CMS is referring to Content Management System. These systems are used to ease the creation and tracking contents in digital format such as videos, texts, and images. Although there are different type of CMS, the one that we are covering here is web CMS. Web CMS emerges as a solution for webmasters to be able to manage their contents with ease with little to none programming skills. The most popular web CMS are currently written in PHP (The programming language) combined with MySQL (The Database). There are other alternatives to PHP based CMS, the most common ones are Java based CMS and ASP based CMS.
The most commonly used web CMS are written in PHP due to the fact that the amount of money needed to set these up is very minimum and most of the web hosting today support PHP and MySQL. Check out these best of the best PHP based CMS:
- WordPress - Meant to be a CMS made specifically to handle blogs but due to the features offered, user can even create a full website using WordPress. There is a huge community backing up WordPress and a lot of themes and plugins are developed for free.
- Drupal - A CMS that aims to be the easiest to use. User can see real time update of whatever layout changes made through the control panel.
- Joomla - Used by a lot of professional websites. Joomla is a great CMS that manages all the content and details of web sites.
- CMSMadeSimple - A new open source CMS that has been gaining exposures for its ease of use.
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