NewsTree

Magazine and News Portal Website CMS

Introduction

NewsTree is a responsive news and blog portal CMS script. It has a nice and attractive front end interface that is really appealing. Also the backend has a lot of awesome features that are needed for a modern and professional newspaper website. Almost all kinds of task can be done using the admin panel without having any kind or programming language knowledge.

This CMS is built using the procedural php (with PDO feature) and without any framework. For this reason, it can be customized easily by most of the developers. This CMS is strong against SQL injection, and XSS attack; and your website will be safe. Also in all pages, admin level security and invalid page url submission checking were done.

Features

This CMS script has the following features:

  • Easy and simple interface to use
  • Fully responsive for any kind of device
  • Powerful admin backend like WordPress
  • Clean coding with proper commenting
  • Secured coding against SQL injection
  • Direct access or invalid URL press stopped for each pages
  • Statistics of some data in dashboard
  • Multilevel user management
  • Multiple category layouts for the home page sections
  • Unlimited category and post creation
  • Scheduled post publishing options
  • Unlimited photo and video gallery creation
  • Unlimited photo and video creation
  • Unlimited page creation
  • Unlimited menu creation with dropdown
  • Facebook comment section for each post
  • SEO meta data setup for each post, page and category
  • Unlimited file uploading system
  • All major social media URL setup for top bar and sidebar
  • Advertisement section image setup with links
  • Subscriber data export as CSV format

Requirements

Before starting to install our item, make sure you fulfill the following requirements:

  1. For Local Server installation, you need to have XAMPP, WAMP or any apache server with PHP and MySQL.
  2. Mod Rewrite will have to be enabled if you want to get SEO friendly URL. Examples are given below:

    If Mod Rewrite is not enabled, a page url will be like: 
    http://www.yourwebsite.com/page.php?slug=about-us
    If Mod Rewrite is enabled, a page url will be like: 
    http://www.yourwebsite.com/page/about-us
  3. You have use any live LINUX server to use our script without problem.
  4. Required PHP version in server >= 5.4.
  5. PDO must be enabled in the server.

Installation

In order to install the CMS, please follow these steps:

  1. Search for the zip file cms.zip in the main theme folders that you have downloaded.
  2. Now upload the cms.zip file into your server using FTP or Cpanel. Extract this and use. You can use our cms into root domain or subdomain.
  3. Create mysql database using cpanel or your hosting provider's system. Then import the xicia_newstree.sql file (that you got into the theme's folder) into your created database.
  4. Now you will have to edit the configuration file. Into our cms folder, you will get a folder named admin.

  5. Into admin folder you will get a file config.php. Open it with a text editor (for example: notepad++).

  6. Into the config.php file you will get the important information. If you do not setup this correctly, the script will not work. Change the marked information like the image below.
    • Time Zone: Write your proper timezone here
    • Host Name: This is your database host name or IP address
    • Database Name: Create a database name in your host (localhost or webhost) and put name here
    • Database Username: Username of the database you created
    • Database Password: Password of the database you created
    • BASE URL: This is the main website URL where you are trying to run our script. Do not forget to put the trail slash in the URL, otherwise the script will not work.

Dashboard

In the dashboard, you will be able to get all the total data for news, categories, users, photos, videos and subscribers. From the top right corner menu, any user can change his profile information, password, photo etc.

User

In this CMS, unlimited users can be created under total 2 roles, one is admin and another is publisher. Here user's email address will be treated as username in this website. User photo upload is optional field. User can be setup as active, edit or delete.

Admin can do almost everything of this website, except removing Super Admin and managing the users.

Publisher can do only work with file, news, photo, video and subscriber options.

Settings

In this cms, you can change the following things in the settings:

  • Logo Image
  • Favicon Image
  • Footer About Us section, copyright section, contact or website email, number, fax and google map code
  • Contact form email address, subject and thank you message
  • Setting up how many recent news and popular news will be shown in the sidebar
  • Home page meta title, meta keywords and meta description
  • Mod Rewrite can be setup as "On" or "Off" from here.

Home Page

In home page there are some categories to show. Actually we gave the option to add unlimited number of categories here. You can setup one from total four layouts for those category sections. Also you can set order of those categories to show on the home page. If you keep the order field blank, that category item will not be shown on the home page. In below, we are telling details about the layouts:

  1. Normal 1 Column: In this layout all posts will be shown under a category in one column. Featured Image will be shown in left and text in right.
  2. Normal 2 Columns: In this layout all posts will be shown under a category in two columns. Featured Image will be shown in top and text in bottom.
  3. Normal 3 Columns: In this layout all posts will be shown under a category in three columns. Featured Image will be shown in top and text in bottom.
  4. 2 Columns (6 posts): In this layout all posts will be shown under a category in two columns. In left column only one post will be shown where featured image will be in top and text in bottom. In the right column total 5 posts will be shown in small size.

