WritesDown CMS is CMS which is developed based on Yii2 Application Advanced. The application consists of three tiers: front end, back end, and console.
Application frontend is consumed by visitor of the website and search engine depends on application settings.
Backend application, more complex application, has roles consists of Super Administrator, Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor, and Subscriber.
- Developed using Yii2
- Admin-LTE version 2 for admin
- Custom taxonomies
- Custom post types
- TinyMCE as editor comes with media browser
- Support comments
- Menu builder
- Built in feed generator
- Built in sitemap
- In font icon, using FontAwesome and Glyphicon by Bootstrap
- Bulk-action each index action
- User management
- Support resize and crop for images
backend
assets/ contains application assets such as JavaScript and CSS
config/ contains backend configurations
controllers/ contains Web controller classes
models/ contains backend-specific model classes
runtime/ contains files generated during runtime
views/ contains view files for the Web application
web/ contains the entry script and Web resources
web/ contains frontend widgets
common
components/ contains shared components
config/ contains shared configurations
db/ contains db.sql, db.mwb, database structure, migations
mail/ contains view files for e-mails
models/ contains model classes used in both backend and frontend
console
config/ contains console configurations
controllers/ contains console controllers (commands)
migrations/ contains database migrations
models/ contains console-specific model classes
runtime/ contains files generated during runtime
environments/ contains environment-based overrides
frontend
assets/ contains application assets such as JavaScript and CSS
config/ contains frontend configurations
controllers/ contains Web controller classes
models/ contains frontend-specific model classes
runtime/ contains files generated during runtime
views/ contains view files for the Web application
web/ contains the entry script and Web resources
widgets/ contains frontend widgets
vendor/ contains dependent 3rd-party packages
tests contains various tests for the advanced application
codeception/ contains tests developed with Codeception PHP Testing Framework
Like Yii2 Application Advanced, WritesDown CMS also use composer for installation, just type the following to the command line.
composer global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:1.0.0"
composer create-project --prefer-dist --stability=dev writesdown/app-cms writesdown
The first command installs the composer asset plugin which allows managing bower and npm package dependencies through Composer. You only need to run this command once for all. The second command installs the advanced application in a directory named writesdown. You can choose a different directory name if you want.
Once the application has been downloaded, navigate towards the application directory and perform initialization on the command line.
cd path\of\applicaton
php init
Create a new database for the application, then edit the configuration on "common\config\main-local.php".
'db' => [
'class' => 'yii\db\Connection',
'dsn' => 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=writesdown',
'username' => 'root',
'password' => '',
'charset' => 'utf8',
'tablePrefix' => 'wd_'
],
The "writesdown" above is the database that has been built up, please edit it to your database. After that, write the following code to initialize the database.
yii migrate --migrationPath=@common/db/migrations
Go to the admin panel http://hostname/admin (without slash on the end) and change the username and password. The default username and password is superadmin/superadmin.
Done, Enjoy!
Please visit http://democms.writesdown.com/ for the demo.