Galway, Ireland · February 22, 2010 · Today Wiccle Ltd announced the global availability of iWiccle CMS Community Builder 1.20, an open-source community and content management system aimed for the mass market of internet users. Wiccle Ltd released iWiccle particularly as a solution for the website creation needs of average Internet users who may lack the technical know-how for operating complex CMS software.

Wiccle CMS Community Builder v.1.20 represents six months of substantial evolution from the first 1.00 release in June 2009. As with the original release, iWiccle 1.20 has been sliced from the main Wiccle Web Builder commercial code trunk and offered to the public as free open-source software. Over the past year, the application has evolved both as a result of direct development focus, as well as in the course of producing parallel small-to-medium business internet solutions.

Usability and customizability are at the heart of the iWiccle concept. Intuitive administrator options with inline documentation, easy-to-use customizable menus and navigation, powerful drag-and-drop builder tools, integrated WYSIWYG text editors and media uploads, extensive content tagging and cross-referencing features, and an extensive Web 2.0 application suite provide an environment where both individual webmasters and online communities can engage a website to serve their individual needs.

iWiccle is an application you can download and install to the webspace you have with your web hosting provider, both on its own or as a section of your current website. The application is available for free download at Wiccle.com, along with unlimited free lifetime licenses. There are no unusual server requirements for running iWiccle. A rebrandable version for 99€ / lifetime is available for webmasters and web developers who wish to remove all references to iWiccle from their websites.

Iwiccle 1.20: A New Level of Customizability

iWiccle represents a fluid approach to website creation; instead of offering a fixed configuration, you can pick and choose from the available possibilities, and trim it down to a website solution that matches your needs exactly. You can also clone your pages and applications, and create new versions of them with a few clicks of a mouse.

The built-in Wiccle Builder visual application interface and easy templating system help you further modify every single page and content unit of your website to your preferences — literally down to the last pixel. You can also connect your own scripts to the builder API or fetch output from on-server and off-site third-party scripts to your site.

Installing and configuring the basics of iWiccle can be done in well under five minutes.* Customizing or creating an unlimited amount of new pages with text and media is a simple and straight-forward operation for anyone who has ever written an e-mail or uploaded a file to a website. Dynamic applications can also be completely customized from your web browser with the help of the Wiccle Builder API.

Substantial developments in the Wiccle Templating system have brought iWiccle to a point where its appearance can be completely customized by anyone with basic image editor and HTML/CSS experience with the help of the iWiccle Pro Base Templating Kit. With a bit of practice, complete new themes can be created in under an hour with the improved templating system.**

Version 1.20 brings the addition of two new builder tools to the toolkit, namely the Form Builder and the Profile Builder, which aid in the creation of diverse feedback forms and user profile fieldsets. The created forms and profile units become available in the Wiccle Builder and, like Widgets, can be placed to any location on any one of your pages.

The SEO features in iWiccle have been extended to allow browser-based editing of page titles and meta tags on a per-page basis. Combined with improvements to the existing tools, version 1.20 brings all page titles and metadata, for both custom and dynamic content, under your absolute control. Language pack support has been extended to cover the language strings defined in the Wiccle Builder page builder area, along with general multi-language and character set support improvements.

User permission control has been substantially extended for iWiccle 1.20. The visibility of all modules, pages, and individual content units can now be limited to selected usergroups, allowing you to competely customize your presentation and the experience of your users. As an administrator, you can now create dozens of overlapping "usergroup content layers" for each of your pages, providing you with enterprise level CMS control.

The new Wiccle Builder backup and restore tools make it easy to take backups of the pages and page sets you have customized and populated with your own content. Backups can be used for restoring changed pages, and as templates for new pages, which speeds up the creation of similar pages across your site. You can also export your customized layout sets and offer them for download or sale.

iWiccle 1.20: More Modules for More Purposes

The default iWiccle module and Web 2.0 application suite has grown by two modules. The first new addition is iWiccle Video, which allows the webmaster and the community to build a video portal and directory by embedding videos from 10+ third-party video websites. The second addition is iWiccle News, which can be used for everything from simple website news to categorized news portals.

With these recent additions, iWiccle CMS Community Builder 1.20 now ships with a set of ten modules for customizable webmaster or all-community use:

• iWiccle Articles for creating article directories and multi-page article series
• iWiccle Blogs for creating a state-of-the-art blogging community
• iWiccle Events for a categorized community event calendar
• iWiccle Gallery for photo communities and image archives
• iWiccle Groups for community discussion groups and online collaboration
• iWiccle Links for building categorized link directories and collections
• iWiccle Members for extended profiles, user portals and social networking
• iWiccle News for all news publishing from site news to news portals
• iWiccle Site for creating unlimited custom web pages for your site
• iWiccle Video for easy building of online video libraries and portals

You can enable, disable and rebrand the modules to match your preferences. With the help of Wiccle Builder, you can also change the quantity and presentation of all dynamic content, as well as re-organize and extend the dynamic pages across the modules you use. The browser-based Wiccle Builder visual API lets you redesign your modules without touching a single line of code.

Power users who want to extend their websites beyond the default iWiccle module set can now do it with ease. With the help of iWiccle Module Creation Kit, you can create unlimited copies of your existing modules and configure them each into new, original modules. You can also export pages, page sets and modules for importing to other iWiccle sites, making it easy to synchronize parallel sites, as well as to package your modifications for distribution or sale.

Web designers and developers using iWiccle as a back-end solution for their CMS needs will welcome the first version of the built-in diagnostic tools that aid in tracking software errors, locating performance bottle-necks, monitoring system loads across the site, and tracking content performance on several levels. Upcoming extensions to these tools will provide optimum levels of iWiccle site performance and security.

There is no theoretical upper limit to how much iWiccle can do for you — it can morph between anything from a simple portfolio website to a busy community hub with dozens of modules and thousands of users. iWiccle 1.20 is simple for the beginners and advanded for the experts; whatever your level of experience, iWiccle has been designed to fit the bill.

Press Contacts

Keith Killilea, CEO
Management, global marketing, development director
E-mail: keith@wiccle.com

Markus Loponen, CTO
Lead software developer, content production, documentation
E-mail: markus@wiccle.com

Wiccle Online

More information and media on Wiccle Ltd and CMS, eCommerce and social networking products is available at the following online resources:

• Wiccle Headquarters: http://www.wiccle.com/
• Wiccle Backstage: http://www.wiccle.com/wiccle/backstage
• Wiccle Fusion Resources: http://www.wiccle.com/wiccle/fusion
• iWiccle Live Demo: http://demo.iwiccle.com/
• Wiccle Builder Demo Videos: Dev Lair @ Staff Blogs
• iWiccle 1.20 Release Logo: High Resolution

You can click on the images in this announcement to access higher resolution versions, which can be freely reused for purposes of review, promotion, critique, software listings and company profile.

* If you have your database details handy and are installing to a standard Apache/PHP/MySQL webserver, the installer can be completed in two minutes.

** In Wiccle in-house demo tests, the fastest fully customized theme was created in 25 minutes using the supplied iWiccle Templating Kit.