[LRUG] CMS Recommendations

[Steve]

If you can stomach a bit of Node then KeystoneJS <http://keystonejs.com/>
offers feature rich, customisable content management with built in API
endpoints. The models are definable using pre-defined types
<http://keystonejs.com/docs/database/#fieldtypes>, a fairly decent admin UI
and the setup time (especially using a Yeoman generator) is quick. Works
well on Heroku if you wanna kick the tyres.
It's worth trying the 4.0.0-beta.5 branch as this offers S3 file storage
and some other nice options.
I've used it on a few different projects now and the setup and maintenance
time has been minimal.

On 21 February 2017 at 21:07, 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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