[LRUG] CMS Recommendations

[Najaf Ali]

Another +1 for Contentful. We use it for a lot of things and it seems to be
the least bad option in a world of terrible options.
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 9:56 AM, Sam Phillips sam at samsworldofno.com  wrote:
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 withwww.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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