6 best alternatives to Opps CMS as of 2018 - Slant

Wagtail

Top Pro

Extendable

Although Wagtail comes with only the most basic features, it's by no means an incomplete CMS. It's very extendable and it's up to the developer to choose how to extend it. See More

Top Con

You need to be experienced in Django to get the most of it

Installing Wagtail on a remote server is a little more complicated than FTPing a bunch of files. Furthermore there's no ecosystem for plugins and themes so it can only be fully extended by a developer experienced with Django. See More

Top Pro

Great separation between developers and editors

Wagtail has the perfect separation between developers and editors. It allows you to construct a site with minimal fuss with features like the awesome stream field and hand it over to virtually any content editor. You can build the site with no knowledge of Django and with the simple interface require no training to get started. Although this will always require developer time, with 2 or 3 days you can quickly get up a boilerplate site that will fulfill 80% of any site you will develop. Leaving only the bespoke parts to do. It also nicely slots into any Django project with no fuss. See More

Top Pro

Lightweight with the most useful functionalities

Wagtail is a simple and lightweight CMS with the most basic and useful set of features baked in out of the box. See More

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Plone

Top Pro

Open source

Not only does this provides complete transparency to the user, it also enables a large base of developers to work simultaneously on solving any arising the issues and improving the platform. See More

Top Pro

Remarkable level of security

Plone has been around for almost two decates and to date less than 50 vulnerabilities were discovered in the platform. That's at least ten times less than any of the popular alternatives, including Wordpress, Drupal, and Joomla. In fact, government agencies, such as NASA and FBI use Plone for its high level of security. See More

Top Pro

Can run on virtually anything

Plone runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, Chromebooks, RaspberryPi, servers, and cloud services. See More

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Multilingual UI and documentation

Plone platform along with all documentation is available in more than 40 languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Greek, Arabic, and Hebrew. See More

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Mezzanine

Top Pro

Ready to use out of the box

Mezzanine has a built-in search engine and API, integration with services like Disqus, Gravatar, Google Analytics, Twitter, bit.ly, Akismet, a blog and a good selection of templates available out of the box. See More

Top Con

No support for scheduled publishing

With Mezzanine you cannot schedule future blog posts or changes to be posted at a particular time. See More

Top Pro

Popular and has an active community

Mezzanine is a very well-maintained CMS. It is very popular and has a nice and helpful community around it. This means that there's help available for any problem that you may face with it. See More

Top Pro

Frontend editing

Editing of blog posts or themes and widgets can be done on the frontend as long as the user is logged in with an Admin account. This make Mezzanine very easy to use and manage even for people who may not be experienced at all in programming. See More

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Django CMS

Top Pro

Mature

Django CMS is a very mature project, with many core developers working on it constantly and adding new features and bug fixes. See More

Top Con

May be an overkill for a simple blog

Django CMS project is a large and complex project, comparable to Wordpress. As such, it may be too much for a simple personal blog considering that it has many features that may never be used in that particular occasion. See More

Top Pro

Easy to extend

Documents are organized in a tree. You can either create new content area type, new tree nodes, integrate complete existing Django app in the tree, etc. It's pretty easy usually. See More

Top Pro

Internationalization (multi-language) support

Having a website in more than one language can be very challenging and DJango-CMS supports it well. Switching between languages while keeping on the page for example. See More

Top Pro

Can integrate with existing apps

Django CMS is more of a Django plugin which can easily be integrated with any Django app to add CMS functionality to it. See More

Top Pro

Double click to edit

You can double click items to edit them or add pages directly on the website (as long as you're logged in as admin). It simplifies content creation and touch-ups. See More

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web2py

Top Pro

Easy to learn without losing any power

web2py is very easy to learn for beginners, yet it has a great deal of power and flexibility as application needs become more complex. It includes an impressively comprehensive set of features, making development very productive without the need to integrate a lot of third-party libraries. See More

Top Con

Not Python 3 compatible

Top Pro

Can be tuned to be really fast in production

The framework is really fast in production after some optimization and fine tuning which can minimize the memory footprint in order to make it run on a really small VPS or slice. See More

Top Con

The web IDE is not a full-featured IDE

web2py includes an "admin" app that serves as a web-based IDE for web2py applications. It includes many features, such as application creation, compiling, and packaging; an error ticketing system; a code editor; a debugger; a controller doctest runner; Git and Mercurial integration; and one-click deployment to PythonAnywhere, Google App Engine, and OpenShift. However, particularly with regard to code editing and debugging and version control integration, it is not as full-featured as some of the more popular desktop IDEs such as PyCharm. So, developers expecting a PyCharm-like experience may be somewhat disappointed. In any case, use of the web-based IDE is completely optional. See More

Top Pro

Documentation is written in form of a book which is good for beginners

web2py documentation does not follow the common pattern of using Sphinx, MkDocs or ReadTheDocs which is goos for exeperienced developers. Although documentation in form of a book is very easy and good for beginners. Turning web2py the most easy and comprehensive framework to learn and also to teach. See More

Top Pro

No need to import the API to access the models and controllers context at every request

Models and controllers live in the context of the HTTP request. So the developer does not have to import the API to access this context at every request. In other words, the models, controllers and templates in web2py use a domain specific language which uses pure web2py syntax and allows to import any module but exposes a few additional objects. See More

Top Pro

Web2py apps run on GAE, AWS, VPNs, PythonAnywhere, etc

Web2py apps are designed to be portable. With some minor restrictions web2py apps can run on any VPS on SQL databases and/or Mongo, as well as on Google App Engine with the Google Datastore. It is truly code ones and run everywhere. For example at Camio.com we use web2py internally to access a GAE datastore which contains more images than Instagram. See More

Top Pro

User support

The web2py community is open and friendly and it gives concrete support to newbies and old timers. It's not difficult to get answers from the BDFL Massimo Di Pierro himself. See More

Top Pro

Maintainable over time

One really positive aspect of web2py application is their maintainability over the years. Old code works even if the framework is updated to the latest version. Not only that, if code is written well it is very short and a new team can pick it up over in little time. See More

Top Pro

Includes a web-based IDE for creating and managing applications

web2py includes an "admin" app that serves as a web-based IDE for web2py applications. It includes many features, such as application creation, compiling, and packaging; an error ticketing system; a code editor; a debugger; a controller doctest runner; Git and Mercurial integration; and one-click deployment to PythonAnywhere, Google App Engine, and OpenShift. It is not intended as a full desktop IDE replacement, but it includes some helpful web2py specific functionality and can be convenient for basic editing and debugging tasks and quick prototyping, even for those who primarily work with a more full-featured desktop IDE or editor. See More

Top Pro

web2py supports the classic editor Vim

Top Pro

PyCharm supports web2py

While web2py has its own web based IDE which is convenient, it works with WinIDE, PyCharm, and Eclipse. The first two explicitly support web2py. The latter requires some configuration. See More

Top Pro

Easily extendable

Allows users to easily extend functionality by using external libraries. See More

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