Open Sitez Documentation

Welcome

Welcome to the open sitez documentation

Intro

Open Sitez is a Content Management System meant to simplify publishing websites.

Originally created as a domain parking script, Open Sitez as gradually evolved into a full Fledged CMS meant as an alternative to wordpress/ drupal.

Features:

Emphasis on configuration via yaml so that changes can be tracked via version control
Nodes plugin support custom fields ala Drupal CCK
Internationalization allows pages to be served in multiple languages
Forms Engine with multi language support
Folder plugin provides Easy start If you have a bunch of files in a directory, all you need is to point to that folder
Directory Plugin supports Hierchical Web Directories like Yahoo
Multi/ Multi tenant site out of the box
Themable Using Template engine to allow multiple themes per site
Layout for pages with columns
"You can keep your doctor" - Basic Read Support for Drupal and Wordpress databases allows to try out what your site might look like without migrating. Needs work but worked for me
Plugin support - see list of plugins below

Demo Sites

Web Dev Power - Site about software Development
My Website, YounElan.com - My personal website
More sites - More sites running opensitez

Basics:

Sites are defined through a primary config.osz
each site has a primary folder where all data resides
in each site:
- a private subfolder which is not web accessible
- folders for images,js,css folder serving images, js, css can be referenced in as { {$sitepath}} template variable
- in each site there is a themes folder which hosts themes specific to that site
- each site has a yaml definition file. By default, opensitez looks for a file called definition.osz but a different definition file can be specified in config.yaml so multiple web sites can share the same folder
- Content can be either in HTML, Markdown, or Text. For Example, this documentation is pretty much a bunch of markdown files served by the folder plugin

License

More details about the License can be found here

Core Plugins

The initial release ships with the following plugins

Folder Plugin - Serve a bunch of files in a folder
Directory Plugin - hierchical web directory in a database
Blog Plugin - Your typical blog plugin, support multiple node types with custom fields for each
Feed Plugin - Include an RSS feed or an atom Feed
Form Plugin - Handle forms such as feedback or contact
Image Menu Plugin - Simple Image Menu Plugin for visual navigation which can also serve as a simple Image Gallery.
QR Code Plugin - Allows to embed a qrcode with a link to the current page
Menu Plugin - Provides the navigation menu on the top of the page
Social Share - Provides image navigation
qrcode - Provides image navigation
Page Plugin - basic page plugin allows to include blocks of various types