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'''Typesetter CMS''' is a flat file CMS released under the GNU General Public License version 2.

== History ==

Typesetter CMS started 2008 as ''Gpeasy CMS'', a free and open-source content management system (CMS) for PHP 4 under GPL V2 - license.

**Gpeasy **was developed by Joshua Schmid who opened a forum on gpeasy.com in 2010.

The distribution was at first hosted on SourceForge. Since 2013 it was also hosted on GitHub with version 4.3

Gpeasy is characterized by its quick setup without much configuration and its user-friendliness (Wysiwyg-page-editor). It has a clear logical division into themes, addons and data as well as the kernel in the include directory.

It contains within the jquery-UI-based dashboard a simple multilanguage - multi-user content management with detailed rights assignment.

As a flat-file-Cms Gpeasy creates a separate php-file for each page. This makes page access fast without file caching. The built-in pagemanager shows the page tree visually and makes the creation of new pages particularly easy. It allows to move the pages with the mouse. The individual leaves of the tree can be provided with meta information and since 2018 with classes.

A special feature is that several menus can be created and several menu variants can be selected, which can be positioned at different positions in the theme. In addition, Gpeasy has the CKEditor 4 with WYSIWYG mode directly in the page.

At the top of the pages is a history-button and a button for the creation of additional extra areas that can be edited with the Ckeditor.

== Typesetter CMS ==

In 2015, Jürgen Krausz from Grafik Krausz in Graz, Austria, took over the development of GPEASY CMS and renamed it Typesetter CMS. He extended it with:

  • embedded Less compiler
  • embedded Scss-PHP-compiler
  • Bootstrap framework as standard for the themes (beside normal css3).
  • Elfinder 2 filemanager - later since 5.2
  • Improved registration for plugins and themes
  • Encrypted Login At that time, the development was hosted on GitHub and Joshua Schmid closed gpeasy.com and opened the website typesettercms.com with a forum and plugins and themes to download and publish.

== Fork on GitHub ==

In 2020, Grafik Krausz gave up web development, and due to the Ukraine war, three other co-developers from Ukraine also dropped out. Typesetter 5.2 supported at that time PHP up to version 7.4 and jQuery 2.24.

However, Typesetter CMS was forked here on GitHub. This allowed the CMS to be further developed and updated for newer PHP versions, bugs to be fixed and new features to be added. The actual version 5.3 is one of the fastest CMSs with Pagespeed over 90% without special htacess-caching-parameters.

It supports now

  • PHP 8.x.
  • jQuery UI 14.1 and jQuery 3.6.3
  • Bootstrap - Framework 3.4 – 5.3
  • Scssphp 1.12
  • Lessphp 3.13 (before 2.53)
  • CKEditor 4.22 (with easy plugin-addition and skin-switching)
  • a Sil-Fonts - Repo
  • Elfinder 2.1 filemanager
  • PhpMailer 6.9.1 with G-Recaptcha v2 and Spam-Math-Plugin (under 'available plugins')

In 2024, Joshua Schmid closed typesettercms.com and the distribution is now only here at Github.

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