Powerful and fast CMS?

[avena]

I am currently looking for a CMS powerful as Wordpress but you know.. faster/better?
I looked at Ghost and I believe it is very powerful but my issue is that the admin panel does not allow to do multi-post editing (that means for example: selecting and deleting multiple posts at once).

My current need is to build a complex blog, and I expect it to handle a lot of content, but I really don't want to use Wordpress 🤯

@gummibear mentioned Statamic before, but it seems like the latest version is not ready yet (does the v2 or v3 has multi editing?).

Does anyone know other alternatives?

 

[Mike Rees]

Possibly ProcessWire? I've not used it but people at work said good things about it, and looking at it it seems a really flexible solution.

 

[Gummibeer]

I will always throw Statamic in. The v3 release is planned for this year. And they are already in rc phase, so no alpha/beta anymore.
The v3 is based on a fully functional Laravel - so there is nothing more powerful and also not much faster, except static pages, which is also possible with Statamic/Laravel.

The v3 will also be free and OpenSource for a single user. If you need multiple users or any other pro feature it will cost, I think the same like before, 199$. Which at first seems a lot, but if you think that a default WordPress theme already costs 50$ plus plugins and so on.

 

[avena]

Thanks for sharing guys! Sorry for my delayed answer.
@Mike Rees that's interesting. I am looking at the admin and it seems very simple though :/ (I mean, not flexible to edit multiple posts).

@Gummibeer that's right, I need to dig deeper.

 

[James]

Hi Gummi

Can I see a demo of a Statamic site please?

Thanks

 

[Gummibeer]

Hi Gummi

Can I see a demo of a Statamic site please?

Thanks

Here's a list of sites built with statamic.

Built with Statamic

The official showcase of Statamic sites.

builtwithstatamic.com

 

[minddigital55]

Wordpress is popular and fast CMS as compared to others CMS.

 

[Gummibeer]

Wordpress is popular and fast CMS as compared to others CMS.

Sorry but that's an unqualified, baseless and like it's written there simply false/wrong statement.

WordPress is popular, agree - but popularity itself isn't really an argument for stack decision. A related argument would be active community, lots of plugins or similar.

WordPress CAN be fast but also damn slow. But in no way it's capable to compete with flat file/static CMS like statamic in terms of performance.

After all there isn't this single CMS to rule them all. Like most other techstack decisions you should know about the pros&cons and check which matches your requirements the best.

 

[minddigital55]

Sorry but that's an unqualified, baseless and like it's written there simply false/wrong statement.

WordPress is popular, agree - but popularity itself isn't really an argument for stack decision. A related argument would be active community, lots of plugins or similar.

WordPress CAN be fast but also damn slow. But in no way it's capable to compete with flat file/static CMS like statamic in terms of performance.

After all there isn't this single CMS to rule them all. Like most other techstack decisions you should know about the pros&cons and check which matches your requirements the best.

which one CMS you think fast and powerful?

 

[Gummibeer]

Like said - there isn't an answer to rule them all.

CMSs I know and like:

Build beautiful, easy to manage websites with Statamic – the world class Laravel CMS.

The open source, flat-first, Laravel + Git powered CMS designed for building beautiful, easy to manage websites.

statamic.com

Twill — An open source CMS toolkit for Laravel

Rapidly create a custom admin console that is intuitive, powerful and flexible. Twill is an open source CMS toolkit for Laravel, crafted by AREA 17.

twill.io

Strapi - Open source Node.js Headless CMS 🚀

Strapi is the next-gen headless CMS, open-source, javascript, enabling content-rich experiences to be created, managed and exposed to any digital device.

strapi.io

But also more generic ones like:

Laravel Nova - Beautifully-designed administration panel for Laravel

nova.laravel.com

spatie/sheets

Store & retrieve your static content in plain text files - spatie/sheets

github.com

Astrotomic/stancy

This package aims to provide the most common and flexible CMS features to your Laravel project. - Astrotomic/stancy

github.com

And like you can see - all of them are Laravel based. So my field of decision is pretty limited, why? Because I nearly never use CMSs and if so only for a small part of the whole application. So I need a solid and flexible base framework I can work with for my app and add the CMS on top.

