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Zikula is a Web Application Toolkit, which allows you to run impressive websites and build powerful online applications.

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Zikula is a Web Application Toolkit, which allows you to run impressive websites and build powerful online applications. Zikula has received praise for many things, but we belive the highlights are ease of use, quick and easy development, security and performance and lastly flexibility. A tool kit provides you with a number of different tools to get a job done. Zikula does just that, but for websites and web applications. Depending on which distribution you choose to run, Zikula could manage your blog articles, allow comments on your site, run a forum, downloads section or link directory or even handle static content in any number of languages. For day to day work with Zikula, you won't need any technical knowledge - those of us on the team have set up websites for multi-national organisations, blogs, schools, the Scout Association and even Church groups. All of these people were able to use Zikula effectively for their needs.

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Zikula is a content management system which used to be known as PostNuke. The new name came about at a new version, though it doesn’t look like the developers were taking the platform in a new direction or anything so the reason for the new name is unclear. Like most CMS’s, Zikula is built with PHP and uses MySQL databases. The platform itself is fairly nice and can create very functional websites.

The admin panel and overall management of your sites is not quite as easy or intuitive as you would find with other platforms, which may make it a little difficult for newer users. In addition, there is a limited number of plugins (modules) so you might not find options to do everything you need. If you have the ability to make your own plugins, however, you will be able to create a very powerful site using Zikula.

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Zikula Pros

Community
There is a surprisingly active community for a platform like this. You can get lots of tips and assistance from their online forums, which is quite nice.
Coding
The coding itself is clean and well documented, which is nice if you’re trying to do anything advanced on the back end.
Updates
The developers for Zikula release updates when necessary and have done a good job at keeping up with the latest trends for content management systems.

Zikula Cons

Plugins
There are not too many plugins available and the ones that are there are not well organized or easy to search through.
Difficult for New Users
If you’ve never run a website before this likely isn’t the best platform to start out on. It is a little complex and it will take longer to get used to than most other CMS’s.

Zikula Review

Initial Setup
If you install this platform from the one click scripts available with all InterServer web hosting packages you’ll be up and running in just a couple minutes. Initial setup is quite simple but if you want to make any changes to the default settings you may run into some difficulties. Not that it is overly hard, but it is just setup in a way that takes longer than it should to get through everything you’ll want to do.
Plugins
As mentioned above, there are not nearly enough plugins available at this point. While most of the biggest ones (like SEO and other essential items) are there, even those aren’t too easy to find. They don’t have a good way to search through the plugins and locate the exact ones you need. Once you do find them, however, installing them is pretty simple.
Themes
There are a good number of themes out there, most of which were developed by community members rather than developers for Zikula itself. By default you only have a few options but finding new ones isn’t too difficult and there are quite a few nice options to choose from.
Customization
While you can certainly customize just about anything on the platform, it is not too simple. New users will have trouble locating where things are and how to adjust them. Customization is further limited by the lack of plugins compared to other platforms. More advanced or experienced users will be able to get the system to do what they want, but it does take some getting used to.
SEO Friendly
This is one area that Zikula doesn’t do too bad of a job. While everyone has different ideas on what ‘ideal SEO’ is, this platform covers all the basics. You can also find some good SEO plugins out there that will let you further improve on the onsite SEO features of this CMS.
Cost of Running
Zikula is free to use for any type of site. In addition, most of the plugins and themes out there are also completely free. The platform itself is quite efficient, which means you don’t need to go overboard on the type of hosting you use. For most entry level sites, our entry level shared hosting package will be more than enough. Even if your site grows significantly you’ll still save money by being able to operate on a hosting package that is affordable.
Other Programs Like it

If you don’t like Zikula or you’d just like to consider a few other nice options, the following are all available with one-click installation when you sign up with any of our hosting packages:
- Drupal
- E 107
- ocPortal
- Joomla
- Concrete5
Notable Websites using it

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Final Thoughts

Zikula falls somewhere in the middle of the road for content management systems. While it certainly has some very nice features, it also has some issues that can’t be ignored. It is most popular with experienced web developers who want to be able to get in ‘under the hood’ and do their own work. This is great for them, but can cause some problems for entry level users. If you’re looking to start your first site or you’re not much of a ‘techie’ then you likely want to use an alternate option.