https://wiki.oxwall.com/ 2026-04-14T06:57:13+00:00 https://wiki.oxwall.com/ https://wiki.oxwall.com/lib/tpl/dokuwiki/images/favicon.ico text/html 2015-09-15T09:27:07+00:00 https://wiki.oxwall.com/introduction:about_oxwall <h1 class="sectionedit1" id="about-oxwall">About Oxwall</h1> <div class="level1"> <p> Oxwall is a free, open source MVC software platform written in PHP/MySQL. It is created to power online social networks and community-enabled websites for various purposes. Oxwall project is developed and curated by <a href="http://www.oxwall.org/foundation" class="urlextern" title="http://www.oxwall.org/foundation" rel="nofollow">Oxwall Foundation</a>. </p> <p> Oxwall enjoys the participation of evergrowing community of developers, users, and designers, who constantly extend the product and adapt it for new purposes. </p> </div> <!-- EDIT1 SECTION "About Oxwall" [1-460] --> <h2 class="sectionedit2" id="availability">Availability</h2> <div class="level2"> <p> Oxwall can be: </p> <ul> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> Downloaded from the main website: <a href="http://www.oxwall.org/download" class="urlextern" title="http://www.oxwall.org/download" rel="nofollow">oxwall.org/download</a>;</div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> Installed on your <a href="http://www.oxwall.org/hosting" class="urlextern" title="http://www.oxwall.org/hosting" rel="nofollow">hosting</a> account from collections like Softaculous, SimpleScripts, Installatron;</div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> Obtained together with commercial services at places like <a href="http://wall.fm/" class="urlextern" title="http://wall.fm/" rel="nofollow">Wall.fm</a> and <a href="http://www.skalfa.com/launchpad" class="urlextern" title="http://www.skalfa.com/launchpad" rel="nofollow">Oxwall Launchpad</a>.</div> </li> </ul> <p> Source code is freely available at the main download page in the main download package. Source code is neither encrypted, nor obfuscated. </p> </div> <!-- EDIT2 SECTION "Availability" [461-1019] --> <h2 class="sectionedit3" id="target-audience">Target audience</h2> <div class="level2"> <p> Oxwall is best used for niche social networks and general purpose websites that need advanced social community capabilities. People use our software for niche communities, music band fanclubs, crafts exchanges, special private groups, education projects, online classes, etc. </p> <p> If you plan to launch a website of any type that needs to have strong community capabilities, Oxwall is one of the strongest, instantly available solutions. </p> </div> <!-- EDIT3 SECTION "Target audience" [1020-1482] --> <h2 class="sectionedit4" id="costs">Costs</h2> <div class="level2"> <p> Oxwall is <strong>free</strong> as in both “free beer” and “free speech”. There are no hidden costs. Download the main package and extend it with 3rd party free and paid items from the <a href="http://www.oxwall.org/store" class="urlextern" title="http://www.oxwall.org/store" rel="nofollow">Oxwall Store</a>. </p> </div> <!-- EDIT4 SECTION "Costs" [1483-1719] --> <h2 class="sectionedit5" id="release-schedule">Release schedule</h2> <div class="level2"> <p> Oxwall version numbers are in the form of A.B.C (eg, 1.4.6). Here&#039;s the breakdown of what these numbers mean and the schedule of releases. </p> <ul> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <strong>C</strong> - builds. These are train releases made every 5-6 weeks. They contain bugfixes, optimizations, minor new features, security patches. <a href="http://blog.oxwall.org/2011/08/the-new-release-schedule-system" class="urlextern" title="http://blog.oxwall.org/2011/08/the-new-release-schedule-system" rel="nofollow">Read more in our blog post</a>. In case of a material security threat, we will go out of our way and release an out-of-schedule build to provide this security patch.</div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <strong>B</strong> - minor releases. They may contain what <strong>builds</strong> include + major features. Those major features may contain big chunks of changed or added functionality, so may create minor incompatibilities with previous versions and <strong>will require special attention</strong> from 3rd party developers and designers to care about the compatibility of their works. Because of the nature of updates, minor releases may go out of builds schedule (every 5-6 weeks) and may be released on availability basis.</div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <strong>A</strong> - major releases. They may contain what <strong>minor releases</strong> include + major incompatibilities with previous versions. At the time of this writing (version 1.4.1), there were no major release to date and are not planned yet. Major releases <strong>will require considerable attention</strong> from 3rd party developers and designers to care about the compatibility of their works. Major releases will go out of builds schedule (every 5-6 weeks) and will be released on availability basis with a lot of beta pre-releases.</div> </li> </ul> </div> <!