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Agentic AI for Agencies in 2026

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Whether you're looking to create your very own version of Facebook, a fan site, an education project or even a formal company social network, Oxwall has all the tools you need.
Oxwall was crowned the winner of our <a href="/peoples-choice-winner-for-best-social-networking-solution-is/#.UnbSBvkvlyU" target="_blank">2012 People's Choice for Best Social Networking Solution </a> , and was also nominated within the same category for our most <a href="/2013-people-s-choice-winner-for-best-social-networking-solution/#.UnbaJ_kvlyU" target="_blank"> recent CMS awards</a>.
Their platform offers a sleek solution to social networking, and also enables you to add functionality via various plugins, which compliment the powerful admin panel already in place. Let's take a close look.
<h2>Take Charge of Your Community</h2>
With Oxwall, you can build an online community from the ground upwards, just the way you want it. You can then exercise complete control across a number of a different areas of the website and community.
Things like menus, pages, blogs and forums can call be customized to your liking, simply by using Oxwall's drag-and-drop system to create navigation menus and organise different social modules on each of your pages.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/33.png" alt="Oxwall" />
Oxwall even enables you to create user types, giving each one specific privileges and restrictions. This opens the door to paid membership schemes, where users of your social network can pay a fee to access more content, or even to share their own.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/2.png" alt="Oxwall" /> 
What's more is, your Oxwall admin panel comes bundled with built-in Google Analytics, an advert manager, access to your website's code, and much more.
<h2>Connect in Style</h2>
When it comes to socializing, Oxwall provides some pretty useful features. You can set up your own pages and modules to encourage users to interact, or even give those same users the freedom to submit content themselves.
For example, groups can be created by users which revolve around specific subjects. Different users can then come together and join these groups, and discuss the topic at hand. Groups can be listed by both popularity and age, whilst owners of the group can send out invitations.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/5700x0.png" alt="Oxwall" />
Additionally, and perhaps most impressively, your Oxwall website can have a main dashboard, where things like user uploaded photos, videos and blog posts are all displayed together in modules, alongside upcoming events, and even a list of all other users currently online.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/6700x0.png" alt="Oxwall" /> 
To top off the social integration features offered by Oxwall, a built-in chat feature also exists, allowing users to talk in privately if they wish, away from the eyes of other users.
<h2>Develop, Customize &amp; Grow</h2>
Making your social network unique will be your toughest job, but thankfully, Oxwall has it all covered once again.
You can start to customize your website by browsing through the <a href="http://www.oxwall.org/store/themes" target="_blank">Oxwall Themes Store</a>, where you can find a healthy number of themes, the vast majority of which are free. Each theme appears professionally polished, and have been built with Oxwall's social features in mind.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/4700x0.png" alt="Oxwall" />
If you would like to delve into the code of your chosen theme, you can. This allows you to customize and even expand your website even further, in any way you like. That unrestricted ability to add your own personal touch to your online community is precisely what Oxwall is all about. Simply put, you're in control – all the time.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/7700x0.png" alt="Oxwall" />
The icing on the socially shared cake is most certainly Oxwall's plugins. Found within the <a href="http://www.oxwall.org/store" target="_blank">Oxwall Plugin Store</a>, you can search through a vast array of extensions and applications which can enable your website to mimic the functions of other popular social networks, add functionality to existing modules, automate maintenance, and so forth.
All in all, Oxwall offers a pretty extensive approach to building online communities, giving you complete freedom thanks to it's free and open-source nature.
If you're interested in Oxwall, you can find out more about the community building platform <a href="http://www.oxwall.org/" target="_blank"> via their website</a>. Or, you can skip right to their <a href="http://www.oxwall.org/download" target="_blank">official download page</a>.
Additionally, you can check out some information about <a href="/products/oxwall/" target="_blank"> Oxwall via our CMS Directory</a>.

