XOOPS 2.4.5 Final Released

July 12, 2010 · Posted in CMS, Xoops · Comment

After over 40,000 downloads of its previous version in just over five short months, the XOOPS Project, one of world’s leading Open Source CMS, has released a new version of its award winning software – XOOPS 2.4.5.

This release is mainly for bugfixes and cleaning up conflicts in previous versions of the XOOPS 2.4 series. Some areas, including tinyMCE/ckeditor editors, have been improved.

The main features of the 2.4 series are:

new user friendly Admin GUI
new mechanism to modularize and extend Core via Preloads
central support for jQuery
improved Installer
Themeable Admininstration area
support for WYSIWYG Editors: CKEditor, wymeditor, Xinha, and Spaw2
new System License Key
Support to PHP 5.3

XOOPS 2.4 Screenshot

System requirements

Any PHP version >= 4.3 (PHP 4.2.x may work but is not officially supported, PHP 5.0+ is strongly recommended) MySQL server 3.23+ (MySQL 5.0+ is strongly recommended) Web server: Any server supporting the required PHP version (Apache highly recommended)

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Over 30,000 downloads of XOOPS 2.4.4 in just 4 months

May 27, 2010 · Posted in CMS, Xoops · Comment

XOOPS Logo Last week marked two important milestones for XOOPS:

1) XOOPS 2.4.4, its latest stable version, has been downloaded over 30,000 times within the first four months since its release on Jan. 22, 2010.

2) They also crossed the 100,000 registered users threshold on their Website and are aggressively moving forward with the development and activities around XOOPS:

They just released Release Candidate 2 of XOOPS 2.4.5
The upcoming XOOPS 2.5.0 is in Alpha 2
The first annual XOOPS Best Article Contest 2010, which runs from now until June 25
A banner competition for XOOPS France, with a deadline of May 30
The demo site for XOOPS Themes went live with close to 2,000 themes available,
http://XooFoo.org launched the site TV.XooFoo to provide a TV channel for XOOPS users,

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第一期『WEB使い倒し道場』～その②～

December 15, 2009 · Posted in Xoops · Comment

XOOPSを使って情報を発信する道場です。情報発信は武器になります。自分の人生をもかえる力があるインターネットをいかに使い倒すかという方法論を実践していただきます。 … 使い倒し道場 XOOPS k@tti 協創LLP WEBセミナー

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第三期『WEB使い倒し道場』ガイダンス編

December 15, 2009 · Posted in Xoops · Comment

XOOPSを使ったWEBサイト構築セミナーです。インターネットのトレンドを織り交ぜた他には類をみないセミナー内容です♪ … 第三期WEB使い倒し道場 XOOPS 協創LLP k@tti

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[HD] concrete5 debut at Tokyo Open Source Conference 2009/Spring

December 14, 2009 · Posted in Xoops · 2 Comments

volunteer group of programmers, web developers web masters, and designers to create and distribute open source programs. Our initial product was an open source social networking software called “MyNETS”. Now we are taking care of concrete5 Japanese version. This is the footage of how we introduced concrete5 to Japan for the first time! For more information, please visit concrete5-japan.org http (They are in Japanese though) — … 東京OSC MyNETS SNS CMS Geeklog Xoops Open Source コンクリート …