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Features

Tiki's Content Creation and Management Tools

Subjective self-evaluation by the Tiki community

  • Setup/admin UI: How easy / intuitive is to setup this feature?
  • UI end user : Once setup, how easy / intuitive is it for the end-user? (was it worth it?)
  • Stability: How many bugs left?
  • Feature-set / power: How does this feature compare to other Open Source apps? This field is the default sort order

Items 112

Name Feature name and link Description Dev (Bug reports & Feature requests) Type of feature Setup and admin UI UI end user Stability Feature-set and power Admin icon
Wiki Plugin (extends basic syntax) Wiki Plugins Over 100 built-in plugins extend the function of wiki syntax with more specialized commands. It is very easy to create your own plugins with plugin alias or from scratch. Text Area B B B A
Tiki Manager Manager A combination of shell and PHP scripts to install, update, backup and monitor (check security of) a large number of Tiki installations (instances). Administration D C A
Shopping Cart Shopping Cart A simple shopping cart feature - Information on products or services can be maintained in wiki pages or trackers with display via Pretty Tracker ) and purchases added to Module Cart through the PluginAddToCart and sent to the payment page. Section B B B D
Task Tasks A site user's to-do list. Tasks can be sent to other users. Also, there can be shared group tasks.

Section B B B B
User Menu User Menu Add personal items to the User Menu section in the application menu.

Navigation unrated
Meta Tags Meta Elements Administer your meta tags via the admin panel (no FTP transfers necessary).

Navigation B A C
ZZZ Other features All the features, modules and activities enabled by permissions that don't fit into other categories. E
Contribution Contribution Allow selecting, reporting and exporting the type of contributions made by site users. Transversal A A B C
Wiki Syntax Wiki Syntax Apply formatting and styling to text directly or via editor toolbar buttons; no need for HTML. Strong help feature and usable throughout various features such as blogs and articles, not just in the wiki! Text Area B B B A
Articles Articles Articles can be used for date-specific news and announcements. You can configure articles to automatically publish and expire at specific times or to require that submissions be approved before becoming "live." In addition to categories and tags, articles include their own unique classification system of Topics and Types. Section B B B B
Intertiki Intertiki Authenticate users and grant them appropriate permissions at a "slave" Tiki site based on user data from an external "master" Tiki site. (This is used at the Tiki project sites, for example.)

Administration D C D B
Table of content Automatic Table of Contents Automatically generate and display a table of contents based on page titles within a structure (toc), or from the headings on a page (maketoc). Text Area A C A C
Integrator Integrator Automatically import external HTML pages into Tiki. Programmers D B B B
Contact

Contact us

Basic form for site visitors to send a message to the site admin.

Section E A A D
Banning Banning Block access from individual IPs or ranges of IPs.

Administration A A A B
Modules Modules Boxes for content, typically on the left or right of a portal-style site but can be placed anywhere, even in page content, with or without a visual frame. Very useful for navigation and content re-use. Over 100 built-in modules are available, and site admins can create their own.

Navigation A A B A
Web Services Web Services Can receive web services via JSON or YAML. Programmers D C B
External Authentication External Authentication Can use LDAP (Active Directory), PAM, Auth, Http web server, CAS or Shibboleth.

Administration B A B A
Wiki Wiki Collaboratively authored documents with history of changes. Tiki's wiki has all the features you could want from a first-rate wiki. Ex.: attach files, comments, history, images, warn on edit, page locking, powerful wiki syntax, alternative WYSIWYG editor, etc. Section A A A A
Color Modes Color Modes Color modes enable website users to select an alternative color scheme. Initially in Tiki 26, users can switch between light, dark, and auto (auto mode means following the preference set in the user's browser). In Tiki 26.1, the ability to add custom color modes via Look and Feel admin controls will be added. Transversal C B C C
Comments Comments Comment posting available for many features (wiki pages, articles, blogs, forums, etc) Transversal B B B B
Search Search Configurable site search engine that indexes content of many features Transversal B B B A
Community Community Configure site community settings such as user identity and participation details, and social interaction settings. Transversal B B B C
Content Template Content Template Create and select reusable text or layout code when editing a wiki page, article, or newsletter to have a consistent look and feel and/or content.

