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About Quam Plures

Quam Plures is a full featured web publishing platform released under the open source GNU General Public License. Since it is open source, you are free to download and use Quam Plures for any purpose from family sites to business sites without paying a license fee. Quam Plures is community driven software. What that means is that the users are just as much involved in determining features of Quam Plures as is the development team. In fact, we encourage users to get involved in determining future improvements to Quam Plures. While Quam Plures is already a great web publishing platform, we are constantly striving to make it even greater.

Quam Plures includes a wealth of features that makes it suitable for a wide range of applications. Some of the features built into Quam Plures, or supported through plugins and widgets, include:

  • Modular architecture – activate only the modules/features that you want
  • Integrated file/image manager - upload and manage files and images within Quam Plures
  • Extensible architecture - Quam Plures is easily extended by adding additional plugins and widgets
  • Multilingual - Quam Plures has been translated to many languages
  • Multiple sites/blogs - With Quam Plures you only need a single installation for multiple sites/blogs
  • Multiple users - Quam Plures supports multiple users with user permissions levels
  • WYSIWYG post editor - Users can produce rich content without the need to learn HTML
  • AntiSpam - Quam Plures includes robust antispam modules to help combat spam both referrer and comments
  • Credit to Contributors - Built-in linking credits for all who contribute to the core and the product
  • Devotion to fixing bugs and improving usability

Quam Plures was developed out of a desire to produce an elegant well-structured web publishing platform. Quam Plures is built on PHP and MySQL and is licensed under the GNU General Public License. Quam Plures has its roots in b2evolution which in turn has it roots in b2/Cafelog. The developers of Quam Plures became concerned with the direction that b2evolution was following and with the lack of community involvement allowed by the developers. Some of the concerns with b2evolution are listed below.

  • Poorly implemented additions to the core that should have been implemented through plugins
  • b2evolution regularly sends non-anonymous statistics back to b2evolution.net
  • b2evolution places links back to b2evolution.net and fplanque.net/com throughout the templates and the backoffice (In comparison, Quam Plures has only one OPTIONAL linkback)
  • Users are not really involved in the development process
  • The inclusion of spam in the footer and syndication feeds as well as login and registration forms
  • Not enough transparency