-- EDIT5 SECTION "Release schedule" [1720-3271] --> <h2 class="sectionedit6" id="oxwall-license">Oxwall License</h2> <div class="level2"> <p> Oxwall is distributed under <a href="http://www.oxwall.org/license" class="urlextern" title="http://www.oxwall.org/license" rel="nofollow">CPAL 1.0 license</a>. This is an OSI-approved license which means that Oxwall is really free and really open source. </p> </div> <!-- EDIT6 SECTION "Oxwall License" [3272-3475] --> <h2 class="sectionedit7" id="can-i-remove-oxwall-attribution-link">Can I remove Oxwall attribution link?</h2> <div class="level2"> <p> Removing the Oxwall attribution link violates license conditions. Please <a href="http://blog.oxwall.org/2011/03/how-to-remove-powered-by-oxwall" class="urlextern" title="http://blog.oxwall.org/2011/03/how-to-remove-powered-by-oxwall" rel="nofollow">read our official position</a>. </p> </div> <!-- EDIT7 SECTION "Can I remove Oxwall attribution link?" [3476-3695] --> <h2 class="sectionedit8" id="oxwall-features-and-extensibility">Oxwall Features and Extensibility</h2> <div class="level2"> <p> Oxwall has a modular structure so that it can be easily extended and supported by third parties. Oxwall Foundation sets the goal of building and maintaining the minimum viable product for a community enabled-website by working on the platform and a set of “native” plugins. </p> <p> Developers worldwide create their own plugins that extend the functionality and scope for Oxwall-powered websites. Oxwall Foundation develops documentation and all kinds of convention guides to help developers build world-class features that look and function like they&#039;ve been developed as one product. </p> <p> Both native and third party plugins can be found at the <a href="http://www.oxwall.org/store/" class="urlextern" title="http://www.oxwall.org/store/" rel="nofollow">Oxwall Store</a>. </p> </div> <!-- EDIT8 SECTION "Oxwall Features and Extensibility" [3696-4425] --> <h2 class="sectionedit9" id="oxwall-themes">Oxwall Themes</h2> <div class="level2"> <p> Oxwall Foundation provides a set of generic use design templates for Oxwall and encourages anyone with a creative side to try their hand at creating their own free and paid ones. </p> <p> Third party designers from all over the world create versatile Oxwall themes of any style and for any purpose. Oxwall Foundation works to create excessive design style guides to help designers create the best websites in the world, powered by Oxwall. </p> <p> Both native and third party themes can be found at the <a href="http://www.oxwall.org/store/" class="urlextern" title="http://www.oxwall.org/store/" rel="nofollow">Oxwall Store</a>. </p> </div> <!-- EDIT9 SECTION "Oxwall Themes" [4426-4986] --> <h2 class="sectionedit10" id="community">Community</h2> <div class="level2"> <p> Oxwall community is growing. The numbers of downloads, Store items, and real active websites are increasing constantly, so at the time you are reading this they are really different from the minute these words are written. </p> <p> Browse our <a href="http://www.oxwall.org/forum" class="urlextern" title="http://www.oxwall.org/forum" rel="nofollow">forums</a>, <a href="http://www.oxwall.org/store" class="urlextern" title="http://www.oxwall.org/store" rel="nofollow">Oxwall Store</a>, <a href="http://www.oxwall.org/market" class="urlextern" title="http://www.oxwall.org/market" rel="nofollow">Oxwall Market</a> and feel free to participate. Our community is vibrant and diverse. Our users speak different languages and set up all kinds of community-enabled websites. Whatever your background and targets, you will most likely find company there. </p> </div> <!-- EDIT10 SECTION "Community" [4987-] --> text/html 2015-09-15T09:25:58+00:00 https://wiki.oxwall.com/introduction:index <p> <font size="3"> <a href="http://docs.oxwall.org/introduction:about_oxwall" title="What is Oxwall"><font color="#008800">What is Oxwall</font></a></font></font> </p> <p> <font size="3"> <a href="http://docs.oxwall.org/overview:supported_browsers" title="Supported Browsers"><font color="#008800">Supported Browsers</font></a></font></font> </p> <p> <font size="3"> <a href="http://demo.oxwall.org" title="Demo"><font color="#008800">Demo</font></a></font></font> </p> <p> <font size="3"> <a href="http://www.oxwall.org/policies" title="License"><font color="#008800">License</font></a></font></font> </p> <p> <font size="3"> <a href="http://docs.oxwall.org/introduction:powered_by_oxwall" title="Sites powered by Oxwall"><font color="#008800">Sites powered by Oxwall</font></a></font></font> </p> <p> <font size="3"> <a href="http://docs.oxwall.org/introduction:release_policy" title="Release policy"><font color="#008800">Release policy</font></a></font></font> </p> <p> <font size="3"> <a href="http://www.oxwall.org/roadmap" title="Roadmap"><font color="#008800">Roadmap</font></a></font></font> </p> text/html 2012-11-05T12:08:04+00:00 https://wiki.oxwall.com/introduction:powered_by_oxwall <h1 class="sectionedit1" id="a-list-of-sites-powered-by-oxwall">A list of sites powered by Oxwall</h1> <div class="level1"> <p> Coming soon… </p> </div>