Content Management Systems

Exponent CMS

Website: http://exponentcms.org
License: GPL

Exponent CMS is a free, open source, open standards modular enterprise software framework and content management system (CMS) written in the programming language PHP.

Exponent uses an intuitive and flexible content editing system that allows website content to be edited right on the page as it appears – no more back-end administration, no more navigating…

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Merlintalk

Website: http://geoshrad.com/home/index.php?page=135
License: GNU GPL

merlinTalk (formerly named Geoshrads Com) is a free software/open source content management system (CMS) for creating and managing websites through a simple ajax based web interface. It has attracted many users due to its ease of use.

Features

Merlintalk includes advanced features such as page caching to improve performance on busy sites, advanced templating…

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eZ Publish

Website: http://ez.no
License: GNU GPL

eZ Publish (pronounced “easy publish”) is an open source enterprise content management system developed by the Norwegian company eZ Systems. eZ Publish is freely available under the GPL licence, as well as under proprietary licenses that include commercial support.

Areas of use

eZ Publish supports the development of customized web applications. Typical applications range…

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Xaraya

Website: http://www.xaraya.com
License: GNU GPL

Xaraya is a Content Management System and is Free Software published under the GNU General Public License. Xaraya is written in the programming language PHP, and is based on the previously unpublished 0.8 branch of PostNuke (circa mid-2002).

Xaraya shares basic ideas with PostNuke in the area of modularity and security, but it has…

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WordPress

Website: http://wordpress.org
License: GNU GPL

WordPress is a blog publishing application and content management system. It was first released in May 2003 by its co-founders Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little as the successor to b2cafelog. It is powered by PHP and a SQL data backend. As of September 2009, WordPress is used by 62.8 million website in the US…

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whCMS

Website: http://whcms.sourceforge.net
License: GPL

whCMS is a content management system which relies on in-page editing. This means, no separate administration section is present to edit site content. Simple content modules, such as headers, text or file downloads are added, sorted and edited directly in the website pages. whCMS was originally developed by Buro Laga and now released to the…

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TangoCMS

Website: http://tangocms.org
License: GNU GPL

TangoCMS is a modular PHP content management system released free of charge under the GNU/GPL 2 license, and is part of the TangoCMS Project. One of the top priorities for the project is to stick to standards and best coding practices, such as making sure all mark-up complies to the World Wide Web Consortium…

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PHP-Fusion

Website: http://www.php-fusion.co.uk
License: AGPL

PHP-Fusion is a light-weight open-source content management system (CMS) written and developed by Nick Jones (also known as Digitanium) in PHP. It uses a MySQL database to store a web site’s content and comes with a simple but comprehensive administration system. PHP-Fusion includes features common in many other CMS packages.

As of 2006, PHP-Fusion is…

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Nucleus CMS

Website: http://nucleuscms.org
License: GNU GPL

Nucleus CMS is an open-source blog management software package written in PHP, with a MySQL backend, primarily written and maintained by Wouter Demuynck. It is used to manage frequently-updated Web content. With a little tweaking (mainly to skins) it might be considered a lightweight content management system, although there is no facility to upload…

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Midgard

Website: http://www.midgard-project.org
License: LGPL

Midgard is an open source persistent storage framework. It provides an object-oriented and replicated environment for building data-intensive applications.

Midgard also ships with MidCOM content management system (CMS) built on the Midgard framework. MidCOM’s features include web-based authoring WYSIWYG interfaces and a component interface for installing additional web functionalities.

Midgard is built on the GNOME…

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