What is XOOPS?
XOOPS is a free open-source and easy-to-use dynamic web content management system, written in PHP. It uses a modules architecture allowing users to customize, update, and themes their website. It is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). It is free to use and modify and redistribute.
XOOPS is an acronym for “eXtensible Object Oriented Portal System”, developed into a web application framework. That web framework used for small, medium, and large sites, through the installation of modules. It is the ideal tool for developing small, medium, and large dynamic community websites, company and corporate portals, weblogs, and much more.
Top Key features: #
1. User Management – It searches for users by using various criteria and sends email/ private messages to users through a template-based massaging system.
2. Personalization – Administrators have able to set specific permission for user access and control of individual elements of their website.
3. Theme-based skinnable interface – It uses a theme for the page presentation and both administrators and users can change their available themes look of the entire website.
4. Modularized – Module can be installed/ uninstalled and activated/ deactivated using the module administration system.
5. Advanced access control layer – Administrators have abele to grant specific groups of users specific access rights to the content and features such as edit/ delete/ upload/ add attachments/ publish content and so on.
6. International Language support – Fully supports multi-byte languages, that use characters, not in the Latin alphabet, for example, simplified and traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese. The multi-language support is also available on the PDF generation features to provide by the TCPDF library.
Recommended Modules of XOOPS: #
1. Publisher – The publisher module is very powerful and suitable for news portals or blogs and it manages articles or news.
2. Contact – The visitors can visit your website and that visitors can contact you via a form.
3. Extcal – Extcal module is to create calendar events and share them with your community.
4. Extgallery – Extgallery module allows users to upload photos and create their own galleries.
5. Xmcontent – Xmcontent is a simple content module and it allows the creation of static pages in XOOPS.
6. NewBB – NewBB is a very powerful forum module for group discussions.
Advantages of XOOPS: #
1. Re-usability – Users can be reusing some facilities again and again as per our need.
2. Code maintenance – Code maintenance is more of a necessity for any programming language and it can help users doing re-work in many more ways. It is a very easy and time-saving maintenance feature.
3. Security – Using this feature we can maintain security and provide necessary data to view and filtering out limited data to exposure.
4. Design Benefits – In the design benefits a user will get are in terms of designing and fixing things easily and remove some risks. It forces the designers to have a long and spacious design phase, which creates better designs and fewer flows.
Easy installation using Softaculous. #
Step 1. Go to cPanel
Step 2. Under the software, section click on the “Softaculous App Installer” button
Step 3. On this window, you see a sidebar on the left side select “Portals/CMS” then scroll down to the “XOOPS” click there
Step 4. After clicking open new interface here click on the “Install Now” button
Step 5. On the new window, you fill in the information
Step 6. First, choose the installation URL
Step 7. Second, Choose the data directory
Step 8. Then write site name and site description
Step 9. Then Create your administrator user name, password, then enter the real name
Write user Email in the Email box.
Step 10. Click on the install button at the bottom of the page
Step 11. You will get confirmation of successful installation on the interface.
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