50 Content Management Systems
If you're lookin' into creating, or re-creating your web presence, here's a list of great CMS choices. Some are free, some are hosted, and some are industry specific. All of these platforms are quite different from one another, but all have some great attributes. Well, at least most of them.
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You may also add ExpressionEngine (EE) by EllisLab (I’m in no way associated with EllisLab, except for being a programmer for a purchased EE version). EE is available both as free and as paid-for: free has somewhat limited functionality. Suitable both for content-centric and news-centric (blog-like) projects. Special feature: to create the site, you actually start with writing page templates, using the admin-interface’s template editor. Templating system is quite similar, though does take some time to accommodate and learn the tags.
I built a site using EE - http://j-school.kiev.ua/ (it’s in Ukrainian, but has several static pages in English). The site has a main blog, and a number (like
of topical sub-blogs. Everything is driven by quite a limited number of custom templates - which are often just “include”-d with different parameters.
As a summary: EE is good for “unusual designs”, as it’s templating is both strong and flexible. However, as a programmer, I find EE “rough around the edges”, and not always consistent. It’s still developing - for example, the “Pages” module, which allows to create pages with user-defined permalinks, was added to the core fairly recently; before that, it existed as a third-party module, and was quite a pain to use.
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ouch, it converted “(like eight)” into “(like 8)”.
Also, in my FF2, smileys’ height is too high for the row’s height. Is that only me seeing it this way?
thanks so much for this comprehensive list. i only have experience with wordpress and joomla!, but i think i’ll tap into some of the others just to see how they work. thanks again!
Quite a number of those I have never heard of, good list.
STUMBLED!
Added to TopStumbles:
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yep… e107… awesome. I actually left out A LOT of ‘em… I’ll get this updated soon! As for reviews… that’ll take some time, but I’ll be working towards that.
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Thats great - thanks for sharing those. I came across another on from http://www.solucija.com/home/snews/ from Solucija. It is completely free and standards compliant. Nice list.
Oh dear. These are just page-editing tools, not true content management systems.
How can Drupal be the best content management system?
This list is fine if you’re looking for non-scalable, basic, cheap or free blogging / page-based tools, but you don’t list a single enterprise CMS, component-based CMS, or large-scale WCM. Check out CMS Watch instead.
For those of you with concerns about your favorite CMS technology not being listed, no worries… that’s coming soon!
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Okay, I’ve just posted http://www.openjason.com/2008/02/27/52-more-content-management-systems/ - this includes just about all requests and comments concerning other CMS platforms! Cheers!
You forgot a very nice and efficient one made by a french team, it’s called SPIP: http://www.spip.net
Interesting list of CMS’s, but agreed that there are two glaring omissions: ExpressionEngine and Textpattern. Shame on you.
Wow — great to be on the list. We’re really proud of BricaBox and would love to take any questions folks have. You can reach out to me: nate /at/ bricabox /dot/ com.
Thanks, Nate
CEO - BricaBox
PS: Jason, could you update that screenshot? We’ve totally revamped our site. Thanks!
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What an awesome list! I use drupal for just about everything these days, it’s nice to get a nudge once in awhile to remind us that there are different solutions available for specific projects.
Well, I’ve obviously missed a few… at least 53. I’ve posted http://www.openjason.com/2008/02/27/52-more-content-management-systems/ to accommodate additional CMS technology… Thanks for your comments!
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also umbraco ASP.NET CMS opensource written in C#, i havent use it but it looks cool and good enough to be listed here
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Nice list!
I’ve tried a lot of different CMS platforms, but you have a bunch on this list that I have never even heard of. Personally I found that Drupal and Wordpress are great for most of the sites I build.
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Which one of these CMSs is more compatible with Arabic or Persian language (Right to Left langauages)?
Thanks a lot
ExpressionEngine is on the following post:
http://www.openjason.com/2008/02/27/52-more-content-management-systems/
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Good list. Im most familiar with Mambo/Joomla. Its good to diverge once in a while. Thanks for info.
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Hi!
You are missing TikiWiki CMS/Groupware.
Please check:
http://tikiwiki.org/Top-10+stats
Best regards,
M
Marc Laporte, Project admin
http://tikiwiki.org/
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So, which is it to be? Trying to make a choice here. Help me out!
“Drupal: Believed to be the best, most powerful CMS available.”
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Nice list, Jason, and there are some new ones for me to explore: thanks! Stumble-worthy, for sure.