Nucleus CMS 3.24 review

Nucleus CMS helps you manage multiple weblogs with multiple authors on your own server

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Nucleus CMS helps you manage multiple weblogs with multiple authors on your own server. Nucleus CMS's main features are speed, extendability through plugins, and standards compliance.

Here are some key features of "Nucleus CMS":
Multiple Authors

Each blog has its own team of authors. Some authors will only have posting rights, others will be allowed to change settings for the blog as well.

Categories

Within a weblog, you can set up one or more categories. Each item you add in your weblog will be put in one of these categories.

Built-in commenting system

Nucleus provides a built-in Commenting System, so there's no need for external commentingtools.
A karma-voting system is also provided.

FancyURLs

If your webserver supports it, Nucleus can provide URLs optimized for both readers and search engines, like:
http://example.org/item/1234
http://example.org/archives/1
http://example.org/category/6/blogid/1

Runs on your own server

Since Nucleus runs on your own server, you'll be in full control. Network outages of centralized weblog tools won't prevent you from posting.

Drafts and Future Posts

In a hurry? Need some more thinking? Mark an item as draft and continue working on it later. Or would you like an item to only appear starting from a certain date? Mark it as a future item.

Fully Tweakable

The way your Nucleus site looks is fully tweakable through skins and templates, and multiple CSS files. Next to that, the language used by the Nucleus admin area can easily be changed through language-files.

Plugins

Additional features can be programmed in so called plugins (see Nucleus plugins API) and be installed on Nucleus. This allows you to have the features you want, without having the Nucleus core to become bloated. The Nucleus plugin interface offers plugin authors lots of flexibility. For examples of how plugins can extend Nucleus funtionality, see further down in this document.

Bookmarklet and right-click blogging

So, you're visiting a site and want to write something about it on your weblog. No need to open the admin area, just open the bookmarklet or use the right-click context menu option and an add-item window will popup. Easy!

Archives and Search

Archives for your weblogs are automatically managed by Nucleus, and a search function is provided to look up old items.
Nucleus also features highlighting search terms, both in articles, and in comments!

RSS and Atom Syndication

Syndication feeds are provided (as skins). Nucleus provides RSS and Atom feeds. Extra feed types (your favorite RSS flavor) can be added easily.
XML-RPC interface: Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType APIs
Nucleus provides implementations of the Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType APIs. This means that Nucleus can be used with tools like w.Bloggar, Ecto, Zempt, ...

File/Image Upload

Want to include an image in an item? Open the media popup, choose a file to upload and off you go! No need to open an FTP program and upload the file manually.

IP-banlist

Some nasty people screwing up your comments? Ban their IP address or IP range or nickname from further comments/votes.

Backup/Restore

With a simple click you can create a backup version of the database contents.

What's New in This Release:
This release fixes one single cross site scripting issue. Upgrading is recommended when you have the "Allow Visitors to Create a Member Account" option enabled. Since only a few files have been updated, you can upgrade by downloading the changes-only-3.24.zip file and extracting it into your nucleus/libs directory.