document transfers. Software vendors use EntropySoft connectors to simplify information access. With Content Hub Appliance, EntropySoft is bringing content integration to a large audience” said Nicolas Maquaire, EntropySoft CEO. “Companies of all sizes will now be able to synchronize silos easily and also archive all documents coming from over 30 different content repositories in a matter of hours.”
The single access point and ability to easily transfer documents are offered by EntropySoft on a monthly subscription basis and a pay-as-you-use model that includes content transfer, archive to and synchronization.
EntropySoft Content Hub Appliance offers a global access to information to your line-of-business applications and shares all your connectivity in one spot. Content Hub Appliance comes with 40 connectors under the hood.
See the demo video at: http://www.entropysoft.net/cms/home/resources/vids
About EntropySoft EntropySoft is a specialist of content integration. EntropySoft’s mission is to connect applications and people to information.
EntropySoft technology is used by large organizations to do their complex document transfers and by software vendors to simplify integration of their products with Enterprise Content Management solutions and cloud repositories. Application fields are numerous: Enterprise Search, BPM, e-discovery, Records Management, Collaboration, Data Loss Prevention, Multi Function Printers etc…
The following leading global organizations chose EntropySoft products: Alfresco, EMC Kazeon, Endeca, IDS Scheer and Symantec.
For more information, visit <a href="http://www.entropysoft.net">www.entropysoft.net</a>

EntropySoft Content Hub Appliance packages a single point of access to information and document transfer features

Are you interested in winning your own copy of the popular publishing platform, <a href="http://www.vivvo.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Vivvo</a>? We are giving away a professional license to one lucky winner.
<h3>What do you get?</h3>
<h4>Vivvo Professional – $295 USD</h4>
As a small online business, you are concerned with scalability and cost of your CMS software. You want software that can scale as your business grows and give you relief from heavy upfront investment on a CMS. Designed especially for small web-based businesses, the Professional Edition caters to the needs of your small size and limited budget. This edition has been carefully designed to give your site users optimum performance at the best cost.
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<li>Single website license</li>
<li>6 months of free updates</li>
<li>$85/yr annual updates/support renewal</li>
<li>Unlimited number of site administrators (or content managers)</li>
</ul>
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The open-source CMS, SilverStripe, has a new version that's been made available. This release solves a number of potential security vulnerabilities:
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<li>Draft pages were visible to unauthenticated users on specifically crafted URLs.</li>
<li>An content author with access to the “Security” section in the CMS could potentially take over an administrator account.</li>
</ul>
These are now fixed in 2.4.2, along with several dozen minor bug fixes.You can review a list of the 100+ changes in <a href="http://open.silverstripe.org/wiki/ChangeLog/2.4.2">the changelog</a>.
<h3>Improved Windows Support</h3>
SilverStripe 2.4.2 offers increased confidence over past versions for running our software on Windows OS when using SQL Server as the database. Previously, you had to run SilverStripe on Linux for all unit tests to pass. As a result of fixing bugs and unit tests, all SilverStripe unit tests now pass when running on Windows. The work includes fixing full-text search for the <a href="http://www.silverstripe.org/microsoft-sql-server-database/">SQL Server database module</a>, fixing windows file path issues along with numerous other bug fixes for the Windows platform done in 2.4.0 and 2.4.1.
<img style="max-width:467px" title="2.4.2-all-tests-pass" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2021/07/2_4_2-all-tests-pass_wcjpj8.png" />
<h3>Other minor improvements</h3>
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<li>Allows Apache to provide better error pages</li>
<li>Improved unit testing reports</li>
<li>Fixed the installer logic for SQLite database</li>
</ol>
More info: <a href="http://www.silverstripe.org">http://www.silverstripe.org</a>

SilverStripe CMS 2.4.2 released

Moodle 2.0 RC1 was released recently, and you can get daily builds from the <a href="http://download.moodle.org/">Moodle download</a> page. <img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/smiley.gif" alt="smile" />
NOTE: this is not the final release yet!
This milestone reflects the fact that the 2.0 feature set is now completely implemented and available in the core code.
You can read more about 2.0 in the <a href="http://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_2.0_Release_Candidate_1_release_notes">Moodle 2.0 RC1 release notes</a>.
The final release should be in a month or so. Until then:
<ul>
<li>all the core developers will continue responding to your feedback and bug reports in the Moodle Tracker and the forums, fixing bugs and improving overall stability,</li>
<li>our testers will also continue working on Moodle 2.0 QA Cycle 2, to re-test all the features in that list, and</li>
<li>we'll be converting all the (rather customised) moodle.org sites to Moodle 2.0</li>
</ul>
More info: <a href="https://moodle.org/">https://moodle.org/</a>

