[LRUG] CMS Recommendations

[Ed Lepedus]

Thanks for the recommendations - Contentful is certainly interesting, but prohibitively expensive in this case, as we would likely need a few hundred accounts in the first few months and scaling up to thousands over two or three years.

Steve, Node-bashing aside, (:D) KeystoneJS seems a bit barebones, and I’m concerned that we would end up writing a lot of bespoke code to replicate functionality that is either built-in to the bigger CMSs or easily available through plugins?

I was looking at Refinery, Locomotive and Camaleon yesterday. Has anyone got any experience with any of these?


> On 22 Feb 2017, at 10:41, Adam Carlile <hello at adamcarlile.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto:steve.laing at gmail.com>) wrote:
> 
>> 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 <mailto: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 <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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