New in Sandbox 2.0.2 (Mar 24, 2010)
- General Features:
- Custom pages created on the fly, provided you know HTML.
- Skinning built around the XTemplate PHP class. Change the entire look of your site without ever touching the PHP!
- XHTML 1.1/CSS standards compliant in the default skin.
- Graduated user levels, from totally anonymous, up to full fledged administrators.
- Google Analytics support - Just input your Analytics ID.
- RSS feeds for blog, gallery, downloads, and comments.
- IP banning with CIDR range support.
- Errors for missing or bad links send the proper HTTP status codes to the user agent.
- Error reporting emailed to the site owner. No details of the error are exposed to visitors.
- Support for friendly URLs controlled through .htaccess.
- Full BBCode support throughout most modules.
- Emoticons supported in blog posts and comments.
- Modular sidebar boxes can be enabled or disabled as desired, except for the user login/logout box.
- Contact page to allow visitors to email you without exposing your address.
- Akismet spam filtering built in, all you need is your API key.
- Top level navigation bar you can add to from the AdminCP without having to touch the code or the templates.
- Provides settings to allow for custom copyright footer and/or miscellaneous information.
- Privileged users and above have the option to specify a substitute stylesheet if they choose.
- Blog:
- Contributing authors have limited access to post blog entries, but cannot access the AdminCP.
- They may edit their own posts, and control comments attached to them, including spam.
- Supports HTML formatting only in blog posts. Comment HTML is still considered too risky.
- Full support for all common BBCode entities, and emoticons in blog posts and comments.
- Categorized posts, with links to view what is posted in each. Category links also double as tags for aggregators like Technorati.
- Ability to auto-close posts after a specified time frame. Registered members have no limit.
- Email notification on new comments. Optionally in HTML format.
- Blog signatures and avatars for each user.
- Links for submitting blog entries to del.icio.us, Technorati, and Stumbleupon.
- Support for pinging blog update services with new posts.
- Search function for blog posts.
- Blogroll to add your friends' sites to.
- Full preview support for posting blog entries. Make sure it looks good before posting.
- Ability to insert an image in the top-left of the post for that added bit of flare.
- Image Gallery:
- Thumbnail preview of images.
- Captions below the images.
- Detailed descriptions of images.
- Folders to help keep things more organized.
- Folders can be marked hidden and are only available to that user and the site administrators.
- Full comment support, including spam filtering.
- File Downloads:
- Folders to help keep things more organized.
- Folder listings support thumbnail sized images to help show off the files.
- Folders can be marked hidden and are only available to that user and the site administrators.
- Allows brief description of the contents.
- Downloads counter to keep track of how many downloads you get, and when the last one was made.
- Full comment support, including spam filtering.