50 Content Management Systems

Posted by Jason
February 23, 2008

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.

FYI - the thumbnails are clickable. 

Symphony: XML/XSL Flexible CMS. Symphony is a web publishing system made for web developers. It gives you all the power and flexibility you'll need, while keeping out of your way.

BricaBox: The New Publishing Platform. BricaBox lets you make a website about the stuff you know, make, organize, and collaborate on with the people you know.

Drupal: Believed to be the best, most powerful CMS available.

Frog CMS simplifies content management by offering an elegant user interface, flexible templating per page, simple user management and permissions, as well as the tools necessary for file management.

Gelato is a tumblelog CMS built on AJAX, PHP, and MySQL

Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities.

Pagety is somewhere between a CMS and a hosting platform.Actually, it's both a CMS and a hosting platform, because there's no need to separate the two.

Pligg: Open source CMS. Like Digg.

Shopify: Your very own e-commerce store.

With Triggit y ou can seamlessly add pictures, videos, advertisements, and much more to your page in seconds.

Tuplix: Casual website authoring for any site anywhere

Wordpress: Believed to be the best blogging platform in the world. Open source and free. Hosted and non-hosted versions available, non-hosted recommended.

Blogger: Hosted blogging platform.

clickbooq is an easy-to-use website creation, management, and hosting solution developed exclusively for professional photographers like you.

ClickCMS: imagine being able to update and change your website content when YOU want to…not having to wait for your web developer to do it for you.

Doodlekit is an online FREE website builder that helps you build a personal or business website.

Ekklesia 360 is the next generation Content Management System. Learn how we can deliver more than a website, we help ministries and churches do ministry online.

Ellington is an online publishing system designed from the ground up for media sites.

Flying Cart: Create an Online Store

GOGOFROG™ TAKES YOU INTO THE ULTIMATE 3D WORLD… NO DOWNLOADS JUST THE INTERNET IN 3D. CREATE YOUR OWN UNLIMITED ONLINE SPACE, IT'S FAST, EASY AND FREE.

GoodBarry: Website management and customer database. Email marketing and eCommerce. Web analytics and customer profiling. It's one, central console with everything you need to run your online business.

Inserit: Create amazing dynamic pages with programming.

Jogango:5 minutes from now your mobile site will be on the air, Jag it now and Go

With Jimdo everyone can show his or her interests and passion on the Internet - on his own website! In fact, it's for free and no previous knowledge is required!

Joomla! Believed to be the most powerful, diverse open source cms in the world.

Leafletter is the "revolutionary" way for anyone to create a portable, interactive "little web site" ("Leaflet") using nothing but a web browser.

Magento: Next generation eCommerce. Open source, freely available, and seriously kicks ass.

Mephisto is a kick ass web publishing system. It’s a blog engine with some simple CMS-ish concepts (sections, pages), a very flexible templating system, and an aggressive caching scheme that takes advantage of your web server’s best traits.

ModX: The AJAX CMS for today. And tomorrow. MODx is an open source PHP Application Framework that helps you take control of your online content. It empowers developers and advanced users to give as much control as desired to whomever they desire for day-to-day website content maintenance chores.

PrestShop is professional-grade e-Commerce shopping cart software that you can download, install, and use for free!

MoveableType: Open source publishing and blogging platform.

Radiant: CMS built on Ruby.

Introducing Reflect — a hosted website solution that allows web designers and their clients to easily create and manage websites. Through a seamless content management system, Reflect bridges the gap between the high costs of a custom solution and the low customization of an off-the-shelf system.

Roxer: Now anyone can create stunning websites online in just minutes.

SchoolRack: Create a free teacher website to keep students and parents informed outside of the classroom.

Shopit: Get your free social commerce storefront

Silverstripe: Content Management the way it was meant to be. Powerful enough for any website or intranet design and simple enough for anyone to use

SiteMighty: We build the site. You're in business.

