Kentico CMS 4.0 Brings Social Networking Features

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

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

Membership improvements:

• Improved user interface (alphabetical sorter, advanced user filtering)
• Double opt-in registration through an e-mail
• Registration approval by administrator
• Avatar gallery
• Customizable registration form
• Display on-line users
• Mixed mode authentication – use both forms and Windows authentication on a singe site
• Mass e-mail to users

Community features:

• Community Groups (similar to Facebook)
• On-site management of blogs, forums, polls, etc. without accessing the CMS Desk
• New Community Starter Site
• Friends
• Bad words
• Badges
• User profile – configuration of user information displayed on the web site
• Report abuse
• Content rating
• Time zones

Blogs:

• Categories, tags and tag cloud
• New comments module with trackbacks
• Ping
• On-site editing

Message Boards:

• with moderation and subscriptions

Notification engine:

• E-mail or other notification when content is changed or some other event occurs in the system

Improved link management:

• Internal document links without GUIDs (for better SEO)
• Unlimited number of custom URLs for the given document
• Configurable extensions for the files (e.g. .pdf instead of .aspx)

Forums:

• Attachments for posts
• Support for inserting images
• Advanced moderation options
• Improved search with advanced options
• Quoting
• Lock or hide forum/topic
• Private messaging integration
• Mark as answer
• On-site administration

Media Libaries:

• Build media libraries with pictures, music and video

One-click AJAX Support

• Web parts can now be configured to use AJAX just by one click

URL aliasing

• Support for creating unlimited number of URLs for a single document
• Customizable extensions of URLs
• SEO-friendly document links with history for keeping old links valid
• Support for dynamic SEO-friendly URLs with macros

Taxonomy

• Categories
• Tags and tag cloud

Content rating

• Allow visitors to rate content

Image Editor

• New on-line image editor for basic operations (resize, rotate, convert, grayscale)

… and others. You can find the complete list in the version history.