<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi LRUG,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m looking to build a content-heavy site with tight API integration, a bit like <a href="http://www.plotr.co.uk" class="">www.plotr.co.uk</a> (which uses a bespoke CMS and integrates with <a href="http://www.sokanu.com" class="">www.sokanu.com</a> for it’s career test), but would like to avoid re-inventing the CMS wheel.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Could anyone recommend an (open source?) CMS which lends itself well to being extended in such a way?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated :)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Many thanks,</div><div class="">Ed</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>