Grow a Thriving Online Community with Oxwall

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The latest iteration of elcomCMS is now available. elcomCMS 9 features new integration points with leading applications such as Marketo, Salesforce.com, SugarCRM, Box and Google Drive. In addition, new core enhancements have been completed which make it easier for the non-technical users to create better, more engaging content.
This new release is built around 6 areas:
<h3>Marketing Automation via the Marketo Connector</h3>
The new Marketo Connector provides the ability to synchronise lead, contact and membership information collected in elcomCMS with Marketo. Organisations will benefit from streamlined lead generation, lead nurturing and ROI management.
<img style="display:block;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/elcomcms_9_-_1817x0.png" alt="elcomcms_9_-_1" />
<h3>CRM Integration – Salesforce and SugarCRM Connectors</h3>
elcomCMS is now connected with market leading CRMs, Salesforce and SugarCRM to provide seamless contact and relationship management. Create web-to-lead forms from within elcomCMS and synchronise data with your preferred CRM to bridge the gap between sales and marketing.
<h3>Learning Management</h3>
Great new features have been added to the elcomCMS Training Manager Module. The module now offers the ability to manage refresher, CPD and repeat training through automated rescheduling. Enhancements to the user experience and SCORM management have also been made.
<h3>Social</h3>
iPhone and iPad, Apple device users will be excited to learn that Elcom has released a new elcomCMS Mobile App. The app allows elcomCMS intranet and portal users to chat with their social connectors and groups from anywhere at any time.
<img style="display:block;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/elcomcms_9_-_2_png.jpg" alt="elcomcms_9_-_2" />
Crowdsourcing has also been introduced in elcomCMS 9 with the new Social Q&amp;A module. The module offers users the ability to ask and answer questions, all within a secure and managed environment.
<h3>Cloud Docs</h3>
Elcom has extended their library of cloud connectors with new Box and Google Drive Connectors, so organisations can collaborate and share documents using the applications that they know and love.
<h3>Key Enhancements</h3>
A significant number of core publishing enhancements have been made to elcomCMS. New functionality includes a new Carousel feature, improved video support, A new Document List explorer, extension of Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft Office and Ephox Connectors and more.
Commenting on the latest release, Anthony Milner, Elcom’s Product Director said “It’s certainly an exciting time for Web Content Management. elcomCMS 9 continues to add new productive features for your digital ecosystem making it powerfully simple for you to unleash marketing, social and document management capabilities in the enterprise. If you work in Marketing, HR or Information Management you now have a best of breed integrated toolset for enhancing user engagement and delivery of information and services.”
To find out more about Elcom please visit <a href="http://www.elcomCMS.com">www.elcomCMS.com</a>

Elcom releases elcomCMS 9, featuring core enhancements and improved integrations

Top JAMstack Static Site Generators for 2021

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Set for release in Spring 2015, <a href="https://thegrid.io/" target="_blank">The Grid</a> is not another do-it-yourself website builder, according to its website anyway.
Instead, The Grid is the first cloud-hosted platform to bring artificial intelligence into the realm of web design. The brainy algorithm that powers it enables you to simply add content like text, images, videos and products, and The Grid will just know what to do with it all, automatically. 
It knows how to arrange it, how to present it, what colour it should be, how large it should be and more. The Grid will even evolve as you add more content, without you having to tinker with any code or settings. It works it all out by its lonesome. The following video will explain things a little further.
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Pretty amazing, right? 
<h2>Content Dictates Form</h2>
The aim of The Grid is to revolutionize the way websites are created and maintained. 
Instead of selecting a rigid template and adding content to it, The Grid hopes to be an organic pool of creativity, where the users content dictates the way the website looks and works. It's all about reacting to what the user wants. 
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-1700x0.jpg" alt="The Grid" /> For example, The Grid is interested in what you want your site to do. You can set a purpose – like gaining email subscribers – and The Grid will automatically optimize your website for the job at hand. It will even implement subtle A/B tests over time, until it eventually hits the digital sweet spot. 
Users don't have to worry about touching any code either, but if getting down and dirty with code is your thing, then The Grid is 
<h2>Filters, Not Templates</h2>
The team behind The Grid aren't fond of templates. They much prefer Filters. Design should be, “content-driven, not template-driven”, they say.
Filters will act as the starting point for The Grid. You choose one, add your content, and watch it build on the filter's foundations. On top of automatic aesthetics, The Grid's layout filters automatically handle SEO optimizations using your content to auto-create site descriptions, page descriptions, page titles, and so forth.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-w700x0.jpg" alt="The Grid" />
users can select different layout filters with a personalized look and feel. In the future, designers can also extend a design to fully customize it to a specific brand or look and feel, and developers can extend a layout filter
The Grid doesn't use templates, only layout filters, since design should be content-driven, not template-driven. The general release to Founding Members will come with a handful of layout filters.
our layout filters automatically handle SEO optimizations using your content (e.g. auto created site description, page descriptions, page title in url, etc).
<h2>A Test of Intelligence?</h2>
As I watched The Grid's intro video (above) for the first time, I was highly impressed. Excited, even. 
But by the time I finished watching and browsing The Grid website, I was slightly skeptical about how intelligent The Grid would prove to be in the long run. 
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/tiled700x0.jpg" alt="The Grid" />
If The Grid automatically generates websites, and then continues to evolve along with whatever the user adds in terms of content, just how unique will the average Grid website be? Especially since they will all start off from a finite number of filters — which, let's be honest, may as well be called templates.
If two people select the same template and add similar content (for example, they both want to blog about technology), will The Grid create two identical websites? If not, how different will these two tech blogs be realistically? Will there be easy design settings to help users customize their website without delving into code? 
Because of this potential issue, I think more needs to be said about The Grid's general setup and customization options. On the other hand, I could simply be underestimating the intelligence of The Grid when it comes to creating websites. I guess time will tell how clever it really is. 
Intrigued? You can <a href="https://thegrid.io/" target="_blank">sign up to The Grid for $96 per year</a>, locking your subscription at $8 per month forever and ensuring early access before full release.

