Random quotes: Put random quotes (e.g. testimonials) into your design.

Awards: Showcase your most popular content, and optionally award the submitter with points.

Tags: Set keyword tags for content and display tag clouds.

Recent content: Automatically feature links to your most recent content (via main_multi_content block).

Show website statistics to your visitors (via stats graphs or page hit counters).

Random content: Feature random content from your website specified via a sophisticated filtering language.

Automatically create newsletter issues highlighting your latest content

Double opt-in: Prevent false sign-ups by asking subscribers to confirm their subscriptions.

Host multiple newsletters: Visitors can subscribe to the ones they want.

Flexible mailings: Send out mailings to all members, to different usergroups, or to subscribers of specific newsletters.

Welcome e-mails: Send multiple welcome e-mails to new users automatically, on a configurable schedule (Conversr-only).

Bounce cleanup: Automatically clean out bounces from your e-mail list.

Unsubscribe: Recipients can easily unsubscribe from newsletters through an unsubscribe link provided in the e-mail.

Change settings: Newsletter subscribers can change their subscription settings on-site.

Drip sending: Prevent overwhelming your mail server or outbound limits.

Choose what is searchable

Boolean and full-text modes

Keyword highlighting in results

Search boxes to integrate into your website

Logging/stats

OpenSearch support: Allow users to search from inside their web browser.

Results sorting, and filtering by author and date

Search within downloads: Including support for looking inside archives.

Composr fast custom index: Support full-text searches in instances where your database does not

Multiple types: Each one can specify its own width-by-height (e.g. skyscraper).

Smart banners: Integrate text-banners into your content via keyword detection.

Broad media compatibility: Image banners, external banner rotations, and text banners.

Determine which banners display most often

Run a cross-site banner network

Hit-balancing support: A site on a banner network gets as many inbound hits as it provides outbound clicks.

Targeted advertising: Show different banners to different usergroups.

Track banner performance

Use the banner system to display whole sets of sponsor logos or partners

Supports Geotargeting

Periodic content reviews: Reminders to check (or remove) banners

Quick installer: Our self-extractor allows faster uploads and will automatically set permissions.

Wizard-based installation

Auto-scans for compatibility problems: Be informed of problems before installing

Get your site up and running in just a few minutes

Keep your site closed to regular visitors until you're happy to open it

Configures server: Automatically generates an htaccess file for you (for Apache).

Auto-detection of forum settings for easy integration

Install test content

Add virtually unlimited pages to your site

WYSIWYG editor (powered by CKEditor)

Convenient edit links: Staff see “edit this” links at the bottom of every page.

PHP support: Upload your PHP scripts and run them inside Composr (may require adjustments to the script code).

Hierarchical page structure: Supports parent and child pages

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

Add Comcode pages (the default) or static HTML pages

Supports revisions and revision control systems (such as git); add new pages as files, and Composr will automatically register them in its system.

Clear organisation: Uses a tree structure for unlimited categorisation.

Anti-leech protection: download links contain a session ID

Community-centred: Allow users to comment upon and rate downloads

Many ways to add new files: Upload files. Link-to existing files. Copy existing files using a live URL. Batch import links from existing file stores.

Author support: Assign your downloads to authors, so users can find other downloads by the same author.

Set licences: Make users agree to a licence before downloading.

Images: Show images along with your downloads (e.g. screen-shots) (this implicitly uses galleries).

Basic file versioning support

Control monthly bandwidth use site-wide

Think “structured wikis”.

Create an encyclopaedic database for your website

Use a tree-structure or traditional cross-linking

Supports revisions: Track changes

Display the tree structure of your entire Wiki+

Allow users to jump in at random pages

Make your pages either wiki-style or topic-style

Allow members to contribute to Wiki+ pages by adding Wiki+ posts

Run a competition: Choose winners randomly from those who passed the quiz.

Surveys: Gather data and find trends.

Tests: Test members' knowledge on a variety of topics.

Cheat prevention: Settings to prevent cheating, such as time limits, question / answer shuffling, and re-testing rules.

Integration with points: Charge points to enter a competition, or award points for winning.

Member blogs: Allow members to have their own blogs on their profile

RSS and Atom support: Export and import feeds.

Trackback support: Send and receive trackbacks.

Scheduled publishing

Ping support and RSS Cloud support

Multiple news categories and filtering

Multiple ways to integrate news into your website

Import from RSS feeds

Supports geotargeting

Members can rate and comment on news articles and blog posts

Send out a news article as a newsletter

• .jpg/.jpeg: Highly compressed, best for photos due to minimal noticeable quality loss.
• .png: Good compression with no quality loss, ideal if bandwidth isn't a concern.
• .gif: Limited to 256 colors and poor compression. Better alternatives are video or APNG.

• .mp4 (h.264 aac encoding): The recommended format, widely supported.
• .mov (h.264 aac encoding): Identical to .mp4.
• .webm: Supported natively in most browsers, but requires plugins for Internet Explorer/Microsoft Edge and Safari.

• Forum Groupings: Broad categories that contain forums.
• Forums: Contain topics related to a specific subject.
• Sub-forums: Forums nested under other forums, providing further categorization.
• Topics: Threads of conversation containing a series of posts.
• Posts: Individual messages within a topic.

• Email Tracking: Composr marks emails as read when processing posts. Marking an email unread will trigger re-processing.
• Log File: Create an empty file named data_custom/mail_integration.log to capture detailed log data for troubleshooting.

• Forum View Access: Determine which usergroups can view each forum.
• Privilege Overrides: Grant or deny specific privileges (e.g., posting) to usergroups within a forum.
• Bypass Validation: Allow trusted members to post without moderation (or vice versa, require validation for certain usergroups).

• Advanced Polls: Blind polls, forcing or setting of default options, and point-weighting.
• Private Topics: More sophisticated than traditional private messages.
• Forum Introduction Questions: A flexible way to control access and encourage engagement (e.g. forum-specific rules or forum passwords).
• Cascading Topics: Pinned topics that appear in multiple forums.
• Integrated Moderation: Streamlined moderation tools within the forum interface.

• Control Result Visibility: Choose whether results are visible before voting.
• Require Topic Reply: Force users to reply to the topic before voting.
• Show Voter Identities: Optionally display which members voted for each option.
• Allow Vote Revocation: Let voters change their vote while the poll is open.
• Set Voting Close Time: Define a specific date or time for the poll to close.
• Restrict Selections: Limit the number of options voters can choose.
• Allow Guest Voting: Enable voting for unregistered users.
• Weight Votes by Points: Give more influential members greater voting power (requires the points addon).

• Regular Posts: Standard posts made by members within a topic.
• Quick Replies: Shorter replies made directly from the topic view.
• Anonymous Posts: Members can choose to post anonymously, appearing as a guest. Staff can track the actual user if needed.
• Emphasised posts: Posts made by staff (or marked by staff) which are highlighted to draw attention as they are important.
• Whispers: Private messages embedded within public topics, allowing for side conversations.
• Private Topic Posts: Private messages sent between specific members (e.g. an on-site "inbox").

• PHP IMAP extension installed
• System scheduler (Cron) running
• IMAP-compatible mail server

• Mail server enforces SPF and DKIM for email validation
• Mail server limits email size to prevent abuse
• System scheduler runs frequently (e.g., every minute) so members get prompt updates