A Web Content Management System (WCM, WCMS or Web CMS) is software, implemented as a web application, for creating and managing HTML content dynamically. It is used to manage and control a large, dynamic collection of Web material (HTML documents and their associated images). A WCMS facilitates content creation, content control, editing, and essential Web maintenance functions.

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Most Popular Content Management Systems (Best & Free)

Here, are the top 5 we content management systems that you can use for your website. Also read about some of the most popular web fonts for designing websites.

WordPress (link)

Wordpress-logo.pngWordPress is an open source blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL which can also be used for content management. It has many features including a plugin architecture and a templating system. Used by over 2% of the 10,000 biggest websites, WordPress is the most popular blog software in use today.

Drupal (link)

Druplicon.vector.svgDrupal is a free and open source content management system (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is used as a back-end system for many different types of websites, ranging from small personal blogs to large corporate and political sites, including whitehouse.gov. It is also used for knowledge management and business collaboration.

Joomla (link)

Joomla logoJoomla! is an open source content management system platform for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets as well as a Model–view–controller (MVC) Web application framework. It is written in PHP, stores data in MySQL and includes features such as page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, search, and support for language internationalization.

SilverStripe (link)

Silverstripe-logo.pngSilverStripe is a free and open source content management system (CMS) for creating and maintaining websites. The CMS provides a web-based administration panel that enables users to make modifications to parts of the website. This panel includes a WYSIWYG website editor.

TextPattern (link)

Textpattern.pngTextpattern is an open source content management system originally developed by Dean Allen. While it is often listed among weblogging tools, its aim is to be a high-quality general-purpose content management system suitable for deployment in many contexts. Textpattern is written in PHP using a MySQL database backend.

Also, ExpressionEngine (link) is an elegant, flexible CMS solution for any type of project. Designed to be extensible and easy to modify, EE sets itself apart in how clean and intuitive their user administration area is.ExpresssionEngine is quite different than other previously-mentioned CMS in that it’s paid software. The personal license costs $99.95, and the commercial license costs $249.99.

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  1. siddharth

    Nice share .Joomla ,wordpress and drupal are well known .But joomla still has some vulurnablities

  2. Balaji J H

    Hi,
    I am WP Fan
    I love it :)

    Thanks

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