[LRUG] CMS Recommendations

[Ed Lepedus]

Hi LRUG,

I’m looking to build a content-heavy site with tight API integration, a bit like www.plotr.co.uk <http://www.plotr.co.uk/> (which uses a bespoke CMS and integrates with www.sokanu.com <http://www.sokanu.com/> for it’s career test), but would like to avoid re-inventing the CMS wheel.

Could anyone recommend an (open source?) CMS which lends itself well to being extended in such a way?

Aside from the API integration, we would also like to allow third-parties (i.e advertisers etc) to have self-managed areas on the site (similar to Plotr’s sponsored worlds).

We’re polyglot developers, and have done epic things with Wordpress recently, but this project feels like it would have a lot more custom code, so would lend itself to Rails rather than trying to shoehorn WordPress in where it doesn’t belong.

The rub is that we know we can get them up and running to a high standard very quickly with WordPress, so the temptation is to start with WordPress as an experiment and rewrite in Rails once the concept is validated — I just know that many projects have started that way and still use the ‘throwaway prototype’ years later.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated :)

Many thanks,
Ed


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