The solution to this is simple: Roll your own. 3rd party CMSs seem like such a great thing when you first implement them. But after a while you always run in

The solution to this is simple: Roll your own. 3rd party CMSs seem like such a great thing when you first implement them. But after a while you always run into the things the author describes. There are simply no options out there that can compete with a simple CMS that you build from scratch. Keep it simple, as in, a few textareas that accept HTML and spit it out verbatim. Deal with all the SEO bits such as good urls, meta descriptions, etc. so that it works in the correct way. Incorporate it into your actual site shell, as opposed to trying to create a fragile little WordPress theme that sorta looks like your site. Make it modular enough that you can drop it into every new project you do from here on out. It'll take you two days to do this. If it takes longer, you're overengineering. Stop and redesign from scratch for the whole thing to live in two tables with a half dozen fields each. You don't need a little tree structure where you can drag nodes around, jQuery style. You just need a table full of content and a way to display it. From there, it's maybe a few hours per existing site to rip out the garbage CMS you're currently using and retrofit yours in its place. You'll never look back.