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Hi,

I'm quite new to CMS I was browsing the internet and it seems that there are A LOT if CMS around. I hope that someone who has had experience with CMS could help me with choosing the right one.

From my research I understand that 3 biggest players are Joomla, Drupal and Wordpress?! Are there any other options I should consider ?

I'm planning to site with preferebly a lot of users, where users can register and add their own content (pictures, video, text, etc). I want to add picture,video galleries as well. It wouldn't hurt if this particular CMS would be easy to change design vise.

Which CMS would you suggest ?

Thank you in advane :)

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A short, practical decision guide based on the thread: pick the CMS after mapping the actual content model (what kinds of user content, whether media must be transcoded/indexed, and what moderation/workflows are needed), the expected traffic profile, and the team available to maintain it. Live demos (as suggested) and a simple feature matrix usually reveal whether a product will be easy or painful to extend; the forum’s variety of suggestions (lightweight options and full-featured systems) reflects real tradeoffs between simplicity and extensibility.

There is no fixed “user cap” baked into mainstream CMSs — the limit is the chosen architecture (database, storage, caching, search, workers) and hosting plan. Large publishers run Drupal/WordPress-class systems at very high scale when the infrastructure is designed for it; for media-heavy sites the standard pattern is to store uploads in object storage and deliver them via a CDN to avoid overloading web servers. (drupal.org)

Practical checklist for a multi-user, media-heavy site (platform-agnostic):

  1. Model content and moderation: define roles, quotas, approval flows and spam checks.
  2. Offload files to object storage and serve via a CDN; restrict direct-bucket access.
  3. Decouple heavy tasks (image resizing, video transcode) with a background queue and workers so the web front end stays responsive.
  4. Use layered caching (page/reverse-proxy + object cache like Redis) to reduce DB load.
  5. Harden uploads: allowlist file types, set size limits, rename stored files and scan or validate content (anti-malware, content-type checks).
  6. Add monitoring, backups and incremental load-testing before a public launch. (developer.wordpress.org)

Operational notes tied to the thread: the CMS choice mainly affects development speed and plugin availability; scaling and security follow the same engineering patterns regardless of which system was picked (the advice from about simpler systems and / about ready-made feature sets both apply). For any selected CMS, prefer managed/hosted plans or proven hosting architecture, test real-world upload and plugin behavior under load, keep core and extensions updated, and instrument the site so problems are visible before user numbers grow.

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Member Avatar for Member #585571

I suggest you check out opensourcecms.com for demos of different cmses and select accordingly.

In my opinion use joomla or drupal.

Member Avatar for wonderland

Thank you for your response!

Joomla seems to attract me the most :)

Thank you a lot for that internet site, there's a lot of useful information there! Just what I needed :)

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Member Avatar for chrishea

This question comes up regularly and most people will point you at the most popular ones such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or Wordpress because that is what they are familiar with. Being popular means that there may be more choice of templates and plugins and that may be important to you. As you found, there are many many others and some of those may have some specific advantages over the better known systems. I have been using a system called Website Baker for many years. It is very straightforward to understand and change. It is very easy for non-technical people to use to maintain a site. I suggest that you include it in your evaluation.

Chris

Member Avatar for hemgoyal_1990

Joomla is BEst CMS in my Review because it's Complete Your ll Requirement Like: Content Posting, Image, Video Posting . New Designee Integrated.
and the Most Thing is That this is Free available on www.joomla.org

Member Avatar for wonderland

Thank you for your replies!
As I did more in depth research I did add "MODX" and "Website Baker" in my evaluation.

Clearly there are many opinions on CMS. So I will have to do some thinking (sometimes it would be so much easier if we just had 3 to choose from) :D

A lot of comments stated that joomla and drupal for example are outdated code wise and that none of them are SEO friendly. Where modx and website baker are the new real deals .

One thing that reviews, comments and developer sites didn't cover is whether there is a limit to how much users can those CMS handle? And will my users be able to add their own content? Or is it a standard for CMS? (I usually don't read further than first page of comments )

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Member Avatar for hemgoyal_1990

there is not limit that how much user handle CMS.
and also Your User can Upload there own contents with Joomla.
Because i also Use Joomla...

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Thanks ! :)

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welcome...

Member Avatar for Member #585571

glFusion is also a nice one although doesn't seem to be SEO friendly. I didn't find clean url settings in its demo.

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Thanks ;)

Member Avatar for Njegos

Since you need extensive CMS solution with registration and various other features I suggest Joomla. It is hard to find proper template configuration, but after some time you will be satisfied.

Member Avatar for jpjivrajani

hi,

i'm quite new to cms i was browsing the internet and it seems that there are a lot if cms around. I hope that someone who has had experience with cms could help me with choosing the right one.

From my research i understand that 3 biggest players are joomla, drupal and wordpress?! Are there any other options i should consider ?

I'm planning to site with preferebly a lot of users, where users can register and add their own content (pictures, video, text, etc). I want to add picture,video galleries as well. It wouldn't hurt if this particular cms would be easy to change design vise.

Which cms would you suggest ?

Thank you in advane :)

i would suggest you to use joomla because it is more used in market.

Member Avatar for Allyw

I like JOOMLA too, but it is very hard to learn use it :D

Member Avatar for wonderland

Joomla was hard at first, but once you undesrand sections, categories etc. It gets really great

I chose Joomla btw

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