[LRUG] CMS Recommendations

[Adam Carlile]

Another recommendation for contentful here, it’s still not perfect, but it does provide quite a lot of flexibility, as you can build your own JS plugins for the UI and persist the data into a JSON store. Plus if you change your mind you can easily export all of your content. Of all the options it seemed to be the least bad!

Cheers
Adam

On 22 February 2017 at 10:12:29, Steve (steve.laing at gmail.com) wrote:

If you can stomach a bit of Node then KeystoneJS offers feature rich, customisable content management with built in API endpoints. The models are definable using pre-defined types, 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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