e107Advent has started, for the last month or two I have been working on this project. My main goal was to 1. Make up for my lack of activity this year within the e107 community and 2. get my name well known within the e107 community again.
I have just a few minutes ago released my first e107 theme for about a year and a half. I packaged it up after checking all the files, screenshoted the theme and then put it online. Now I am just promoting it within the e107 community.
I feel slightly disappointed that I didn’t manage to create all 15 themes I had planned but then again I didn’t expect to within the short time frame I gave myself. Hopefully while the days tick by in December I will be releasing and creating more themes to bump up the theme total.
To keep up to date with e107Advent theme releases keep checking this site.
Some other project news soon.
Carrying on from yesterdays post explaining what e107 is, I have decided to carry on writing about e107 to create a series of posts taking you through parts of e107. This post will focus on the admin area.
The admin area is the main hub of an e107 site, this is where you add content, change settings and well quite alot of neat stuff really. Too much to explain here.
At the bottom of this post you will see a selection of thumbnails, click on them to view bigger images. They are all screenshots taken of e107 just after installation.
Screenshot 1 : This screenshot shows you what the Admin Frontpage looks like. This is the hub of your site, from here you can change every aspect of your site including adding plugins in the Plugin Manager, and changing themes in the Theme manager. Once you install e107 most users then go into the preferences to change things like site name etc…
Screenshot 2 : This screenshot shows you e107’s Preferences, here you start changing how your site works, whether people can register, what questions are asked on signup, enable flood protection and a lot more.
Screenshot 3 : This screenshot shows how easy it is to create pages for your site, simple type what you want your page to say and then change the settings to what you want and simply click Create Page.
Hopefully this has given you some idea of what e107’s backend looks like and how easy it is to use.
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The following post was written due to many email questions asking ‘What is e107?’.
e107 is a Open Source Content Management System, developed using PHP and MySQL. It is developed by a handful of developers who proudly give up there spare time to keep the CMS up to date and moving up in the world of CMS’s.
At the end of last month e107 came 3rd in the Packt Publishing Best PHP Open Source Content Management System Award. Just loosing out to Drupal and Joomla. This been the 2nd year running e107 has reached the final. Congratulations to all involved.
Not only is e107 free to download, but it includes all you need to set up a website in minutes as long as you have the correct hosting to do so. It includes several packaged features as well as a whole community dedicated to creating new plugins and themes. Some of the packaged features include, a forum, calender, downloads, news submission, news and many many more. To get an idea of all the features you get with e107 you’d have to see for yourself. To do this go here and view the demo installations.
e107 can easily be expanded to suit your needs, plugins can easily be created and if your lucky a suitable plugin has already been created. Styling your site is just as easy with many themes available to download, or if you know how to code/design then you can create your own. It’s easy!
Not only is e107 easy to develop and expand it also offers a great support base, with a documentation wiki, and a forum where members, the support team and developers all help you sort out any problems that may arise.
An official plugins has also been created meaning you don’t have to search the internet for any add-on’s you may want. An official themes site will be up and running in the near future.
So what are you wanting for, go and download e107 now.
If you have any questions regarding e107 then feel free to leave a comment or contact me via the contact page.