The Grid: Artificial Intelligence Meets Web Design (Or Does It?)

There are way too many extensions in the Joomla directory to truly make a Top 10 list since so many of them are excellent.
We do, however, have some favourite we thought we'd share in order to help them get some more exposure.
Here they are in no particular order or ranking:
#1 – JomSocial 
JomSocial is an excellent addon reminiscent of Community Builder in that it provides some very cool add on functionality that turns Joomla! into a more social environment. JomSocial has quite a few options and we find it a bit more attractive in that it seems to blend well into the system and provide for a more attractive look.
<img style="max-width:489px" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/splash_image_2.png" alt="jomsocial" />

Our Top 10 Favourite Joomla Extensions

<a href="http://modxcms.com">MODx CMS</a> has continually been gaining in popularity over the years and we thought it would be interesting to touch base with the founder of this great CMS and get his thoughts on the project, how it started and where it's going. Read on!
Please tell us a bit about yourself and your background.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2021/07/ryan_400x400.jpg" alt="Ryan Thrash" />
I grew up in Tyler, a small East Texas town with my parents and younger brother. In 1994 I moved to Dallas, TX, where I went to college to get a business degree at SMU. Years after graduating I was set up on a blind date with the gorgeous woman that I managed to convince to marry me, now happily so for 11 years. I am fortunate to have an incredibly supportive partner that keeps a crazy entrepreneur of 20+ years in line when needed. We have a daughter (4), a son (8) and our new puppy that arrived this Christmas.
Professionally, I come from the print world having started a pre-press and ad production shop which I owned for roughly a dozen years. While I love amazing typography, white space and beautiful proportions, I definitely don’t miss the CMYK world.
People often ask how the print-world translated into the CMS software business. My first introduction to programming was when I began hacking on mainframes in the in 4th grade at a summer class for kids at a nearby community college. While I am certainly not a developer in the true sense of the word—especially since CSS actually makes sense to me—I do know what can be accomplished. I’ve always been the lead tech at my business and, starting in the mid-90s, I started poking around with what was then PHP-FI at my pre-press shop.
My first taste of open source was osCommerce, where I was involved in that community for a while. I followed that by being part of the original 10 or so early people with ZenCart, dabbled with Mambo and Etomite, and finally started what turned out to be MODX. It was certainly not a plan, but it’s been my career for the last 7+ years.
How did MODX come to be?
In 2004 I was looking for a CMS that would let me escape the then prevalent table-based layouts and style sites with lean markup and CSS. Back then bandwidth mattered and I had ported osCommerce to output semantic markup and saw huge reductions in rendering times; from then on I was sold.
I also wanted a platform that made creating login-protected content straightforward, that my clients could pick up and use to manage their sites without breaking things and that they could learn within an hour. Needless to say, it didn’t exist. As such, I teamed up with a small group of people including Raymond Irving and Jason Coward who had similar goals and we started our journey to achieve some very specific goals:
<ul>
<li>Provide a simple template system that used standards-based (X)HTML/CSS and that didn’t inhibit design or site structures in any way.</li>
<li>Let users quickly build login-protected site content.</li>
<li>Create a sensible, robust and extensible API that developers could use to extend or override the platform without having to hack the core.</li>
<li>Allow people to organize content in a logical and understandable manner.</li>
<li>Avoid the tortuous or extended learning curves found in many other CMSes.</li>
<li>Work equally as well for basic marketing websites as it would for more complex applications.</li>
</ul>
We first released MODX in the wild in 2005, and it was exhilarating to watch people resonate with our work. Our first Packt Award for Most Promising Open Source CMS came in 2007, a big encouragement for turning a passion into a profession.
In 2010 we formed a company around MODX to give it our full-time attention. This past year I hired our CEO to focus on strategic business issues, freeing the rest of the team to focus on three key areas: Community, MODX Complete (support &amp; maintenance for businesses) and MODX Cloud, which is simply going to be an incredible platform—and which I’d love to talk about with you more at a later date.
We’re looking forward to meeting lots of people at CMS Expo this year, which we consider our first big launch. It’s kind of funny given that we already have hundreds of thousands of sites powered by MODX, amazing partners and some great traction.
Why the name MODX?
MODular and eXtendable. Or something like that … really it was a working name that originally was going to be Tattoo CMS with the tagline of “Make Your Mark” and a hand print logo, but that got shelved and the MODX moniker stuck. We love it now.
What are the distinct differentiators between Evolution and Revolution for those unaware?
MODX Revolution, “Revo” for short, is the newer, completely rewritten version of our classic code base. Revo kept the same paradigms from MODX Evolution, but executed in Object Oriented PHP using a database layer that enables MODX to also run on Microsoft SQL Server. It gives developers the ability to override and extend Revo to achieve the exact functionality any project requires, without requiring upgrade-blocking “hacks” to the core.
Not only do you get both custom functionality and an upgrade path to the next version, but this new version also offers more control, the ability to create complex applications and integrations that would have been impossible with Evo. Scaling to hundreds of millions of page views is entirely possible with Revo, for instance. You can extend the caching layer to use Memcache or Membase, sessions to use Redis or some other highly-perfomant flavor du jour of the latest technology hotness.
MODX Evolution is perfect for small marketing-dominated websites or on an inexpensive, resource-constrained shared server without too many pages. Revolution can still be used for smaller sites but allows significantly more complex development, integrations and virtually unlimited content. MODX Revolution is where the focus of development activity is for us, however, we will continue to provide guidance, patches and releases for Evolution as needed.
