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ExpressionEngine

By: pMachine, Inc.

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ExpressionEngine is a flexible, feature-rich web publishing system (CMS) that empowers individuals, organizations, and companies around the world to create dynamic, content-driven websites. It is developed by Oregon-based pMachine, Inc. ExpressionEngine and it can be purchased in order to receive a license and dedicated support, or a free ExpressionEngine Core version is available that provides nearly all of the abilities of a typical blogging system.

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Contents
  1. Description
  2. System requirements
  3. Features
    1. General Features
    2. User Features
    3. Security Features
    4. Administrative Features
    5. Modules and Plugins
  4. Communities
  5. See also

Description

ExpressionEngine is a web publishing system (CMS) designed to be flexible and feature-rich for individuals, organizations, and companies for creating dynamic, content-driven websites. It is developed by Oregon-based pMachine, Inc. ExpressionEngine. It is a both paid – in order to receive a license and dedicated support, or a free product -ExpressionEngine Core version is available that offers the characteristics blogging system.

System requirements

  • 10 MB space or higher
  • PHP version 4.1 or higher with XML support
  • MySQL version 3.23.32
  • A web server that supports one of the three image manipulation protocols: GD, ImageMagick, NetPBM.

Features

General Features

  • Powerful search engine
  • Color-coded custom statuses
  • The forum supports multiple categories
  • RSS/ ATOM feeds
  • Sticky Topics
  • The topic expire after a certain period of time
  • Images and files can be uploaded
  • Images can be resized and thumbnailed
  • Emoticons
  • Search Term Log
  • IP's can be searched in entries, comments and forum posts

User Features

  • Users can comment membership/moderation/expiration/pagination
  • Trackbacks system with built-in spam protection
  • MS Word Characters converting
  • Email are encoded in order to prevent forum spam
  • Online user list
  • Available templates
  • PHP scripting in templates can be allowed or denied
  • Template files can be exported as text or zip
  • There is available a template library and also template notes
  • The users can customize the template window

  • Multiple groups
  • Member Activation
  • Management of profile and subscription
  • Member localization and communication
  • Email Console Logs
  • Members have their own costumed links in the Control Panel
  • Note Pad
  • The forum has Multi-Protocol support
  • User friendly and intuitive Email options
  • Mail Caching
  • Batch Processing

Security Features

  • Captcha
  • Password Encryption
  • Secure Form Processing
  • Throttling
  • Duplicate Data is rejected
  • Multi-Password is rejected
  • IP and User Agent Logging
  • Password Lockout
  • Secure Password Mode
  • IP and email banning
  • Username Restriction
  • Word Censoring

Administrative Features

  • SQL and extension manager
  • Admin Logs
  • Data in the forum can be searched and replaced
  • Data can be exported
  • Rank denial
  • Secure form mode
  • Duplicate data can be rejected
  • In an hour time frame pings can be followed
  • Site Membership
  • URLs, IP addresses are specified with the Blacklist/Whitelist module

Modules and Plugins

  • 22 add-on modules and more than 100 plugins
  • By using Moblob content such as photos, weblog entries and data can be sent by a user to a website via email
  • Weblog
  • Wikipages
  • Member Manager
  • The software purchasing is made through PayPal
  • Photo Gallery
  • Blogger/MetaWeblog API
  • Statistics

Communities

See also

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