Nucleus CMS
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Nucleus CMS is an open-source content management system written in PHP, with a MySQL backend, primarily written and maintained by Wouter Demuynck. It is used to manage frequently-updated Web content, commonly weblogs. The current version is 3.2, distributed under the GNU General Public License and available free of charge.
A Nucleus fork, referred to as Blog:CMS, integrates several skins and plugins to the base install.
History
Nucleus was written mostly by Demuynck while he was was studying to be a "master in computer science" ("Licentiaat in de Informatica"). Back in January 2000, Wouter started a weblog using Blogger. After a while, he wanted a commenting feature, and wrote, for the first time, a PHP script for this purpose. Later, he started to use tricks to have multiple Blogger blogs on the same page (using JavaScript). In his words:
- But the Blogger service was getting less and less fun to use, because of the constant downtimes. I had to switch to a decentralized tool, but couldn't find a 'decent' one: I tried GreyMatter, but it didn't allow multiple weblogs. PHP-Nuke and alike tools did not offer enough flexibility with the layout, and were not exactly what I was looking for. Movable Type, pMachine, Pivot etc. did not exist yet, so I had to come up with something of my own.
- So I did. In the beginning of 2001, I wrote (starting from scratch) the basis of what would later turn out to become Nucleus: a set of PHP classes, reading data from XML files. No real admin-area yet, no multiple users. But multi-weblog from the start.
- It was in the summer of 2001 that I decided to move from XML files to MySQL and started building a good admin interface, so I could release the script and share it with other people. It got a little out of hand ;-)"
See also
External links
- Nucleus CMS home page (http://www.nucleuscms.org/)
- Nucleus Documentation (http://docs.nucleuscms.org/) - official documentation.
- Nucleus Support Forum (http://forum.nucleuscms.org/) - discussion forum and support.
- Nucleus Wiki (http://wiki.nucleuscms.org/) - community knowledge base.
- Nucleus Skins (http://skins.nucleuscms.org/) - themes to change the default Nucleus layout.
- Blog:CMS home page (http://www.blogcms.com/)
