Top 5 free content management systems
By Justin Silverton
After looking though many free content management sytems (CMS) over the past month or so, I have come up with a list of the top five.
These are also all written in PHP.
Features
- Easy User and group management
- Group-based permission system
- Admin panel with multiple language support
- RSS module
- Module API for easy extendability
Front-end Demo here
Admin Demo here
username: admin
password: demo
Features
- Built-in photo gallery
- BBcode support
- MMCache and eAccelerator support
- Site-wide cache-based template system
- Debugging system and page query list
Front page demo here
Admin Demo here
Username: admin
Password: Demo123 (Case Sensitive)
3) Bitweaver
Features
- SEO friendly urls
- Content spam protection (automatic no-follows)
- Many formats supported (TikiWiki, HTML, BBCode, Wikipedia (aka MediaWik))
- Hotwords - allow you to specify particular words that can be associated with a URL
- Generate PDF documents from all Content
Front-page demo here
Admin demo here
Username: admin
Password: demo
4) Drupal
Features
- SEO Friendly URLs
- Many community modules
- Role based permission system
- External authentication source support with Jabber, Blogger, and LiveJournal
- Blogger API support
Front-end demo here
Admin demo here
Username: admin
Password: demo
5) Joomla
This is one of the most mature, free (did I mention open source), content management systems available. Also a fork of a CMS called Mambo. How are they different?
Joomla version 1.0 is derived from Mambo 4.5.2.3 but includes many additional bug fixes and security patches. Joomla version 1.5 is an extensive refactoring of the API as is Mambo version 4.6 to its codebase. Both applications continue maintain a similar user inferface (look and feel), similar default component and module sets. Both Joomla 1.5 and Mambo 4.6 will include internationisation support. Joomla will use an easy-to-use ‘ini’ format for their translation files while Mambo uses the ‘gettext’ format. Joomla 1.5 will correctly support the UTF-8 character set. Joomla 1.5 also includes many new features such as additional authentication models (LDAP, Gmail, etc), xml-rpc client-server support. It also natively supports database drivers for MySQL 4.1+ (on PHP 5) and has improved support for MySQL 5 as well as the groundings to support other database engines.
Demo here
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Un top 5 de gestores de contenido - CMS (en inglés)…
Algo escasa pero buena reunión de gestores de contenido brevemente comentados y con enlaces a sus páginas y demos. No están todos los que son, pero son todos los que están
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Did you look at SilverStripe (http://silverstripe.com); am wondering if you didn’t spot it, or felt it wasn’t top 5
You can visit the admin panel at http://demo.silverstripe.com/admin (admin/password).
[…] Justin Silverton ha publicado en su blog un interesante ranking. No tanto por los dos mejores cms open source, que ya todos nos lo imaginamos: Joomla y Drupal. Sino por los siguientes tres en la lista, que salvo dragonFly, no son muy conocidos. […]
Have you seen Expression Engine? Simply Awesome!! www.expressioneengine.com
EE is hands down the best content management system I’ve used. The free personal version is excellent for totally custom websites and blogs.
opps I meant http://www.expressionengine.com
I was amazed at the differences in server response time. The first two CMS had terriable response times.
Drupal is simply the best better than all the rest.
Drupal comes with its own set of problems. Making a template and customizing it is far easy in joomla than drupal.
I was just wondering.. since you’ve gone through
a list of cms’ which one would you consider
the seo friendliest? I’m also running a sample
tikiwiki installation to see the features..
is it good if have used from the seo point
of view?