best open source content management systems
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Best Open Source Content Management Systems
By Anisa Melishte
WordPress
• A Little History
WordPress was born out of a desire for anelegant,well-architectured personal publishingsystem built on PHP and MySQL and licensedunder the GPLv2 (or later).
It is the official successor of b2/cafelog.WordPress is fresh software, but its roots anddevelopment go back to 2001. It is a matureand stable product.
• What You Can Use WordPress For
WordPress started as just a blogging system, buthas evolved to be used as full contentmanagement system and so much more throughthe thousands of plugins and widgets andthemes, WordPress is limited only by yourimagination. (And tech chops.) WordPress isan Open Source project, which means there arehundreds of people all over the world working onit.
WordPress
WordPress features :
• Easy to Install
• Customizable
• Free
• Community Support
WordPress
• A Little History
Joomla was the result of a fork of Mambo onAugust 17, 2005. At that time, the Mamboname was a trademark of Miro InternationalPty Ltd, who formed a non-profit foundationwith the stated purpose of funding the projectand protecting it from lawsuits.
Joomla
• What You Can Use Joomla For
Joomla is an award-winning contentmanagement system (CMS), which enablesyou to build Web sites and powerful onlineapplications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomlathe most popular Web site software available.Joomla is an open source solution that isfreely available to everyone.
Joomla
Features:
• Social Networking
• Commerce Sites
• Not too Technical
• Help Portal
• Free
Joomla
• A Little History
Dries Buytaert began the Drupal software as amessage board in 1999. Within a year or so,more people became interested using andcontributing to Drupal, so the project wasmade open source. Drupal.org came online in2001, and the Drupal community gainedmomentum in 2005 with several code sprintsand conferences.
Drupal
• What You Can Use Drupal For
Drupal is a publishing platform created by vibrantcommunity and bursting with potential. Use as-isor snap in any of thousands of free designs andplug-ins for rapid site assembly. Developers lovewell-documented APIs. Designers love flexibility.Site administrators love limitless scalability.Drupal's content management features make iteasy to create and manage your site.
Drupal
Features:
• Technically Advanced
• Improved Performance
• Customizable
• Free
Drupal
WordPress vs Joomla vs Drupal
• WordPress – Best pick for beginners, workswell for small to medium sized websites &blogs.
• Joomla – Good for E-commerce type of sites,but require at least some level of technicalcoding.
• Drupal – The most difficult one, but also themost powerful CMS.
References
• https://wordpress.org
• http://www.joomla.org
• https://www.drupal.org