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Cutenews

Cutenews' administration interface
Developer:	Georgi Avramov
Latest release:	1.4.5 / 02 May 2006
OS:	Cross-platform
Use:	CMS/Blog software
License:	As is
Website:	www.cutephp.com

Cutenews is a blog publishing system written by Georgi Avramov in PHP and backed by a flat file database. It is distributed under the As is license and is available free of charge (although a subscription fee is required to remove the advertising lines). The latest version is 1.4.5. Development is led by Georgi Avramov.

1 Features
2 Past
3 Future
4 External links

[edit] Features

The main feature that differentiates it from most other blog publishing systems is that all data is stored in flat text files which means database software such as MySQL is not required. [1]

The main features of Cutenews revolve around the ability for webmasters and site administrators to post news to their blog or website dynamically using the software. Visitors for the website can then comment on these posts, if the webmaster has enabled this. News posts can be specified into customizable categories which can be handled however the webmaster requires. [2]

In the admin panel of Cutenews, administrators can add news posts, or edit existing news posts and comments using a WYSIWYG editor. They can customise the look of their news using pre-set or custom templates, archive old news and change user or general settings. Finally, users can be blocked if necessary, and backups of news can be taken. [3]

[edit] Past

Version 1.4.0 (was the version after 1.3.6) and with it the GPL license is in question. From that point on it has required about $40 to remove the 'powered by cutenews' text at the bottom.

Version 1.4.1 was the last version to precede 1.4.5.

[edit] Future

The latest version of CuteNews, 1.4.5, was released in May 2006 and there has been no news of a new version since then.

However, Georgi recently said that CuteNews development had stopped and that he is now working on a completely new system to replace CuteNews. It will apparently have 'Cute' and 'doh' in its title.