9 Top Features Of A CMS
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What are the most important features of a great content management system? What are the top features of your CMS?
Here is a Textpattern feature list in no particular order. Have your say on the order of importance and if there are features missing.
1 Fast
- Lightweight core
- Installation and updating (approx every 6 months) in minutes
- Quick conversion of plain text to valid XHTML with Textile
- Quickly search old articles by keyword
- Fast intuitive editing of articles, links, comments, page elements
- Up-to-the-minute visitor/referrer logs
2 Flexible and Free
- Unlimited page layout and styling
- Unlimited site sections
- Unlimited article, link, file and image categories
- Unlimited site authors
- No cost and open source
3 Friendly and Fully-Featured
- Wide range of plugins provide many extra functions
- Plugin installation is simply copy, paste and activate
- Browser-based plugin installation and maintenance
- Browser-based template and CSS editing
- Browser-based file and image upload and organization
- Txp tags are human friendly, XML-like, familiar if you already know HTML
4 Secure and Stable
- Most effective anti-spam mechanism
- Thoroughly tested
- All bugs usually fixed before release
- Textpattern is not in a race to get shiny new features out first
5 Easily Managed
- Assign a variety of posting, editing and design privileges
- Import content from other content management systems
6 Great For You
- Minimal, client-friendly interface – “just write”
- Clean URLs
- Adjustable date/time stamps on articles
- Articles can be set to appear at future date/time
- Comments are accepted on a per-article basis
- Comments may be closed after a fixed time or on the fly
- Password-protect articles
7 Great For Your Visitors
- Built-in search engine
- Many ways to navigate
- Browse categories and sections via popup or link list
- Easy to communicate via comments
- Standards compliant by default
- Visitors can subscribe to custom article and link XML feeds
8 Excellent Support
- Forum is renowned for its friendly, helpful community
- Developers listen and solve problems too
9 Multi-lingual Support
Are all the top CMS features listed? Which are the most important?
Comments
Mike Dennis #
“updating (approx 6-monthly) in minutes”
I know you mean updates happen about every 6 months, but I think it could be read as there are approximately 6 updates/month :)
“Password-protect site sections, or even specific articles”
Out of the box? Did I miss this somewhere?
Peter #
Thanks Mike, I’ve updated the updating bit :)
According to the password protect page on Textbook, it can go anywhere, but now I notice there’s a warning about protecting sections down at the bottom. So well spotted and I’ve changed that too.
Mike Dennis #
I’m glad you mentioned it. I don’t know if I forgot that tag was available or didn’t know it. Either way the only methods that came to mind were recommendations I’ve read over the years involving ign_password and mem_’s membership plugins or htaccess modifications.
I love learning or relearning new things ;-)
Thanks Peter
Mike
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