In February 2010, the reinvented SWCMS, called “Hotaru CMS”, came out of beta. Unlike its predecessor, it’s not limited to social bookmarking. The entire CMS is plugin-powered, including post submission, comments, user registration and management sections for users, posts and comments. Everything is PHP-based and plugins and themes share more in common with Wordpress than Pligg. As I write this, there are over 50 plugins already developed, and not just by me. Hotaru is well documented and we’ve had eight different people use our tutorials to make plugins so far.

I remember Steve needing more control over submitted content in order to use it in a K12 setting. Hotaru CMS has a permissions system which enables admins to turn functions on and off for individual users at any time. There are also over half a dozen predefined user “roles”, each with their own set of editable permissions. The admin can choose which role to assign to new members, including “undermod” which puts all submitted content into a moderation queue.

Alternatively, you could allow new users to submit content off the bat, but put their first X number of posts and comments into moderation. There are also options for posting frequency and quantity. Further options for notifying admins, super moderators or moderators of submitted content by email, make Hotaru well-suited to the classroom environment.

it needs to be modified a bit for buddypress (registration is blocked)
i succeeded to make it work for my buddypress : i can access homepage and registration page without being logged in, but every other pages are blocked.

thank you for your post it helps me
(i’m using wordpress classic, i hope those plugins work with it too)

Getting started on it!

Greg

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I Read some of your blog posts and I think you will find great utility in my new site http://www.elggexchange.com. Please let me know what you think or if you have any new suggestions. We are still pre-beta, so there’s much to come

And an OS running a web browser running a WebOS – seems a bit silly. Reinventing the already out of date desktop metaphore within the web browser … unless you are running something like GoogleOS … hmm

Anyway – check out the plans for EyeOS’s next major release. They sound really good.

Oh well.

I’ve been using OpenGoo since about version 1.1, and am still using it, so I guess it has something going for it. I’d like to see a better email client and a few other things, but I like the flexibility it offers.

I also use FCKEditor in a number of Web based applications, so don’t mind poking around in the files to tweak it. If you have time, it is worth looking into creating custom styles and toolbars.

I agree with the comments about keeping things simple. I’d like something that exports vanilla html with *no* style info at all. My sites have css. I don’t need style elements

Anyway – time to take a look at your other recommendations. If in doubt, install something new and waste the day.

Thank you!

Liz