LightCMS: The friendly CMS for web designers. LightCMS is a content management system for web designers. Design sites, upload them to our content management system, and deploy world-class websites your clients can manage themselves.

SpotMerchant: Generate business with our professional and easy to use premium web2.0 stores

TeamSnap: Manage your sports team, online.

Texty: Simple Content Management and Comments for Any Webpage

TypePad is the premier blogging service, hosting the world’s leading blogs and small business websites.

TypeRoom Lite is a website editing tool that allows you to edit a website in seconds.

uShops is the online channel for individuals and businesses who want to increase their profits, reach new customers and speed business growth.

Webnode brings you a brand new innovative way of creating and editing advanced websites by just using a web browser. Free.

Weebly: Create your website. Fast. Easy. Now.

Wirenode: Build your own mobile web in 5 minutes

Zinadoo: promoting and enhancing mobile communications

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Comments
Comment by domestika on February 24, 2008 @ 9:53 am

Nice list, Jason, and there are some new ones for me to explore: thanks! Stumble-worthy, for sure.

Comment by Bogdan on February 24, 2008 @ 11:58 am

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 8) 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.

(Wow, I liked this comment so much, that I’ll post this text as an entry on my blog :) )

Comment by Bogdan on February 24, 2008 @ 12:02 pm

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?

Comment by Jared on February 24, 2008 @ 1:15 pm

This is an excellent resource. I stumbled this. Thanks for posting!

Comment by dara on February 24, 2008 @ 2:56 pm

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!

Comment by Wiellyam on February 24, 2008 @ 5:17 pm

wow….cool.. are you ever use the CMS all

Comment by rendraht on February 24, 2008 @ 5:29 pm

Nice blog and very nice information.

regards
rendra

Comment by Jason on February 24, 2008 @ 9:19 pm

Thanks for the comments! And… Always thanks for the stumbles!!!

Comment by Geoserv on February 25, 2008 @ 10:20 am

Quite a number of those I have never heard of, good list.

STUMBLED!

Added to TopStumbles:
http://www.topstumbles.com/software/50-content-management-systems/

Comment by Mike on February 25, 2008 @ 12:40 pm

Nice list - any chance of some reviews? You missed out my current favorite: e107 (e107.org)

Comment by Jason on February 25, 2008 @ 3:24 pm

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.

Comment by George on February 26, 2008 @ 6:24 am

Just stumbled on your post, it’s a great resource. Thumbs up!

Comment by globalgirl on February 26, 2008 @ 7:28 am

Awesome! Thanks for this list. Opensource rocks.

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Comment by Jason on February 26, 2008 @ 6:34 pm

great comments guys… keep ‘em comin’!

Comment by dirtprof on February 26, 2008 @ 11:39 pm

Just curious: why didn’t Plone make your list?

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Comment by Simon James on February 27, 2008 @ 12:22 am

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.

Comment by dirtprof on February 27, 2008 @ 12:52 am

Link points to 2007 Open Source CMS Awards.

Comment by afaceri on February 27, 2008 @ 2:45 am

You forgot Php-Nuke : phpnuke.org
It has a huge comunity and a great CMS ;)

Comment by stefan on February 27, 2008 @ 3:23 am

hello nice list - one cms i am clearly missing is typo3.

Comment by Philippe on February 27, 2008 @ 4:59 am

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.

Comment by munky on February 27, 2008 @ 5:02 am

You forgot about CMSMS - http://cmsmadesimple.org/

Comment by Jason on February 27, 2008 @ 5:10 am

For those of you with concerns about your favorite CMS technology not being listed, no worries… that’s coming soon!

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Comment by anglictina on February 27, 2008 @ 6:23 am

Cool list, thanx

Comment by joe cannes on February 27, 2008 @ 6:25 am

HOW could you forget CMSMS ??????

- http://cmsmadesimple.org/

Comment by Jason on February 27, 2008 @ 6:40 am

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!