Category

When you will try to add a new category, you will have to follow these steps:

  1. In the category page, click on Add New.
  2. Put Category Name in the text field. It is mandatory.
  3. You can put category slug manually, or keep empty. If you keep this empty, slug will be automatically generated by the system.
  4. You can make the category Active or Inactive.
  5. Put the SEO information (meta title, meta keyword and meta description).

You can edit, delete, activate or deactivate category any time from the category main page.

Page

When you will try to add a new page, you will have to follow these steps:

  1. In the main page, click on Add New.
  2. Put Page Name in the text field. It is mandatory.
  3. You can put page slug manually, or keep empty. If you keep this empty, slug will be automatically generated by the system.
  4. Place the Page Content into the content editor.
  5. Select your desired Page Layout from the drop down.
  6. You can make the page Active or Inactive.
  7. Put the SEO information (meta title, meta keyword and meta description).

You can edit, delete, activate or deactivate category any time from the category main page.

News

When you will try to add a news, you will have to follow these steps:

  1. In the main news page, click on Add New.
  2. Put News Title in the text field. It is mandatory.
  3. Put News Content in the text editor. It is mandatory.
  4. You can select a date for News Publish Date from the datepicker popup. You can give it a future date if you want to publish that news in a future date.
  5. Featured Photo is optional. If you put no photo a placeholder photo will be shown in the front end for that news.
  6. You can select multiple categories for a news putting tick mark beside the categories.
  7. You can make the page Published or Unpublished.
  8. News Source is optional.
  9. Publisher is optional. But if you keep it empty, the logged in user will be treated as the publisher of this news.
  10. Put the SEO information (meta title, meta keyword and meta description).

You can edit, delete, publish or unpublish news any time from the news main page.

Comment

Go to the facebook developer section (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/comments/) to get your comment codes. Then just place it in the marked textarea and update it.

File Upload

When you will try to add a file, you will have to follow these steps:

  1. In the main files page, click on Add New.
  2. Put any title as File Name just to understand about the file.
  3. Upload your desired file. Only these files are allowed: jpg, jpeg, gif, png, pdf, doc, docx, ppt, pptx, xls, xlsx, zip, rar.

You can edit or delete file any time from the file main page.

Photo Category

In the main photo category page, click on Add New. Then put a category name and make it active or inactive.

Photo

When you will try to add a photo, you will have to follow these steps:

  1. In the main photos page, click on Add New.
  2. Put any caption as Photo Caption just to understand about the photo.
  3. Upload your desired photo. Only these photos are allowed: jpg, jpeg, gif, png.
  4. Select a category for this photo.

You can edit or delete photo any time from the photo main page.

Video Category

In the main video category page, click on Add New. Then put a category name and make it active or inactive.

Video

When you will try to add a video, you will have to follow these steps:

  1. In the main videos page, click on Add New.
  2. Put any title as Video Title just to understand about the video.
  3. Put iframe Code for the video you want to add. You can take the iframe code from YouTube, Vimeo or any other website who gives you iframe code.
  4. Select a category for this video.

You can edit or delete video any time from the video main page.

Social Media

This CMS supports to use total 16 social media to show as icon in the website. For each item, you will get to put a URL section. If you keep any URL field blank, that will not be shown in the website. The social media list is given below:

  1. Facebook
  2. Twitter
  3. LinkedIn
  4. Google Plus
  5. Pinterest
  6. YouTube
  7. Instagram
  8. Tumblr
  9. Flickr
  10. Reddit
  11. Snapchat
  12. WhatsApp
  13. Quora
  14. StumbleUpon
  15. Delicious
  16. Digg

Subscriber

You will get all the subscriber names in this list. Sometimes, clear the pending subscriber list who are not verifying for a long time. You can download the subscriber list as CSV file.

Support

Support Process (if support is on)

  1. First look at the navigation menu on the left side of the documentation. You will get all important topics here.
  2. Search the entire document pressing "ctrl+F", enter your query string and press "Search".
  3. If you still do not get the answer of your question, then contact us via codecanyon and always give your live URL when asking for help.
  4. When asking for help, please provide the details and also give some screenshots if possible.

Why we do not give support through codecanyon comment section?

  1. Do not ask for support in the comment section of codecanyon. Because our codecanyon account access is restricted and support team will not be able to reply.
  2. It is tough to track the communication in this way.
  3. We think, it is not wise to show eveyone your website's URL and other sensitive information.

Support Hours and Time

We generally work for 18 hours a day and 7 days in a week. So you will get very prompt answer always from us within 24-48 hours except the marked holidays.

Advanced or Modification Support

If you request us help, which only needs us to write a couple lines of code, we will assist you in that. But if your query requires to write a lot of codes to be published, we can only provide you guidance and you need to hire a developer if you don't have that skills to implement it yourself.

Bug Fixing

We promise to solve all the bugs as quickly as possible within 24-48 hours after those are brought to our attention.