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8 Options Considered

8 Options ConsideredPriceLicenseLanguage
Drupal
GPLv2+PHP
Wordpress
GPLv2PHP
Django CMS
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KeystoneJS
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Drupal

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Izem Lavrenti
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Highly customizable

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Drupal can be customized to do almost anything. It was built ground up with the intent of using a wide variety of small modules to get the exact result wanted instead of just the most common solutions.
Izem Lavrenti
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Open source

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Drupal is free to use and open source.
Izem Lavrenti
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Excellent SEO

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Drupal was designed from the beginning to follow best practices in regards to SEO.
Izem Lavrenti
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Active community

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Drupal have one of biggest and more active communities across FOSS, maintaining a large and vibrant ecosystem of extensions and installation profiles.
Izem Lavrenti
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RESTful

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Drupal 8 has REST services built in.
Izem Lavrenti
Top Pro

Great for enterprise use

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Drupal is stable, with powerful version control and access control methods and can handle large amounts of traffic.
Martin Woods
Top Pro

User-friendly admin interface

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When logged in administrators see edit options for each page, menu and block on the same page as end-users do.
thermoplastics
LechDvorak
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Complex sites can be built with Drupal 8 without writing code

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Endi Sukaj
Paul T
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i18n support

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In Drupal 6 and 7, this was a collection of modules to extend Drupal core multilingual capabilities and be able to build real life multilingual sites. Now included in Drupal 8 core, internationalization and localization are extremely simple. Simply put, multinational sites are now easy to create ou...
Izem Lavrenti
Top Con

Steep learning curve

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Drupal is not easy to get into and out of the box doesn't offer much. To get Drupal doing what you want it to, modules are required. To get modules, an understanding of how Drupal works is required. And that takes time.
Laura Kyle
thermoplastics
LechDvorak
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Requires great technical expertise

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Drupal is an advanced CMS that requires developer expertise. If you do not have someone on your team with developer experience, Drupal may not be the CMS for you.
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Wordpress

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Izem Lavrenti
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RSS feeds for everything

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Including tags and categories.
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Izem Lavrenti
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Self-host & WP-host options

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For free, WordPress can be hosted by yourself on your own server, or as a subdomain of Wordpress. You can also pay to use a custom domain with WP hosting.
Izem Lavrenti
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Complete control if needed

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If you set up WP on your own server, you can change every single aspect of it as you see fit.
LechDvorak
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WP has the widest range of plugins, themes, widgets for galleries, forums, it’s multilingual.

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Izem Lavrenti
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Widely used

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According to some statistics, WP powers a fifth of the Internet. It means there are resources for everything. Community support, tutorials, extensions and a plethora of customization options.
Chloe Montanez
Izem Lavrenti
Top Con

A bit of bloat and complexity

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WP has grown past being just a blogging platform and as such, it's not as lightweight as it used to be. It's also considerably more complex due to many more customization options compared to other solutions.
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Django CMS

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Endi Sukaj
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Mature

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Django CMS is a very mature project, with many core developers working on it constantly and adding new features and bug fixes.
Endi Sukaj
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Double click to edit

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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.
Endi Sukaj
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Can integrate with existing apps

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Django CMS is more of a Django plugin which can easily be integrated with any Django app to add CMS functionality to it.
Endi Sukaj
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Easy to extend

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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.
Endi Sukaj
Top Con

May be an overkill for a simple blog

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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.
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KeystoneJS

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Izem Lavrenti
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Effective session management

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Keystone has advanced and effective session management and authentication features. Logging in and signing up is easy and it even has password encryption out of the box.
Izem Lavrenti
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Keystone has easy form processing

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Using the data models defined by the developer, Keystone can validate forms automatically without any more setup. Form validation doesn't get easier than this.
Izem Lavrenti
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Easy email management features

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With Keystone it is easy to set up an email management system for an application. It has template-based emails and it's also integrated with Mandrill (Mailchimp's transaction email sending service)
Izem Lavrenti
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Out-of-the-box Admin UI

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Keystone comes with an auto-generated Admin UI, which makes things very easy for any task that can be completed using Keystone. In any way Keystone is used, the Admin interfaces saves a lot of time and makes any job easier.
Izem Lavrenti
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Numerous amounts of templating engines are supported

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Keystone supports almost all templating engines out there. Although it uses Jade directly after a fresh install and it points to using it further, other template engines can be installed and used instead.
Izem Lavrenti
Top Pro

Keystone comes with Express already configured

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Express comes out of the box already configured from Keystone or it can be treated like any other Express Middleware.
Izem Lavrenti
Top Con

Some working knowledge of JavaScript, NPM and Databases is needed

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MongoDB is required to be up and running and a Yeoman generator is used to generate the application. Although the prompt based start-up in the command line helps you a lot, it still can be hard for someone inexperienced with NPM and Yeoman.
Izem Lavrenti
Top Con

It does not have a built-in roles system

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Although registering a new user is very easy, there is not any roles system out-of-the-box. There is only a check box "Access keystone" which gives a user full administrative power. Adding different kind of users is only possible by editing the user data model.
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October

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brady barten
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Easy to program

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brady barten
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Built on top of Laravel

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Chloe Montanez
brady barten
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Powerful multilingual plugin

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brady barten
Top Con

Not many plugins

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prismic.io

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MerryShurpanakha
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Translation workflows made easy

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Get task driven views for translators.
Andreas Söderlund
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Frontend is completely up to you

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Free yourself from the complicated structure of other CMS's. You get the data as JSON through an API call, for displaying anywhere and anyhow you want.
Andreas Söderlund
Top Con

A bit more knowledge needed than others

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Technical skill is required to set up the webserver, choosing a platform, template language, etc. It's on a different level than Wordpress, but you get a huge amount of freedom and flexibility if you can manage the front-end coding.
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Statamic

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Isaac Gregson
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Great support

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Since it's a premium product, you have easy access to the devs, either through their Slack channel or through email or the official forums.
Endi Sukaj
Isaac Gregson
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Developers have extra incentive to maintain it, considering it's a commercial product

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So it keeps the bar high. Provides extra-incentive for the developers to fix bugs and make sure it maintains solid.
Isaac Gregson
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Multi-lingual support baked into the core

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No need for plugins.
Endi Sukaj
Isaac Gregson
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Can work as a static site generator

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Can be used as a flat-file CMS with the option to wire-up a database if needed.
Endi Sukaj
Isaac Gregson
Top Pro

Great documentation

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The documentation is extremely detailed and explains everything thoroughly.
Endi Sukaj
Isaac Gregson
Top Con

Not free

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Limits adoption. Might not be the best choice for small/no-budget projects.
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Magento CMS

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LechDvorak
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Nice multilingual capabilities

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You can manage several shops and several language versions of the site, what is very useful if the shop is focused on multilingual audience.
Endi Sukaj
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E-commerce platform focused

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Magento is built to help creating and maintaining e-commerce platforms. So it cannot be used to create any other kind of website (such as blogs, news websites etc.).

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