I recently upgrade a blog of mine from Wordpress 2.2 to Wordpress 2.3. My wife and I don't post on the blog much (looking for better ideas on how to utilize the site), but it's great to keep around to test the latest and greatest Wordpress has to offer. In my view, the most important new feature in Wordpress 2.3 is the baseline introduction of tags (also called taxonomy or even categories in other CMS applications).
One of the things I like about browsing the Web for posts on various CMS topics is that they always seem to show up on the Web when when I need them the most. For example, I'm starting to consider whether I'll continue to use osCommerce for some sites that I manage. While the yet to be released osCommerce 3.0 will likely be an option next year, I'm open to other possibilities. What I would like to see is a shopping cart that integrates well with a full CMS. In the past, I've found Joomla's Virtuemart extension and Drupal's e-Commerce module to fall just short of the clie
Jared Ritchey has a few things to say about search engine optimization and WordPress.
Michael Wnuk from Turtol recently wrote to us asking for a review of his open source content management system, TurtolCMS. He also invited CMS Report readers to review the CMS and give comments. The following is Michael Wnuk's e-mail to us about his CMS in its entirety:
My company, Turtol, is actively developing the TurtolCMS. It's an open source, design agnostic content management system targeting website owners with minimal technical expertise.
We've been using the TurtolCMS since March of 2007 for client work, at first, simply as a templating engine. Now we grant our clients access to editing tools so they can perform simple updates themselves.
Some of the new features included in the latest release of OpenEdit, version 5.622 include:
Check out the release notes for complete details.
If you are reading this post, then congratulations...you are now seeing CMS Report on its new server (a Virtual Private/Dedicated Server). As I tweak the VPS in the following weeks, I may fall back on the old server from time to time but for the most part, I'm home. Today officially ends my grand-experiment of running a moderately busy Drupal site on the cheap.
This is one of my first posts on dotCMS 1.5, so "long-time" dotCMS users feel free to correct me if I get anything wrong here. Earlier this month, dotCMS 1.5 was released. dotCMS is an open source Java based CMS geared toward toward the enterprise with Web customer resource resource management (CRM) and eCommerce, and business intelligence.
New features included in dotCMS 1.5:
On Monday, Packt Publishing announced the five finalists in each category of its 2007 Open Source Content Management System Award. The five categories are Most Promising, Best PHP CMS, Best Other (Non-PHP) CMS, Best Social Networking CMS, and Overall Winner. In the finals stage, the public as a whole is eligible to vote for each category through October 26th. While that may seem like a long time for the polls to be open, I'd encourage you to vote early so that you have no excuse for why your favorite CMS didn't make it to the winners list.
Around this time last year, Packt Publishing announced the "top five" finalists for their award (no separate categories in 2006). In 2006, those CMS projects that made it to the finalist list included Drupal, e107, Joomla, Plone, and Xoops. When those five CMS were announced, I chose to double my efforts on covering those applications here at CMS Report. Although the extra categories this year have brought quite a few more Open Source CMS into the foreground, I still don't see why I couldn't keep most of them on my CMS Focus radar scope. With 16,000 people nominating their favorite CMS for this award, that amount of generated interest is hard to ignore. Luckily, I already cover many of the CMS that did make it as a finalist...but there are still many new CMS on that list that will shake things up a bit here at CMSReport.com.
We Americans can be so stupid at times. In the country of "land of the free", we spend too much of our efforts working to restrict the freedom of others.
Tomorrow's legal fight may be over Web browser add-ons that let people avoid advertisements. These add-ons are growing in functionality and popularity, which has led legal experts we surveyed this week to speculate about when the first lawsuit will be filed.
Robert Cambell announced the expected release of CMS Made Simple 1.2 with the beta version expected in a couple weeks. After the CMSMS 1.2 release all focus will be on development of a 2.0 version of the CMS.
Some of the new features and enhancements can be expected in CMSMS 1.2: