Features
BoltWire has been undergoing rapid development since it's launch early in 2008--adding many features and capabilities to an already robust core engine. This page is an attempt to begin compiling a more exhaustive list of the many things BoltWire can do. Please be patient while we start gathering this index, and begin linking them to the appropriate documentation features...
Beginner
- Installating your first site
- Simple markups for formatting
- Create, edit, copy, rename, or delete a page
- Restoring modified or deleted pages
- Create a member account
- Create member groups
- Control permissions
- Changing default skin settings
- Install a new skin
- Install a plugin
- Indexing your site
- Understanding site.config
- Understanding actions
Intermediate
- Easy upgrades
- Use conditionals to control display
- Use functions to generate output
- Creating simple forms with commands
- Using the internal search engine
- Understanding templates and fmts
- Using lists, logs, and info vars
- Edit your skin or css pages
- Embed html/javascript directly in your site
- Modify site actions
- Understanding snippets
- Using page hierarchies
- Run multiple sites off one installation
- Setting up CleanURL's
- Changing the site language
- Advanced authorization options
- Email functions
- Caching for increased performance
- Using the help system
- Set up site notifications
Advanced
- Error reporting & debugging
- Stopwatch capabilities
- Alternate server configurations
- Create a new skin
- Create your own plugins
- Creating a new translation file
- Set up an automated BoltWire script
- Pre & Post Processing
- Customizing allowed attributes
- Using system hooks to change default behavior
- Using php to control config settings
- Using the replacetable array
Note: This is a very introductory feature list. Please suggest additional features or ask questions to the mailing list.