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Pivotx：opensource blog cms

PivotX is free software distributed under the GPL license. It’s partly built with neat products like jQuery, Smarty, TinyMCE and of course, PHP and MySQL. Software by the people and for the people. PivotX has a small, but very active community. Together we build themes, extensions and help each other with PivotX related issues.

Key features

Entries and Pages

The main reason that most people use an application like PivotX is because they have something they’d like to share with the rest of the world. PivotX allows you to maintain multiple weblogs as well as separate pages. The main difference between these is that Pages can have any template you like, whereas weblog items are grouped chronologically and displayed in the same way as the other stuff in the same weblog.

Easy Blogging

Several functions make weblogging really easy using PivotX. You can choose whether you’d like to use the built-in Wysiwyg editor, or if you’d like to craft your HTML by hand. Inserting a clickable image (like the ones you see on this page), audio file or Youtube video is very simple and can be done without leaving the “Write an Entry” screen.

Images and Files

Handling images and text-files is very easy with PivotX 2. You’ll be able to see all the files you’ve uploaded and edit or delete them.
Using the built-in Picnik extension you can even have a fully functional web-based Photo Editor without leaving PivotX.

Extensions

We’ve created a very powerful and flexible extension framework. Developers can create Extensions that ‘hook’ into the core PivotX functionality. Things like adding items to the Admin Interface, processing the page before it is sent to the user, or adding functionality to the ‘front-end’ like fully configurable widgets or extras you can use in your templates.

The Extensions are manageable through the admin interface. You can enable and disable them. Extensions can have their own configuration screens, so you can administer them without messing about in the PHP code.
The type of extension that might get used the most is the so called Widget. Basically this is a ‘thing’ that somebody made, so you can place it on your website. In the Admin Interface you can enable them and re-order them as you like. They will then show up on you site without having to change your templates at all. Some other weblog tools have this functionality as well, but what makes them so special in PivotX is the way we put them on your page. Normally they are just included in the page, which means that if the server providing the widget is down, your site will take up to a minute to load. We’ve done this in such a way that broken widgets will not negatively impact the performance of your website.

Themes

Applying themes to your pages has never been so easy. You can build your own or download themes made by other PivotX users. If you are using pages you can apply different templates to each page.

URL: http://pivotx.net/

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