FOS4US.CA is hosted on our own server and is published using the 2016 theme of WordPress. A few plug-ins (also free and open-source) provide some additional functionality:
- Askimet: to check readers’ comments against a global spam database to prevent us from publishing garbage or malicious content
- TinyMCE Advanced: to add, remove or arrange buttons on the Visual Editor toolbar related to 15 TinyMCE plug-ins
- Footnotation: to add footnotes to our pages and posts
While we’re most familiar with WordPress, you may prefer one of these other free and open-source Content Management Systems:
FYI
WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. To function, WordPress has to be installed on a web server, which would either be part of an Internet hosting service or a network host in its own right. An example of the first scenario may be a service like WordPress.com, for example, and the second case could be a computer running the software package WordPress.org. A local computer may be used for single-user testing and learning purposes. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system. WordPress was used by more than 27.5% of the top 10 million websites as of February 2017. WordPress is reportedly the most popular website management or blogging system in use on the Web, supporting more than 60 million websites. WordPress is released under the GPLv2 (or later) license.