Moodle 2.0 Release Candidate 1

Six Apart, the company responsible for the producing the once popular Movable Type, has been acquired by advertising network, <a href="http://www.videoegg.com">Video Egg</a>.  Six Apart has continued to produce Movable Type over the years but has lost an enormous chunk of it's once strong hold of the blogging/content management market. Most of this due to the introduction of WordPress.
The final straw for Six Apart and <a href="http://www.movabletype.com">Movable Type</a> in my mind came with the introduction of Movable Type 5.. a product that basically took what was good about Movable Type and threw it out the window in a weak attempt to redesign their product and give it a similar look and feel to rival WordPress.
It's been obvious for some time that even the developers of Movable Type were displeased with the 5.0 product line and to prove their displeasure (whether they openly say so or not) they launched <a href="http://openmelody.org/">Melody</a> which is based on MT4.
There is no real mention of the future of Movable Type, they have been careful not to say one way or the other what will happen but considering their lack of interest in the MT product and their huge focus on the media end of their business, I think it best to recommend that if you are on the MT platform, you jump ship while you can.
Not all will agree with me on this one and I'm sure some will be upset but I think one must be realistic in this type of circumstance.
You can read what Six Apart has to say about this here: <a href="http://www.sixapart.com/blog/">http://www.sixapart.com/blog/</a>
It's great for Six Apart that now they have a chance to build upon their media business but I feel it should also be a major concern for those using their publishing platforms.
Disagree? Let me know in the comments.

Six Apart acquired by VideoEgg - Will Movable Type finally bite the dust?

