XOOPS 2.5.5

Xoops is gaining momentum over recent times, with a good support system and many themes and modules to use.

Currently xoops has a good social networking module called Yogurt, which I currently use on my fansite, I am yet to find any other cms module that can do what yogurt can do.

overall xoops is very easy to work with and easy to upgrade.

In comparison to the other top CMS out there Drupal, Joomla, wordpress, Dotnetnuke. My experience xoops is a better all round system allowing for multi site administration.

There are many modules, but until recently it was trial and error with which ones worked and which did not. This is changing now which is good to see.

I highly recommend xoops for security and ease of use.

I've used XOOPS for a little over a year now and I am quite pleased with it. It is not something I would advise for an utter newbie webmaster but with the wide range of modules available, you can easily adapt it to whatever you might need. I tried several other CMSs including Drupal and all flavors of Nuke I could find and none of them were quite as easy to deal with as XOOPS.

Justwant to say that: 1. the two branches of xoops have been merged into the current stable release of 2.3.1 2. upgrade scripts from both former branches are included in the download 3. the download comes with modules for enhanced PMs, enhanced user-profile management, site protection and selectable admin interfaces as standard. The community is now at one with a renewed sense of purpose and we move to xoops 3.0 - come see for yourselves and give our free software and free support a go! JAVesey Forums Moderator xoops.org

I have been developing my own custom application on xoops 2.0.18.1 for a couple of months now. I like its framework design. I find that it is easy for a developer new to xoops to write apps integrated with xoops core. That is, getting the same look and feel, calling the core to authorize access to my own application. Overall, I find this CMS very userfriendly, if your goal is to develop custom application and leveraging the underline user management facilities in the CMS. I recommend it.

im a long time supporter of xoops, but i cannot recomend it to anyone at this point in time, its turned into a apple][, lisa, mac war... and you the user cannot tell what will work with what flavor... the support is horrible, theres a billion websites (none in the same language) and no way to tell what is new or not, i doubt they will pull out of this, its old, its stagnant, and it might as well be unsupported, 3 factors in software development that smell like death

Excellent portal/content management system. Very modular and easy to use. Highly recommended.

XOOPS is like a bad marriage. I just can't quit you babe...bleh. Every time I try to live I always come back. Fair is fair, they are in transistion, but they need to pick up the pace. New release Jan 08, modules back online, finally. 2008 needs to be the rebound year for XOOPS. I hope they get it right.

I have used XOOPS for a number of years and it is still excellent. The XOOPS project is at a development crossroads, has tried one path the 2.2 strand but has decided to stick with the more stable 2.0X path which has great benefits. They are now working on 2.3 toward 2.4 which will reintegrate 2.2. It is not true what the previous comment has said...there is in fact a downgrade script from 2.2 to 2.0x it can be found here: http://www.xoops.org/modules/core/singlefile.php?cid=4&lid=124. XOOPS is very flexible and has some excellent themes, its modular system (plenty of modules around)is relatively simple as is its administration. I lost a site recently and decided to try Joomla, what an over complicated cms with a incomprehensible admin section. I went back to XOOPS.

I will tell you from experience I have used many CMS over the last decade and even started using XOOPS when it was back in the 1.0* stages. I was a long time supporter of it for many years and developed many sites using it. But it just seems to much like the XOOPS cms has been falling apart and failing the community for well over a year as of 4-9-07. They launched the 2.2.* branch which was so nice and had many nice features but shortly after converting over then they decide they are going to leave everyone high and dry about the 2.2.* branch there is no downgrade option that I have found to go back to using the 2.0.16 branch that they have decided to follow. The forums are riddled with this topic of abandonment of the 2.2.4 branch. And yes I know about the release of the 2.2.5 but that is just a failure when you look at the big picture. They are failing to merge the 2.0.* branch and 2.2.* so they are just still releasing updates when they should be focused on merging the two branches. so while there was a time when you could expect reliability from this group I can't give them the thumbs up as of this date. Joomla would be your best choice. Not only do you have the whole version issue but the dev site as of this writing is down as well. Not down as in closed for updates I mean a flat out 403 error on the site. Now lets talk about module development. While there is a few great people developing modules for the site there is not as much going on as with Joomla. The module repository at the XOOPS site even flatly states that they are not accepting new modules at this time. I think the latest module release date I found was September 2006. Joomla however is constantly releasing new modules.

I have created a number of XOOPS sites over the years (in excess of 15). Needless to say I am a fan of the tool set. Enjoy! ...mark

I've used Xoops on several projects and It is not bad at all. I'm currently (re)testing Joomla and I will note here my resoults, but so far, Xoops is more easy and functional. On a scale of 0 to 10 i give Xoops 8.5.

Well, I work with Xoops, so my opnion could be not very indipendent... the users saying that Xoops is not intuitive are right in some way. Because a newbie expect to produce content witha cms in a few second... and when you install the last version of Xoops you don't have any module or else, only the main system as in the demo. The developers have decided to make Xoops a framework and no more an all in one CMS. The negative part of the story is that they don't comunicate this enough to the users, that expect a cms ready for production. The best part is that framework is divided from modules and else, so there's a thousand of modules you can choice in and make Xoops whatever you want.. a blogging system, an image gallery, an e-zine or a community. I've tried so many cms I can't remember.. one of the reason that convinced me to choose xoops is that is a piece of very good code, well written, where php stays well separated from html (not like some application like WordPres..) and if oyu are experienced you can get almost all you want. Yes probably they should rebuild the homesite and develope more cool themes... but giving it a chance is not a waste of time at all.

this is my first cms. i havent tried any other yet. XOOPS is a great CMS. i dont know how the other CMS can be better lol i think it can do anything other cms' can do but more! i mean you make multiple databases with relationships and then create custom forms and reports. all this via the admin! that demo you see on this site, doesnt contain any modules, so you can create any pages lol. it has all the usual modules like forums, articles which i think looks better than the other CMS. as long as you can do html, you can customise xoops to whatever you want. it is easy to install too, just make sure to apply the patches. i will try drupal, but i really dont see how can it be better. i dont even think you can create databases with forms- msaccess style. xoops should be no#1

Would never recommend this CMS to anyone as it's so uninviting in terms of adaptability. Yes there are many worse CMS's available, but there are several better CMS's available. I've tried about 5 times to use Xoops for a live site but always scrap it after just a few hours of developing. Got plenty of potential but seem's to be in the wrong hands for it to advance.

Couldn't find anywhere to add new pages in the demo, so I'm as confused as Brian Haines. Can't recommend this CMS.