CMS Focus: CMS Report's Top 30 Web Applications
It is estimated that there are nearly 1,700 applications in the content management system (CMS) market. In an ideal world, I would love to cover all of them here at CMS Report. Since your time and my time is finite, I have instead chosen to limit the number of CMS applications focused here to no more than 30 applications. Since the list of applications included under "CMS Focus" is meant to include today's content management systems, it is logical to assume the list will change over time in order to stay relevant.
CMS Focus: CMS Report's List of Top 30 Web Applications
- Alfresco
- CMS Made Simple
- dotCMS
- DotNetNuke
- Drupal
- e107
- eGroupWare
- Elgg
- eZ Publish
- Frog CMS
- Gallery
- ImpressCMS
- Joomla
- MediaWiki
- Magento
- MODx
- mojoPortal
- Moodle
- Movable Type
- OpenEdit
- PHP-Fusion
- Plone
- Radiant
- SMF
- SharePoint
- SilverStripe
- Socialtext
- TYPO3
- Wordpress
- XOOPS
The CMS applications listed in this section are not necessarily the most popular nor are they always true content management systems. Instead the content manage systems that make up my top 30 are what I consider Web content management "game changers". A number of the applications on this list are CMS that I've personally worked with. Other applications on the lists are supported by a community of developers, project leaders, or users just have the right stuff to make their CMS successful and get noticed.
How to get CMS Report to talk about your CMS
Unlike many CMS review sites on the Web, I do not request nor accept money to list or review a particular CMS. Although it is free to be listed uder "CMS Focus", it isn't easy to make the list.
What is the criteria I use for selecting a CMS to place under the CMS Focus list? First, the application has to add something I haven't seen in a CMS before. I really have no interest in replacing a CMS with a CMS that doesn't do more than the ones I currently have listed. Secondly, there has to be a good level of synergy in the development community and the user community supporting the CMS. The community doesn't have to be open source, but it usually does make my job easier to find the more interesting CMS communities out there.
Articles regarding a particular content management system get posted on this site by two significant groups of people. Those two groups of people that have the power to getting an article onto CMSReport.com are you and me. If you want to help bring notice to your CMS then help persuade me either through comments or by submitting your own stories to CMSReport.com.
CMS that don't make it to our CMS Focus List
If you are looking for information about a CMS that is not listed under CMS Focus, it doesn't mean we don't cover it. We post articles on a variety of topics related to content managent, information technology, and information systems. Try doing a search for the application and see if we've covered it in the past. Also, please don't hesitate to contact us and ask that we spend some time covering the application in the future. If you're interested, I'm interested.
- Geeklog (2006-2009)
- osCommerce (2006-2009)
- Dragonfly (2008)
- Mambo (2006 - 2008)
- Nucleus CMS (2006 - 2008)
- Jaws (2006 - 2007)
- PunBB (2006 - 2007)
- TikiWiki (2006 - 2007)
- Serendipity (2006 - 2007)
- Simple PHP Blog (2006 - 2007)
- PHP-Nuke (2006-2007)
The Original CMS Focus
Posted June, 2006