Best Video Experience

Give your audience the best video experience

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Mediaspectrum, Inc.® today introduced Adrenalin, the first complete solution for publishers seeking to create a customized news-reading application for Apple’s iPad and other tablet devices. Adrenalin powers the three pillars of every digital news organization—dynamic content, integrated advertising, and subscription management—and offers publishers a low-risk, low-cost opportunity to establish a powerful presence in the rapidly growing media tablet market.
Now is the time for publishers to position themselves for the future. According to a recent report from International Data Corporation (IDC), worldwide media tablet shipments will jump from 7.6 million units in 2010 to over 46 million units in 2014. This explosive growth will transform the way consumers read and obtain news—and create an entirely new revenue channel for savvy news providers.
Adrenalin enables publishers to quickly and easily enter the media tablet market.
In just a few simple steps, publishers can create a branded iPad application that includes a customized icon, splash screen, and logo. Publisher-selected fonts, colors, and content categories further enhance the application’s distinct look and feel.
Content (including stories, photos, and videos) is managed by Adrenalin CMS, an advanced content management system fed directly from the publisher using XML/RSS feeds. Once a consumer has downloaded the publisher’s app from iTunes, Adrenalin CMS dynamically updates the content based on parameters established—and easily maintained—by the publisher, such as content duration, order of appearance, and more. The Adrenalin News Reader application continuously refreshes content when users are online. For offline use, Adrenalin automatically stores the most recent version for continued access.
As an added option, Adrenalin can also recreate the exact look and feel of print publications with its Replica+ News Reader. Publishers first create the basics of a branded iPad application (icon, splash screen, and logo), then use the Adrenalin system to deliver an exact digital recreation of their print title for iPad readers. Publishers can enhance these digital replicas with additional content, including photos, video, or even video advertising. Using the Replica+ news reader, publishers can quickly and easily grow print subscriptions and upsell digital inventory in the process.
Adrenalin features a fully integrated advertising engine.
Unlike all other iPad applications, Adrenalin features an integrated ad sales system that allows advertisers, agencies, and internal sales teams to directly schedule, target, and manage ad delivery. Ads can be assigned to a single application, selected to run across the entire Adrenalin network of publishers, or targeted to reach a specific group of consumers.
Accessing the ad sales portal is easy, either directly from the publisher’s iPad application or through any standard Web browser. Advertisers achieve increased exposure with less effort. Publishers gain a new revenue stream with larger buys and less unsold inventory—all with little to no additional investment in sales.
Adrenalin offers built-in digital subscription management.
Rather than charge users a one-time fee to download their app, Adrenalin publishers can instead offer digital content subscriptions from within the app itself. Readers download the app for free. Publishers present them with customized subscription packages tailored to meet their needs. By taking advantage of this functionality, publishers develop a recurring revenue stream while capturing critical data about their subscribers.
“As the transition from traditional computing to tablet and mobile devices continues to evolve, publishers are given the rare opportunity to reinvent their businesses,” said Scott Killoh, CEO at Mediaspectrum. “To succeed, these companies must build their mobile strategies on a platform that can handle it all. Adrenalin is that platform, custom-built from fully developed Mediaspectrum technology that is already powering the world’s largest and most demanding media operations. We’ve been doing this successfully for years – Adrenalin is a natural extension that taps into the growth and revenue these new mobile devices promise for publishers and advertisers alike.”
Key components of the new Adrenalin platform:
• Adrenalin News Reader: A full-featured news reader application for the iPad uniquely branded by the publisher. The Adrenalin News Reader allows media companies to deliver consumers an elegant, customized news experience with rich interactive content, including stories, photos, and videos. Content is updated continuously throughout the day. “Breaking News” alerts keep readers abreast of the latest information. Offline users retain access to the most recently updated content.
• Adrenalin Replica+ News Reader: A uniquely branded news reader application for the iPad that delivers an exact digital recreation of a publisher’s print title. Additional photos, videos, and video ads enhance the reader experience. Publishers can claim Replica+ readers as part of their print circulation, increasing this crucial metric and the advertising rates that accompany it.
• Adrenalin CMS: A powerful content management system that provides publishers a world-class interface to create, manage, and assign content; upload and assign photos and videos for distribution; and develop a comprehensive content database. Adrenalin CMS imports content directly from publishers through a simple XML/RSS feed. Once content enters the system, Adrenalin CMS makes it instantly available to the publisher’s uniquely branded iPad application.
• Adrenalin Advertising: The industry’s only integrated advertising engine for mobile news readers that handles both online and offline ad delivery. The Adrenalin Advertising platform allows advertisers, agencies, and consumers to easily schedule, target, and manage advertisements within the publisher’s iPad application or across the entire Adrenalin network of publishers. Adrenalin’s self-service ad sales interface also empowers consumers to instantly become advertisers. Detailed campaign reports (including clicks, impressions, and engagement) provide insights that help measure the success of each campaign.
• Adrenalin Digital Subscriptions: A built-in subscription management system that allows publishers to sell customized subscription packages from within the News Reader application. Adrenalin Digital Subscriptions allows publishers to develop a recurring revenue stream while capturing critical data on their subscribers.
Pricing for the Adrenalin platform varies based on the components selected. It can start as low as zero, with Mediaspectrum charging a small percentage for revenue it helps facilitate.
The solution makes its debut today at DEMO Fall 2010 in Silicon Valley, where Mediaspectrum was hand-selected to formally introduce Adrenalin to the marketplace. Mediaspectrum will also host an Adrenalin Webinar on September 23rd at 2pm ET to introduce the platform to interested publishers. To sign up, please send an email to info@mediaspectrum.net.
About Mediaspectrum
Mediaspectrum’s Cloud Computing Platform is the premier solution for addressing all aspects of multi-channel advertising and editorial content management. We provide a unique environment that encourages media companies to consolidate their legacy solutions into a single, Web-based platform. The Mediaspectrum platform currently helps some of the world’s leading media companies—including the Washington Post, Tribune Company, USA Today and Trinity Mirror—to increase ad revenues, manage content, streamline processes, and improve customer experience. Our products are easy-to-use, fast to deploy, and target every form of print and digital media. Mediaspectrum is headquartered in Burlington, MA and can be found on the Web at <a href="http://www.mediaspectrum.net/">http://www.mediaspectrum.net</a>.

