A bit of a landmark co-interview with opensource CMS luminaries Matt Mullenweg (founder of WordPress) and Dries Buytaert (founder of Drupal) at SchipulCon 2011 in Houston, Texas. Bear with the initial audio — the irony of tech stuff going wrong is not lost on me either.…
Posts Tagged ‘cms’
What is a CMS and why do I need one?
At Dao By Design we build all our Web sites on Content Management Systems (CMS). This has become a no-brainer for our own workflow and productivity, as well as that of our clients. However, to help explain why we do this, and why you should too, this knowledgebase article will outline the differences between what is now the de facto method of Web site design and development, and the old page-by-page designs of years gone by.
A CMS is a …
WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” Released
And doesn’t it look fantastic.
WordPress 3.0 has some features that have been in high demand for some time, and that theme developers have had to muddle their way around when using WordPress as a project’s CMS. Namely:
- Custom backgrounds & headers (no more custom fields and php wizardry needed)
- Shortlinks (our tweets thank you)
- Menus (I can’t tell you how exited I am to retire the rather massive PHP function I use to do this now)
- Custom Post types
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Resetting Joomla admin password
It is a testiment to my own foul forgetfulness that I am endlessly hunting the Joomla forums for the post that explains how to reset the admin password for Joomla.
Rather, it’s not that I can’t remember how to do it – doing it is quite simple – it’s I can’t remember the values to insert.
The only way to “reset” your Joomla password is by editing the database directly. Simply:
- Access your database, either via phpMyAdmin or whatever program
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WordPress 2.5: The Next Generation
The latest release of WordPress has just hit the net, offering some significant design changes and a boatload of new features. As mentioned in my previous post on the site upgrade, I’ve been using WordPress 2.5 RC since its release mid-March. The first release candidate went to RC2 and on to a stable version in just two short weeks – that’s damn impressive. Some of the key new features include:
- Dashboard Widgets: allowing you to customize the (until now)
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Joomla 1.5 stable released, finally!
Well the big news in the open-source CMS community this week is the announcement that Joomla 1.5 is finally stable. It took 2.5 years to get it there, but the wait was well worth it.
Joomla, for those that don’t know, is an open-source Content Management System (CMS) used in the construction of dynamic, database driven Web sites. Through the separation of code from design elements, and design elements from content, Joomla (all CMS-based sites, really) allows for faster …
