Features

Xpression News 2

Xpression News 2 (stable version) is being used by over 10,000 websites. Here are some of its key features:

Setup & Integration

• Lighweight - uses less resources than most Content Managers
• Easy to use setup wizard - The script installs in under 2 minutes
• Features an Integration Wizard - Helps you to better integrate the web script into your existent web site
• Synchronization Wizard - For an easy transition from previous Xpression News versions and from CuteNews

Administration & Control

• Online control panel
• User management
• Custom access levels
• Secure image manager with support for file permissions
• Time Adjustment

News Publishing

• RSS Feeds
• Advertising Engine - allows you to publish Google Ads or affiliation banners to earn revenue from your site
• "Short Story" and "Full Story" for news items
• Group news items into categories
• Postpone articles
• Assign icons to your articles. You can automatically save the icons you use on your server
• Advanced news filter. You can choose to what part of the news archive you wish to display
• Graphical HTML Editor (WYSIWYG). Change fonts, align texts, add photos... all without needing to know HTML
• BBCode editor with auto-insert functions
• Automatic news backup

Comment Publishing

• Comment boards for news articles.
• Administrator can disable/enable comment boards and restrict the code (BBCode or HTML) used in a user's comment
• Moderators can easily delete unwanted messages, from the control panel or directly from the news section if they are logged in
• CAPTCHA - Image Verification system to protect against SPAM robots

Customization & TuneUPs

• The template based interface offers you endless possibilities of customizing the look & feel of your online publication
• Online template editor - do the editing from the online control panel
• Automatic template backup - if you you're not happy with a change you made to a template, you can copy the old template files back from the backup folder

Xpression News 3

Xpression News 3 RC2 - The latest version of Xpression News

News publishing

• Organize your articles into Categories and Stories
• Add tags to your articles
• Powerful WYSIWYG editor - Allows you to graphically edit HTML code
• Modify an activation date of an article and set it in the future or in the past
• Disable comment boards globally or per specified article
• Track incoming links to an article from an external website
• Keep history of modifications
• No need to worry about archiving your news. The script automatically does that for you.
• Search engine friendly URL per each article: www.yourdomain.com/your_article_name.html
• Advanced news filter - Tell Xpression News exactly what news you need to display

Comments

• Unique AntiSpam protection (CAPCTHA + testing of message content)
• New comments can be moderated
• E-Mail Notifications of new comments

Syndication

• Publish RSS Feeds
• Podcast Support

Image Manager

• You can now resize your pictures for each article that you post, while keeping the original picture intact
• Organize your pictures into folders which you can explore with thumbnail support

Performance and Resources

• SQL Caching and Template Caching make the script run in 0.1 seconds
• The average memory used is 500KB