MonkeyCMS is a PHP/MySQL-based content management system (CMS) that offers unprecedented control over content, layout and users all through a web-browser interface. It has been under development since late 2004 and had it's first full public release in the last few months of 2007. This lengthy development period means that the software has been thoroughly 'road tested' and has been used in production even it's pre-beta form on sites with many thousands of pieces of content and almost as many registered users. It is totally scalable from the smallest intranet installation to the largest imaginable content-driven portal.
What is MonkeyCMS?
MonkeyCMS is a PHP/MySQL-based content management system (CMS) that offers unprecedented control over content, layout and users all through a web-browser interface. You can store thousands of pieces of content, multiple layouts, promote user interaction, manipulate images and even drive social networking through this one piece of software.
Where can MonkeyCMS be used?
MonkeyCMS is totally scalable from the smallest intranet installation to the largest imaginable content-driven portal. It has been used extensively on a number of hugely popular sites since 2004 and has been thoroughly road tested. It can be maintained easily by any number of users, and configuration and installation can be achieved in a few clicks. Your content writers need to know nothing about the technical side of the internet.
It can be operated by users of all skill levels - from the basic data inputter right up to the most accomplished HTML and PHP programmer. It offers unlimited expansion capability on top of its already extensive functionality. You can use it as a blog, a portal, a review site or anything you like. You can restrict your content to registered users or specific groups - and this can be done at the smallest granularity. You can have many admin users with different privileges allowing you to create a hierarchical content provider structure.
Is it free?
MonkeyCMS' fair use licence permits the use of the software without charge - you can download it from this site and install it on as many websites as you like. If you want us to set up your site for you we can do this for a fee, but to actually use the software you don't have to pay a penny.
What about support?
Our discussion forum provides direct access to our development team. All users are treated equally and there isn't a paid support option. It is in our interests to address your issues and provide support as quickly as possible in order to maintain MonkeyCMS' reputation. We also respond positively to feature requests and attempt to add any suggested features that are beneficial to the core package as quickly as possible.
Does MonkeyCMS have protection against spammers and abuse?
Yes, MonkeyCMS incorporates a number of spam-proofing measures to keep your site free from abuse. No software application is 100% spam-proof, and we recognise this fact by providing you with the tools to handle spam quickly and efficiently. If a user spams your site, the chances are your users will never see it and you can quickly remove all of this spam within a couple of clicks. User registration checks are in place to prevent spammers from registering in the first place - these are configurable and have proved to be very effective when used on our own sites.
In addition, sometimes users can cause trouble and we are prepared for this too. The MonkeyCMS 'Black Book' is designed to allow you to record any user abuse of the your site in a way to ensure that you have a record of all activity you wish to note. Users can be banned, as can email addresses and IP addresses. You can quickly ban a member, delete all of their posts and ensure they no longer have the ability to cause you trouble quickly and easily with a couple of clicks.
What can MonkeyCMS do with images?
The quick answer: 'lots!'. The long answer: MonkeyCMS allows you to upload, protect, watermark, resize, rotate and adjust the quality of the images on your site all through simple HTTP query parameters. MonkeyCMS image functionality is very powerful and can easily be tapped.
What can MonkeyCMS users do?
MonkeyCMS users can set up their own profiles, send each other messages, comment on content and submit content to your site. You can even set up groups to allow only certain users access to certain content, restrict content to only registered users or even just to individual users. Future releases of MonkeyCMS will introduce more social networking features including user-created groups, photo albums and discussion forums.
MonkeyCMS Features
- Extensive anti-spam and abuse features - block 'bot' registrations, moderate users and comments, block email domains and many, many more options
- Multiple content definitions - have separate definitions for news, reviews or whatever you want, each with its own set of content elements or fields.
- Multiple layouts per definition - you can have multiple different layouts for each content definition, just select the layout you want from a dropdown and the changes take effect immediately
- Powerful image and file management - upload and manipulate images, upload files with full download logs available. You can even restrict file downloads to specific groups of users
- User content submissions - everything you need to accept content submissions from your visitors. Turn your audience into your workforce!
- Web-based interface - once installed, you can maintain your website entirely through a friendly user interface.
- Public and private user groups - you can create as many groups as you like, they can be public or private and you can even moderate new users before they have full access
- Restrict content to specific users/groups - do you have premium content? You can easily restrict any content to any user, group or even just prevent unregistered users from viewing. Restrictions are controlled at the individual content level!
- Powerful multi-user support - you can have as many admin users as you like and each one can have a different level of access. You can control who can do what and as superuser you have ultimate control over all users.
- Banners and Affiliates - manage all of your revenue streams through MonkeyCMS. Log all banner impressions, clicks and conversions. Log all affiliate traffic and build deeplinks that are compatible with the majority of affiliate networks all through one familiar interface
- Black Book - log all of your users infractions. Do you have a particular trouble maker? Log everything they do that breaks your rules and then ban them when you've had enough. You can even moderate individual user comments so if one user is causing problems you don't have to inconvenience everyone else!
- Multiple languages - Create new language and message groups all through the MonkeyCMS interface. Your users can even select from all available languages through their user account settings!
- Templates and Skins - modular templating means you can easily create reusable modules using just simple HTML with a few MonkeyCMS-specific additions.
- Functions - using the MonkeyCMS functions you can manipulate your content in countless ways. Rather than code complexities yourself, almost everything you need can be done via an extensive set of content-focussed functions.
- Plugins - found something you can't do with MonkeyCMS? Just create a plugin. There is a simple API allowing even the most inexperienced PHP coder to develop their own modules that can be activated and deactivated whenever you wish.
- Support - if you have a problem, or if there's something you would like added to the software, we're more than happy to investigate those options for you. Just post in our forums and we'll do what we can as quickly as possible!
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