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== Welcome to Radiant |
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Radiant is a no-fluff, open source content management system designed for |
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small teams. It is similar to Textpattern or MovableType, but is a general |
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purpose content management system (not just a blogging engine). |
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Radiant features: |
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* An elegant user interface |
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* The ability to arrange pages in a hierarchy |
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* Flexible templating with layouts, snippets, page parts, and a custom tagging |
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language (Radius: http://radius.rubyforge.org) |
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* A simple user management/permissions system |
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* Support for Markdown and Textile as well as traditional HTML (it's easy to |
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create other filters) |
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* An advanced plugin system |
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* Operates in two modes: dev and production depending on the URL |
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* A caching system which expires pages every 5 minutes |
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* Built using Ruby on Rails |
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* And much more... |
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== License |
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Radiant is released under the MIT license and is copyright (c) 2006 John W. |
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Long. A copy of the MIT license can be found in the LICENSE file. |
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== Installation and Setup |
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Radiant is a traditional Ruby on Rails application, meaning that you can |
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configure and run it the way you would a normal Rails application. |
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See the INSTALL file for more details. |
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== Support |
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The best place to get support is on the mailing list: |
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http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/ |
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There is also a Trac powered dev site available here: |
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http://dev.radiantcms.org/ |
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Please Note: Before filing a ticket on the dev site discuss your question or |
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problem on the mailing list. This makes it much easier to manage legitimate |
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tickets. |
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Enjoy! |
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John Long :: http://wiseheartdesign.com |
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