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Awesome project, being a PHP developer, I was waiting for someone to launch something that could take some share away from Wordpress. I dig Ghost, and their ini

Awesome project, being a PHP developer, I was waiting for someone to launch something that could take some share away from Wordpress. I dig Ghost, and their initiative, but I was not thrilled with it going on Node.js as it'll not be adapted by Wordpress users.

jordanlev 12y ago
There are so many other CMS's... some of which are better than wordpress (for certain people / certain workflows / certain tasks). I'm a huge fan of Concrete5 (http://concrete5.org http://concrete5.org) for small- to medium- sized informational sites. Relatively easy to theme, somewhat easy to develop against, and by far the easiest page editing interface for non-technical end-users (it's all done on the front-end, not in the dashboard). ProcessWire (http://processwire.com http://processwire.com) is also one that looks really good -- stays completely out of your way in terms of the markup, and is a very rational system that is built up from very simple conceptual building blocks to give you the flexibility to build whatever kind of site you need to. If "take some share away from wordpress" is what you're after (as opposed to "a CMS that is better than wordpress for my own needs), perhaps OctoberCMS (http://octobercms.com/ http://octobercms.com/) is the ticket? It was recently launched and appears to have a lot of momentum behind it and a great community around it (probably because it's based on the Laravel framework, which also has a lot of momentum and a great community around it). Someone else mentioned CraftCMS as well, although that's not free/open source. Not to mention the copious static site generators that are popular right now (although asking non-technical customers to edit text files on a server is not feasible, so those are mostly for developer or product sites in my opinion). Best of luck!
- elwell 12y ago
  I've been fairly happy with Concrete5 as well.
- Killswitch 12y ago
  Yes, I have been keeping an eye on October CMS, it looks promising. Laravel is a great framework (I use it too, outside of my own).
sogen 12y ago
Try CouchCMS, easily attach any HTML theme to it. BTW, the tutorial is very complete, you end up making a job application form, damn!

jordanlev 12y ago

There are so many other CMS's... some of which are better than wordpress (for certain people / certain workflows / certain tasks). I'm a huge fan of Concrete5 (http://concrete5.org http://concrete5.org) for small- to medium- sized informational sites. Relatively easy to theme, somewhat easy to develop against, and by far the easiest page editing interface for non-technical end-users (it's all done on the front-end, not in the dashboard). ProcessWire (http://processwire.com http://processwire.com) is also one that looks really good -- stays completely out of your way in terms of the markup, and is a very rational system that is built up from very simple conceptual building blocks to give you the flexibility to build whatever kind of site you need to. If "take some share away from wordpress" is what you're after (as opposed to "a CMS that is better than wordpress for my own needs), perhaps OctoberCMS (http://octobercms.com/ http://octobercms.com/) is the ticket? It was recently launched and appears to have a lot of momentum behind it and a great community around it (probably because it's based on the Laravel framework, which also has a lot of momentum and a great community around it). Someone else mentioned CraftCMS as well, although that's not free/open source. Not to mention the copious static site generators that are popular right now (although asking non-technical customers to edit text files on a server is not feasible, so those are mostly for developer or product sites in my opinion). Best of luck!

elwell 12y ago
I've been fairly happy with Concrete5 as well.
Killswitch 12y ago
Yes, I have been keeping an eye on October CMS, it looks promising. Laravel is a great framework (I use it too, outside of my own).

sogen 12y ago

Try CouchCMS, easily attach any HTML theme to it. BTW, the tutorial is very complete, you end up making a job application form, damn!