Currently due to the wide growth of websites it is ideal to have the necessary tools to create high-impact sites since this is an attraction channel for many users..
To create websites of a professional level we have numerous tools both free and paid where each one offers us a series of practical functionalities for its development and launch, but today we will talk about a special one called Couch CMS which apart from being free provides a fully functional and dynamic environment when creating and managing websites .
What is Couch CMS?
Couch CMS has been developed as a free, open source content management system in which extensive knowledge of PHP is not required, which is an obstacle for many users today. The use of Couch CMS is so simple that it is enough to take any HTML or CSS template and convert it into a CMS enabled in a few minutes.
Couch CMS includes integrated RSS feeds, forms, custom pages and integration with PayPal.
Among its many features we find:
Editable Regions
It allows you to surround the areas in the HTML code using some special tags, which allows them to be editable by customers.
Cloned pages
We can create cloned pages of any simple HTML / CSS template and with it create in a simple way blogs, portfolios, galleries, events, etc.
Comments
It allows visitors to leave comments on any of the pages and these comments can be moderated before being published.
List of cloned pages
It allows you to easily display a list of cloned pages based on several parameters, such as date, most comments or any of the editable regions defined by administrators.
SEO friendly links
We can place the cloned pages inside nestable virtual folders. The names of these folders appear in the URL creating dynamic SEO links.
Automatic validation forms
With this option it is possible to create self-validation forms with greater ease, also integrate Google maps with forms using a simple tag.
Events calendar
We can create calendar events quickly and make a list in the desired way, it supports the integration of Google maps with events.
Look for
Define which pages will be included in the search. It allows formatting the search result in various ways.
RSS feeds
It gives us the opportunity to easily create custom RSS feeds from any or all sections of the website so that readers can subscribe to the content of it.
404 Pages Offline / Offline Site
Allows you to display your own custom page when a 404 error occurs (page not found) or when you configure your site to be offline.
Simple PayPal integration
It supports the integration of Paypal to easily sell digital products while Couch handles PayPal IPN and all other back-end technicalities facilitating management.
URL cloaking
This Couch URL hiding feature allows you to hide the URL for greater security.
Requirements to use Couch CMS
The requirements to use Couch CMS correctly are the following:
- Apache or any compatible web server
- GD library compiled within PHP for CAPTCHA
- Apache module mod_rewrite for prettyURLS
In case of installing Couch CMS locally for test issues, it will be necessary to have the following packages.
- XAMPP - Multi-platform - Apache, MySQL, PHP
- WampServer - Windows platform - Apache, MySQL, PHP ,.
Now let's see how to install Couch CMS on Ubuntu 17.10..
1. How to update the Ubuntu Linux system
Step 1
The first step to take is to update the system by executing the following commands:
sudo apt-get update -y sudo apt-get upgrade -y
Once this process is finished we can restart the system to apply the changes.
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