What is PostNuke?
PostNuke is software that creates an impressive, dynamic web site and provides the webmaster with a site they can administer with a minimal amount of HTML knowledge through a web browser.
But, PostNuke's functionality can be increased by installing modules, blocks and themes. For example, you can add a forum, a gallery and contact form. You can also change how your entire site looks by changing themes. All of this can be done with just a few clicks in the administration panel saving you hours of time, both in the initial creation of the website and in its day to day maintenance.
PostNuke can do anything from traditional blog websites, to a community members' only website with hundreds of users. PostNuke can scale to thousands of uses but is just as easy to create a small website for friends and family.
PostNuke History
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The PostNuke project was started in July 2001 and grew out of the frustration of four guys not being able to contribute to the development of another open source project.
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PostNuke was the first open source project to provide a sourceforge type free hosting service to third party developers we nicknamed the NOC (Network Operations Center).
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PostNuke started officially in the summer of 2001. After several years of development the PostNuke came to an official end in 2008. The software was always meant to be the stepping stone to better things, namely the "Adam Baum" project which was originally based on a PostNuke version but soon forked in a totally different direction under development for a few years.
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The fruits of the Adam Baum prokect were released as a new product called Zikula. Efforts have been made to make a migration path to the new product although not all modules and extension are compatible and the migration process can be rather difficult. For details about the migration package, please see the migration release.
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Zikula should not be confused with PostNuke since they are spearate products and the underlying code is vastly different. A decision was made to provide security updates for PostNuke until 1st July 2009 and there will be no more releases of PostNuke beyond version 0.764. If security issues are found it is suggested you discontinue use of PostNuke and migrate.
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