CMS Made Simple

CMS Made Simple

CMS Made Simple Admin Portal
Developer(s) Ted Kulp (Project Leader)
Stable release 1.10.1 / November 5, 2011; 3 months ago (2011-11-05)[1]
Development status Active
Written in PHP
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Content management system, Community
License GNU General Public License
Website cmsmadesimple.org

CMS Made Simple (CMSMS) is a free open source (GPL) content management system (CMS) to provide developers, programmers and site owners a web-based development and administration area.

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Software Design

CMS Made Simple is an open source package, built using PHP with support for MySQL and PostgreSQL. The template system is driven using the Smarty Template Engine. CMS Made Simple aims to provide easy development and customization with themes, add-on modules, dynamic menus, tags and translations.

Features

CMS Made Simple has a web-based admin section for theme, template, and stylesheet development, installing and updating add-on modules, configuring page content blocks, and user groups and permissions.

Modules and Themes

Modules

CMS Made Simple itself is designed as a base package that does not impose unnecessary modules and functionality on the user. It requires that site owners add modules and tags appropriate to the site. A small number of core modules are included with the default installation, notably a news manager, search function, and WYSIWYG editor (TinyMCE).

Popular add-on modules

Themes

Create: The internal template and stylesheet system allows for painless Theme creation. (Video Illustrating the Process) Download: Downloadable themes are currently available in a themes repository.

Software Requirements

Support

Support for CMS Made Simple includes the content installed by default, built-in help, online docs, commercial/paid support, and a community.

CMS Made Simple holds an annual meeting for its enthusiasts known as The Geek Moot where how-to seminars and Q&A discussions are held.[2]

History

Release history

Version Release date Notes
1.6 2009-06-22  
1.6.1 2009-07-23  
1.6.2 2009-07-28  
1.6.3 2009-08-01  
1.6.4 2009-08-16  
1.6.5 2009-09-05  
1.6.6 2009-10-03  
1.6.7 2010-02-23  
1.6.8 2010-07-13  
1.7 2010-03-20 Minimum PHP version required is version 5.2.4. Supports PHP version 5.3
1.7.1 2010-05-01  
1.8 2010-07-04  
1.8.1 2010-07-13  
1.8.2 2010-08-13  
1.9 2010-11-07  
1.9.1 2010-11-21  
1.9.2 2010-12-11  
1.9.3 2011-02-05  
1.9.4 2011-03-05  
1.10 2011-10-23 Major upgrade with performance improvements and module api changes.
1.10.1 2011-11-05  
1.10.2 2011-11-25  

Recognition

Articles

Awards

Books

Reviews

See also

References

3.CMS Made Simple Development Cookbook.(April 2011).By Packt Publishing.

External links