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

• CAPTCHA: A visual or audio test that humans can easily pass but bots struggle with. This helps prevent automated spam submissions.
• Heuristics: If Composr thinks an action is spam based off of configurable criteria, it can either flag the content for validation, block the attempt, or ban the IP address outright.
• Public block lists: Composr can utilize the Stop Forum Spam system or other block list systems to identify and block known spammers based on IP addresses, usernames, and email addresses.
• Link posting restrictions: Disallowing links in member profiles for users with no posts and adding "nofollow" attributes to links discourages spammers seeking backlinks.
• Black hole fields: Hidden form fields that should remain empty. Bots often fill these in, allowing Composr to identify them.
• Project Honey Pot integration: A system that places hidden links on pages, attracting and identifying spam bots.
• Content/post reporting: Users can report spam, enabling staff to take action.
• Guest posting limitations: Restricting guest permissions raises the bar for spammers.
• Advanced techniques: Developer addons like "antispam_question" or probation systems provide additional layers of protection.

• Generating menus.
• Creating the user-facing sitemap page.
• Generating the XML Sitemap for search engines.
• Providing a visual representation of your website structure in the Sitemap editor and Permissions tree editor.

• /pg/ (e.g., /pg/home)
• .htm (e.g., /home.htm)
• Simple unadorned URLs (e.g., /home)

• Improved user experience with more readable URLs.
• Potential SEO benefits, as some believe search engines favor cleaner URLs.
• Easier sharing on social media and other platforms.

• Default Menu: Generated automatically from the Sitemap, reflecting the structure of your content.
• Editable Menus: You can create and fully customize these menus, adding links to specific content or external websites.

• Welcome Zone: The initial landing page, often used for login/signup.
• Site Zone: Your main website content, with features for viewing, submitting, editing, and deleting content on the member level.
• Admin Zone: For site administrators to manage the website.
• Content Management Zone: Where content is added, edited, and deleted, typically by site staff.
• Forum Zone (if using Conversr): Houses the forum section of your site.

• Zones, Pages, and Categories: Control which usergroups can view specific zones, pages, and categories (permissions).
  • Admin Zone > Security > Permissions Tree Editor, or on the UI for the Zone / Page / Category.
• Global Privileges: Define permissions for actions like using advanced Comcode or bypassing the word filter, applicable across the entire site.
  • Admin Zone > Security > Global privileges
• Module/Page Overrides: Tailor privileges for particular content types by overriding them on the controlling module or page.
  • Admin Zone > Security > Permissions Tree Editor [> Content permissions]
• Category Overrides: Modify privileges for specific categories, allowing fine-grained control over actions within those categories.
  • Admin Zone > Security > Permissions Tree Editor
• Match-key Permissions: Implement ad-hoc access control based on specific match-keys, offering flexibility beyond traditional permission structures.
  • Admin Zone > Security > Match-key page restrictions