You will also find access to the file release system where you can see and download all previous versions of the core. Modules often have additional features that considerably expand the power of the system.
Examples of modules include calendars, member systems, galleries and more. Many modules can also be installed directly through the core Module Manager.
Over the past years, many outstanding individuals have contributed their time and helped to shape the system that you can download today. You can find out more about the current Dev Team here , as well as what they can offer through their own professional services.
The development team meets officially once a month, but remains in contact daily, collaborating within a defined organisational structure. The Dev Team is always delighted to hear from individuals who feel they have the resources and time to get involved. If you think you may be one such person, click here to find out more. You can use it on commercial or personal projects and in many cases will be able to use the third party modules that have been developed though you should check their individual licenses.
If you have not already tried the demo or downloaded the core package , please do so. Go the file manager in cPanel, and upload the zipped installer to the root preferred or to a subdirectory on the server where you want to install CMSMS.
Still in the file manager, right click on zipped file, and choose 'extract'. Confirm the path is correct, then choose 'Extract File s ". Once the installer is extracted, proceed with the Installation Assistant. You can install CMS Made Simple in your www-root or create a subdirectory called whatever you choose. For the purposes of this tutorial, if you are not installing in the www-root folder, create a new sub-directory example cmsmadesimple and cd into it:.
If don't understand the previous sentence you need to do a little reading on Unix file permissions and users.
Most likely you will only run into this problem if you are hosting CMS Made Simple on your own server. One of our most important goals for 2. A website is nothing if it does not perform well. A slow website gets ignored by customers, gets ranked lower in the search engines, and does not show the product well to the customer. To that end we needed to remove some bottlenecks in the way data was managed, and in some of the code.
One of the things our community regularly bemoaned was the installation and upgrade process, particularly upgrades. The process of uploading hundreds of files in the 1. This is usually because web developers often still use FTP to transfer files to remote hosts. And when upgrading, people sometimes found that their site was not yet ready for upgrade AFTER the new version had been uploaded overtop of an existing version.
This meant that web developers had to waste even more time restoring their site from a backup. Fixing a corrupt config file, or missing files was a similarly tedious process. One of our primary goals was to make this easier, and save web developers a significant amount of time. The biggest goal that we constantly reminded ourselves of during development was that we could not break everything.
We could not--and should not--start over. Even though we were breaking some modules, getting rid of old and deprecated API's, and improving functionality, we needed to make sure that most websites could be upgraded with minimal effort.
We knew that we had to make it relatively easy for our website users to upgrade their websites to the new code, to take advantage of the new functionality and performance, even if that upgrade was not going to be as simple as most of our upgrades have been in the past. This meant finding a balance between rewriting code for optimum growth, cleanliness, and performance and largely maintaining backwards compatibility. In this section we will go into more detail about some of the general improvements we have achieved in CMS Made Simple 2.
As mentioned above, one of our major goals in the 2. To that end, we removed the API's and functionality for Global Content Blocks which were always a form of Smarty template , and page templates, and wrote a series of new API's to rationalize the way we interacted with this data.
Templates and style sheets are now stored in different database tables. Templates and style sheets both support locking, and descriptions, and can be optionally associated with a Design also known as a Collection. Templates now support the concept of ownership, and additional editors.
However, templates must now all be uniquely named. There is a new concept of a 'template type', which is just a loose association useful for filtering of displays. Templates and style sheets do not necessarily need to be associated with a design.
There are a few default template types created upon install. This replaces the functionality of Global Content Blocks. Core modules all create their own template types on install. Any number of templates of any type, and any number of style sheets can be associated with a design. Because style sheets are associated with designs and not page templates, now when editing a content page you must select both a template by default only page templates are displayed , and a Design.
More information on the concept of Designs, and the new way style sheets and templates work will be described when we talk about the Design Manager further below. We have improved the system information page to provide more information to our users in helping to diagnose problems.
Additionally, there is more information that can be pasted into a forum post to aid others when assisting with difficulties. CMSMS 2. On a regular basis, users of CMS Made simple were encountering problems with one Smarty variable overwriting another. Additionally, each part of the page template that is processed separately is in its own Smarty scope. This, for the most part, solves the problem. The functionality of creating a Smarty variable in a module template, and using it in a different part of the page template, remains.
The procedure for this has changed, however, therefore there is a small compatibility issue that you may encounter when upgrading. The interface for the User Defined Tags has been improved to make it easier to interact with. We now use a jQuery-ui dialog to display the output from running a UDT. This was problematic as the CSS classes for those two admin themes were inconsistent. The inconsistency made it difficult for module developers to create more extensive and advanced interfaces in their module's admin panels.
The Dev Team voted on the issue and decided that we would maintain one admin theme, and that that theme would be the OneEleven theme. Dropping support for the NCleanGrey admin theme in the core allows developers to create better module interfaces, and to go forward with developing a style guide for module developers.
On a fairly regular and increasing basis our user community was reporting that there were limitations of 64kb of data in each content block, content property, template, and stylesheet. We have increased that limit to 2MB across the board. This was slow and cumbersome when the number of pages in a website grew past a couple of hundred items.
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