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Opus (content management system) 161
Opus (content management system)
Permission not yet granted for
logo [1]
Developer(s)
The Hug [2]
Stable release 2.28 / July 6, 2008
Operating
system
Cross-platform
Type Content Management System
License GPL
Website
opus.cx [2]
Opus is a free, open source content management system for publishing content on the world wide web and intranets.
It is written in the PHP programming language and uses the MySQL database.
History
Opus is short for Opus Publishing System. Opus is also the penguin in Bloom County, a comic strip by Berkeley
Breathed which Paul Oldham, who wrote most of the original Opus code, used to read avidly.
It was developed to publish a web site and online newspaper for the village of Milton, Cambridgeshire, UK, and then
extended into a general-purpose CMS.
Features
Opus is easy to use, and once installed requires little or no knowledge of PHP, MySQL or HTML to maintain. The
default layout has a sidebar with links to articles, and a top-left icon, with a main panel extended right from the
sidebar in which the content resides but it is possible, through the use of templates, to create web pages laid out in
any way the site owner wishes. It supports the publication of news articles in a most-recent-first format with an
option to allow blogging and to add an RSS feed. It has a flexible authentication system that allows editors to be
granted selective rights over different areas of the site.
Community
The Opus CMS is in use across many web sites [3] , particularly charity and local community groups, and Parish
Councils [4] , but it is also used by a number of companies.
See also
• List of content management systems
External links
• Official Opus website [5]
• Download Opus [6]
• "The Hug", the people who wrote it [7]