MODX is now available free to all new and existing customers! MODX is a content management platform offering you the ability to build sites quickly, easily – and most importantly creatively without having to code.

MODX is extremely versatile and has been a popular customer request, so we’re happy to tell you it can now be installed in seconds from your control panel.

Key features of Modx includes:

• Responsive design for both your site and your control panel
• Intuitive, highly customisable manager
• Search engine friendly out of the box
• Ability to password protect content across various levels of user access
• Excellent caching mechanism for fast loading
• Flexible add-on system
• Multi-lingual support
• No need to know PHP; make changes using HTML
• Active and enthusiastic community

Demo

Give MODX a test run by accessing the live demo at http://www.trymodx.com.

Installing MODX

If you’re a Business Pro or Premium web hosting customer, simply log into eXtend and scroll down to ‘MODX’ to install via our one-click installer.

With the release of Joomla! 2.5, We’re pleased to announce that we’ve updated our one click install to the latest version. Joomla has continued to develop in leaps and bounds over the years, and 2.5 follows version 1.7 in extending the CMS’s functionality further.

What’s new

Joomla 2.5 is a significant release and there are plenty of new features and improvements across the platform.

New features includes:

• Enhanced developer framework for easier third party themes and plugins
• Improved ‘Smart Search’ website search
• Enhanced offline/maintenance mode
• CAPTCHAs for user registration
• Mobile enhancements
• User notes functionality
• Subcategory filtering
• Custom menu usability changes
• Updated MooTools compatibility.

To find out more about the new features (with detailed explanations of the changes), go here.

How to install

If you’re a Business Pro or Premium package web hosting customer, simply log into eXtend and scroll down to the Joomla 2.5 icon to install via our one-click installer.

Enjoy Joomla 2.5!

Open Web Analytics (OWA) is open source web analytics software that enables you to track and analyze how people use your web sites and applications.
An ideal alternative to Google Analytics, packed with features and fully open source, OWA is a great tool to improve visitor experience by optimizing your web data.
We’re pleased to announce that it’s now available as a quick and easy one-click install from your control panel!

Features include:

• Open source, running on PHP, MySQL and JavaScript
• No limits on data logging
• Ability to track multiple websites
• Heatmaps, conversion goals and goal funnels
• Mouse movement tracking
• Optional command line interface for admins
• PHP and JavaScript tracking clients
• Full integration with WordPress and MediaWiki without the need for third party plugins
• Plugin support for Drupal

And much more!

If you’re a Premium web hosting customer, you can install Open Web Analytics by logging into your eXtend control panel and scrolling down to ‘Web Stats and Logs’

bbPress  – a  streamlined, fast, and easy-to-use forum program, it integrates easily into WordPress.

We’re now offering one-click installs of bbPress. Using as a message board, it’s a great way to promote visitor interaction and also to discover what your visitors are interested in, who they are, and what else they want to see from your site.

bbPress is open source and focused on speed and security, meaning you don’t have to worry about slow loading pages or the risk of being hacked. The streamlined software is also lightweight and efficient for better use of space and bandwidth. bbPress is easy to install thanks to our one-click install solution, and the user-friendly control panel also means less work for admins and moderators once you’re up and running.

bbPress enjoys many similar customisation elements to WordPress so you can develop and install themes and plugins (e.g. for ratings, video and private forums) to customise your forums. Furthermore, bbPress can be integrated with WordPress so it has access to your blog’s functionality and users signing up to your message boards can also be users on your blog. This is especially useful for multi-author blogs, blogs with regular commenters and those looking to build up integrated site communities from an existing WordPress blog.

If you have a Premium hosting plan, you can now install bbPress just like any other one-click install. Go to your eXtend control panel, scroll down to one-click installs and install from there.

To find out more about what bbPress has to offer, check out bbpress.org.