Features
- Publishing Software: pMachine enables you to publish virtually any kind of web content — from a basic weblog, to a full-blown interactive magazine. pMachine gives you complete control over the presentation, behavior, and interactivity of your site.
- Multiple Weblogs/News Pages: pMachine Pro supports multiple weblogs. Each weblog has complete independence — both visually and behaviorally. You can separate your weblogs into independent pages (even in different directories), or you can put multiple weblogs on the same page. You can even create completely unique pages for each weblog entry.
Note: pMachine Free allows only one weblog.
- Discussion Forum: pMachine Pro comes with a full-featured discussion forum module. This forum can be installed in seconds by answering two questions and clicking one button.
- Collective Weblogs: By changing one preference, any of your weblogs can be made "collective". A collective weblog is one in which your visitors can submit entries — then other visitors can submit comments to those entries. The collaborative nature of a collective weblog adds a higher level of dialog and interactivity to your site. The discussion forum module is based on the "collective" concept. Collective weblogs can look anyway you choose.
- pBlocks: pMachine has a unique feature called pBlocks which enables content to automatically change each time someone visits. With pBlocks, you can do simple things like show a different image each time a page is loaded, or complex things like change the entire look of your site for each visit. pBlocks can also be used to store "static" information such as a list of your favorite links, the "about you" text on your site, or more. You can then update this information wherever you have access to a browser and the internet. You have an unlimited number of pBlocks at your disposal so you can use them in many different capacities.
- RSS Headline Syndication: You can publish your weblog to an XML page. If you have multiple weblogs, you can choose which one(s) to publish to the page. Your content can then be used on other people's sites, or in other formats, like wireless devices.
- XML Parser: With pMachine's XML Parser, you can display RSS feeds from your favorite sites, formatted to look any way you want. Any site with an RSS feed can be featured on your site.
- Ping weblogs.com: pMachine will "ping" www.weblogs.com every time you submit an entry.
- Categories: You can create lists of categories for each of your weblogs, then assign each new weblog entry to one of your categories. Visitors can then view your weblog sorted by category. Categories can be run in "independent" or "global" mode, allowing either fully independent categories for each weblog, or shared categories.
- Event Calendar: pMachine Pro comes with an event calendar. You can display multiple instances of your calendar, each with independent display preferences.
- Birthday Calendar: The event calendar can also be used to display member birthdays. You can display multiple instances of your calendar, each with independent display preferences.
pMachine Free only comes with the birthday calendar instead of the event calendar.
- Mini Calendar: pMachine includes a mini calendar, which you can put on your weblog page. The mini calendar shows a link for each day where you have entries. The mini-calendar also lets you navigate forward/backward by month.
- Commenting: Visitors can post comments to your entries. You can choose to require membership to post, or not. You can also enable/disable comments on a per weblog entry basis.
- Member Registration: pMachine allows member registration, and with it, a number of member related features. Members can self-manage their "profile", view other member profiles and send them email and birthday greetings directly from your site. You can display and sort your member list in a variety of ways.
- Account Activation: If you require member registration, you may optionally require that new members activate their account before being allowed to post comments, or participate in collaborative weblogs. Activation insures that the email address submitted by a new member is valid since the activation instructions are emailed to them.
- Multiple Authors and Access Privileges: pMachine fully supports collaborative authoring. Each author can be granted one of twelve different levels, ranging from basic access to superuser status. Furthermore, any member of your site can be upgraded to any status you choose.
- Independent registration: Comments and weblog entries have independent membership options. You can require registration to submit weblog entries, but not for comments - or vice versa.
- Member Email Notification: Your visitors can be notified automatically when someone responds to their comments and/or weblog entries. This option works whether you require membership or not.
- Admin Notification: Admins can be notified every time someone submits a new comment, or posts an entry in a collective weblog, or becomes a new member. These options are independent of one another. Each weblog has its own email notification preferences.
- Post Office: pMachine allows you to send individual emails or mass emails to both members and non-members in a variety of options. You can send email using Sendmail, SMTP, or PHP's native mail, and there is now support for HTML email. Mass emails are sent via a batch mode that breaks big lists down and sends them into small chucks.
- Mailing Lists: By creating mailing lists you can create public and private lists for a variety of uses, and both members and non-members are able to sign up easily. There is an email cache for keeping track of emails sent to mailing lists, and the ability to import emails into the mailing list database and set their subscription settings on import.
- Public Member Profiles: pMachine allows visitors to view information about each person who posts on your site. Note: Profiles can only exist for registered members.
- Search Engine: pMachine allows your visitors to do simple or advanced keyword searches of your information. Your search results can be displayed in a wide variety of ways, and even include excerpts from each entry. The search engine is fast, too!
- Trackback: Trackback is a method for notifying other weblog authors and their readers when you have an entry that they might be interested in viewing. Trackback link auto-discovery is also now built into the pMachine bookmarklet.
