Welcome to the Campsite Wiki!

Campsite is a multilingual content management system (CMS) for news websites developed by Center for Advanced Media — Prague, the technology arm of the Media Development Loan Fund.

Campsite’s easily localizable user interface was built with the end user (journalist/editor/publisher) in mind and it can be configured to suit different profiles of end users – to each according his or her own technological prowess.

Campsite follows the print-newspaper publishing paradigm, so it structures sites by default as Publications > Issues > Sections > Articles. Campsite works best for medium-to-large-size online news publications, but it is capable of handling nimbler sites too. Some of its main features are highly customizable user interface, total design freedom for web designers, automatic creation of archives, copy flow, and built-in subscription support.

Starting Points

• Campware Home Page: Latest News, Screenshots, Who’s Using Campsite
• Feature List
• Try out a demo of the administration interface
• Download the latest source code release : Download Campsite
• Read the manual
• Download and Install the NEW sample template package (“Classic Set”)
• How to Contribute to Campsite

HOWTOs

Installation and configuration:

• How to Install Campsite on servers using Plesk
• How to install Campsite 3.x on Shared Hosting using PHP-CGI
• How to Adjust Timezone on Shared Hosting
• How to Install PHP APC cache on Ubuntu and CentOS servers
• How to install Campsite 3.x on Windows Vista for testing
• How to install Campsite 3.x on Mac OS X

Upgrading:

• How to successfully upgrade via ftp software
• How to fix the database encoding and make search case insensitive (as of version 3.2)
• How to populate the new static Author field (as of version 3.2)

Templating Tips:

• How to properly resize and add zoom article images
• How to add mini-galleries (slideshows) to Campsite articles
• How to build a (cached) tag-cloud
• How to list most commented articles
• How to integrate Twitter

Importing Content into Campsite:

• How to import XML into Campsite
• How to import from Adobe InDesign

Campsite Localization:

• How to localize Campsite
• How to localize TinyMCE editor

For Developers

• View all bugs/tickets by milestone
• Developing a third-party plugin? Look at the Campsite API Docs.
• DeveloperDocs
• Subversion statistics for our code base
• Developer Forum

Want to access the latest code?

To access the subversion repository, use this URL:

svn checkout svn://source.campware.org/campsite/trunk/campsite

Blueprints

• The Concept of the Author (Static Field)
• The Concept of the New Article Edit Screen
• The Concept of the New Topics Interface
• The Concept for Importing Archives from other CMSs (and HTML)
• The Concept for the Mini Gallery/Slideshow Feature/Plugin
• The Concept for Better Template Management
• The Concept for a Campsite Feed Ingest Server or Module
• The Concept for a Campsite Plugin to Handle Schedules and Listings
• The Concept for an Integrated Handling of All Media (Images, Videos, Audio, PDF, etc.)
• The Concept for Widget-style Plugins: e.g. RSS
• The Concept for creating a Multiple Platform Publishing Module
• The Concept for creating a new universal article list
• Improved Campsite Installer

Get Bug/Feature Reports

Subscribe to the bug report mailing list to receive an email whenever a bug is updated.

New Version Announcements

To be notified on new releases of Campsite please subscribe to the support or the development list here: https://www.campware.org/en/camp/campsite_news/642/