What makes MODX unique?
MODX makes it incredibly easy to use any design one can dream up for their website and do so without having to code—in fact we can confidently claim MODX support HTML7 and CSS5 already today. It does so while separating how a site looks from how it functions. Users of all backgrounds find MODX easy to publish their content with confidence. What further sets it apart is that the MODX management interface can be completely customized for the users and tailored to the content. This ensures that people who use MODX daily to manage a site can easily use the tool and train others quickly as needed.
What do you feel is the main reason people use it as their CMS?
MODX truly empowers creative people to have 100%, pixel-perfect control of how sites look without ever having to write a single line of PHP. You can use any flavor of HTML/CSS/JS you want and you don’t have to worry about diving into a theming system, mixed templates/code or coming to grips with taxonomies or limited categories. We also have a great track record for security, with very few critical issues surfacing since inception.
Can you direct to any significant sized implementations that you are aware of?
Complex.com currently serves about 100-million page views a month and is tracking towards 150-million by December 2012. MODX.com also serves quite a bit of traffic with a ton of complex back end infrastructure supporting all our sites. We are firm believers that our main marketing site should run on our software, constantly pushing to make it a better solution.
Which site do you feel makes the best use of MODX’s features?
MODX.com itself has many custom integrations and components. Our custom single sign on application is tied to a Mongo DB store. Our forums are built using the MODX API and handle tens of thousands of users with about half a million posts. We use our native blogging Extra called “Articles” for our news, announcements and blogging, and we have eCommerce transactions tied to FoxyCart and to Recurly.
We also have the back-end infrastructure in place for a MODX leaderboards platform that we’ve been testing for months, an internal dashboard, a live map showing when users download something or post in the forums (or anything else that will move them up the leaderboard), integration with Redmine for product management, and a lot more. We’re also working on a Certified MODX Professional program which will use another MODX Extra to handle exams and dynamically generating completion certificates PDF.
Is there a commercial offering of the CMS? How does the organization bring in funding?
MODX software is open source and will always remain free for anyone to download and to use—we’re 100% committed to open source. MODX the company offers turn key post-launch support and maintenance as well professional services working collaboratively with MODX Partners and large organizations to complete any phase of a MODX based project.
Later this year we will launch a new platform for web developers—anchored by MODX Revolution—called “MODX Cloud”. It’s a major game changer for people that build or manage websites, especially for creative or marketing organizations.
Who are the key contributors to the project? Can you tell us a bit about them?
Jason Coward and Shaun McCormick have done the majority of the development on MODX Revolution, and they both work for MODX. In the community there are hundreds of contributors who report bugs and submit pull requests to our GitHub repository. Highlights that immediately come to mind include Bob Ray, author of MODX: The Official Guide, Susan Otwell in Israel, and Stephane Boulard in France who improved the back-end Manager UI tremendously.
For MODX Evolution, the Russian and Japanese communities do a tremendous job of maintaining the software. Mike Schell, another one of our Senior Developers at MODX, vets the contributions and handles the releases.
If people want to get involved in the project, how can they do so?
There are many ways to get involved with MODX for people of all skill levels and from any location. The most basic thing people can do to contribute to MODX is let us know when something needs to be fixed or improved upon, or by requesting new features in our project tracker. This isn’t limited to just our software, if people find issues on our forums, in the documentation or anywhere on modx.com we love to hear about it so we can make it better. On that note, we can always use help improving our documentation. Developers and designers can contribute code through GitHub. To get involved contributing code don’t forget to sign a Contributor License Agreement first.
The MODX community forums of over 38,000 users is a welcoming, positive and supportive place to dig into MODX. Answering even the simplest of questions is an incredible way to master MODX, make friends and find collaborators. Most of the team at MODX came to our attention from the forums.
Finally, this past year there have been over a dozen meet-ups all over the world. We are committed to seeing our International interaction grow exponentially this year and we’re going to dedicate time and money to this. It’s a great way for MODXers to share experiences and find collaborators.
Final thoughts you may have or parting comments.
Thanks for giving us a chance to talk about MODX. We’ve been hiding in plain sight for a few years now and it’s time to change that!
I think what is truly special about MODX compared to most open source projects is that we are very friendly to commercial interests. In other words, while we are ardent proponents of open source, we are certainly not zealots. In fact I wrote a blog post on this a while ago. We certainly encourage people to license their work under an OS licence at MODX, but we also don’t hold it against them if they chose to do otherwise.
In other words, we don’t view open source as an all-or-nothing proposition. If you don’t modify the core application or use the public APIs to create something cool on top of MODX—like an amazing template or an Extra that enhances how MODX works—we think you should be able to license that however you wish. We don’t think MODX’s GPL license should “virally infect” everything that touches it and in turn dictate the license under which you release your IP. As such we’re in a great position to build an incredible commercial ecosystem around MODX Extras and Themes that is incredibly developer/designer-friendly. More on that in late 2012!

