phpWCMS for Easy Content Management
Posted on Thursday, Mar 26, 2009 in "CMS"
When equipped with the right CMS, you can build a website that is fast, feature-rich, easy to deploy and manage. A user-friendly system will help you effectively separate content from the website layout and allow inexperienced community users to publish their own material. If you have a site that requires frequent updates but do not want to spend hours upon hours making the necessary changes, a CMS like phpWCMS can make your life much easier.
What is phpWCMS?
phpWCMS is an open-source, web-based CMS scripted in the widely used PHP server-side programming language. Like many open-source software applications, it uses a MySQL database to store all website data with the exception of converted images and uploaded files. phpWCMS is divided into a frontend and backend. The frontend is for presenting the site while the backend is only accessible to registered administrators and users. With backend access, members of your community can login and modify template settings, manage their own content and much more. The learning curve for phpWCMS is much shorter in comparison to other systems, making this software ideal for beginner and intermediate users. Ease of use and user-friendly features often make it the preferred choice over comparable systems like Typo3.
As a cross-platform application, phpWCMS runs efficiently on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X operating systems. In addition, the backend translates into 13 different languages including English, Danish, Dutch, Italian and Swedish.
phpWCMS Features
The phpWCMS software is extremely rich in terms of features. Below we have listed some of the most notable:
Unlimited page layouts - The built-in, customizable Page Layout Wizard allows you to mix and match elements to create as many page layouts as you want.
Unlimited templates – The Template Editor features support for custom HTML headers, JavaScript onload functions and CSS stylesheets that enable the creation of unlimited themes.
Simple content management - Building your site is made easy with numerous content parts. You articles and blog posts can have summaries, redirections and other parts that distinguish it from the layout.
Multiple WYSIWYG editors – The phpWCMS HTML editors give you the ability to build your site with little to no programming knowledge. In addition, such a wide variety ensures that your creation looks good in popular web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera.
Multiple content parts - Content comes in many different variations and phpWCMS is able to support many. The software handles images, articles, multimedia files, newsletters, custom search forms, sitemaps, guestbooks and more.
Although phpWCMS is loaded with an array of useful features, it does not support a great number of add-on modules and therefore, it is not as flexible as more robust content management systems. For this reason, it is recommended for small to medium sized websites.
Where to find phpWCMS
As an open-source application, phpWCMS is free to use and can be downloaded from the official project website. In order to enjoy the benefits, you will need a web host that supports the software. Because the system has become extremely popular, it is becoming easier to find. phpWCMS is now offered in many web hosting packages as a one-click installation through control panels like cPanel and Plesk.
