[LRUG] CMS Recommendations

[Sam Phillips]

I've done some stuff with Contentful and liked it, and content folk seemed
to like it too, although it did require learning markdown. For anything
that's more complex than basic HTML, you can use HTML directly although
depending on your customers, that might present a barrier to entry vs a
Wordpress plugin.

API is easy to use although easy to make a _lot_ of API calls without doing
some smart caching.

Haven't done anything at a significant scale but I'd definitely be happy to
use again and would prefer over Wordpress for security and ease of
expansion.

Worth investigating I'd say.

On 22 February 2017 at 09:52, Stuart Harrison <pezholio at gmail.com> wrote:

> I like the look of Contentful - https://www.contentful.com/. It’s a
> hosted service, but provides a nice, user friendly interface for editors,
> and provides the content via an API. I’ve not used it, but I’ve been
> looking for an excuse to!
>
> Cheers
>
> Stuart
>
>
> On 22 February 2017 at 09:48:57, Ed Lepedus (ed.lepedus at googlemail.com)
> wrote:
>
> Hi LRUG,
>
> I’m looking to build a content-heavy site with tight API integration, a
> bit like www.plotr.co.uk (which uses a bespoke CMS and integrates with
> 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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