The list below displays the most important Elxis CMS features. Explore Elxis CMS to see all available features!

Core

• High quality object oriented programming in PHP.
• PDO database layer (officially supported databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Small file-system footprint
• Easy installation via a web interface.
• Does not requires special software on the server (a typical LAMP server is recommended).
• Easy to use libraries for all core features makes developer work extremely easy.
• Multiligual user interface and content including support for RTL languages.
• Multi-sites support (multiple sites under 1 Elxis installation).
• Site off-line for all users except administrators.
• Private site (site available only to registered users).
• Easy and powerful internal linking system and search engine friendly URLs (Elxis URIs).
• Multiple supported document types - XHTML 5, HTML 5, XHTML 1.1 transitional, XHTML 1.1 strict.
• FTP support
• Custom icon packages
• Custom routing

Frontend

• HTML5, CSS3, jQuery ready.
• Responsive design.
• Mobile phones and tablets friendly version.
• Sub-categories of any level.
• Multi-functional articles and categories.
• Built-in commentary system.
• RSS/ATOM feeds per category.
• Open search - search through your browser's search box.
• Highly configurable front-page.
• Multi-level menus.
• Automatic generation and expansion of sub-menus.
• Custom exit pages (page not found, forbidden, error, etc)
• Extensible search system (search for content, images, videos, and more).
• Image galleries
• Contact forms
• Users central, members list and rich user profile.
• Built-in personal messages system.
• Built-in bookmarks, notes and reminders system.
• External authentication methods like Twitter, Gmail, Open Id, etc...
• Visitors can display dates based on their own location.
• Powerful templating system.
• Visitors native language detection.
• Schedule publish/un-publish of articles on any datetime
• Schedule publish/un-publish of module on any datetime

Administration interface

• One-click automatic CMS update
• One-click extension install/update/un-install.
• Browse extensions and one-click install/update extensions from Elxis administration area without having to download them first or visit a downloads site.
• Site traffic statistics.
• Media manager
• WYSIWYG editor with many features like spell checker, image uploading, styling.
• One-click complete file system and database backup.
• Built-in cron jobs (automated scheduled tasks)

Security

• Elxis Defender (built-in, fully automatic, protection against web attacks and filesystem changes detection)
• Security levels (normal, high, insane)
• Automatic SSL/TLS switch for administration and other sensitive pages.
• System logs (errors, security alerts, install/update/un-install actions, and more).
• Problem notification (automatic email notifications to site's technical manager on security alerts, fatal errors, and more).
• It can work without administration folder (includes just 2 files which you can delete and restore any time).
• It can work with no files write-able (only Elxis repository must be write-able but it is placed in a non accessible area from the web).
• Encryption for sensitive data (like sessions).
• System debug with many report levels.
• Extensible and configurable user groups and permissions.
• Allowed/Excluded email domains for users registration.
• Extended authentication check for the administration interface.
• Forms are protected against XSS with Captcha (Math or I am not a robot) and session tokens.
• Setting for Accept X-Frame policy
• Content Security Policy CSP

Performance

• File and APC cache.
• Performance monitor
• CSS and Javascript minifier.
• Gzip compression