Drupal OpenSource CMS

drupal opensource cms

drupal opensource cms

Drupal is actually used as a content management system but was originally written by Dries Buytaert as a bulletin-board system. It’s a system with very strong architecture featuring plug-ins and themes.


Drupal has a huge user community and excellent documentation. Since Drupal’s main goal is not blogging, it has plenty of modules that are best suitable for a website. Moreover, Drupal has modules like e-commerce, photo gallery, CVS integration, and mailing list manager. Mailing list manager is a feature through which you can manage a group of users and send mails to them. The Drupal administration panel is quite heavy and confusing for new bloggers. In the real world, there are different modified distributions of Drupal among which CivicSpace is a notable one.

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boastMachine Opensource CMS

boastMachine blogs

boastMachine blogs

Another promising open-source blogging engine that recently came into focus is boastMachine (http://boastology.com/). It features rating of posts, a spam filter, an image manager, etc.


By default, all these features are also available with WordPress via plug-ins. boastMachine is a lightweight engine. The main drawback of boastMachine is its incompatibility with plug-ins. Being comparatively new to the blogging market and maintained by a single user, boastMachine lacks a large user community and online help.

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Serendipity

serendipity blogging CMS

serendipity blogging CMS

Serendipity, often called s9y, is a strong competitor to WordPress. It is feature‑rich, smooth, and well structured; so no one can skip it at a glance.
However, the main problem of s9y is the lack of plug-ins and its heavy weight. s9y takes more bandwidth and time to serve its content than WordPress. However, Serendipity is a neat and very nice blogging tool for those who expect something more than just a blog. In Serendipity, you will have full control over plug-in development and management. This blog engine is compatible with different kinds of database servers like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. You will find Serendipity at this URL: www.s9y.org.

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