• Rank ladders: Use the default rank ladder for main site ranks and secondary usergroups for subcommunity memberships.
• New member status: Set default usergroups for new members to grant them initial access while allowing removal if necessary.
• Leadership: Assign leaders to usergroups to allow members to manage subcommunities.
• Clubs: Consider using Clubs for member-driven subcommunities with their own forums.

• No special permissions by default, simplifying permission management.
• Members can join and leave like regular usergroups.
• Provide a dedicated forum for the club.

• Sharing modules across zones: Create a redirect to make a module in one zone appear in another.
• Creating shortcuts: Use a redirect to point a short URL to a longer, more complex URL.
• Moving pages: Use a redirect to ensure old links still work after moving a page to a new location.

• Enable "Virtual root links" in the Admin Zone > Setup > Configuration > Feature options > Advanced.
• Navigate to the desired category while logged in as staff.
• Click the rightmost link in the breadcrumbs (it will be an anchor for virtual root creation).
• Use the resulting URL in your menus to link to the "virtualized" category.

• Zones: Create separate sections under different URLs with their own pages and content.
• Redirects: Make modules appear in different zones without actually moving them.
• Categories & Virtual Roots: Organize content like galleries, downloads, and catalogs into sub-trees that appear as separate entities.
• Usergroups & Permissions: Group members into subcommunities and control their access to specific content.
• Themes: Customize the look of different zones.

• Full control: You have complete control over each site's settings and content.
• Administrative separation: Managing staff and content for each site is more organized.
• Special M.S.N. features: Composr provides specific features like the 'netlink' system for easy navigation between network sites.

• Configuration and maintenance: Setting up and maintaining multiple sites can be more complex.

• CMS_Arrays: Array operations (e.g., implode, explode, list_to_map).
• CMS_Strings: String manipulation (e.g., strip_tags, html_entity_decode, strpos).
• CMS_Langs: Localization functions (e.g., do_lang).
• CMS_Preferences: User preference management.
• CMS_Timestamps: Timestamp functions (e.g., get_timezoned_date_time, time).
• CMS_HTTP: Web service interactions (e.g., rawurlencode, json_decode, http_get_contents).
• CMS_Users: User data and permission checks (e.g., has_page_access, is_staff).
• CMS_Flow: App flow control (e.g., access_denied, attach_message).
• CMS_Forms: Form building and management.
• CMS_Database: SQLite database access and manipulation.
• CMS_Notification: Push notification handling.
• CMSNetworkManager: Network request execution and response handling.

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.

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

Ran some of the early websites where ocPortal came from

Technically the original developer of ocPortal, in that he wrote the first few lines of code

Heavily involved in the feature design process

Hosted some of our early meet-ups