docs/Features
ShinyCMS Features
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Blog
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Front-end features:
* View blog post
* Comments (see 'Discussions' feature below)
* Can be enabled or disabled by default in config, and on a per post basis
* Email notification of replies to your posts and/or your comments
* View blog posts
* Most recent
* With pagination
* By month
* With prev/next month navigation
* By year
* With prev/next year navigation
* By tag
* By author
* Number of posts per page is configurable
* Sidebar accordion widget for date-based navigation of blog archive
* Other sidebar content (blogroll etc) possible via 'Shared Content' feature (see below)
* Tags
* Fetch and display list of tags for blog content only
* Grouped into site-wide tag feature (see 'Tags' below)
* Multiple authors per blog
* Generates Atom feed for syndication
* Supply results to site-wide search feature
Admin features:
* View list of recently-added blog posts
* Add/Edit/Preview/Hide/Delete blog post
* Future-date to automatically post later
* Blog admins can select/change which author is set for a post
* Add/edit/remove tags
* WYSIWYG editor (CKEditor)
* Similar interface to basic word processing software
* View Source to edit HTML directly
Discussions
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Front-end features:
* Available on:
* Blog posts
* Forum posts
* Shop items
* User profiles
* Post a comment
* Reply to a comment
* Nested (infinite depth)
* Logged-in, pseudonymous, or anonymous authors
* Config setting for the 'lowest' level of comment author allowed
* Pseudonymous user details saved for autofill on subsequent visits
* Captcha for anonymous and pseudonymous users
* Email notification of replies to your comments
* 'Like'
* Supply results to site-wide search feature
Admin features:
* Admin can hide comments
* Allows soft removal of comments in mid-thread
* Can be restored
* Admin can delete comments
* Deletes all replies too
* Irreversible
Events
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Front-end features:
* View event
* View events
* Coming soon
* By month
* With prev/next month navigation
* Supply search results to site-wide search feature
Admin features:
* View list of recently-added events
* Add/Edit/Hide/Delete new event
File Manager
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Admin feature:
* View uploaded files
* Upload file
* (Also provides file upload and selection feature to CKEditor)
File Server
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Front-end features:
* Access-restricted file-serving (for members-only content, etc)
* Supports multiple access groups
* See Access Groups under 'Users' (below) for more details
Form Handlers
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Front-end features:
* Accept input from form and trigger an action
* Send plain text email containing form data with basic default layout
* Send templated email containing form data laid out however you want
* Spam protection using reCaptcha
* Public key set in config file
Admin features:
* View list of recently-added form handlers
* Add/Edit/Delete form handler
Forums
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Front-end features:
* View forum post
* Paginated
* View forum posts
* Most recent posts
* By author
* By tag
* View a single forum
* View forums in one section
* View all forums in all sections
Admin features:
* View list of recently-added forum posts
* Add/Edit/Hide/Preview/Delete forum post
* Future-date to automatically post later
* Set as pinned post
* View list of recently-added forums
* Add/Edit/Hide/Delete forum
* View list of recently-added forum sections
* Add/Edit/Hide/Delete forum sections
News
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Front-end features:
* View news post
* View news posts
Admin features:
* View list of recently-added news posts
* Add/Edit/Preview/Hide/Delete news post
* Future-date to automatically post later
Newsletters
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Front-end features:
* Subscribe to mailing list
* Manage subscriptions
* View list of published newsletters
* View published newsletter
* Subscribe to autoresponder
* [ Subscribe to paid list ]
Admin features:
* View list of mailing lists
* Add/Edit/Delete mailing list
* Set public/private
* Upload mailing list from CSV file
* View list of recently-added newsletters
* Add/Edit/Preview/Delete newsletter
* Send test newsletter
* Queue newsletter for sending
* Remove newsletter from queue
* View list of newsletter templates
* Add/Edit/Delete newsletter template
* List autoresponders
* Add/Edit/Delete autoresponder
* List autoresponder emails
* Add/Edit/Preview/Delete autoresponder email
* List autoresponder subscribers
* Delete autoresponder subscriber
* View list of paid lists
* Add/Edit/Delete paid list
* List paid list emails
* Add/Edit/Preview/Delete paid list email
* View paid list subscribers
* Delete paid list subscriber
* Background script to dispatch newsletter emails (run from cron)
* Background script to dispatch autoresponder emails (run from cron)
* [ Background script to dispatch paid list emails (run from cron) ]
Pages
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Front-end features:
* View page
* View section (displays default page for that section)
* Default handler for empty site (no pages created yet)
* Pages can pull in 'recent updates' from news, blogs, shop and events sections
* Pages can pull in atom feeds from external sites (eg Blogger, Wordpress)
Admin features:
* View list of pages (organised by section)
* Add/Edit/Preview/Hide/Delete page
