ImpressPages is an

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framework with built-in content editor. Features include MVC engine, inline editing and drag&drop interface. It is distributed under the

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v.3.0 and

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licences. The first stable version of ImpressPages came out in 2009. As of April 2014, version 4.0 has been released marking the shift from CMS to a PHP framework.

History

ImpressPages was developed by three Lithuanian entrepreneurs — Audrius Jankauskas, Mangirdas Skripka, and Mindaugas Stankaitis. The idea was born in 2007, and after two years of development, ImpressPages alpha was released. In 2011, ImpressPages participated at the

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"Difference Engine" which led to an investment from a

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fun
Practica Capital
in 2013.

Release history

2009 Sep - ImpressPages alpha
2013 Oct - ImpressPages CMS 3.6 with Theme Marketplace
2013 Oct - ImpressPages CMS 3.7
2013 Nov - ImpressPages CMS 3.8
2013 Dec - ImpressPages CMS 3.9
2014 Apr - ImpressPages 4.0
2014 Jun - ImpressPages 4.1 with Plugin Marketplace
2014 Sep - ImpressPages 4.2
2014 Nov - ImpressPages 4.3
2014 Dec - ImpressPages 4.4
2015 Jan - ImpressPages 4.5
2015 Mar - ImpressPages 4.6
2016 Aug - ImpressPages 4.7
2016 Oct - ImpressPages 4.8

Awards

In 2011, ImpressPages won a

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Most Promising Open-Source Project Award."My Take On PacktPub's Open Source Awards"
by Mike Johnston, ''CMS Critic''

Features

* Inline editing Pages are edited in a

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way. By browsing through the website users can edit content by clicking on the inserted fields. * Drag&drop Page layout management is based on drag&drop. Widgets can be put to the page by drag&dropping them into desired places. * Widgets Most common widgets are prepared in default installation: Heading, Text, Image, Gallery, Video, Divider, Map, File, HTML, Form. A full list with descriptions i
here

* MVC engine ImpressPages 4.0 has a MVC engine providing users with MVC, routing, template helpers, url generation, DB layer (and PDO), PSR standards-compliant class naming and autoloader. * Themes Both free and paid-for themes are available via the ImpressPages marketplace, allowing users to quickly apply different styling to a website without touching HTML or PHP code. * Multi-language support and translations ImpressPages is multi-lingual by default, no plugins are needed to make the website international. ImpressPages 4

* Grid A helper to create

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interface for records in the database.

Community

The ImpressPages community is based in

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and

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. Developers can contribute plugins vi
GitHub
Q&A section can be found o
Stackoverflow
with the tag "impresspages". User contributed themes are listed in th
Theme Marketplace

External links

ImpressPages Official Website

ImpressPages Marketplace

ImpressPages GitHub repository

References

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