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.

Content Management Systems (CMS) are great tools for maximising the full potential of your web hosting.  This blog post will look at the various web hosting scripts and web hosting tools we provide at Websoftnet with your web hosting to help you simplify your web publishing. We have included the blogging scripts that come free with our web hosting as the line between the two is becoming increasingly blurred.

WordPress
WordPress is arguably the most popular blogging software available today! It’s easy to install and use with our web hosting one click install script and will allow you to have a great looking blog in minutes. WordPress is the most popular blog software in use today

Joomla
Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Ready to be installed in your web hosting control panel, Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.

Mambo
Mambo is a fully featured content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications.

Geeklog
Geeklog allows you to create your own virtual community area, complete with user administration, story posting, messaging, comments, polls, calendar, web links, and more

Nucleus
Nucleus offers you the building blocks when you need your web hosting to create a memorable web presence. Whether you want to create a personal blog, a family page, or an online business site, Nucleus CMS can help you achieve your goals.

Drupal
Drupal is a free and open source content management system (CMS) that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website through their web hosting control panel. Drupal is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.

Typo3
TYPO3 is a content management system for enterprise purposes on the web and in intranets. It offers full flexibility and extendability while featuring an accomplished set of ready-made interfaces, functions and modules. Using a graphical user interface which interacts with your web hosting, authors can simply create text, insert images and multimedia files, schedule content (and much more) to build and maintain a dynamic website. This is especially true if you take advantage of TYPO3’s server-side graphics generation for making image menus, graphical headlines, etc.

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