Content Management Systems

CMS (Content Management System), are increasingly popular and the most used of these is Wordpress which powers millions of blogs. They allow the webmaster to concentrate fully on writing content while having a site looking professional.

This section is designed to help to choose a tool in a too large list, to allow to understand how is built a CMS, and to provide scripts to automate services on a website.

What is a Content Management System?

What is a CMS? Which type to choose? In brief, the role of a CMS is to automate the management of the tasks necessary to put articles online:

• Choice of templates.
• Editing the text and insert it into a template.
• Organizing menus and categories.
• Site administrering.
• Automatic creation of RSS feeds and sitemap.
• Tag cloud, calendar of archives and other gadgets.
• Statistics of visits, by default or with an extension.
• And inclusion of extensions for more services ...

List of CMS

The full list of commonly used content management system with their purpose: portal, blog, wiki, for each languages, PHP, Java, and so on.

CMS popularity list

Provides a ranking of software based on the traffic of their website.

Building a CMS

Step by step tutorial of CMS building.

• Wysiwyg editor
  Demo of use of the TinyMCE editor.
• Dynamic menu
  How to build a menu from pages when they are added...
• Comments
  Adding comments to your articles.
• Authentication
  Using and managing logins and passwords.
• Using a template
  Any CMS make use of a template for the static part of pages.
• Displaying the list of most recent posts
  By using the RSS feed you can display automatically recents articles on each page of a website.

Script to convert a phpBB forum into static HTML pages

This script loads the threads that are number given from the database and creates an HTML page for each. The same script exists for fluxBB.

Drupal

Joomla

Wordpress

fluxBB

Reviews of the main CMS

By users.

How to make a digg-like?

Source code and list of sites.