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

• Blog vs. Non-Blog Posts: Choose to display blog posts only, regular news posts only, or both.
• Category Filtering: Limit results to specific news categories.
• Double Filtering: Apply a second category filter for a two-level categorization system (useful for large sites).

• main_rss block: Suitable for main content areas
• side_rss block: Designed for sidebars and smaller spaces

• Wider audience reach: Your content becomes accessible to those using feed readers and aggregators.
• Content repurposing: Other websites can incorporate your feed, increasing visibility.
• Increased traffic: Users discovering your content in feeds may visit your website directly.
• Staying on top: Those who use your RSS feeds will see when you post new news articles.

• title: The article title
• url: The article URL
• rss: The URL of your news RSS feed

• Visitor: Any one or device who visits the site but is not necessarily identified
• User: Any visitor who can be identified (e.g. has a session ID or tracked IP address)
• Guest: A user who is not logged in (in Conversr, they all share a special "Guest" ID / account)
• Member: A user who is logged in with a registered account on the website (they have a username and a member ID)
• Author: Specific to the authors addon, a profile of an entity (could be a member, individual, or even a company) who makes content for the site
• Subscriber: A user who receives newsletters from the site (they do not necessarily have to be a member)
• Submitter: A user who submitted content (usually a member, but could be a guest if the site is very open to submissions)
• Staff: A member who moderates any significant portion of the website
• Super-moderator: A staff member with global moderation capabilities
  • Moderator: Same as super-moderator but does not have those capabilities globally; they may only be able to moderate certain sections or content
• Super-administrator: A staff member with literally undeniable access to everything on the site
  • Administrator: Same as super-administrator but they might not have access to the most elevated of privileges such as accessing maintenance scripts

• Password Strength Setting: Administrators can set a minimum password strength requirement, forcing members to choose stronger passwords. Password strengths are calculated on a scale of 1-10 using algorithms that take into account letters (including case), numbers, symbols, repeat characters, use of dictionary words, and use of usernames / dates of birth / e-mail addresses.
• Forced Password Resets: Administrators can force specific members or all members to change their passwords upon next login, enhancing security in case of potential breaches.
• Expiring passwords: Administrators can require members to change their password after so many days.
• Encrypted CPFs: If the server has the OpenSSL PHP extension installed, specific CPFs (such as ones containing other passwords) can be encrypted to protect sensitive member data in case of a server compromise.