Interview with Ryan Thrash of MODx CMS

When it comes to eCommerce solutions, they need to be able to handle high load, a high number of transactions and do it all without flinching. This is where powerful enterprise ecommerce solutions come into play.
Today, we're going to announce the winner of the 2014 People's Choice CMS Award for Best Enterprise eCommerce Solution.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/best_ecommerce_solution_for_enterprise200x0.png" />
Contenders this year were <a href="/products/bigcommerce">BigCommerce</a>, Shopify and Prestashop.
The winner this year was Prestashop.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/prestashop-logo_400x100_2.png" />
They took the lead early on and refused to let it go, which makes this a double whammy this year with their other win as <a href="/the-winner-of-the-2014-peoples-choice-cms-award-for-best-ecommerce-solution-for-smb/">Best eCommerce Solution for SMB</a>
The runner up this year was <a href="/products/bigcommerce">BigCommerce</a>.
Congratulations to the team at Prestashop on their double win. Obviously your customers love you and so do our readers!

The Winner of the 2014 People's Choice CMS Award for  Best eCommerce Solution for Enterprise

SocialEngine has been around for a few and we've enjoyed trying it out and seeing it develop into a more and more powerful system as the years go by. We decided to share the experience with our readers and show you the true power this system possesses. If you are looking for a system that's affordable and works well as a social networking product.. then this is definitely a very solid choice and one of the better options on the market today. It's also very reasonably priced at about $250 for a license. Let's examine it in today's SocialEngine Review
Here's how the install process looks for those interested:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/socialengine1.png" alt="SocialEngine Review" />
Now that you have your login information, you can proceed to the control panel and get started by playing around with it.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/socialengine4.png" alt="SocialEngine Review" />
Above you can see the default look of the system before you do any modifications. Let's create an account and play a bit shall we?
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/socialengine6.png" alt="SocialEngine Review" />
SocialEngine also has a number of plugins which can be installed and configured for use. Plugins are available for between $30 to $50  depending on the plugin. In this case, we have all of the plugins that are not third party.
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There is some pretty amazing functionality built into SocialEngine. Let's install some of the plugins and see how they work/look.
Here is the compose screen from the blog editor. once installed, it's fully functional and works very well. Looks like it uses TinyMCE by default.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/socialengine-blog.png" alt="SocialEngine Review" />
Here is a screenshot of the classifieds section (once the module has been installed). This particular module is a great way to monetize your site as well should you choose.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/socialengine-classified.png" alt="SocialEngine Review" />
This plugin is for music uploads. One comment on it would be that it lacks an effective admin entry and there doesn't appear to be an easy way to modify the number of files or file sizes (that I could find).
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/socialengine-music.png" alt="SocialEngine Review" />
And finally, the last plugin we tested was the videos plugin. It works beautifully with Youtube and uploads.
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Overall, We'd say this is one heck of a great collection of modules and software that can be used to put together one heck of a killer social network.
It's easy to theme and easy to customize as well so you can create your own unique look without much effort. For the cost they are charging for this, you could put together an amazingly well equipped social network with very minimal effort.
The admin panel is incredibly straight forward and simple as well.
The SocialEngine team has done an outstanding job on this great product. It's no wonder it has such a large number of users.
<a href="/social-engine" target="_blank">Check out SocialEngine</a>

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SocialEngine Review - Is it Good Enough for your Social Network?

Shopify - The global commerce platform

Build your business with Shopify to sell online, offline, and everywhere in between.

The global commerce platform

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Not everyone uses JAVA or .NET as their platform of choice and for this reason, we included some additional categories this year to account for all of the other CMS built with programming languages that don't get as much attention.
Today, we're going to announce the winner of the People's Choice CMS Award for Best Enterprise CMS (Other Langs).
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/best_enterprise_cms_other_languages200x0.jpg" />
This year the contenders were Mura CMS, Plone CMS and Paperthin Commonspot.
The win this year, however, goes to <a href="http://www.getmura.com/">Mura CMS</a>!
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/mura_cms200x0.png" />
The runner up this year was Plone.
Congratulations to the team at <a href="http://www.getmura.com/">Mura</a> on their win. It's clear that when it comes down to excellence in the world of CFML based CMS, Mura CMS is the top dog and they should be proud of their win. This clearly shows that not only do their customers love them, so do our readers. Congratulations to all contenders this year as well.

