A Content Management System, or CMS, is a powerful and essential platform for your website. It essentially allows you to take full control over the content of your website, and update it as often as you like – without needing to pay expensive development or maintenance fee’s.
Nutwork offer a very flexible and elegant system called WordPress. The best thing about WordPress is that it is open source and that means you do not have to pay any licence fee’s or ongoing costs to use it. WordPress has a huge community of users and developers and there are thousands of plugins and extra functions available.
WordPress use is growing as people learn how easy it is to use it. You can even update your website using your iPhone!
CMS Features
- Full standards compliance - The developers have gone to great lengths to make sure every bit of the CMS generated code is in full compliance with the standards of the W3C. This is important not only for interoperability with today’s browser but also for forward compatibility with the tools of the next generation. Your web site is a beautiful thing, and you should demand nothing less.
- No rebuilding - Changes you make to your pages and entries are reflected immediately on your site, with no need for regenerating static pages.
- Pages - Pages allow you to manage content easily, so for example you could have a static “About” page that you manage through the CMS. For an idea of how powerful this is, the entire Nutwork website is run on this very system!
- Links – Links allows you to create, maintain, and update any number of links through your administration interface.
- Multiple Designs - The CMS comes with a full theme system which makes designing everything from the simplest blog to the most complicated webzine a piece of cake, and you can even have multiple themes with totally different looks that you switch with a single click. Have a new design every day!
- Cross-blog communication tools- The CMS fully supports both the Trackback and Pingback standards, and is committed to supporting future standards as they develop.
- Comments - Visitors to your site can leave comments on individual entries, and through Trackback or Pingback can comment on their own site. You can enable or disable comments on a per-post basis.
- Spam protection - Out of the box the CMS comes with very robust tools such as an integrated blacklist and open proxy checker to manage and eliminate comment spam on your blog, and there is also a rich array of plugins that can take this functionality a step further.
- Full user registration - The CMS has a built-in user registration system that (if you choose) can allow people to register and maintain profiles and leave authenticated comments on your website. You can optionally close comments for non-registered users. There are also plugins that hide posts from lower level users.
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- Password Protected Posts - You can give passwords to individual posts to hide them from the public. You can also have private posts which are viewable only by their author.
- Easy Importing - The CMS currently has importers for Movable Type, Textpattern, Greymatter, Blogger, and b2. Work on importers for Nucleus and pMachine are under way.
- XML-RPC interface - The CMS currently supports an extended version of the Blogger API, MetaWeblog API, and finally the MovableType API. You can even use clients designed for other platforms like Zempt.
- Workflow - You can have types of users that can only post drafts, not publish to the front page.
- Typographical niceties - This CMS uses the Texturize engine to intelligently convert plain ASCII into typographically correct XHTML entities. This includes quotes, apostrophes, ellipses, em and en dashes, multiplication symbols, and ampersands. For information about the proper use of such entities see Peter Sheerin’s article The Trouble With Em ‘n En.
- Intelligent text formatting - If you’ve dealt with systems that convert new lines to line breaks before you know why they have a bad name: if you have any sort of HTML they butcher it by putting tags after every new line indiscriminately, breaking your formatting and validation. Our function for this intelligently avoids places where you already have breaks and block-level HTML tags, so you can leave it on without worrying about it breaking your code.
- Multiple authors - A highly advanced user system allows up to 10 levels of users, with different levels having different (and configurable) privileges with regard to publishing, editing, options, and other users.
- Bookmarklets - Cross-browser bookmarklets make it easy to publish to your blog or add links to your blogroll with a minimum of effort.
- Ping away - The CMS supports pinging Ping-O-Matic, which means maximum exposure for your website to search engines.
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