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About Seditio CMS: Creation History, Features, System Requirements

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History of Seditio

The history of Seditio began in 2001 when professional programmer Olivier Chapuis from Grenoble, France, developed a content management system (CMS) called Land Down Under (LDU) based on PHP and MySQL technologies. This modern and reliable solution for creating websites quickly gained popularity, especially in gaming communities where LDU was used as an engine for gaming portals. Its simplicity, high page creation speed, flexibility, and strong focus on security set LDU apart from most complex and overloaded Open Source systems of the time. These advantages were appreciated by both developers and users, leading to rapid growth in the community and an increase in the number of sites built on this platform.

In 2006, the company Neocrome, which developed LDU, announced the release of Seditio—a new version of the system that represented a rebranding and significant architectural overhaul of the CMS. The name Seditio was an abbreviation of Land Down Under Second Edition, emphasizing continuity and the scale of changes. Compared to LDU, Seditio offered improved plugin support and enhanced extensibility. However, in 2008, the official developer stopped releasing updates for the product. That same year, part of the Seditio team released a package of improvements for the system, and on February 1, 2009, the first public release of Cotonti—an independent product based on Seditio—was made. This became possible after receiving official permission from Neocrome to publish Cotonti and its inherited Seditio code as open source.

In 2011, the projects Land Down Under and Seditio were officially closed. The final version of Seditio was 150, after which Olivier Chapuis announced the end of support for the system. However, in 2012, he unexpectedly attempted to revive the project by releasing version 160, which included support for HTML and WYSIWYG editors. Unfortunately, due to discovered security issues, Olivier decided to close the project permanently.

Nevertheless, work on Seditio soon resumed. Since 2012, the rights to further develop the system, obtained from Olivier Chapuis, have been held by two Russian programmers: Alexander Tishov (Amro) from Astrakhan and Anton Sazanov (Antony) from Moscow. They previously created and maintained their sites based on LDU/Seditio and continued the project's development, focusing on creating a convenient, fast, and reliable engine for a wide range of users. Additionally, significant contributions to the development of Seditio are made by friends from Turkey who remain loyal to the project and have not switched to Cotonti. Their efforts help maintain and improve the system, making it even more functional and in demand.

Since 2012, versions 171, 172, 173, 175, 177 (beta test), 178, and 179 (current stable version) of the system have been released. Seditio is distributed as open-source software under the BSD license. Changes to the system core are made by the developer community considering client needs and personal projects. The distribution is constantly improved by implementing proven and in-demand functionality tested in real commercial and public projects. Thanks to this, Seditio CMS remains a modern and relevant system for creating websites, retaining its key advantages: simplicity, reliability, and flexibility.

Cotonti, as a branch of Seditio, also continues to develop, offering users an alternative approach to creating sites. Both projects—Seditio and Cotonti—exist in parallel, retaining their unique features and audiences.

Seditio CMS Capabilities

Currently, Seditio out-of-the-box has everything needed to build a thematic community, news portal, collective or personal blog. It is easy to disable all social functions (registration of new users, forums, comments, ratings) and create an attractive and convenient corporate site with a description of services, product showcase, contacts, and more. You can create an intranet portal for an organization or use the engine as a CMF for developing even more complex and large-scale projects.

The basic package includes:

  • News;
  • Pages with a hierarchical section structure;
  • Forums;
  • User registration and multi-level access control system;
  • File storage for images and documents;
  • Galleries;
  • Comments and ratings;
  • Polls;
  • Private messages;
  • Flexible plugin system and more than 20 essential plugins by default;
  • Convenient and intuitive admin panel;
  • RSS feeds;
  • SEO-friendly URLs out-of-the-box;
  • SEO ready: manage titles and META tags like a pro!
  • Responsive design template;
  • Visual text editor (Ckeditor);
  • Extensive admin tools (logging system, ban list, skin editor, trash, etc.)
  • Built-in statistics system.

Suitable For

  • Corporate website
  • Promo site
  • Portals and services
  • Blog

System Requirements

  • Web server (Apache, Nginx)
  • PHP 5.4.0 and above
  • MySQL 5.0.7 and above

Advantages of Seditio CMS

Procedural code and optimized database queries, multi-level caching—provide stunning performance. Pages are created faster than a bullet!

The plugin system allows you to add new functionality to the CMS and integrate with system files through "hooks," adding new features or redefining the core logic. Programmers and enthusiasts who want to customize everything will appreciate this!

The template engine based on XTemplate allows you to work with the site's HTML design without affecting the logic of system files, providing unlimited creative freedom and minimal basic knowledge to create your unique site design.

Usability: everything important is accessible in one click. We pay special attention to the convenience of working with Seditio sites. Intuitive interfaces mean minimal time spent training new editors and administrators.

Security: the system includes many functions for checking user-entered data, logging suspicious actions, protection against XSS, spam, and bots. The CMS is constantly tested for potential vulnerabilities and updated promptly.

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Developers

Examples of Sites on Seditio

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