Mediaspectrum launches revolutionary iPad Platform for Publishers

The New York Daily News, the most widely read newspaper in the largest media market in the United States, has signed a contract with Atex for a combined Content Management and Digital Asset Management system that will support all digital and print publishing channels. The Atex system will streamline the digital and print workflows for Daily News newsroom staff, providing a media-neutral environment to manage all Web, mobile, print and archived content.
“The Daily News selected Atex for its ability to deliver a platform-agnostic solution that enables users to access data effortlessly regardless of where that data may physically reside,” said Bill Holiber, Daily News President and CEO. “That flexibility allows us to increase operational efficiency and reduce costs without affecting the quality of the content and products we produce.”
With Atex, the Daily News’ editors will have a single system for all media types, including tablets and mobile devices, allowing content to move effortlessly between editorial platforms. By making content more accessible, the Atex system will accelerate the speed of content creation and editing to produce more stories in less time, including photos, graphics, audio and video content.
For archived content, the integrated Atex Digital Asset Management system will combine and organize published articles, photos, digital and print pages in a single database. This will allow Daily News’ users to search the entire archive from a common user interface, making it easier to find and repurpose content for new digital initiatives.
“We believe in putting control of digital and print workflows directly into the hands of editorial staff,” said Atex Senior Vice President, Peter Marsh. “This philosophy is ingrained in our system architecture and our implementation process. As a result, the Daily News will have an agile newsroom environment that provides a single view of all live and archived content, with the ability to efficiently publish to print editions, NYDN.com, as well as mobile and e-reader channels.”
For more information, please visit the Atex website <a href="http://www.atex.com ">www.atex.com </a>

The New York Daily News partners with Atex to deliver unified publishing environment

Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), the preeminent provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software, today announced the release of Open Text ECM Suite 2010, the largest innovation effort in the company’s history to create the industry’s most comprehensive, fully integrated ECM solution suite.
The unique value of ECM Suite 2010 is its combination of technologies covering all aspects of ECM. Open Text adds wide ranging new functionality linked through numerous integration points covering 90 products and modules, and spanning everything from compliance, business process management and portals to integrated mobile support and enterprise information archiving. The result gives customers the most complete content management system available to handle the vast array of content types, languages, applications, user needs and business processes in their organizations.
ECM Suite 2010 gives organizations the power to move ECM beyond projects or functional deployments, where ECM crosses systems and departments to add greater value, helping to reduce costs and increase productivity. The strength of the ECM Suite is its core services layer — process services, user interface services and the cornerstone of the ECM Suite, the Enterprise Library (formerly Livelink), with integrated archiving, metadata management, search, and records management. All ECM Suite components integrate with this layer. ECM Suite 2010 adds leading capabilities from acquired technologies to further strengthen the ECM Suite:
<ul>
<li>Open Text Portal (from Vignette): Offers a powerful, standards-oriented portal capability that publishes content from the ECM Suite, from processes, from the Web, Open Text Social Communities, and other content sources.</li>
<li>Open Text Web Experience Management (from Vignette): Offers a dynamic Web content management capability for the ECM Suite. It can publish content from the Enterprise Library, Open Text Social Communities and Open Text Media Management. It can also publish into the Portal. Web content can be archived and managed with the ECM Suite.</li>
<li>Open Text Social Communities (from Vignette): Adds dynamic social and community intranet and extranets capabilities to the ECM Suite. Content can also be archived and put under records management.</li>
<li>Open Text Content Analytics, Semantic Navigation (from Nstein): Adds content analytics technology into the ECM Suite, allowing users to find content faster based on its meaning. Semantic Navigation is now also available as part of Web Experience Management.</li>
<li>Open Text Capture Center (from Captaris): Fully integrates imaging and optical character recognition components.</li>
<li>Open Text Media Management (from Artesia): Open Text has also integrated Open Text Media Management with Web Experience Management.</li>
</ul>
“The chaos and risks of content in organizations continues to grow but we’ve focused on innovation to help our customers meet those challenges,” said Open Text Chief Technology Officer Eugene Roman “Over the past several years, Open Text has aggressively moved to a services-based architecture and implemented sophisticated development processes that enable us to quickly and efficiently integrate new and future functionality no matter if organically developed or acquired. As the biggest R&amp;D achievement in Open Text’s history, ECM Suite 2010 will help our customers easily plan their future ECM strategies.”
Innovation: New Capabilities ECM Suite 2010 includes expanded features to improve social collaboration and mobility, manage compliance and enrich the user experience, so users can work faster, while driving productivity and ROI for organizations. Social collaboration is embedded into the fabric of ECM Suite 2010, offering capabilities such as discussions, forums and wikis. Open Text Pulse allows ECM Suite users to engage in microblogging, follow co-workers, share content, find subject-matter experts, all in a compelling interface that helps users be productive. As part of the ECM Suite, these social media capabilities can be fully secured and managed under compliance rules.
John Tropea, Global Facilitator, Communities of Practice from global engineering firm Hatch, said, “I like that Open Text Pulse allows you to interact and build discussions around a document rather than in a separate place like email. All the micro-decisions that went into a deliverable are now recorded by default — the real corporate memory.”
For interoperability with existing content repositories and applications across a large enterprise, ECM Suite 2010 provides support for the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) standard. This allows customers to access content from CMIS-certified systems and content repositories. Likewise, CMIS-compliant applications can access content in the Open Text Enterprise Library.
ECM Suite 2010 also adds support for all three major virtualization environments: VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V and Oracle Virtualization.
Designed for Adoption Knowing the importance of a great experience to drive viral adoption, reduce training, and help users work faster, Open Text made significant user interface changes in ECM Suite 2010 based on the latest Web standards, continuing to make the software more intuitive, customizable and extendable to mobile devices. The new design lets users customize their experience, using custom columns, hiding unnecessary menus and creating personalized filters. To further support user adoption, the search experience has been enhanced, and Open Text has also added facetted browsing, which lets users leverage metadata to navigate through vast volumes of content.
With ECM Suite 2010, Open Text also developed multilingual metadata, language interface switching and the ability for customers to localize the application language to their organization using company-specific dictionaries.
Built for Performance Performance improvements in ECM Suite 2010 also add to user adoption through faster response time, and by serving up relevant content and search results incredibly fast, so that users can quickly navigate and organize content. Open Text also added speed and performance improvements in other areas, for example, in records management where large-scale records dispositions, which used to take 2.5 hours of processing time in benchmark tests, can now be done in 15 seconds, adding to the company's traditional strength in information governance.
Performance improvements at the server level mean that a smaller number of server instances need to be deployed to support the same level of scalability, freeing up capacity for more functional components on the existing infrastructure environment. The thorough optimization of the ECM Suite code results in much higher throughput rates in benchmark tests.
For more information on ECM Suite 2010, go to: <a href="http://www.opentext.com/2/global/sol-products/sol-pro-open-text-ecm-suite.htm">http://www.opentext.com/2/global/sol-products/sol-pro-open-text-ecm-suite.htm</a>
Managing Content in the Cloud Many of the fundamental ideas that drove the development of ECM Suite 2010 are captured in a new ECM book called Managing Content in the Cloud, where Open Text Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer Tom Jenkins talks about how ECM is forever changing the way organizations do business. The book prescribes effective solutions, looks at key technologies, and includes 50 innovator stories of how Open Text users are using the ECM Suite to solve problems. For more information, go to: <a href="http://www.opentext.com/2/global/company/company-ecm-book.htm">http://www.opentext.com/2/global/company/company-ecm-book.htm</a>

Open Text Unveils ECM Suite 2010

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The bsd-licensed HWIOS (<a href="http://hwios.org">http://hwios.org</a>) project was started rougly a year ago to provide an easy-to-use web-UI to the Opensimulator virtual world platform, which is quite hard to control for non-technical users. It was built from ideas and flaws that were gathered and discovered from it's php predecessor WiXTD. HWIOS is a python CMS that's built on top of frameworks like Twisted, Django, JQuery and friends. It's a rather unconventional CMS because it relies solely on XHR and websockets for data(JSON) transport; hence it doesn't use page refreshing.
The CMS offers distributed service management with javascript websocket consoles, an integrated webdav server for sharing Opensim archive files from several servers, a simple JSON chat-app, Opensim region management through a TMS mapping service with Openlayers map controls, and customized simulator configurations. The goal of the project is not exclusively to deliver only a web-ui for Opensim, but for HWIOS to become a general-use collaborative package for both e-learning and e-work purposes.
It's architecture is well suitable to provide realtime collaborative text-features and notification systems in today's applications like a wiki, the forum or news apps. It uses a two-way JSON-RPC router for easy delivering of data from client-server and vice-versa.
Another thing that's interesting to implement is the html5 canvas tag, that can be used for shared whiteboards, visualisation of data structures, and more. The amount of features in HWIOS is still limited because of a lack of developers. The current focus is to finish the wiki system, refactor and comment the code and add internationalisation. Developers who are interested can check out the code from the git repository.