The Winner of the 2014 People's Choice CMS Award for Best Enterprise CMS (Other Langs)

It's time to update WordPress again.
WordPress 4.5 has just landed, and it brings about some useful updates that make content editing easier, and customization a little smoother.
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<a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/wordpress-4-5-customizer-experience/">I praised WordPress 4.5 back in March 2016</a>, when features were still being tested in the beta stage.
That was in contrast to my <a href="/wordpress-4.4-beta-bare-bones/" target="_blank">coverage of WordPress 4.4, where I labelled the update as a bare bones excuse for a semi-major update</a>, and also through my article entitled; “<a href="/how-wordpress-needs-to-improve-itself/" target="_blank">How WordPress Needs to Improve Itself (In 6 Ways)</a>“.
WordPress has continued its tradition of naming its major releases after Jazz musicians, with this version getting the title of “Coleman”, after Coleman Hawkins.
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<h2>Inline Links &amp; New Customizer Features</h2>
Adding links to text is something that happens two or three times throughout most articles before you hit the Publish button.
Before today, you would highlight the desired text, then click the “insert/edit link” button on the toolbar. This would bring up a window, allowing you to paste your URL in.
Now, there is no window. Instead, a small inline popup appears, allowing you to paste a link in, or type in the title of existing posts on your website.
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So, internal linking is a little easier, and linking in general is much improved thanks to this subtle interface change.
As for Customizer, you can now use it to preview your website via different screen sizes. You can test how your website looks on desktop, tablet and mobile devices.
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Furthermore, you can now insert your logo into your theme (if the theme supports it) directly through Customizer.
By my estimation, that's two very welcome, and very overdue Customizer features.
<h2>Formatting Shortcuts, Smart Image Resizing &amp; More</h2>
WordPress 4.5 also brings about some nice formatting shortcuts. For example, typing “—” on a new line inserts a horizontal line, as shown in the GIF below.
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Also, resized images (WordPress automatically resizes images when you upload them) now load up to 50% faster with “no noticeable quality loss”. That sounds pretty sweet to me.
The other features of WordPress 4.5, which are mostly “under the hood”, bacn be found on WordPress's <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2016/04/coleman/">official blog announcement</a>.

WordPress 4.5 Streamlines Editing, Enhances Customizer

If compare rookies with no coding experience and web developers whose job is creating websites in a professional manner, you will come to a reasonable conclusion. Though both groups of users employ different methods to go online, they tend to achieve maximum results with minimum efforts. 
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For this reason, MotoCMS released Skyline – a <a href="https://www.motocms.com/website-templates/motocms-3-template/63777.html" target="_blank">new website template</a> that provides its owner with limitless functionality possibilities, requires minor expenses of resources and fits any possible business. 
<h2>Drag &amp; Drop Block Editor</h2>
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The primary feature that reflects the ease of a website customization process with Skyline is the drag &amp; drop Block Editor in the <a href="https://www.motocms.com/" target="_blank">website builder</a> from MotoCMS. It will do good for an amateur who needs facility for creating a professional website, as well as for an expert who requires a simple tool to churn out several websites at the same time. Just pick any block in the list and drop it on a page to start customizing the layout.
<h2>100+ Content Blocks</h2>
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Skyline combined more than one hundred blocks with ready-made content, so you could have dozens of possible layout variations to choose from. All blocks are divided into categories according their purpose. 
<h2>20 Ready-to-Use Pages</h2>
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Skyline is a perfect website template for highlighting each part of your business because it is really hard not to find a particular page for a particular goal. Introduce your company to the full with the enormous number of pages: 
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<li>Home</li>
<li>About Us,</li>
<li>Contact Us</li>
<li>Careers</li>
<li>Team</li>
<li>Profile</li>
<li>Services</li>
<li>Single Service</li>
<li>Gallery</li>
<li>Projects</li>
<li>Customers</li>
<li>Privacy Policy</li>
<li>Events</li>
<li>Single Event</li>
<li>Testimonials</li>
<li>Prices</li>
<li>503</li>
<li>FAQ</li>
<li>Blog</li>
<li>Contacts</li>
</ul>
<h2>4 Additional Home Pages</h2>
Another feature for both expert website creators and first-timers to benefit from Skyline is the set of extra home pages: Skyline Black, Dentist, House Construction and Travel. 
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If you are related to one of the niches, do not be shy to set one of Skyline’s additional home pages and, thus, create your website faster in many times. As for web developers, if you are among them, take advantage of these extra mockups to make websites for various businesses and save a tremendous amount of time you spend on completing the project.
<h2>Professional Blog</h2>
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A blog is still a must-have for any website owner, taking the own job seriously. Skyline includes the ready-made functionality for creating a professional blog that have all the odds to bring the lion’s share of traffic to your web resource. Add new posts, publish and edit them easily with an intuitive interface of the MotoCMS admin panel in your copy of Skyline.
<h2>SEO Settings</h2>
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Get tools to optimize your website page by page. Enter necessary keywords, titles, descriptions and ALTs for images, add 301 redirects of any URL registered under your site domain, hide or reveal pages for search engines to index them, set Hide Canonical and No-follow attributes and more.
<h2>Responsive Design</h2>
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To provide the audience of your website with a positive user experience, it should be available on each platform and web browser. Skyline is a responsive website template that automatically fits any smartphone and tablet. So you don’t have to develop an extra version for mobile devices because you already got one that can guarantee the users of your web portal a high usability level.
<h2>24/7 Customer Support</h2>
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Whether you need an expert advice, you are new to the website creation process or just want to get more details that concern your website and the admin panel from MotoCMS, contact the MotoCMS support center that is available 24/7 and free of charge during one year. 
<h2>Skyline Free Test</h2>
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Became interested in Skyline? Go ahead and <a href="https://www.motocms.com/website-templates/motocms-3-template/63777.html" target="_blank">test Skyline free of charge</a>. Log in to the MotoCMS admin panel with Skyline right now with your email or social media account. Test the CMS and the template before launching your website and if you like the final result, the specialists will transfer all demo progress for you to get a ready-made website.

