What Other Open-Source CMS Options Are Available Besides WordPress for Building Your Own Website?

For non-technical beginners who don't know how to code, it's certainly impossible to build a website from scratch by writing code. Choosing an open-source CMS system to build a website is a good alternative. Besides theWordPressrecommended by Naiba, what other open-source CMS systems are there? Naiba lists them for everyone.

Drupal

Drupal, like WordPress, is a popular CMS website building system abroad. Drupal is a free and open-source content management system created by Dries Buytaert, written in PHP. In the industry, Drupal is often regarded as a content management framework rather than a typical content management system. The entire platform treats all content as a „node“, controlled by numerous „modules“ for display, modification, arrangement, classification, etc. However, the learning curve is relatively high, which may not be suitable for complete beginners with no coding knowledge.

Joomla

Joomla! is a free, open-source content management system written in PHP, used for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets. It is commonly used to build commercial websites, personal blogs, information management systems, web services, etc., and can be further developed to expand its usage scope. Its features include page caching for improved performance, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news feeds, blogs, polls, site search, and language internationalization. Related article:For a foreign trade independent website, choose WordPress, Joomla, or Drupal?

Typecho

This is a PHP blog program developed by Chinese developers. Of course, if you can write themes yourself, it can also be used to build corporate websites or CMS websites, but more users choose it to build their own blogs. The advantages of Typecho are its lightweight and high efficiency. With only 7 database tables and less than 400KB of code, it implements a complete plugin and template mechanism. Extremely low CPU and memory usage can fully leverage the host's maximum performance. Advanced and stable, natively supports Markdown typesetting syntax, making it easy to read and write. Supports various cloud hosts like BAE/GAE/SAE, and can easily handle sudden high traffic. Simple and friendly, the carefully polished interface remains familiar, with added maturity and thoughtfulness. Every pixel is trimmed to move closer to perfection.

DedeCMS

DedeCMS is a website building program used by many veteran webmasters in China. Naiba also used it many years ago. It is very suitable for building CMS websites, and Baidu prefers it. It can generate full-site HTML static files. Unfortunately, the latest version is still from 2018, with many vulnerabilities. Beginners who cannot fix bugs themselves may often get hacked.

Empire CMS

"Empire Website Management System" is translated into English as "EmpireCMS". It is based on a B/S structure, a secure, stable, powerful, and flexible website management system. It is also the choice of many veteran webmasters. EmpireCMS hasn't been updated for a long time either, but it has fewer vulnerabilities than DedeCMS. If you can write EmpireCMS templates yourself, you'll find it very handy to use.

Hugo

Hugo is a static site generator written in Go, originally created by Steve Francia in 2013. Since v0.14, it has been mainly developed by Bjørn Erik Pedersen, with contributions from developers and users worldwide. Hugo is an open-source project licensed under the Apache License 2.0. Hugo is more suitable for programmers to play with because it generates static websites that can run directly on static hosting like GitHub, without needing to consider SEO. It's purely for personal recording.

Halo

Halo is a modern personal independent blog system, offering another choice for those accustomed to blogging. Halo [ˈheɪloʊ], meaning halo. Of course, you can also read it as pinyin (Hālo). Light, simple, powerful, a blog system developed with Java.

Discuz

The once king of forum building programs. Currently, if you really want to build a forum, nothing beats Discuz. The project nearly stopped development a few years ago but has recently revived. Naiba is looking forward to the release of DiscuzQ.

PbootCMS

This CMS isn't truly fully open-source; it has encrypted core files. However, it is suitable for domestic corporate websites. Naiba has written aboutTutorial. Okay, the above are some open-source CMS programs collected and shared by Naiba for everyone. When building your own website, you can choose the most suitable program based on your actual situation, which can save a lot of time and improve efficiency.