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written by Jay , August 18, 2007

Thanks for such a nery Nice article.

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written by Patrick , August 18, 2007

You are missing MODx from the list of CMS's. I'm working on a personal site for myself in MODx and chose it in favor of Joomla, e107, Xoops and Drupal for the free hands it gives me - I'm not stuck in rigid pre-determined templating I feel I am with the others. And the fact that I can achieve true xhtml based layouts without tables I see more than often on sites that use the others systems.

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written by Roman , March 02, 2008

Thanks for the article. Now I have a basic idea of what are all CMSs about.

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written by Sherry , March 19, 2008

I am a newbie in the website building and this article was very helpful. Thanks.

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written by hasan , May 10, 2008

Hi, thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. Just a little thought plz update it if you get some more detailed problems. I mean to say is; if you go any of their website they all are fine and work perfact. But the technicl issues or missing part of one, non of them address to thier features. For instance, if one pay some thousand bugs to that specific CMS could get these features that could also be added in that x-way to Free CMS.

just a thought! any how great time and efforts of yours for us.

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written by Michael , May 21, 2008

Plone is the program!

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written by volomike , May 26, 2008

I'm liking TextPattern over any other CMS I've worked with as a PHP Freelancer because instead of me making an XHTML template that is designed specifically for the CMS, I can, instead, take any XHTML template, rip out the Lorum Ipsum text, and insert TextPattern tags that pull from the CMS database.

Now, some of you who may see the TextPattern demos may say it's not good for a couple reasons, but those reasons have been fixed. Check out this admin interface extension that someone has built called Aeron (which also uses hak_tinyMCE inside it):

It's an interface that even Joomla users would love.

So, in my opinion, it's the best PHP-based CMS out there, and it's all free and with a great developer community. In fact, the TextPattern community is so active that after each time I post, it takes only about 15 minutes and someone has responded.