Radiant

Radiant is a no-fluff, open source content management system designed for small teams.

Radiant features:

• An elegant user interface
• Flexible templating with layouts, snippets, page parts, and a custom tagging language
• A first-class extension/plugin system
• Simple user management and permissions

 Homepage: radiantcms.org

Radiant is a content management system designed for small teams. It includes a simple administrative interface, flexible layouts and site structure, a macro language that makes it easy to include content from other pages and more.

Simple Admin InterfaceBuilt from the ground up to be as simple as possible, Radiant features an elegant administrative interface that centers around three key components: pages, snippets, and layouts.

PagesPages contain the meat of the content for a Web site and may use Markdown, Textile, or plain HTML. Pages are composed of multiple parts such as a body and sidebar.

SnippetsContent that is used in multiple places can be stored in a snippet. Snippets are very similar to PHP includes or Rails partials.

LayoutsLayouts generally contain most of the HTML for a page’s design. Layouts can render pages parts in any way they choose. One layout could choose to render the body and sidebar of a page, while another layout (a print layout) could render only the body.

Flexible Site StructureUnlike many other blogging engines Radiant allows you to arrange pages according to any hierarchy. A Weblog in Radiant can be as simple as a collection of child pages underneath a parent page.

Radius Template LanguageRadiant has a special macro language (similar to HTML) called Radius which makes it easy to include content from other pages, iterate over page children, and display content conditionally. Radius tags are available in pages, snippets, and layouts.

Custom Text FiltersRadiant ships with support for Markdown and Textile, but developers can easily create text filters for any markup language such as RDoc, BBCode, or Structured Text.

Intelligent Page CachingRadiant includes an intelligent caching mechanism which allows content to be cached for a maximum of 5 minutes. This ensures that content is always fresh and provides an optimal level of performance.

Built with Ruby on RailsRadiant is built using Ruby on Rails. This means it’s easy for developers to extend Radiant because it’s built on a widely accepted (and understood) Web application development platform.

Licensed Under the MIT LicenseRadiant is licensed under the MIT License. This means that Radiant is free for commercial and non-profit use. It also means that you are free to modify and distribute Radiant as long as you don’t remove the appropriate notices from the source code.

Radiant is a free software content management system written in Ruby created and designed by John W. Long as a Ruby on Rails web application. While suitable for the non-technical user, it also provides elements for more advanced users.

Radiant has a light weight core library with "extensions" providing additional customised functionality. Because extensions do not modify the core, upgrading is simplified; With over 200 extensions in the extension registry it can be adapted for a range of uses including membership management. All the content is stored inside a database. It is possible to use MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite. Radiant depends, like every Ruby on Rails application, on the installed adapters for the database.

It is distributed via a separate download or installable with RubyGems.Two PHP ports of Radiant CMS are available as Frog CMS and Wolf CMS.Radiant includes by default 2 extensions. one Textile and other is Markdown.