An introduction to HWIOS

The Revolution 2.0.2 release contains over 80 bugfixes or improvements. Here are the highlights:
<ul>
<li>More optimizations to the Manager to improve usability and speed, including faster load times.</li>
<li>Manager tree now remembers where you were on refresh so you don't have to keep clicking the tree.</li>
<li>Improved Rich Text Editor support, especially in multi-context environments.</li>
<li>Improvements Package Management so installing add-ons works correctly and smoothly in most environments.</li>
<li>Improvements to image nails and nail caching in the MODx Browser.</li>
<li>Template Variables using @bindings now work as they should.</li>
<li>Added the ability to tab to the next editable field in System Settings (and other autosaving grids)</li>
<li>Fixed issue where fields revert to original values after save</li>
</ul>
Website: <a href="http://modxcms.com/">http://modxcms.com/</a>

MODx Revolution 2.0.2 Brings a Little More Speed and Lots of Little Fixes

Hotjar - Spot what confuses

Spot what confuses your users with Hotjar & AI

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It's that time again where we post our recommendations to various questions that are posed to us over the month.
This month we're going to provide you with options to consider if you are looking to start your own blog or small business website. Most of the systems we recommend below start off as blog platforms but can easily be extended to suit other CMS requirements.
<h2>Blogging</h2>
While we are certainly aware that WordPress and Blogger are the two most popular blogging platforms on the market, that doesn't mean that they are the best. There are numerous other platforms out there that are worth checking out and we always enjoy finding new ones.
Here are a few recommended content management systems for blogging that we've tried and enjoy.
*Note: The systems below are not just for blogging, they are also very powerful CMS platforms. We simply classified them this way because they perform very well as blog platforms too!
Serendipity (also known as s9y)
Serendipity is an excellent blogging platform and when it comes to functionality, available plugins and stability, is quite a powerful system.  It doesn't stop at blogging, however. Serendipity is a very powerful CMS as well and can (and should) be used for other projects ranging from publishing to serving up your business' website.
Support is excellent and the developers are quick to (safely) adapt your requests which is a rarity in this type of market.
Some of it's features:
<ul>
<li>WYSIWYG and HTML editing</li>
<li>Built-in, powerful media database</li>
<li>Multiple authors, configurable permission/usergroup system</li>
<li>Threaded comments, nested categories, post to multiple categories</li>
<li>Multiple languages (internationalization)</li>
<li>Online plugin and template repository for easy plug-and-play installation</li>
<li>Cool plugins: category-based sub-blogs, podcasting, RSS planet/aggregator, static pages</li>
<li>Robust spam blocking</li>
<li>One-click upgrading from any version</li>
<li>Can be embedded into your existing web pages</li>
<li>Standards-compliant templating through Smarty, remote blogging via XML-RPC</li>
<li>BSD-style licensing</li>
<li>Multiple Database support (SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MySQLi)</li>
<li>Shared installations can power multiple blogs from just one codebase</li>
<li>Native import from earlier blog applications (WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, …)</li>
</ul>
More info: <a href="http://www.s9y.org">Serendipity CMS</a>
<h3>Pixie</h3>
Pixie is a visually attractive, small and simple to use CMS that has been growing well the last few years. It's easy to install, a pleasant experience to use and very stable. Produced by Toggle, there aren't a huge number of plugins and themes but there are plenty to get the job done.
This is a fun system to use and we recommend you give it a whirl and see if it fits your needs. There is a demo available that you can play with, without installing anything.
Some features include:
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<li>Easy to use installer that gives you options as to the site you wish to install. Looking to blog, select the blog package and the CMS will be customized for that purpose. Need a small business site, same applies.</li>
<li>Clean URL's and very good search engine friendly coding allow this CMS to perform well on your favourite search engine.</li>
<li>CSS themes – Pixie makes use of CSS for it's themes which opens up the door to thousands of freely available templates.</li>
