In this digital world, Content Management plays a vital role, with numerous Content Management platforms (CMS) available globally. Each CMS is unique. As a new user, you may be confused about which CMS platform to start with, the best solution for your needs, and more. To address these issues, we will discuss the best and most popular Content Management Systems currently available.
Every CMS platform comes with some unique features. These Features are SEO TOOLS, Plugin and many more.
What is a Content Management system?
A Content Management System (CMS) is a software application or set of related programs that are used to create and manage digital content. It provides a user-friendly interface for managing content without requiring extensive technical knowledge. CMS platforms allow users to create, edit, organize, and publish content such as text, images, videos, and documents on websites or other digital platforms.
Key features of a CMS typically include:
- Content Creation and Editing: Users can easily create and edit content using a built-in editor similar to word processing software.
- Content Organization: Content can be organized into categories, tags, or other taxonomies for easy navigation and retrieval.
- User Management: Different user roles and permissions can be assigned to control who can access, create, edit, and publish content.
- Workflow Management: CMS often includes workflow features to facilitate collaboration among multiple users, allowing content to go through review and approval processes before publishing.
- Version Control: CMS systems typically keep track of different versions of content, allowing users to revert to previous versions if needed.
- Publishing and Scheduling: Content can be published immediately or scheduled for future publication.
- SEO and Metadata Management: CMS platforms often include features to optimize content for search engines, such as the ability to add meta tags, and descriptions, and customize URLs.
Popular CMS platforms include WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Shopify (for e-commerce). They are used for various purposes, from simple blogs and personal websites to complex enterprise-level websites and online stores.
Popular CMS PLATFORM:
In my 9 year of
- WordPress
- Wix
- Blogger
- Squarespace
- Joomla
- Drupal
- Shopify
- Prestashop
- Magento
- Bitrix24
- TYPO3
- vBulletin
- Liferay
- Serendipity
- Dotclear
- ImpressPages
- Chamilo
WordPress: Most Popular CMS PLATFORM
WordPress is one of the leading cms(Content Management System) platform available under a general public license. It has approx 40% market share in the Content Management platform which mean out of 10 websites every 4 websites is powered by wordpress. There is a lot of company in this domain that offers hosting, SEO Plugins, and many more for this platform.
It has two sides, the first one is highly customized WordPress.com built by the owner of WordPress automatic and the second one is Open sourced WordPress.org which can be customized at any scale by the webmasters according to their needs.
WordPress.com: Highly Customized by Automattic Corporation
WordPress.com is the best Platform to host on wordpress, a cloud solution Provided by Automattic Corporation(Mother of WordPress). You will have the best User interface and highly Customized interface than any other WordPress Hosting provider.
WordPress.org: Best Open Source Platform
WordPress.org is an open-source platform. WEBMASTER uses to download the WordPress from wordpress.org and then they have to host the website on their own server. They have to buy these servers from the hosting provider’s available worldwide. The famous Hosting providers are:
- Dreamhost: Dreamhost is a global Based Hosting Service for small as well as large scale website. The servers of Dreamhost located globally (More Than 8 DATA CENTER).
- BLUEHOST: Officially Recommended by the wordPress.org. Bluehost is currently power more than 2m Website worldwide with multiple PLATFORM. (Here a detailed review of Bluehost)
- Namecheap: Many Bloggers worldwide uses to Recommend Namecheap as the best Hosting Provider in the world. They are the fastest hosting provider worldwide.
- SiteGround: Many Bloggers worldwide uses to Recommend Siteground as the best Hosting Provider in the world. They are the fastest hosting provider worldwide with more than 5 Data Center Worldwide. Currently, they are powered by the GCP. (here a detailed review of the siteground with the best alternative.)