- Pingback: Pingback is a method for notifying other weblog authors when you have linked to their site in your entries.
- "Tell-A-Friend": Your visitors can email individual entries to people they know.
- File Browser/Editor: The control panel has a built-in browser/editor that you can use to update your web pages with.
- Image and file uploading: pMachine comes with a full-featured image and file-uploading handler. You can upload files to multiple destinations, view, overwrite and delete existing files, and even apply pre and post HTML formatting.
- User Modifiable Date and Time: You can change the date and time of your entries in order to move their placement in your weblog. If you make the date sometime in the future, the entry won't appear until that date.
- Expiration Date: You can optionally set an expiration date for each weblog entry. Weblog entries will automatically disappear from your site after the expiration date.
- Multi-language Support: pMachine comes with independent language files which can be translated in to any language. Admins can select the language used in the control panel on a per-login basis. pMachine will automatically recognize any language pack you have installed.
- Auto Typography: With this feature enabled, certain characters in your entries will be automatically converted to typographically sound XHTML valid entities. Quotes will be turned into curly quotes, etc. In addition, line breaks (carriage returns) will be replaced into pairs of <p></p> tags.
- Weblog Headlines: You can put a list of your most recent weblog titles, as well as a short excerpt from them, on a different page then your weblog. There are quite a few options for this feature.
- Weblog Titles: You can display lists of titles for every weblog entry you've ever written. This list can be used on an archives page, or in any other page. Each title is formatted as a link to the entry. You can also split up the list by weblog if you have more than one.
- Statistics: You can display a wide range of statistics for your site — the number of members, comments, weblog entries, most popular weblog entries, etc. You visitors can view this information. You can also show lists of entries submitted by each member in their profile page.
- "Members Only" Content: You can restrict access to your content based on the membership level of your users.
- Curse Word Censoring: pMachine lets you censor words contained in a user-definable library.
- Comment "hit" tracking: pMachine tracks how many times your comment or extended entry pages have been viewed. You can show this information in each entry.
- Blogger API Support: Allowing you to use desktop applications, like BlogApp, BlogBuddy and wBloggar to submit and edit pMachine entries.
- Contact Form: Your visitors can send you email using a form on your site. You can have multiple contact forms sending email to independent destinations.
- Six Discreet Entry Fields: Each weblog entry has six independent fields into which you can submit information. You can then display these fields on your pages in any number of ways. You can even put HTML in these fields and construct completely unique pages for each entry. Fields that are not used can be hidden.
- "One Click" Programmable Buttons: There are a set of sixteen user programmable buttons which let you add HTML and other frequently used content to your weblog entries.
- Closed by Default: Weblog entries submitted by your visitors can be "closed" by default. You can use this to moderate new entries before making them public.
- Timelock: You can set an amount of time which must elapse before a visitor can post another comment or collective entry to prevent "flooding".
- Maximum Comment and Weblog Entry Size: You can set a maximum number of allowed characters in a comment and/or collective weblog entry to prevent entries that are too big from being submitted.
- Bookmarklet: A Bookmarklet enables you to publish to your site without using the control panel. The pMachine bookmarklet includes all of the features the control panel entry page has — including previewing.
- IP Banning: You can ban IP addresses to prevent unwanted people from posting.
- Hit Counter: pMachine comes with a graphic and text based hit counter. You can create your own images for the counter and set various preferences.
- pMcode: Similar to UBB Code, pMcode allows visitors to submit a simplified variation of certain HTML tags in their comments to add "style" to their entries.
- Automatic Link Formatting: pMachine will automatically turn URLs and email addresses submitted in weblog entries and comments into clickable links.
- Email Encoding: All email addresses (admins and members/visitors) are encoded into character entities and wrapped in JavaScript to prevent email harvesting crawlers and spambots from gathering them.
- Image Formatting: You can pre-define HTML formatting that will be applied to images placed in your entries.
- Alternating Colors: pMachine comes with "color tags" that can automatically be set to alternate. You can use these tags creatively to add alternating color touches to your entries.
- Time Zone Offset: If your server is located in a different time zone, you can offset pMachine so your entries and comments will have the correct date and time.
- Security: Passwords are encrypted with a 128 bit one-way, non-decodable scheme. Passwords cannot be decoded — even by pMachine. pMachine also allows you to name the directory containing your scripts uniquely so that people can not have access to your scripts. pMachine includes many other security features, like data filtering, maximum submission size, etc.
- Extensive Preferences, Templates and Tags: pMachine has extensive preference settings for each weblog allowing you tremendous flexibility in the presentation of your information. The pMachine templating system allows you to totally control the look of your site. There are over 75 pMachine tags, which you can use on your pages.
- Full CSS/XHTML Compliance: The sample weblog installed by pMachine is W3C validated, 100% CSS/XHTML-Transitional compliant code.
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