Croogo 1.2 released!

Posted by Fahad on Thu, Dec 31 2009

Hello everyone, I am happy to announce the release of Croogo 1.2 Beta. I have been working on implementing new features over the last couple of weeks and I believe this CMS is ready for another beta release.

Here is the download link: http://croogo.googlecode.com/files/croogo-1.2.zip
Read the wiki for installation instructions.

New Features / Improvements

Extensions plugin: Manages uploading/activating of Plugins, Themes and Locales
Translate plugin: Enables translation of your content in multiple languages.
Plugin development made easier: It is now very easy to extend Croogo with plugins. New hook system has been implemented which lets your plugin integrate with the application without having to touch the core files. See the Example plugin's code.
Themes now have CustomHelper: Sometimes your theme may require custom functions. All those functions can be placed in CustomHelper.
Node access: Let certain roles access your nodes.
Improved settings
Improved UI in admin panel
File Manager: Removed delete links for core files.
Search: There is a new search form for content.
Bug fixes

What about documentation?

I am slowly adding more pages to the wiki. Read them here: http://wiki.github.com/fahad19/croogo

Contribute

The project is still in it's early stage and there is a lot of room for improvement. I request all developers and designers to contribute to this project. You can contribute by submitting a bug, developing a plugin, designing a theme, helping others, or just by spreading the word.

Plan for 1.3

You have to wait for a few more months for version 1.3. The project will be migrated to CakePHP 1.3 then to take advantage of the new features introduced by this excellent framework. If you have any ideas for the next version, share it in the group.

Enjoy and Happy New Year!

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14 Comments

Andrew said on Dec 31, 2009

Congratulations on the milestone. There have been some awesome improvements since the last version.

I hope I have more time in the new year to blog some more about Croogo and get some tutorial and themes up.

Great work!

Fahad said on Dec 31, 2009

thanks Andrew! looking forward to your tutorials and themes.

Rahul Sharma said on Mar 30, 2010

hi dear i m using your croogo cms really a great CMS. i just want to know how can we manag blog in it i want a blog page with all posts with paging and anyone can give comment on that ? please help me .

traedamatic said on Jan 02, 2010

hey fahad,

nice work!

Right now I'm working on a default.po german translations.

it will be pusblished.

matic

lixiphp said on Jan 04, 2010

helloï¼Œ you CakePHP is my favorite. I want to ask you how to use the plugin translate.

Fahad said on Jan 04, 2010

activate TranslateHook from 'Extensions > Hooks' page. once activated, you will notice a 'Translations' link under actions column in 'Content > List' page.

lixiphp said on Jan 04, 2010

Great Work! Thanks. but how to view the translated page from front page or public visitor. this means where the route to view? excuse for my poor English.

Fahad said on Jan 04, 2010

yoursite.com/eng where eng is the locale for English.

please use the mailing list for asking questions: http://groups.google.com/group/croogo

tribui said on Jan 06, 2010

Fahad,

Congrats and thank you for the excellent project. I only wish I would have discovered Croogo sooner because I went ahead an build an entire CMS in Cake also.

There are many things similar and some different choices but yours definitely has more functionality and the code is clean.

I chose to use Elasticss instead of 960 grid. I also have hierarchical css menu administration integrated with a more flexible authorization user/group system.

The new enhancements to plugins are great. My plugin system was simpler but not as powerful.

If I have a chance I will try to port my cms to yours. Don't know if my features are needed by other users but mine was going to be MIT/BSD licensed anyways.

Keep up the awesome work. I think croogo has a great shot and being accepted.

huy

Name Server Spy said on Jan 26, 2010

Do you provide admin demo online?

Fahad said on Jan 27, 2010

yes, read this wiki page: http://wiki.github.com/fahad19/croogo/demo

Name Server Spy said on Jan 28, 2010

Thanks Fahad

AK said on Jan 30, 2010

The project looks great. I just gave it a try from the opensourcecms.com site. Did you look at any other cakephp based CMS solutions before you started building one on your own? Are you trying to fill a need that is out there or developing one for your own sake/learning?

I am currently looking for a simple CMS and Croogo certainly seems like a good fit but it is not quite there for me hence the question.

If you know of any other CakePHP based CMS that are in pretty stable state then please let me know.

Good luck with the project. Best.

AK

Fahad said on Feb 01, 2010

There are two more cakephp based cms that I am aware of (Wildflower and Infinitas), but haven't used them so can't comment.

CakePHP community lacked a CMS that covers most of the basic features and I needed one for my client projects. So I decided to develop one and share it with others.

fahad19