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| Feature | CMSMS | Wordpress | Static Site |
| Demo | http://demo.opensourcecms.com/cmsmadesimple/ | http://php.opensourcecms.com/scripts/details.php?scriptid=88 | n/a |
| Course/Program Info | Simple once CMS and templates set up Easiest to maintain for client |
Simple once CMS and templates set up Maintainable by client, but confusing |
Simple to create - difficult to maintain Not suitable for our client |
| Internship/Job Listings | The news module works for handling moderated
comments and supports expiration dates it also supports setting to draft
status, which deactivates the post. However, setting to draft status seems
to restricted to moderators, whereas I would like it if submitters could
edit/remove their own posts. I will keep looking to see if I can make that
happen. In a pinch, I submitters could always email the moderator and ask to
have a post taken down. |
http://thedeadone.net/download/tdo-mini-forms-wordpress-plugin/ * I spent some time trying to find out if this would work. It seems like it would but the documentation is spotty. Would have to install and tinker with it to be sure. |
Not achievable, employers would have to email in content and a student worker would have to manually update the site for each new submission. |
| News/Announcements | I tested the News module in the default install and
it works perfectly! |
http://thedeadone.net/download/tdo-mini-forms-wordpress-plugin/ | Doable but a nuisance |
| Article exchange | Comments Module will work with a bit of customization | http://thedeadone.net/download/tdo-mini-forms-wordpress-plugin/ | Not achievable, students/alumni would have to email in content and a student worker would have to manually update the site for each new submission. |
| Student Portfolios | Comments module is designed to work with the
captcha module and is often used with the TtinyMCE WYSYWIG editor and the
news module to append comments to news articles. I am feeling pretty
confident that this would work for us since similar set-ups in CMSMS have
worked for other developers. I got the comments to work on my local machine
and added the TinyMCE editor to it. *update it looks lite Photo Gallerey along with comments will do the trick see: http://www.icms.info/website-addons/comments-on-content |
http://thedeadone.net/download/tdo-mini-forms-wordpress-plugin/ http://thedeadone.net/download/tdo-mini-forms-wordpress-plugin/ The description is a perfect match for what we need, however, I couldn't find any good example of it in use. Would have to actually install it and tinker to know if it would work. |
Not achievable, students/alumni would have to email in content and a student worker would have to manually update the site for each new submission. |
| Search | Built in Search Module will do the trick * from CMSMS: "Search is a module for searching "core" content along with certain registered modules. You put in a word or two and it gives you back matching, relevant results. You can see the search module in use in the default templates, like on this page. Simply put {search} in your template, where you want the search form to appear. If you want the results of a search to appear on a different page, you can specify this with the parameter result page='page alias'. For more information, see the Search module in the Admin Panel, in the Extensions menu." |
bigram-full text-search | Would work fine Just install Google's free site specific search tool |
| Surveys | http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/quizzard Installed and tested seems ok and easy to manage |
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/surveys/ The Surveys WordPress plug-in lets you add surveys to you blog. You can let the visitors take surveys and see the result from the admin side. You can see the result of the survey from the admin side - there are two ways to see the data... |
Not possible as a static site, but could use a form
creating tool like http://www.formtools.org instead of a cms, but why bother? |
| Subscribe | module CGFeedMaker: http://www.icms.info/website-addons/rss-feed-maker |
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe-to-comments/ | Not feasible |
| Photo-gallery | http://www.icms.info/website-addons/photo-gallery Looks awesome! |
There are dozens of plug-ins for this | Not feasible |
| Technologies used (languages smarty etc.) | PHP, MySQL, Smarty | PHP, MySQL | PHP, MySQL |
| Theme implementation | The easiest one to implement and maintain due to running on Smarty! | good select of themes, however not nearly as
flexible, easy of powerful as CMSMS as no Smarty http://themes.wordpress.net/ |
N/A - theme is the site |
| Actively supported and documented | Yes, however, the documentation is not as extensive
as other CMS, so accessing help in the forums is essential. The forums are
great and VERY active: 175,755 Posts in 35,208 Topics by 14,669 Members. http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/ |
Yes. Extremely well documented and supported.
Millions of other users out there, many of whom can and do offer
assistance/advice. http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page |
N/A |
| First release/age | 11/12/05 0:00 | 2003 | 1970? |
| Last time released and updated | 10/3/09 18:18 | 6/7/09 | n/a |
| Built-in extensibility (modules/plugging) | Extremely nice built-in extension manager module
supports browsing for plug-in's and then one-click install/uninstall of
modules. Selection of plug-ins is quite good, but not as large as WordPress'. This is partly due to the fact that it is newer and also because it has more features built in. |
The best selection of the lot, however, many of the plug-in's suck | n/a |
| Hosting requirements | One of these operating systems: Linux/Unix Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Me/2003 (not recommended unless you master it) Mac OS X One of these web servers: Apache 1.3 Apache 2 IIS 5+ LightTPD 1.4+ PHP 4.3+ 4.3.3+ required for pretty URL's Working PHP sessions GD Library PHP Tokenizer support. Some hosts don't install tokenizer support for php by default, but this is usually trivial and harmless for them to add. safe mode turned OFF. CMS Made simple does not support safe mode. A supported database: MySQL 4.1+ MySQL 5 PostgreSQL 7+ A session cookies and JavaScript enabled admin browser Firefox IE7 (IE6 is not supported (see this post for a discussion about this subject)). (As of April 2007, Safari does not work correctly for some functions, in particular using the fCKEditorX extension for WYSIWG editing.) (Opera??) |
PHP version 4.3 or greater MySQL version 4.0 or greater The mod_rewrite Apache module |
n/a |