7 Best Free and Open Source Content Management Systems | Linux Today

7 Best Free and Open Source Content Management Systems

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 16, 2010

“A content management system (CMS) is a software used to
simplify the management and publication of HTML content such as
documents and images. It provides authoring and other tools
designed to allow users with little technical knowledge of
programming languages or markup languages to create and manage
content with relative ease. Most web CMS use a database to store
content, metadata, or artifacts that might be needed by the system.
Content is commonly stored as XML, to facilitate, reuse, and enable
flexible presentation options.

“For those of you who are interested, I have here a list of some
of the most well-known and perhaps the best free and open source
content management systems (CMS) available:

“WordPress

“WordPress is widely considered as the most popular blog
publishing application, and is used by over 2% of the 10,000
biggest websites. It is powered by PHP and MySQL and offers many
features including a plugin architecture and a templating
system.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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