Thursday, October 7th, 2004
Plume
Plume is an actual content management system rather than blogging software. Installation is almost as fast and easy as Wordpress and the interface is very nice.
It comes with 2 pre-built content types: News and Articles. The News is for single page content, while the Articles are for multiple pages. Both can be put into multiple categories with a Home Page category automatically listed on the site’s index.
When creating a category, you have the option of selecting a template (plume/manager/templates/default) to associate with it. You can create new templates and have them listed automatically by putting “category_” in front of the name. The template tags look like Wordpress’, which look like PHP. Documentation of the tags is available at the Sourceforge site.
You can create multiple sites with different templates and multiple sub-information types or use the same templates and give them different looks with CSS themes (plume/xmedia/theme/).
It’s a very simple system but powerful. The most noticeable lack to me was that there is no archiving by date like there is in blogging systems. You have to remove news manually from the homepage and readers can only browse by category.
Basically, it provides the content-management capabilities that blogging systems are missing without the “post and go” ease. If I was a programmer, I’d be tempted to see if I couldn’t find a way to integrate it with Wordpress for a complete software solution.
By Laura @ 12:07 pm in Webpage Setup
