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==Key features==

; [[Community]] : Because XOOPS is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) the growth and development of XOOPS is dependent on the contributions of a worldwide community effort.

; Database : XOOPS uses a [[relational database]] (currently [[MySQL]]) to store data required for running a web-based content management system.

; Advanced access control layer : Administrators have the ability to grant specific groups of users specific access rights to content and features such as edit, delete, upload, add attachments, publish content, and so on.

; Modularized : [[Module (programming)|Modules]] can be installed, uninstalled, activated, and deactivated using the module administration system.

; Core features usable by modules : XOOPS possess a number of core features that can be used by modules like permissions, comments, notifications and blocks features.

; Personalization: Administrators have the ability to set specific permissions for user access and control of individual elements of their websites.

; User Management : The ability to search for users by various criteria, send email and private messages to users through a template-based messaging system.

; International language support : The XOOPS community has official support sites for non-English-speaking users. Additionally XOOPS itself supports multi-byte character sets for languages that use characters not in the [[Latin alphabet]], for example Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Korean, etc. The multi-language support is also available on the PDF generation feature provided by the [[TCPDF]] library.

; Theme-based skinnable interface : XOOPS uses themes for page presentation. Both administrators and users can change the look of the entire web site by selecting from available themes.

; Templates : XOOPS uses the [[Smarty (template engine)|Smarty]] templating engine which allows many benefits such as easier separation between business logic and presentation logic as well as content caching.

; Built-in LDAP authentication

; Some SEO add-ons : A number of XOOPS modules contain features to facilitate the indexing of a website in [[search engines]], like metatags, title tags and occasionally some [[URL rewriting]]. However, XOOPS does not give its users full control over their URLs. Where [[URL rewriting]] is possible, XOOPS often uses redirects that may confuse search engines. In addition, some XOOPS modules create duplicate content by making the same information available on more than one URL while in other cases (especially in case of multilingual sites), several sets of content may be made available through the same URL.