There are a lot of questions to decide for a CMS:

• do you need authentication/authorization
• how many different entities do you have to manage
• do you want a pre-defined template/theme engine or a headless one
• do you need flexibility in adding your own code or a pre-defined plugin system
• what kind of content do you have to manage (short/long texts, single/multiple fields per entity, images, videos, files, ...)
• which kind of editor do you like (WYSIWYG, markdown, HTML, inline, ...)
• do you want a centralized backend or a local one
• how often do you change content
• who has to manage content

And several more - these are only the first I can imagine.
And depending on all this you will get to a list of CMSs that match your criteria and some of them do some things better and the others do other things better. I can highly recommend a decision-matrix to get to a good result. 😉

 

[minddigital55]

Like said - there isn't an answer to rule them all.

CMSs I know and like:

Build beautiful, easy to manage websites with Statamic – the world class Laravel CMS.

The open source, flat-first, Laravel + Git powered CMS designed for building beautiful, easy to manage websites.

statamic.com

Twill — An open source CMS toolkit for Laravel

Rapidly create a custom admin console that is intuitive, powerful and flexible. Twill is an open source CMS toolkit for Laravel, crafted by AREA 17.

twill.io

Strapi - Open source Node.js Headless CMS 🚀

Strapi is the next-gen headless CMS, open-source, javascript, enabling content-rich experiences to be created, managed and exposed to any digital device.

strapi.io

But also more generic ones like:

Laravel Nova - Beautifully-designed administration panel for Laravel

nova.laravel.com

spatie/sheets

Store & retrieve your static content in plain text files - spatie/sheets

github.com

Astrotomic/stancy

This package aims to provide the most common and flexible CMS features to your Laravel project. - Astrotomic/stancy

github.com

And like you can see - all of them are Laravel based. So my field of decision is pretty limited, why? Because I nearly never use CMSs and if so only for a small part of the whole application. So I need a solid and flexible base framework I can work with for my app and add the CMS on top.

There are a lot of questions to decide for a CMS:

• do you need authentication/authorization
• how many different entities do you have to manage
• do you want a pre-defined template/theme engine or a headless one
• do you need flexibility in adding your own code or a pre-defined plugin system
• what kind of content do you have to manage (short/long texts, single/multiple fields per entity, images, videos, files, ...)
• which kind of editor do you like (WYSIWYG, markdown, HTML, inline, ...)
• do you want a centralized backend or a local one
• how often do you change content
• who has to manage content

And several more - these are only the first I can imagine.
And depending on all this you will get to a list of CMSs that match your criteria and some of them do some things better and the others do other things better. I can highly recommend a decision-matrix to get to a good result. 😉

Like said - there isn't an answer to rule them all.

CMSs I know and like:

Build beautiful, easy to manage websites with Statamic – the world class Laravel CMS.

The open source, flat-first, Laravel + Git powered CMS designed for building beautiful, easy to manage websites.

statamic.com

Twill — An open source CMS toolkit for Laravel

Rapidly create a custom admin console that is intuitive, powerful and flexible. Twill is an open source CMS toolkit for Laravel, crafted by AREA 17.

twill.io

Strapi - Open source Node.js Headless CMS 🚀

Strapi is the next-gen headless CMS, open-source, javascript, enabling content-rich experiences to be created, managed and exposed to any digital device.

strapi.io

But also more generic ones like:

Laravel Nova - Beautifully-designed administration panel for Laravel

nova.laravel.com

spatie/sheets

Store & retrieve your static content in plain text files - spatie/sheets

github.com

Astrotomic/stancy

This package aims to provide the most common and flexible CMS features to your Laravel project. - Astrotomic/stancy

github.com

And like you can see - all of them are Laravel based. So my field of decision is pretty limited, why? Because I nearly never use CMSs and if so only for a small part of the whole application. So I need a solid and flexible base framework I can work with for my app and add the CMS on top.

There are a lot of questions to decide for a CMS:

• do you need authentication/authorization
• how many different entities do you have to manage
• do you want a pre-defined template/theme engine or a headless one
• do you need flexibility in adding your own code or a pre-defined plugin system
• what kind of content do you have to manage (short/long texts, single/multiple fields per entity, images, videos, files, ...)
• which kind of editor do you like (WYSIWYG, markdown, HTML, inline, ...)
• do you want a centralized backend or a local one
• how often do you change content
• who has to manage content

And several more - these are only the first I can imagine.
And depending on all this you will get to a list of CMSs that match your criteria and some of them do some things better and the others do other things better. I can highly recommend a decision-matrix to get to a good result. 😉

By the way, what do you think? which one powerful and fast CMS on your opinion.

In my opinion, WordPress is good because everyone use it.

 

[Adam]

@minddigital55 Please refrain from asking the same question multiple times. There is no one-size-fits-all CMS. Almost any well-built CMS will be fast and powerful if used correctly, that is the point of them.