Comment by Topaz on February 27, 2008 @ 6:45 am

Jason,

This post on CMS is one of the best posts seen on the web in some time. Thanks for this!

Comment by Johnnybones on February 27, 2008 @ 7:04 am

Wordpress has been fantastic for me. Its fun to use as well. So many themes and plugins out there.

Comment by ari on February 27, 2008 @ 7:24 am

textpattern?

Comment by sepe on February 27, 2008 @ 7:45 am

Where’s Expression Engine on this list? It has to be in the top 5. http://www.expressionengine.com

Comment by bassel on February 27, 2008 @ 8:02 am

You forgot a very nice and efficient one made by a french team, it’s called SPIP: http://www.spip.net

Comment by Ben on February 27, 2008 @ 8:22 am

I second that, where is textpattern?

Comment by Andrew Swihart on February 27, 2008 @ 8:25 am

Interesting list of CMS’s, but agreed that there are two glaring omissions: ExpressionEngine and Textpattern. Shame on you.

Comment by Nate Westheimer on February 27, 2008 @ 8:34 am

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!

Comment by j4k on February 27, 2008 @ 9:21 am

missing oscommerce and fork of oscommerce : oscss is a Xhtml/css version of oscommerce www.oscss.org

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Comment by robotoverlord on February 27, 2008 @ 11:10 am

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.

Comment by SauZheR on February 27, 2008 @ 12:40 pm

You Miss PLONE… may be the best CMS over all

Comment by Jason on February 27, 2008 @ 1:34 pm

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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Comment by Techdudes.blogspot on February 27, 2008 @ 11:03 pm

amazing list dude… very good..keep posting this kind a information.

thanks.

Comment by Eyal Shahar on February 27, 2008 @ 11:48 pm

Let me add another simple one:
Pure Edit
http://www.pureedit.com/

Comment by chazzuka on February 28, 2008 @ 2:43 am

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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Comment by Caffeine on February 28, 2008 @ 8:14 am

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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Comment by Masoud on February 28, 2008 @ 9:34 am

Which one of these CMSs is more compatible with Arabic or Persian language (Right to Left langauages)?
Thanks a lot

Comment by Ryan on February 28, 2008 @ 10:16 am

Yeah, disappointed that ExpressionEngine isn’t listed here. It has to at least be in the top 5-10.

Comment by Jason on February 28, 2008 @ 4:00 pm

ExpressionEngine is on the following post:
http://www.openjason.com/2008/02/27/52-more-content-management-systems/

Comment by NoktahHitam on February 28, 2008 @ 4:05 pm

This is by far the best post EVER!

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Comment by Fuqaha on March 1, 2008 @ 8:20 pm

Good list. Im most familiar with Mambo/Joomla. Its good to diverge once in a while. Thanks for info.

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Comment by Neil on March 4, 2008 @ 11:28 am

No Umbraco?
http://www.umbraco.org

Comment by Laura on March 6, 2008 @ 12:43 pm

Great list, can’t wait for the additions…like Plone, and maybe WebGUI? Will stumble this :)

Comment by bongfactory on March 6, 2008 @ 3:20 pm

Stumbled!
BTW wanted to pointAt Flatnuke, italian cms written in PHP based on flat text files

Comment by Marc Laporte on March 7, 2008 @ 1:02 pm

Hi!

You are missing TikiWiki CMS/Groupware.

Please check:
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Best regards,

M ;-)

Marc Laporte, Project admin
http://tikiwiki.org/

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Comment by clare on March 30, 2008 @ 2:41 pm

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.”

“Joomla! Believed to be the most powerful, diverse open source cms in the world.”

Comment by Jason on March 31, 2008 @ 3:32 pm

Well, if you’re an experienced developer, Drupal. If you’re a beginner, or a non-developer, Joomla!

Comment by jeriel on April 1, 2008 @ 12:31 am

Jason, why you don’t have list out WordPress Content Management?

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