Features

Setup & Integration

Fast and easy to use installation wizard. The script installs in 2 minutes.

Features an Integration Wizard - Helps you to better integrate the web script into your web site. Detailed help information on news section integration is also available.

Features a Synchronization Wizard – Now supporting updates from previous X-News versions and CuteNews

Administration & Control

Online control panel - This let’s you control everything X-News

Access Level Control - With 5 pre-defined access levels and countless other levels you can add, X-News allows you to stay in charge and control the access rights of your users

Powerful user management system - You can add/edit/remove users online and also set their access rights

Robust image manager with permissions system - Upload/delete images in a controlled environment.

Time Adjustment - You can use this feature to overcome the difference in time zone set by your web server.

Publishing

Supports “Short Story” and “Full Story” for news items

Powerful WYSIWYG editor - Allows you to graphically edit HTML code

Robust BBCode editor with auto-insert functions - Features a comment board for every item posted

The administrator can disable comment boards

The administrator car restrict the code (BBCode or HTML code) used in a news/comment item

No need to worry about archiving your news. The script automatically does that for you.

Advanced news filter – Tell Xpression News exactly what news you need to display

RSS feeds supported – Let your visitors know when something’s new on your site

Category support – Post your articles in different categories – add/edit/delete categories online.

You can assign icons to your articles.

Automated icon saver with resize function - you can choose to save your icons on your server instead of direct linking to another site.

Protection against spammers - the “Add Comment” form can be protected by a captcha (image verification) system

Users can post comments. Moderators can easily delete unwanted messages, from the control panel or directly from the news section if they are logged in.

Publishing

Start earning revenue from your Google Ads or from your affiliation program. X-News now allows you to implement ad units into your news section.

Customization & TuneUps

The template based interface offers you endless possibilities of customizing the look & feel of your news section

Online template editor – do the editing from the 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.