Mambo (software)

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Mambo
Developer(s) Mambo Foundation Inc.
Final release
4.6.5 [1] / June 26, 2008 (2008-06-26)
Written in PHP
Operating system Cross-platform, PHP-compatible -- Linux preferred
Type Content management system
License GNU General Public License v2
Website mambo-foundation.org

Mambo (formerly named Mambo Open Source or MOS) was a free software/open source content management system (CMS) for creating and managing websites through a simple web interface. Its last release was in 2008, by which time all of the developers had left for forks of the project, mainly Joomla and MiaCMS.

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Features

Mambo included features such as page caching to improve performance on busy sites, advanced templating techniques, and a fairly robust API. It could provide RSS feeds and automate many tasks, including web indexing of static pages.

Interface features included printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, forums, polls, calendars, website searching, language internationalization, and others.

Timeline

At the end of January 2005 Junio Souza Martins abandons the project for personal reasons.

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