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October 24, 2009 in Showcases by Designussion

Here at Designussion we love Wordpress and even though its grown to become the king of CMS’s there are also other solutions to look at when considering building your site on a CMS. In this post, Designussion showcases 15 alternative content management systems  to Wordpress which all have great potential and uses.

Joomla

Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

Drupal

Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website.

Mambo

Mambo is a full-featured, award-winning content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. It is used all over the world to power government portals, corporate intranets and extranets, ecommerce sites, nonprofit outreach, schools, church, and community sites.

Silver Stripe

Silver Stripe CMS is fast, flexible, and FREE. It’s designed for people who edit website content.

ModX

In laymen’s terms, MODx helps even regular individuals manage content on their websites simply, quickly and intuitively. For the geek-elite, MODx is an Open Source PHP web application framework with a capable built-in Content Management System

Text Pattern

Textpattern is a flexible, elegant and easy-to-use content management system. It is both free and open source.

Frog CMS

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.

Symphony

Symphony is an open source content management system designed to let developers program exclusively in the XSLT templating language.

TypoLight

TYPOlight Open Source CMS is an accessible and highly extendable web-based content management framework developed by Leo Feyer.

Chyrp

Chyrp is a blogging engine designed to be very lightweight while retaining functionality. It is powered by PHP and has very powerful theme and extension engines, so you can personalize it however you want.

Exponent

Exponent is a website CMS that allows site owners to easily create and manage dynamic websites without necessarily directly coding web pages, or managing site navigation.

ImpressCMS

ImpressCMS is a community developed Content Management System for easily building and maintaining a dynamic web site. Keep your web site up to date with this easy to use, secure and flexible system.

Elxis

Elxis is powerful open source content management system  released for free under the GNU/GPL license. It has unique multi-lingual features, it follows W3C standards, it is secure, flexible, easy to use, and modern.

JOJO

Jojo is a PHP-based free CMS for web developers wanting to build good websites. We like sites that are fast, standards compliant, easy to manage, search engine friendly and design flexible.