</ul>
For more features, visit their website: <a href="http://www.getpixie.co.uk">Pixie CMS</a>
<h3>glFusion</h3>
glFusion is based on Geeklog, which is one of the oldest blogging and article publishing CMS available. Geeklog is a great system and well supported but the team at glFusion have taken things a step farther and provided very adaptable themes, extra plugins and very solid support. In our opinion, they have done a great job taking Geeklog to the next level and we suggest you try their product out if you haven't. It's free of course.
Features include:
<ul>
<li>Standards Based Coded in PHP5 &amp; MySQL, with a dev friendly api.</li>
<li>Granular Security Control access based on custom defined groups.</li>
<li>Multiple Languages Multi-lingual site support, including custom entries.</li>
<li>Comment Integration Comment on multiple types of site content.</li>
<li>Protected Email User email information is never displayed publicly.</li>
<li>Modular Content Blogs, blocks, and pages with WYSIWYG tools.</li>
<li>Solid Documentation Up to date resources for users and developers.</li>
<li>Site Moderation Queue user and content submissions.</li>
<li>Enhanced RSS Feeds Syndicate multiple types of site content.</li>
<li>Unified Search Site-wide search with Google-like results.</li>
</ul>
More info: <a href="http://www.glfusion.org/">glFusion</a>
<h3>Textpattern</h3>
Looking for a little versatility to go with your coffee? Textpattern is the product for you. Designed to use template tags, this system is incredibly versatile. There are very few things that cannot be done with Textpattern. It takes a little getting used to but once you try it, it's hard to use anything else.
Not only is this system incredibly small but it's very, very fast. The admin interface can easily be themed and designing a system exactly the way you want is not difficult. There are plenty of plugins and the TXP community is a very active one.
Features include:
Just write
<ul>
<li>Direct, easy to follow interface</li>
<li>Quick conversion of plain text to valid XHTML with Textile</li>
<li>Browser-based organization and upload of files and images</li>
<li>Articles can be protected with a password</li>
<li>Adjustable date/time stamps on articles</li>
</ul>
Design freedom
<ul>
<li>Flexible engine for all kinds of websites, from blogs to corporate sites</li>
<li>Unlimited site sections, page layout and styling</li>
<li>Browser-based template and CSS editing</li>
<li>Human friendly, XML-like templating tag language</li>
<li>Standards compliant by default</li>
</ul>
Secure and stable
<ul>
<li>Anti-spam comment system that works well</li>
<li>Thoroughly tested by the community before each release</li>
<li>Small disk and memory footprint</li>
<li>GPL source code</li>
<li>Based upon popular open source components like PHP, MySQL and jQuery</li>
</ul>
Easy to manage
<ul>
<li>Unlimited site authors can be assigned a variety of posting, editing and design privileges</li>
<li>Human-readable clean URLs help SEO and visitors</li>
<li>Unlimited article, link, file and image categories</li>
<li>Import content from other content management and blog systems</li>
<li>Up-to-the-minute visitor logs</li>
</ul>
Excellent support
<ul>
<li>Forum is renowned for its friendly, helpful community</li>
<li>Developers listen and solve problems</li>
<li>In-depth <a href="http://textpattern.net/">wiki documentation</a></li>
<li>Textpattern is available in over 40 languages, and growing</li>
</ul>
An extensible platform
<ul>
<li>Versatile plugin concept</li>
<li>Wide range of plugins provides many extra functions</li>
<li>Plugin installation and maintenance is simple: Copy, paste and activate</li>
<li>Browser-based plugin installation and maintenance</li>
<li>Plugins are simple to write, document and publish with the standard code template or the plugin composer</li>
</ul>
Sounds like something you'd like to try? Check it out at <a href="http://www.textpattern.com">Textpattern CMS</a>.
That's it for this month. If you haven't tried these systems and you are in the market, they are all free and we recommend you give them a whirl. That's why we love content management so much.. there are tons of great choices out there. Don't be afraid to explore and share your opinions.
If you have one you think is a great product that we should know about, drop us a line (either <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/contact/">here</a> or in the comments) and we'll take a look into it.

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