Text Area B B B C
Newsletters Newsletters Create and send email newsletters (plain text and HTML) to subscribed site users and other individuals. Section A A B C
External wiki External Wikis Create links easily with other wikis. Text Area B B A C
FAQ FAQ Create pages of frequently asked questions and answers. Section B B B B
Survey Surveys Create questionnaires with multiple-choice or open-ended questions. Section A A B B
Quiz Quizzes Create timed quizzes with recorded scores. Section D C C B
Debugger Console Debugger Console Debugger Console

Programmers B
Permission Permissions Different rights can be assigned to groups. (ACLs) Administration C A A
Edit template Edit Template Edit the Smarty template files that Tiki is built with via the admin control panel.

Administration B C B
My Account Inter-User Messages Inter-User Messages Enable users to send internal messages to each other (like email but internal to the Tiki site). A message can be broadcast to multiple users in a Tiki group or to all site users if the appropriate permissions are granted. Section B B A C
Payment Payments Enables the requesting and management of payments (invoicing), and connects payments to other features. Administration C B B C
Calendar Calendar Events calendar with public, private and group channels

Section B B B A
Edit CSS Edit CSS

Existing stylesheets can be edited (via the browser), with the new stylesheet suffixed with the editor's user name.

Administration B B E C
Packages Packages External software packages installation and management via Composer. Administration B B C C
Cache Cache External URLs can be cached inside Tiki - this is possible for links from the Wiki as well as for the User Bookmarks Text Area B B A C
Trackers Trackers Facts and figures storage and retrieval. A forms and database generator, with reporting. Can be used for a bug tracker, item database, issue tracker, etc Section B A B A
File Gallery File Gallery File Galleries enable secure and efficient uploading, storage, downloading and other serving of all types of files including images, videos, podcasts, text and PDF documents and more. Section B C B A
Interaction with popular external software, services or websites Interaction with popular external software, services or websites For example: Google video, Google Maps, YouTube, Skype, Google AdSense, Mindmap and many more! Transversal A
Forum Forums Forums are online discussions organized by topic (or thread). Tiki forums feature threaded or flat views, file attachments, moderation and queuing, monitoring (subscription) of particular forums or topics, and full usage of wiki syntax. Section B C B C
Category system Categories Global category system. Items of different types (wiki pages, articles, tracker items, etc) can be added to one or many categories. Categories can have permissions. Navigation B B B A
Semantic wiki links Semantic Links Going beyond Backlinks, allows to define some semantic relationships between wiki pages Navigation C C B B
User Administration User Administration Great flexibility in handling user registration, logging in, and banning of users, should that be necessary. Administration A A A A
Multilingual i18n i18n (or internationalization) - Tiki is translated in 20 languages. Handles multilingual navigation & content. Can keep track of translation (de)synchronization. http://wiki-translation.com

Transversal C B B A
Score Score If appropriate for the site, this feature implements a game approach to motivate people to participate in the online community. Users are given points for things they do in the site, like writing or reading an article, starting a new topic in a forum, voting in a poll, etc. They also earn points by having his/her blogs and articles read and commented on. Then the users will be able to see their position in a ranking. Transversal C
Hotwords Hotwords If enabled, wiki pages are parsed and some words are automatically converted to HTML links.

Text Area C
Profiles Profiles In Tiki terminology, a "profile" is a set of site configuration preferences and website item creation instructions that are applied as a group. Administration A A B A
Structure Structure In Tiki terminology, a structure is a hierarchy for wiki pages. Structures have navigational features such as breadcrumb links and menus; also enabled is printing all pages in the structure and in order.

Navigation B B A A
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