Winter CMS: New open and free Content Management System
Occasionally a free or open project dies or migrates to proprietary or commercial world. However, in reaction to these actions, artists of these projects usually rescue or keep alive the free or open source developed to give rise to a new fork to continue the original course plotted.
Therefore, today we will touch on the subject of "Winter CMS", which is a new fork based on "October CMS", to continue being a Content Management System free, open source, and community driven.
As usual, and to clarify certain basic points, in this case What is a CMS?, we will recommend some related previous posts so that after finishing reading this, they can explore them and complement the necessary knowledge.
Thus, it can be very usefully and shortly summarized that a CMS is:
"A software tool to create, administer and manage a website."
And in a more extensive way, what a CMS is:
“An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that allows us to create, manage, maintain and update a website, in addition to itself. And that generally includes a certain amount of options and extra functions, such as: Product Catalogs, Site Map, Image Galleries, Themes, Complements, Shopping Carts, among many others. "
Winter CMS: A fork of October CMS
What is Winter CMS?
At Official website de "Winter CMS" it is explained that, it is:
“A free and open source content management system based on the PHP Laravel framework. Developers and agencies around the world trust Winter CMS for its rapid prototyping and development, its secure codebase, and its dedication to simplicity. "
Although, it is good to clarify that, "Winter CMS" it is also:
“A community driven fork of October CMS with a dedication to speed, security, stability and simplicity. So that your goal remains to continue to offer a professional and feature-rich platform that you can trust for your websites and applications; as well as involving the community and becoming a more community-driven project in general.
And as the current developers and maintainers of "Winter CMS", this change or fork has been carried out because:
The team was forced to do this after a systemic breakdown in communications over a long period of time between the founders of October CMS and the maintenance team. So current work will focus on continuing down the path of continuous improvement, maintaining a solid foundation that you can trust to drive current and future developments. Maintain full compatibility with all existing October CMS projects, and as much of the future of October CMS as possible, within our goals of stability, speed, security, and simplicity.
For expand this information you can visit the following link of the March 6th 2021, from the official blog of the website "Winter CMS". And this information can be complemented with the published note el April 12th 2021.
Features
Currently, "Winter CMS" goes for its version 1.1.3, from April 12th 2021. And these are his current features or functionalities most outstanding:
- Offers a development, simplifiedIntricate systems can be built with minimal effort. Because, it is a content management system built from the ground up to be simple for all types of end users, but powerful for any developer.
- Provides easy theme development: Frees users from front-end design limitations by allowing them to create fully customizable themes in the CSS and JavaScript frameworks of their choice.
- Has a solid foundation: Because it is based on the Laravel framework, a very popular PHP framework.
- Easy to manage and update: Its interface and built-in tools make it possible for its users to easily manage, edit and update the contents of the managed sites.
Download, installation, use
For its download, installation, configuration and use you can visit its Documentation section and official website on GitHub. And to see the latest news of the current version or other previous ones, you can explore the following link.
Conclusion
We hope this "useful little post" about «Winter CMS», which is a new fork of «October CMS», in order to remain a Content Management System free, open source, and community driven; is of great interest and utility, for the entire «Comunidad de Software Libre y Código Abierto» and of great contribution to the diffusion of the wonderful, gigantic and growing ecosystem of applications of «GNU/Linux».
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