1 Introduction - Reference Documentation
Authors: Stephan Albers, Mark Palmer, July Antonicheva
Version: 1.4-SNAPSHOT
1 Introduction
Weceem CMS Grails Plugin
Weceem is an open source Content Management System. It is written in Groovy and Grails and leverages the Grails infrastructure to a build customized CMS inside the Grails application.It can be used to manage content, and create desired content types for custom functionality which can be integrated with existing systems.With the Weceem plugin you can host corporate websites, simple blogs, search the site, SEO or build your own applications. You can define your own content types that add custom functionality or integrate tightly with existing systems you have.There are numerous customization points that allow you to tailor the security mechanisms, administration skin, URL paths, scope for custom data types and server-side scripting using Groovy. It is built from the ground up to be embeddable as well as a standalone application.The plugin supports multiple content repositories. Each repository is called a "Space" and represents a website that you maintain.Spaces are used to map and track content exchanges. They can have multiple access rights defined in the Weceem security policy, hence one user can have permission or rights for different spaces.Content is created for the visitors of your website. Different types of content can be created and arranged in any desired structure within a SpaceAll you need for Weceem is an SQL database for storing content, a Java servlet container like Tomcat or Jetty to run.Weceem's content is stored in a SQL database and not in files on the server filesystem. Uploaded file content is stored on the server filesystem and information about the file stored in the SQL database.Current version of Weceem plugin Weceem-1.3-M2 is compatible with Grails-2.4.3.Feature Highlights- WYSIWYG Editor
- Hierarchical content repository
- Blogs
- Full-text search
- Form submissions
- Templates with inheritance
- Reusable widgets
- Multiple-language support
- Tagging
- Auto-publish and auto-unpublish by date
- Spaces: manage many sites in a single Weceem instance with per-space permissions
- Content types include: HTML, Folder, JavaScript, CSS, Files, Blog, Comment, External Link, Virtual Content, Wiki Pages, Groovy Scripts and Actions
- Extensible using Java, Groovy and Grails
- No design or SEO restrictions