• Structure: Composr's forums follow a hierarchical structure. You can create forum groupings, forums, and sub-forums (and sub-sub-forums etc) in that order of hierarchy.
• Strategies: Avoid creating too many forums, which can dilute activity. Start with a few well-defined forums and expand as needed.
• Permissions: Use Composr's permission system to control access to forums and features. For example, you can create private staff forums.

• Virtual Forums: Special forums like "Posts since last visit" and "Topics with unread posts" provide filtered views of recent activity.
• Read Status: Topics with unread posts are displayed in bold with a jump-to-first-unread link. You can manually mark topics or entire forums as read or unread.
• Notifications: You can enable email notifications for specific topics or forums, either manually or automatically based on your activity.

• Sales list management: Cancel purchases, view sales history, and manage refunds (Admin Zone > Audit > eCommerce > Sales list management).
• Charts: Generate profit/loss accounts and cash flow diagrams for specific periods (Admin Zone > Audit > eCommerce, and Admin Zone > Audit > Site statistics).
• Manual transactions: Record transactions outside of Composr for accurate accounting (Admin Zone > Audit > eCommerce > Manual transaction).

• Monetary payments: Issue refunds through your payment gateway.
• Point payments: Manually refund points through the points system.
• Cancellations: Cancel purchases in the Admin Zone to allow repurchasing. Remember to manually undo any associated actions (e.g., removing name highlighting).

• Flat rate per order: Configure a fixed shipping cost for all orders.
• Weight-based calculation: Define shipping costs based on the order's total weight.
• Shippo integration: Get real-time shipping quotes from various carriers based on weight, dimensions, and destination.

• TaxJar integration: Supports international taxation for many countries.
• TaxCloud integration: Supports complex USA taxation, including destination-based rules.
• EU digital goods tax: Handles EU-specific regulations for digital products.
• Custom tax rates: Define your own percentage-based tax rates.
• Tax hooks: Developers can extend tax functionality and implement additional tax providers.

• Usergroup subscriptions: Offer access to specific usergroups with recurring payments.
• Catalogue items: Physical or digital goods sold through the shopping cart and a special "products" catalogue.
• Orders: Collections of products purchased together.
• E-mail addresses: Sell personalized email addresses on your domain.
• Topic pinning: Allow users to pay to pin forum topics.
• Name highlighting: Offer highlighted usernames on the forum.
• Banners: Sell banner advertising space.
• Custom products: Define and sell any product or service you wish.
• Permission products: Sell access to specific permissions, such as download categories.
• Gambling: Allow users to wager points.
• Work: Represent invoiced services.
• Non-purchasable products: For accounting purposes (interest, tax, wages, other).

• Sign up for a PayPal Business Account.
• Enable "Auto Return" in PayPal and set the return URL to http://yourbaseurl/index.php?page=purchase
• Enable "Payment data transfer" in PayPal and copy the data transfer identifier for Composr.
• In Composr, go to Admin Zone > Setup > Configuration > eCommerce options > Payment gateway (PayPal-specific).
• Paste the data transfer identifier and save.

Day/week/month/year views

Advanced “recurring event” settings

Event subscriptions: Receive reminders and notifications by event or event type

Warnings about conflicting events

Microformats support

Integrate a calendar month view, or an upcoming events view, onto your design

Supports categories: Have multiple event types

Multiple time zones: Have different events in different time zones with configurable conversion settings.

Priority flagging: Choose between 5 priorities

Programmers can even use the calendar to schedule custom tasks (Commandr) to be run

RSS and Atom support: Export support, but also support for overlaying news feeds onto the calendar.

Supports geotargeting

Feedback: Allow members to comment and rate events. Segregate feedback on recurring events by date.

Multimedia: Supports images, videos, audio, and more.

Personal galleries: Allow your members to create their own galleries which show up on their profile.

Support for embedding YouTube videos: Save on bandwidth.

Auto-detection of video length and resolution (most file formats)

Full tree-structure support: Have galleries within galleries within galleries.

Multiple display modes

View entries as a slideshow

Automatic thumbnail generation

Mass import: Also supports importing metadata

Optional watermarking: To guard against thieving swines .

Geotargeting

Adjustments: Automatic size and orientation adjustments according to metadata.

Think “databases on my website”.

Flexible data control: Set up multiple catalogues, each with its own set of fields. There are many types of fields, such as short text fields, upload fields, and date fields.

Multiple display modes: Display the contents of categories using tables, boxes, or lists.

Powerful structure: Each catalogue contains categories which contain entries. Catalogues can have a tree structure of categories and/or work from an index.

Configurable searching: Choose which fields are shown on categories, and which can be used to perform searches (template searches).

Compliance with data protection legislation: Specify which fields may contain sensitive data. These fields will be anonymised as appropriate when members download or purge their data.

Entirely customisable: Full support for customising catalogues, categories, and entries, exactly as you want them- field by field. You can even make custom page templates per-catalogue.

Classified ads: Entries can automatically expire and get archived. You can also send out view reports.

Community interaction: You can allow users to comment upon and rate entries.

Import data from CSV files

Periodic content reviews: Helping you ensure ongoing accuracy of your data.

Joined Chris Graham behind the scenes in the development of Composr CMS in 2016.

Took on the lead developer role in 2023 when Chris Graham stepped back to attend to his new lifestyle changes.

Spearheaded the development of Composr CMS v11 and the new website, Composr.app.

Formed the company PDStig, LLC to take on professional support and development for Composr CMS users especially after the discontinuation of ocProducts, Ltd.

Stepped back as lead developer in April 2025 due to economic constraints.

PDStig, LLC

written many tutorials via Arvixe

Made some key contributions to ocPortal

None available

Wrote many tutorials via Arvixe

Coded the chatroom, blogging support, the analytics system, and OcCLE (now Commandr)

Masters Degree in Computer Science degree from The University Of Cambridge

Other work has included helping out with Firefox, and ongoing work on GNOME

Original designer for ocPortal

Also conceived and coded the Theme Wizard and Point Store

Son of one of the early inventors of Internet protocols (Usenet, aka Internet newsgroups)

Token non-brit