Open Sitez Documentation

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Welcome

Welcome to the open sitez documentation

Intro

Open Sitez is a Content Management System meant to simplify publishing websites.

Originally created as a domain parking script, Open Sitez as gradually evolved into a full Fledged CMS meant as an alternative to wordpress/ drupal.

Features:

• Emphasis on configuration via yaml so that changes can be tracked via version control
• Nodes plugin support custom fields ala Drupal CCK
• Internationalization allows pages to be served in multiple languages
• Forms Engine with multi language support
• Folder plugin provides Easy start If you have a bunch of files in a directory, all you need is to point to that folder
• Directory Plugin supports Hierchical Web Directories like Yahoo
• Multi/ Multi tenant site out of the box
• Themable Using Template engine to allow multiple themes per site
• Layout for pages with columns
• "You can keep your doctor" - Basic Read Support for Drupal and Wordpress databases allows to try out what your site might look like without migrating. Needs work but worked for me
• Plugin support - see list of plugins below

Demo Sites

• Web Dev Power - Site about software Development
• My Website, YounElan.com - My personal website
• More sites - More sites running opensitez

Basics:

• Sites are defined through a primary config.osz
• each site has a primary folder where all data resides
• in each site:
  • a private subfolder which is not web accessible
  • folders for images,js,css folder serving images, js, css can be referenced in as { {$sitepath}} template variable
  • in each site there is a themes folder which hosts themes specific to that site
  • each site has a yaml definition file. By default, opensitez looks for a file called definition.osz but a different definition file can be specified in config.yaml so multiple web sites can share the same folder
  • Content can be either in HTML, Markdown, or Text. For Example, this documentation is pretty much a bunch of markdown files served by the folder plugin

License

More details about the License can be found here

Core Plugins

The initial release ships with the following plugins

• Folder Plugin - Serve a bunch of files in a folder
• Directory Plugin - hierchical web directory in a database
• Blog Plugin - Your typical blog plugin, support multiple node types with custom fields for each
• Feed Plugin - Include an RSS feed or an atom Feed
• Form Plugin - Handle forms such as feedback or contact
• Image Menu Plugin - Simple Image Menu Plugin for visual navigation which can also serve as a simple Image Gallery.
• QR Code Plugin - Allows to embed a qrcode with a link to the current page
• Menu Plugin - Provides the navigation menu on the top of the page
• Social Share - Provides image navigation
• qrcode - Provides image navigation
• Page Plugin - basic page plugin allows to include blocks of various types