Welcome to the world of Nucleus CMS. Nucleus CMS is a FREE software package. In 2001 a set of PHP scripts were let loose on the open Internet. Those scripts, which took user-generated data and used it to dynamically create html pages, contained the ideas and the algorithms that are the core of today's Nucleus CMS. Though Nucleus CMS 3.4 is far more flexible and powerful than the scripts from which it emerged, it still expresses the values that guided its birth: flexibility, security, and computational elegance. Thanks to an international community of sophisticated developers and designers, Nucleus CMS remains simple enough for anyone to learn, and expandable enough to allow you to build almost any website you can imagine.
Nucleus CMS lets you integrate text, images, and user comments in a seamless package that will make your web presence as serious, professional, personal, or fun as you want it to be. We hope you enjoy its power.
The install process places a user and a developer documentation on your web server. Pop-up help is available throughout the administration area to assist you in maintaining and customizing your site. When in the Nucleus CMS admin area, click on this symbol for context-sensitive help. You can also read this documentation online under docs.nucleuscms.org.
If you need more information about managing, extending or troubleshooting your Nucleus CMS the Nucleus FAQ is the first place to search information. Over 170 frequently asked questions are answered from experienced Nucleus users.
Should you require assistance, please don't hesitate to join the 6,800+ registered users on our forums. With its built-in search capability of the 73,000+ posted articles, your answers are just a few clicks away. Remember: almost any question you think of has already been asked on the forums, and almost anything you want to do with Nucleus has been tried and explained there. Be sure to check them out.
The combination of multi-weblogs and skins/templates make for a powerful duo in personalizing your site or designing one for a friend, relative or business client. Import new skins to change the look of your website, or create your own skins and share them with the Nucleus community! Help designing or modifying skins is only a few clicks away in the Nucleus forums.
Looking to add some extra functionality to the base Nucleus CMS package? Our plugin repository gives you plenty of ways to extend and expand what Nucleus CMS can do; your imagination and creativity are the only limit on how Nucleus CMS can work for you.
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.
Did We Say "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 do I need to run Nucleus?
You'll need the following (if you don't know where to find version information, ask your system administrator).
A server running PHP 4.0.6 or higher (4.2+ is recommended)
Access to a MySQL database (MySQL 3.23.x or above)
Plugins?
Plugins can extend Nucleus to almost everything you desire. The reason why these features are not included in the Nucleus Core, is that we didn't want it to become bloated. Some of you will like these features, others will like others. Nucleus provides a lightweight tool that can be used for different purposes, by simply plugging in the needed plugins.
Some examples of plugin functionality are given below:
WYSIWYG item editing
Statistics (most viewed/most commented/...)
Comments/Item RSS feeds
Calendar
Chat (shoutbox)
CSS style switcher
"Email/Print this article"
Fulltext-search of local, related, articles
Fully integrated google.com search (using google API, SOAP) of related outside articles
Fully integrated amazon.com search
GZip your website, saving bandwidth
Run polls, even with multiple questions
Trackback
Weather forecast / current weather plugin for all major cities in the world
Who is online plugin (tracks members and visitors active within last 30 minutes)
Comment moderation
Comment preview
Reply notifications
Highlighting of search engine keywords
What’s possible with Nucleus CMS:
Nucleus CMS is used on over 700 registered sites. Here are some ideas to get you started thinking about what Nucleus CMS can do for you:
Personal blogs stanch.net - Stanch's personal weblog rakaz.nl - Rakaz's personal weblog bloggard.com - The Adventures of Bloggard sempermagis.be - Webvoer voor de digitale honger. Warm geserveerd
Community blogs tipos.com.br - Brazilian blogging community
Travel sites hsbluebird.com - Hot Springs, Montana's Online Resource groningen-info.de - Neues aus Groningen. Für Leute aus Duitsland.
Business sites adrenalinsports.nl - Adrenalin sports c-nes.org - Centre for Northeast Studies and Policy Research (C-NES)
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