Today I'm releasing version 2.0.2 of pecio cms. I had not much time to work on it but although there are some new and useful features and improvements. So here they are:

• The setting "Blogposts per Page" is now also accessible on the blogpost-administration page
• I've implemented the visitor counter of Philipp von der Born (Link)
  
  • Statistics are displayed on the administration overview screen
• There now is a permalink to the article/post you're currently editing
• Plugins can now add additional localization files to the CMS
• Markus has created a german translation for the CMS which is added by default
• I've replaced a lot of CSS3 style definitions with images because of bad performance in some browsers (e.g. Firefox)
  
  • Further I polished the design of the administration interface

Just take a look at the demo (Username: admin - Password: demo123) or at the screenshots.

Because of the new plugin localization feature I've also added a german translation to the contactform plugin (which is not anymore compatible with 2.0.1).

To install the CMS, follow the installation guide. If you already have an older version installed, follow the update guide.

I hope that all of you will be happy with this release :) If any errors occur, please contact me via the contactform on this site.

In the administration interface I'm currently using almost completely CSS3 to define the styles of e.g. buttons, text inputs, etc. This looks great for the most part but in most browser which support CSS3 this turns into bad performance.

So I decided to replace some elements with images or make them more simple with not so much box-shadows. But all my tries creating a simple but nice (and scalable!) button using images failed. Can anyone of you out there create such buttons? That would be very great :)

In the last few weeks I had to work a lot with Wordpress because I'm administrating a website using it.

While fiddling around with templates, plugins and Wordpress itself, I've discovered many great features in Wordpress. And some days I'm asking myself: "Why are people using pecio cms when there are other ones with -  for some part - a lot more features and better usability?".

So today I want to ask you, why you like pecio cms or why you dislike it (also compared to other ones).

I hope I can find some tips in what direction to go with the CMS.

I'm happy to release pecio 2.0.1. Approximately one month ago I released the first version - 2.0 - but since then many modifications have been done on pecio. This includes bug fixes, improvements and new features.

These features and/or improvements are new in version 2.0.1:

• More possibilities for plugins to integrate into the system. But there is still work do be done for the future.
• Automatic installation of plugins which need one.
• Update system which automatically detects if the installed version is newer or older than the uploaded files.
• RSS-Feeds for the whole blog, the categories and the tags.
• Some kind of an overview on the start screen after logging in. There will be more work on this in the future. Any ideas what else I can put on that start screen?
• Some bug fixes

I have also worked on code documentation (finished the first folder and all its files). The file header (license, version, etc.) is included in all files.

There now is an installation guide. If any errors occur, just contact me.

Overall I hope I'm able to give you a simple but great content management system

I have currently not much time for working on pecio, but I could take some hours implementing RSS Feeds for the blog.

I'm using the FeedCreator PHP-Class to generate the RSS Feeds. There will be a feed for the whole blog, for the different categories and for the different tags. An HTML-Link element for the appropriate feed - depending on which site view (blog, category, tag) is displayed - will be automatically placed in the -section of a template.

I also started to bring some headers and documentation (phpDocumentor) into the files, but It'll take some time until I'm finished.

For those who want to test the CMS, I have set up a demo installation of the current snapshot. You can find it here: demo.pecio-cms.com.

Admin Frontend: pec_admin/
Username: admin
Password: demo123

Work on pecio goes on. In the last few days I have created an automatic plugin installation system which automatically installs plugins needing an installation. Further there now is an area in the administration interface where all your plugins are listed with description and some other meta data. You can uninstall and reinstall them there.
 

Another thing I was working on is the update system. If you upload a newer/older version, pecio automatically detects wether the installed version is newer or older than the uploaded one and displays a pursuant message. If the installed version is older you can update right from the login screen by typing the update password that was given to you after the installation.

I've also created some plugins:
 

• Contactforms: Creating and managing contactforms that can be placed anywhere in the CMS.
• Blog Category List: Lists all available blog categories.
• Blog Tag List: Same as above, but for blog tags ;)
• Tag Cloud: Creates a tag cloud. You can choose between linear and logarithmic calculation.
• Canonical Link Element: Outputs a canonical link element in the HTML- area on pages which can be linked in different ways (e.g. index.php and index.php?target=home). More on this element here.

The current snapshot including all plugins can be found here. Remember that this unstable version may cause lots of errors.

Today, on christmas, I'm happy that I'm able to release pecio 2.0 which is completely rewritten, nearly completely object-oriented and much more flexible than the old one.

Here are some of the new features of this version:
 

• Multiple articles and the blog can be assigned to the home page
• Multiple categories and tags can be assigned to a blogpost
• Subtitle, description and tags for the website (will be displayed as meta elements in the head-section of the template)
• Three types of URLs: Default (using IDs) - Human (using Slugs) - Rewrite (using Slugs and Apache mod_rewrite)
• Sidebartexts- and links can be assigned to more than one article
• More divided user permissions
• Localization is done using XML-files
• New WYSIWYG-Editor: CKEditor instead of TinyMCE
• New and more consistent admin area design, based nearly completely on CSS3 and using the great Frutiger font (» how to get this legally for free)

But at the moment it also still lacks a certain features of the old one:
 

• RSS-Feed
• Download Counter
• DIfferent templates for each articles

All the old templates and plugins also still need to be rewritten for pecio 2.0. But all those missing features will be implemented in future releases. Some other new features are also in planning stage:
 

• Ping- and Trackbacks
• RSS-Feeds also for categories, tags and archives

If you have more features that you would like to see in future versions, just leave a comment!

Update:

I just forgot some things to mention:
 

1. I've put CMS generated HTML Text (e.g. the menu, sidebar texts, ...) into template files, so that it's easier for you to change the layout of those elements.
2. Plugins now have more possibilities to integrate into the system. So they inherit the PecAbstractPlugin Class which provides the database object, the session object, the settings object, the plugin's meta data and the current site view (such as article, blog, blogcategory, blogtag, blogarchive, ...). It also has the ability to give some data for the -Section of the website.