* Set menu order (for automatic menu generation)
* WYSIWYG editor (CKeditor) for HTML elements
* Manually add extra elements (in addition to those automatically added by the template)
* Select page template to use for each page
* Layout for a page template comes from a Template Toolkit (.tt) file
* Inside each .tt file, specify a wrapper template to use for that template
* (reducing markup duplication inside sections of client sites)
* View list of sections
* Add/Edit/Hide/Delete section
* Set menu order (for automatic menu generation)
* Set default page
* View list of page templates
* Add/Edit/Delete page template
Payment Handlers
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* Handle payments for:
* Access subscriptions (members-only areas)
* Process payments from:
* CCBill
* Paypal
* [ Paid lists ]
* Process payments from:
* CCBill
* [ Physical goods (shop) ]
* Process payments from:
* [ CCBill ]
* Send despatch instructions to site owner
* Send despatch confirmation to customer
* CCBill affiliate scheme support
* Catch incoming CCBill affiliate IDs and relay them during transaction
Polls
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Front-end features
* View polls
* View poll
* Vote in poll
* Anonymous
* Only one vote per IP address
* Not able to change vote
* Logged-in
* Only one vote per user account
* Re-voting in the same poll will change your vote
Admin features:
* [ View list of recently-added polls ]
Shared Content
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Front-end features:
* Can be embedded in any template anywhere on the site
* Useful for:
* Data displayed on multiple pages - contact details, etc
* Data that isn't part of a standard template - blogroll, etc
Admin features:
* View list of recently-added shared content items
* Add/Edit/Delete shared content item
* Can be any of the usual ShinyCMS element types:
* Short text
* Long text
* HTML
* Image
Shop
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Front-end features:
* View item
* 'Like'
* Add item to favourites
* View stock levels
* View items
* Most recently added
* Paginated
* By category
* Paginated
* By tag
* Paginated
* Favourites
* Paginated
* Recently viewed
* Paginated
* View categories
* Infinite nesting
* Basket
* View basket
* Add/remove items
* Update contents (increase/decrease quantities)
* Empty basket (remove all items)
* Checkout
* Enter billing address
* Enter delivery address (if different from billing address)
* Select postage options
* [ Make payment (see 'Payment Handlers' above) ]
* [ Automatically adjusts stock levels ]
* Order
* View orders
* View order details
* Cancel order
* Basic PayPal checkout integration
Admin features:
* View list of recently-added shop items
* Add/Edit/Preview/Hide/Delete item
* Select 'product type' to add item-appropriate fields
* Add/edit/remove tags
* Edit stock levels
* Add expected re-stock dates for out of stock items
* View list of recently-added product types
* Add/Edit/Delete product type
* View list of recently-added categories
* Add/Edit/Hide/Delete category
* Order
* View orders
* View order details
* Cancel order
Tags
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Front-end features:
* View items with a particular tag
* By item type (Blog, Forum, Shop etc)
* Recent items
* View tag list
* Fetch tag list for embedding elsewhere on site
* View tag cloud
Users
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Front-end features:
* Register
* Requires email confirmation
* Can be enabled/disabled in the site config file
* Login/Logout
* Change password
* 'Forgot details'
* Autologin from generated email
* View user profile page
* Display list of recent blog posts by user
* Display list of recent forum posts by user
* Display list of recent comments by user
* Profile comments (AKA 'wall')
* Private information - visible only to user and user admins
* e.g. Real email address, roles, access groups
Admin features:
* View list of users
* Add/Edit/Deactivate/Delete user
* Deactivated user accounts still exist, but cannot log in
* Change any user's password
* Add notes (visible only to admins)
* View private info on profiles
* Grant roles (various admin/editor/etc privileges)
* Add to access groups
* With expiry date or non-expiring
* View list of user roles
* Add/Edit/Delete role
* View list of access groups
* Add/Edit/Delete access group
* View list of access-restricted files accessed by user
* View list of IP addresses used by user
Site-wide Features
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Front-end features:
* Search
* Searches the following types of content:
* Pages
* Blog posts
* News posts
* Event items
* Forum posts
* Shop items
* Discussions (comment threads)
* Autogenerated menus
* Built using menu position of CMS pages and sections
* Leaving menu position blank will hide a page or section from the menus
* Mobile device detection
* Can be used for switching content and/or presentation when the end-user is
* using a mobile device
* Style switcher
* Can be used to override presentation (e.g. for accessibility)
* Sitemap
* Autogenerated from Pages and Sections
* 404 handler
* With search feature, link to sitemap, etc
Admin features:
* Admin toolbar
* When an admin user is logged in, the admin toolbar appears at the bottom of
every page of the front-end site, giving easy access to frequently-used
features for the current area of the site (e.g. 'edit page', 'add post', etc)
Admin Area
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* Admin users can only see back-end menus for features they are able to use
* Controlled by user roles (editable by User Admins)