Push The Limits of Developing a Website with Skyline From MotoCMS

Evidently, Squarespace has noticed a trend within its customer base. Namely, that lots of Squarespace users are running three or more Squarespace websites at once.
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Why else would they put together <a href="http://circle.squarespace.com/">Squarespace Circle</a>, an exclusive club for those users who run at least three Squarespace instances.
Aimed at the developer community, Squarespace Circle members will get some perks that make building websites for clients more manageable.
<h2>The Inner Circle</h2>
Here's a look at some of those perks, that only those with multiple Squarespace websites can access (<a href="http://Squarespace Circle">by signing in at the Squarespace Circle website</a>).
<h4>Six-month trial periods</h4>
Firstly, and perhaps most interestingly, Squarespace Circle members will have extended trial periods of up to six-months for all new projects.
That's a massive step up from the two week trial extended to everyone else using Squarespace.
<h4>Optimized Customer Care</h4>
Squarespace is offering Circle members “optimized customer care”. They haven't divulged the details of this supposed optimization, though.
<h4>Exclusive content</h4>
Squarespace is developing exclusive advanced guides, marketing materials and product release notes to help Circle members produce better websites and grow their business.
<h2>More Than Just Circle Time</h2>
Squarespace has already announced that they're working to make Squarespace Circle a serious resource and information hub for developers.
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“Squarespace Circle is growing. We’ll be listening closely and looking for new ways to improve your workflow, help you sell your services, and connect you with each other.”
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I can't help but feel a little bit excited about this whole development.
I've always seen Squarespace as one of the best website builders around, but I've always wondered about how tough it would be to run a web design agency that deals solely with Squarespace.
Before Squarespace Circle, you essentially had two weeks to build and present your client his website before payment was due for the first month. Now that is one epic time constraint.
But now I can definitely see how more developers and professional web designers will be attracted to Squarespace as along term solution for their existing and future clientèle.
Also, it's nice to see that Squarespace aren't charging a fee here. It feels more like a reward for being a serial Squarespacer, rather than just a paid privilege.
In any case, I'm eager to see how this all pans out.
The official announcement of Squarespace Circle can be found on the <a href="http://blog.squarespace.com/blog/introducing-squarespace-circle">Squarespace blog</a>.

