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The next public release of Opus will include a simple blogging facility. We have a demonstration site where you can see it in action - Anything is a site where the site owner writes about ... well, anything and you can comment on the articles.  (23/03/05)

The Penguin Club exists for assisting Amateur Theatrical Societies in Cambridge (UK) in staging their shows and has been in existence for over twenty years. They don't perform themselves, but provide the expertise and help where needed. This is usually in the form of crewing, set construction and stage management.  (04/02/05)

If you want to see how another Opus site does something using templates then bear in mind is that templates are usually downloadable as they're within the document root ...  read more ...  (22/01/05)

Something which we didn't mention in the release notes for 2.25 is that we have changed the way document articles are presented. They are stored in sub-directories of the directory you specify for the section. ...  read more ...  (01/11/04)

Release 2.25 of Opus includes a major overhaul of the way authors are allowed access to pages. In the old scheme an author either had no access, so couldn't create or update pages, had non-trusted access, so they could create or update only their own pages or trusted access where they could create or update any page, whoever was the original author.  read more ...  (29/10/04)

Today sees a new release of Opus which includes a lot of enhancements, both minor and major. The biggest is enhanced page control, which merits its own article.  read more ...  (29/10/04)

If you are running your own server then you might like to look at some of the PHP accelerators that are available. These work by caching the compiled version of your scripts so if the same script is used again shortly afterwards it doesn't need re-compiling. This can make an impressive difference to the speed of serving pages generated by PHP, e.g. Opus pages.  read more ...  (27/10/04)

Release 2.24 will include a new search engine. This came out of discussions with paying customers and with other Opus users on the opus-users mailing list. Features include:  read more ...  (12/05/04)