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What are the alternatives? Is there any other free, self-hosted, open source CMS that out-of-the-box allows an average non-tech person to publish content, image
by ivanhoe 10y ago
What are the alternatives? Is there any other free, self-hosted, open source CMS that out-of-the-box allows an average non-tech person to publish content, images, etc. with such ease and nicely designed admin GUI? Easy to install, can be installed on any cheap shared hosting and will work fine, has automatic updates, content is searchable, has tones of themes free or cheap to choose from, it's fairly easy to customize and reasonably safe, as long as developer doesn't get crazy with plugins and has a basic idea of web security it's just fine. Code is ugly as hell and I hate it as much as everyone else, but site owners don't care about it, as long as the interface is nice and easy and cheap to use. And also there's a ton of helpful videos and tutorials to give to your clients to learn how to use it (so they don't bug you at all on "how do I do this"). Developers are cheap and readily available if you don't want to provide support which is a huge benefit for the customer, not being stuck with a custom solution and having to pay a new site each time he changes the developer.
I'd be very happy to use something else, more secure and better written, but what comes even close?
- darylteo 10y agoI am currently evaluating October CMS. Give it a shot! Disclaimer: not affiliated with OctoberCMS at all. I'm evaluating it as a CMS platform for client projects.
- grecy 10y agoI will add as a Software Engineer, I use WordPress to document my world expeditions[1] because it works, and I don't want to mess with code while using crummy internet in West Africa. I have never seen a better alternative for what I do. With Varnish in front of it, the server doesn't break a sweat with 1,000 concurrent connections (according to Analytics) [1] http://theroadchoseme.com http://theroadchoseme.com
- dreamfactory2 10y agoDrupal 8 is very user friendly out of the box. (For publishing, you could maybe go further and use a distribution like Thunder - http://thunder.org/ http://thunder.org/)
- blueatlas 10y agoTake a look at Concrete5. It's a LAMP stack like Wordpress, MVC under the covers, a common sense architecture, and highly extensible. It has an exceptional, in-context UI for content editing that is the best I've seen, and a good core team and community that is very active. One area that Wordpress wins is with respect to the overall number of themes and plug-ins, but that's pretty much it.
- anotheryou 10y agoI tried it a few years ago and it was not ripe yet. Community to small, bugs to severe. The WYSIWYG editor is still nice though. But it adds a lot of complexity if you want something it can't do. Somme abstracted forms in wordpress are easier.
- WhiteSource1 10y agoWhat about Joomla or Drupal? (Although does anyone use them anymore? As WordPress got more popular I've seen more and more serious sites running WordPress and leaving Joomla). But for a business, a proprietary CMS is a management mess (proprietary as in custom designed) because you can't switch web companies.