- Cloudways: Cloudways is one of the best-managed cloud hosting provider which was founded by Uzair Gadit, Pere Hospital, and Aaqib Gadit in 2009 and its headquarters is located on the island of Malta in Europe. They also have an office in Dubai as well as Spain. Till now, the staffs of cloudways helped more than 15,000 customers around the world to set up 50,000+ server in the worlds best cloud infrastructure. (here a detailed review of cloudways with the best alternative.)
Wix: Most Coustmized CMS
Wix is a low-cost CMS platform developed by wix.com hosted on Wix cloud. The price range of Wix ranges between 5$ per month to 500$ per month (IN India it cost INR 27 Per Month). Wix has approx 3% of the total share of the market and came to the second position.
Blogger: A CMS PLATFORM BY GOOGLE
Blogger is a CMS Platform by Google in the Google INFRASTRUCTURE. This INFRASTRUCTURE can be used by any WEBMASTER free of cost. This Content Management System can only be Customized through HTML editing(Manually). However, only in the initial phase of the carrier as a webmaster use this platform.
Squarespace: 3rd in Rank
Squarespace is a one-stop solution for everyone for Everything (Blog, Ecommerce, Business). It is the fourth biggest CMS solution for developers. WebSites hosted through Squarespace must be hosted in their own cloud solution. The price ranges start with 13$.
Joomla: Good Alternative of WordPress
It a free and open-source CMS (Content management system) for publishing web content, developed by Open Source Matters, Inc. It can be used through your own web servers.
Drupal: Best Alternative of WordPress
DRUPAL is a open source CMS Platform organise and maintain by autonoms platform. It has been written by Dries Buytaert in 2001 based on PHP language.
Shopify:
Shopify is a one stop solution Platform for Ecommerce Business. We can say Shopify is a good alternative of WordPress based Woo-commerce. To use Shopify as a CMS WEBMASTER have to be a part of SHOPIFY cloud. The price range of Shopify starts from 27$. The transaction charge ranges between 2% to .5%.
Prestashop:
Prestashop is open source as well as Agency served CMS Platform. WEBMASTER have to download it from it’s official website and host it, where they wants. They have buy Hosting from hosting provider’s.
Magento:
Magneto is a CMS Platform built for Ecommerce Website by Adobe to sell products online. It Supports AMAZON sell channel. The price ranges of Magneto 30$ to 5000$.
Bitrix24:
Bitrix24 is also CMS Platform for Ecommerce Business. It offers the cloud hosted by Bitrix24 as well as open-sourced software. The Price ranges of Bitrix24 ranges between 0$ to 2000$ per month. They don’t have advanced reporting. So, you have to get this from somewhere else.
TYPO3:
TYPO3 is a free as well as open-source CMS Platform written in PHP released under the GNU General Public License. It can almost every web servers, such as Apache or IIS, on top of many operating systems, among them Linux, Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD, macOS and OS/2. You have to download it from offical website then install it to your own web servers.
vBulletin:
vBulletin is a CMS Platform made up for forum Builder and can be said as best Alternative for WordPress based bbpress and it should hosted on a server owned by WEBMASTER.
Liferay:
Liferay is a developing CMS PLATFORM for every use a WEBMASTER needs. it supports webmasters in every Technical field they need.
Serendipity:
Serendipity is a open sourced CMS Platform. WEBMASTER have to download it from it’s official website and host in their own server that buyed on rent.
Dotclear:
Dotclear is a open sourced CMS Platform. WEBMASTER have to download it from it’s official website and host in their own server that buyed on rent. The basic Feature’s of DOTCLEAR are:
- Automated installation
- Multi-blog and multi-user
- Static pages
- Media manager
- Customizable layout
- Built-in antispam
- Many themes and plugins
- Multilingual interface
- Free license
ImpressPages:
ImpressPages is a PHP based open sourced CMS Platform for WEBMASTER where they can host their blog or Ecommerce Website’s.
Chamilo:
Chamilo is an open-source CMS Platform made for education. WEBMASTER have to download it from it’s the official website and host it on their own server that bought on rent.
