Introducing an Awesome CMS List
Introducing an Awesome CMS List
Jeremy Mack, Director of Engineering at Postlight, recently compiled a list of interesting, exciting, and popular content management systems—Awesome Content Management Systems. He writes:
Headless content management systems are gaining popularity. Simply presenting the UI for users to edit content, and relying on the end user to create the user-facing site by ingesting the API. Directus and Cloud CMSare headless CMS options.
At Postlight we do a lot of CMS work — nearly every technology problem involves publishing something to the web—and so this list comes out of professional interest, plus a desire to stop searching far and wide when clients come to us with questions about content management.
This Awesome CMS list is a resource that anyone can use, and it’s open to all to modify. Send us a pull request on GitHub!
One thing worth noting—more and more our clients are coming to us and asking about building content management tools that allow for the full power of the web, along with the advantages of a simple content workflow. For example, an editor working along at 2AM should be able to break news—but an art director and programmer working with an editor should be able to create ground-breaking editorial, with dynamic, interactive graphics, over weeks or months, too. And the same system should allow for both. People want to use the entirety of the web, whether to tell stories, sell things, or share ideas.
Right now systems seem to be headed in one direction or another. WordPress is optimized for quick, fast, blogging-style workflow (while, sure, it can do anything); relative newcomer Relax allows for far more control over individual boxes and pixels, and feels more like it wants to be an Adobe product than a simple blogging tool.
This is something we’re actively watching, and we’re also trying to help our clients get there—sometimes by creating entirely custom CMSes, and sometimes by building far more flexible extensions on top of known quantities like WordPress, and also by keeping a close eye on solutions like Relax. Awesome CMS is an active notebook and we hope you find it useful.