Wuzly
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Wuzly is a Content Management System
Content management system
A content management system is a system providing a collection of procedures used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment. These procedures can be manual or computer-based...

 (CMS) and blogging platform. It has two interfaces, an admin view and a public view, each which their specific purpose on the generated blog. The back end framework uses MySQL
MySQL
MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...

 for storage and data management and PHP
PHP
PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...

. Wuzly was first released by Sam Ruston on February 13th 2011. It is currently managed and programmed by a small team of developers at Wuzly.

Releases

On 28th May 2011, Sam Ruston announced that minor increment versions would be released every 2 months (for example 1.0 to 1.1). Larger updates corresponding with their own version number and codename are set to be released at least every year.
  • Version 1 Beta (Codename:Sparky) - February 13th 2011
  • Version 1 (Codename:Sparky) - April 23rd 2011
  • Version 2 (Codename:Pegasus) - July 21st 2011













Requirements

Requirements are basic properties of a web server that allow the software to function properly, as expected by the developer. Without these, certain functions of the system may be damaged or not operate completely. As expected, the requirements are relatively generic and are preinstalled on most, if not all web servers that run Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

.
  • PHP
    PHP
    PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...

     5 or Later
  • MySQL
    MySQL
    MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...

     4 or Later
  • The cURL Module
  • file_get_contents function enabled

Installation

Wuzly can be installed using a web interface which executes an installation process after certain non-optional inputs have been entered. This method requires the use of a web browser
Web browser
A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content...

. After initiating the installation process, it must be configured with 12 strings of data. The title, tagline, description and keywords of the blog itself. The database connection details to allow interaction between the software and the storage system, including: the name of the database, the username that has privileges for the database, the password for the user, the host, and a preferred table prefix used in the database to allow multiple installations of Wuzly to operate within the same database.

Bugs

As of Beta Release 1, many bugs have been detected and rectified in the platform but still some persist to be included in the existing versions. Some of the minor flaws have been identified and are awaiting a fix in future updates. However, others still remain undetected under the surface of Wuzly, and will only be experienced during thorough use of the software. An example of a common issue with Wuzly, is the graphic editor appending text bug. A use case of this is when the color menu is shown during the editing or creation of a post and another button on the post toolbar is pressed, there is a likely chance that HTML code and HTML entities will be appended to the left of the toolbar, displayed as blue text. The post contents, titles and values remain the same but this can serve as a mild annoyance to users. This bug is shown in the image to the left.




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