Contentteller 2.0 Test 1 available

It’s here . Esselbach Contentteller (formerly known as Storyteller) Test 1 is now available as free download for all registered users in the members area.

This is an experimental beta version not intended for use in production environments. This release will expire on 1st July 2007, you need to upgrade to a new build before this date or your website stops working. Support for this version is currently only available over this support forum. If you need full support (e.g. over trouble ticket) please use the 1.x series instead.

Test 1 is the first of four release milestones and 25% code complete. Each release introduces new features and modules. For example, Test 2 will contain the review and support modules.

Installation:

The first test release of Contentteller 2.0 is only available with the Windows installer. That means you need Windows as client OS for the installation. Later test builds will be made available also as classical zip/tar.gz archives.

What’s new in 2.0 Test 1:

Everything. The 2.0 series is a complete rewrite from scratch. Basically, 99,99% of the code is brand new. The idea behind the new 2.0 series is to address many known issues and design flaws of the 1.x series.

The following modules are included in this release:

Main
This module allows you to configure some of the website core settings

Content
With the content module you can add pages or forms to the content section of your website

News
The news module allows you to add news stories or polls to your website

Import
With this module you can easily import news from RSS feeds, email account, and newsgroups

Users
This module allow you to manage all user accounts

Templates
Here you can change the appearance of your website or add additional themes

Blocks
With this module you can add/edit side block to your website. 7 sample blocks are included.

File Types
The module allows you to edit the supported file types and permissions for file uploads

Stats
Here you see the latest web stats including page views, referrers, browsers, and bots

Online
A small module to show all current active admin users in the control panel

Additional information:

Search engine friendly URLs
Contentteller 2.0 support SEO URLs out of the box. You can enable this under Main => Website => Edit. The SEO feature is currently not compatible with the Microsoft IIS web server. I will try to find a solution for the next test release.

Universal Wrappers
With the Universal Wrappers you can use the user database of 3rd party products for the front end. The following products are supported in Test 1: vBulletin 2, vBulletin 3, UBB.threads 7, MyBB 1.2, and SMF 1.1. Support for additional products is coming in Test 2

WYSIWYG
The WYSIWYG editor is disabled in the default installation. You can enable it under Content Preferences and News Preferences

Caching System
The caching system is disabled by default. You should active this option only if you have a high traffic website after the output will be no longer updated in real time.

Templates
The templates are now stored in the database. In case you want edit them with your favorite HTML editor you need to export the templates to HTML/PHP files. These files will be written into the templates directory. As soon you finished your modifications upload the files back to the templates directory and import them again.

Upgrade from 1.x
I will provide a basic import script to import news and pages from the 1.x series in a few days. The final import system will be part of the Test 4 release. Other things such as the old templates are incompatible with the new system and must be redone from scratch.

Support for multiple websites
Contentteller 2.0 supports multiple websites, but the current installer doesn't. This will be fixed in Test 2.

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