The Vivvo content management system is based on the widely used LAMP open-source server. Developed by Serbian software company Spoonlabs, the product has a clean interface, easy to use backoffice tools, and gives you the ability to create a frontend website without needing to write a single line of code. Let’s take a closer at Vivvo to find out what this relatively unknown CMS has to offer.
Vivvo Content
Like most systems, Vivvo views articles as the main content entity. All articles include fields such as title, body, abstract and caption. They may also include images and attachments while metadata may consist of Article Category, Status, Publishing Date and Author. Should there ever be an instance where you require more fields than provided for the article content by default, Vivvo offers a custom field mapping feature to meet those needs. While it lets you add new properties, it also calls for programming and therefore requires some technical abilities on your behalf.
Editing Features
Vivvo uses TinyMCE as its default WYSIWYG editor. However, it also lets you cut and paste text from Microsoft Word and other word processing applications. It is very easy to see the articles you are working on as they can be viewed by setting search criteria on the Article Listing Home Page. Your articles can also be viewed by criteria such as Date, Publishing Status, Category, Author, Keywords and Tags. In addition, Vivvo allows you to create custom search filters and view your articles by that criteria as well.
Access Features
By default, Vivvo provides a number of different roles for authoring and editing content on the back-end. These roles are as follows:
Writer - Creates articles that must be approved before being published. The Writer role can be restricted to criteria such as category.
Editor – Creates and edits content for selected categories, the entire website, or both.
Admin - The Administrator has system wide control throughout the website.
Trusted Writer – This role is given to special writers with the ability to directly publish their own articles for certain categories.
There are also Member and Premium Member roles where articles can be read free of charge and special areas can be viewed by users who paid to access specific content.
System Requirements
The Vivvo CMS thrives of the LAMP stack of open-source technologies. Although Spoonlabs states that the software can be installed on any server equipped PHP, the company recommends the use of Apache. Other requirements include the expat PHP extension for XML parsing, the GD Library for image manipulation, the PCRE extension for its regular expression library, write access to write files to the server and SendMail and SMTP for email notification capabilities.
Conclusion
Vivvo is best suited for small websites that only require a few content writers and editors. While the software is very functional, Spoonlabs stresses that many improvements are in the works. If the company can live up to its claims and deliver on those promises, there should be a bright future ahead for the Vivvo CMS.
January 13th, 2010 at 3:44 pm
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