ShinyCMS

ShinyCMS Features

ShinyCMS outputs valid XHTML, CSS, and Atom XML.

The following is a list of features that are present in the current version of ShinyCMS:

• CMS Pages
  • Display page
    • Uses on-disk template for layout, content/copy comes from database
  • Add/Delete pages
  • Edit page content, section, menu position and URL
    • WYSIWYG HTML editor widgets, if required
    • Preview edits before saving
  • Select template to use for each page
    • Inside each template, specify the wrapper template to use for that template (reduces markup duplication inside sections of client sites)
  • Add/Edit/Delete sections 
  • Add/Edit/Delete templates from CMS control
  • Auto-generate menus based on menu position settings of sections and pages
  • Auto-generate basic sitemap
  • Supply search results to site-wide search
  • Pull in 'recent updates' from news, blogs and events sections
  • Pull in atom feeds from external blogs 

• CMS Forms
  • Add/Edit/Delete CMS form handlers
  • Process form submissions
    • Spam-protection using reCaptcha
    • Trigger an email
      • Generic or templated

• Shared Content
  • Add/Edit/Delete shared content
    • Store stuff you want to re-use across the whole front-end site (e.g. contact details for use in page footer, etc) 

• Restricted Content
  • Have static files (images, documents, etc) which are only available to logged-in users who have a certain User Role set
    • Supports multiple Roles, for user/content categorisation/separation 

• HTML newsletters
  • Add/edit/delete mailing lists
    • CSV upload to populate/update mailing list recipients
  • Add/edit/delete newsletter templates from CMS control
  • Create/edit/delete newsletters
  • Send out newsletters to mailing lists
  • View previous newsletters on site

• Site-wide search.  Currently pulls in results from:
  • CMS pages
  • News items
  • Blog posts
  • Forum posts
  • Comments
  • Events

• Site-wide tag listings.  Currently links to:
  • Blog posts
  • Forum posts
  • Shop items

• Menus
  • Main menu on user-facing site
    • Auto-generated for sections and pages in CMS Pages area
  • Admin footer bar on user-facing site
    • Useful contextual admin links in page footer when admin user is logged in
  • Admin menus in back-end can be easily re-ordered via template
    • Only displays menus for features the logged-in user can access 

• 404 handler (with home and sitemap links, and search box)

• Style-switcher
  • Allow users to switch between stylesheets, for accessibility or themes

• Mobile device detection
  • Detect if user is browsing from a mobile device
    • Allows you to present content differently, or present different content  

• Users
  • User registration
    • With email confirmation stage 
  • Log in / out
  • Recover from forgotten password 
  • View user profile
    • Show recent (and total) blog posts and comments
    • Show recent (and total) forum posts and comments
  • User can edit their own details
  • Roles ('page editor', 'shop admin', etc)
  • User administration
    • Add/Delete users
    • Edit existing users
      • Edit user details
      • Edit user roles
    • Admin notes (notes about a user which are only visible to admins)

• News
  • View list of news items
  • View item
  • Add/Edit/Delete news items
  • Supply search results to site-wide search

• Blogs
  • Display recent posts
    • With pagination
  • Display all posts in a given month
    • With prev/next month navigation
  • Display summary of all posts in a given year
    • With prev/next year navigation 
  • Display all posts with a given tag
    • With pagination
  • Display all posts by a given author
    • With pagination 
  • Display a single post
  • Post queuing (future-date a post and it will appear on the site at the specified time and date)
  • Generate atom feed of recent posts
  • Add, edit and delete posts
    • Enable/disable comments
  • Supply search results to site-wide search

• Forums
  • Add/edit/delete section
  • Add/edit/delete forum
  • Add new thread
  • Add comments to thread
  • Delete comments (admin-only)
  • Display all forums in all sections
  • Display forums in a specified section
  • Display threads in a forum
  • Display thread
    • With nested comments
  • Supply search results to site-wide search 

• Comments
  • Currently enabled on:
    • Blog posts
    • Forum threads
  • Display comments
    • With nested threading
  • Add comments
    • Reply to original post or to another comment
    • As logged-in, anonymous, or pseudonymous user
      • Saves and restores details of pseudonymous users
      • Captcha for anonymous and pseudonymous users
  • Hide comments
    • Allows soft removal of comments in mid-thread
    • Can be restored
  • Delete comments
    • Cascade deletes any child comments
  • Supply search results to site-wide search 

• Polls
  • Basic pollbooths
  • Anon & logged-in voting
  • Basic vote-stacking protection (per-IP for anon, per-user for logged-in)

• Events
  • Display 'coming soon' events
  • Display all events starting in a given month
    • With prev/next month navigation
  • Display details of a single event
    • Link to external event website
    • Link to external ticket-booking website
    • Link to Google Map for event location
  • Add/Edit/Delete events
  • Supply search results to site-wide search

• Shop
  • Display item
  • Display list of items in a category
  • Display list of recently-added items 
  • Display list of all items
  • Display list of categories
    • With nested sub-categories
  • Add/Edit/Delete items
  • Add/Edit/Delete categories
  • Basic PayPal checkout integration