Squarespace Circle: The Club For Serial Squarespace Users

<a href="https://www.hyland.com/en">Hyland</a>, an enterprise content management (ECM) and process management provider, has <a href="https://news.hyland.com/hyland-enters-into-agreement-for-the-acquisition-of-nuxeo">signed an agreement</a> providing for exclusive negotiations to acquire <a href="https://www.nuxeo.com/">Nuxeo</a> – a content services and digital asset management (DAM) platform.
A leading ECM provider, Hyland is best known for its <a href="https://www.onbase.com/en">Onbase</a> and <a href="https://www.hyland.com/en/perceptive">Perceptive</a> content management products, which securely centralize enterprise content and deliver relevant information to users across a wide variety of industries – including healthcare, finance, insurance, higher education, and manufacturing.
Nuxeo offers a cloud-native, open-source, low-code platform with content services and DAM capabilities, among others.
“We’ve innovated an entirely modern platform that provides both enterprise-class content services and digital asset management capabilities," said Eric Barroca, CEO of Nuxeo. "And we look forward to bringing these capabilities to the Hyland portfolio as well as leveraging Hyland’s considerable global resources to deliver even greater success to our customers and partners."
<h3>A Leader on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Content Services Platforms</h3>
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Hyland has been a consistent force in the ECM and content services landscape, commanding the second-place position in the Leader Quadrant of <a href="https://www.hyland.com/en/explore/gartner-magic-quadrant-for-content-services-platforms">Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant for Content Services Platforms</a>.
While Hyland has been trailing right behind <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2020/12/08/over-200-million-users-rely-on-sharepoint-as-microsoft-is-again-recognized-as-a-leader-in-the-2020-gartner-content-services-platforms-magic-quadrant-report/#:~:text=Leading%20in%20the%20Gartner%20Content,Platforms%20Magic%20Quadrant%20for%202020.">Microsoft’s 365 platform</a> (fueled primarily by <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/sharepoint/collaboration">Sharepoint</a>), they were also being followed closely by <a href="https://www.alfresco.com/">Alfresco</a>, a fast-growing open-source content services platform that was gaining ground in the market but still viewed as a somewhat niche solution by large enterprises.
Following suit with many other CMS and DXP platforms in the last year, Hyland <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/hyland-acquires-alfresco-focuses-on-cloud-and-global-expansion-of-enterprise-cms/">acquired Alfresco</a> in 2020, eliminating their next closest competitor and changing the game in the leadership grid.
While buying a competitor is far from novel, Alfresco’s low-code tools – combined with its ability to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) services from <a href="https://www.alfresco.com/ecm-software/aws">cloud providers like AWS</a> – were likely key factors in Hyland's decision, enabling them to accelerate their modernization efforts.
<h3>Adding Nuxeo's low-code AI service and DAM capabilities</h3>
With the Nuxeo acquisition, Hyland is consuming another competitor – this time from the Visionary quadrant of Gartner's MQ for Content Services Platforms.
Nuxeo brings some unique assets to Hyland that may translate into significant advantages against Microsoft and Sharepoint. First, it gains <a href="https://www.nuxeo.com/content-services-platform/ai/">Nuxeo Insight</a> – an AI offering that enables customers to use their own data and content to train custom ML models for a variety of business applications. This includes enriching content with metadata, classifying people, products and records, automating forms processing, and more.
The critical advantage with Nuxeo Insight is that it generates ML models that are trained with a customer’s own data – rendering them far more accurate and insightful than typical AI services offered through public clouds (like AWS).
Nuxeo is also known for its strong enterprise <a href="https://www.nuxeo.com/solutions/dam-digital-asset-management/">DAM capabilities</a>, which provide out-of-the-box solutions for enterprises. Additionally, its large-scale repository – which includes NoSQL and distributed file system options – provides storage and scalability support for organizations with a large number of documents.
In fact, last year, Nuxeo proved its scalability performance with an <a href="https://benchmarks.nuxeo.com/11-billion-benchmark-story/">11-billion-object benchmark test</a> on AWS.
<h3>What does the Nuxeo acquisition mean for Hyland?</h3>
Considering some of Hyland’s core industry verticals – specifically finance – Nuxeo may be well worth the investment. Along with its cloud-native, low-code solutions, Nuxeo's open source community and AI-driven capabilities address key gaps in Hyland's modernization strategy, and will likely be a source of continued product innovation.
The transaction is expected to close in April 2021. Until that time, both companies will continue to operate as two companies. Upon transaction close, Nuxeo's business will be integrated into Hyland.
<h3>About Nuxeo</h3>
<a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3043355-1&amp;h=141805745&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuxeo.com%2F%3Futm_source%3DPRNewswire%26utm_medium%3Dpress%2520release%26utm_campaign%3Dhitrust&amp;a=Nuxeo">Nuxeo</a>, the developer of the leading Content Services Platform, is reinventing <a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3043355-1&amp;h=1356444015&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuxeo.com%2Fproducts%2Fenterprise-content-management%2F%3Futm_source%3DPRNewswire%26utm_medium%3Dpress%2520release%26utm_campaign%3Dhitrust&amp;a=enterprise+content+management">enterprise content management</a> (ECM) and <a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3043355-1&amp;h=3747046695&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuxeo.com%2Fproducts%2Fdigital-asset-management%2F%3Futm_source%3DPRNewswire%26utm_medium%3Dpress%2520release%26utm_campaign%3Dhitrust&amp;a=digital+asset+management">digital asset management</a> (DAM). Nuxeo makes it easy to build smart content applications that enhance customer experiences, improve decision making, and accelerate products to market. Its cloud-native, low-code platform has been deployed by large enterprises worldwide. Customers like Electronic Arts, TBWA, ABN AMRO, and CVS have used Nuxeo's technology to transform the way they do business. Founded in 2000, the company is based in New York with offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Learn more at <a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3043355-1&amp;h=1092214406&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuxeo.com%2F%3Futm_source%3DPRNewswire%26utm_medium%3Dpress%2520release%26utm_campaign%3Dhitrust&amp;a=www.nuxeo.com">www.nuxeo.com</a>.
<h3>About Hyland</h3>
<a href="https://www.hyland.com/">Hyland</a> is an enterprise content management (ECM) software platform, combining integrated document management, business process management, and records management in a single application. Hyland software allows organizations to manage, control, and share digital content with employees, business partners, customers, and other constituencies. Learn more at <a href="https://www.hyland.com/en">www.hyland.com</a>

Hyland Enters Agreement to Acquire Nuxeo

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