We're pleased to announce general availability of Escher CMS 0.9.0. Escher CMS is a new content management system built especially for web designers and developers creating client websites.
Escher CMS focuses on building beautiful, powerful and flexible sites. If you have used Textpattern or Radiant, you will immediately feel at home with Escher CMS, as it draws inspiration from those as well as other popular CMS products, while also adding its own unique features and capabilities into the mix.
Escher CMS is a free open source self-hosted solution, featuring an intuitive web-based administration area where web designers/developers build the site and clients can manage it once deployed.
A sampling of Escher CMS's powerful feature set:
- Consistent, easy-to-understand semantic model
- Full control over your site's URL structure, nesting of sections and pages to any depth
- EscherTalk XML-based page design language
- Powerful per-page templating system with inheritance
- Global design elements ("snippets") for organizing and reusing template code
- Unlimited nested categories for organizing content
- Unlimited per-page content elements ("parts")
- Global content elements ("blocks") can be shared among multiple pages
- Clean separation between design elements and content elements
- Built-in theming engine with theme inheritance
- Role-based access control and granular user permissions
- Supports SQLite and MySQL databases
- 3-layer caching architecture for lightning-quick page generation
- Form-building with field validation
- Multiple sites from a single installation
- Easily extended via robust plugin mechanism
To learn more, see a demo or download Escher CMS, visit the Escher CMS Project Site: http://eschercms.org