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Is there any good CMS for ASP.NET like drupal, joomla ?

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The original posts are from December 2010, so the .NET CMS landscape has changed a lot since then. The right choice now depends less on “is there a .NET Drupal” and more on three things: whether you need a full-featured editorial UI (traditional CMS), a headless/content API, or an enterprise packaged product with vendor support. As started the list and warned about paid modules and upgrade friction, the short, practical update below ties those points to current options.

For editor-first, extensible sites (Joomla/Drupal-style): Umbraco and Orchard Core are the two mainstream, actively maintained open-source choices — both run on modern ASP.NET Core and are designed for extensibility and multi-site scenarios. Test each with a small content prototype to validate packages and editor UX. (github.com)

For lightweight or headless needs (APIs, SPAs, mobile backends): look at Piranha CMS or Squidex and similar .NET headless projects — they are smaller to learn, easier to host, and ideal when the frontend will be built separately. (github.com)

For enterprise feature sets and commercial support (marketing automation, commerce, SLAs): vendor products like Sitefinity or Kentico/Xperience offer packaged tooling and official support — useful where non-technical teams need low-code builders and guaranteed upgrades. Validate upgrade/service SLAs and run a proof-of-concept before committing. (progress.com)

DNN (DotNetNuke) still exists as a mature platform with multi-site and a long extension ecosystem; ’s warning about third-party module lag still applies: test upgrades and check the availability/maintenance of any commercial modules you need. (github.com)

Practical checklist: 1) pick the scenario (editor-first vs headless vs enterprise); 2) verify active community or vendor roadmap (GitHub activity, release cadence); 3) install a 2-week prototype and exercise upgrades and your must-have extensions; 4) evaluate hosting and authentication/SSO needs. Following that workflow will surface any hidden costs (custom modules, migration effort) before committing.

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I've used DotNetNuke and its a very good system but to get the fun stuff you need to buy the commercial add-ons which is not always a good idea as DNN do very regular upgrades and the third-party stuff always lags several version behind.

You can easily run multiple sites off a single installation of DNN and the free stuuf should be more than enuff to give you a fairly robust out-of-box solution.

The source code is written in VB - not sure if they do a C# version

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I have not seen this asp.net CMS before but it seems that is a cutting edge technology. It seems truly complete all in one asp.net cms application that has 30+ built in modules. They also provide you data services so you can access your website content, stores leads, campaign data anytime, anywhere. Company has also provide asp.net ecommerce solutions.

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SiteNOTE,webaptive,QuickelSoft,oxite these are also best and user friendly CMS for Asp.net. for more assistance visit

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We use Contensis at my place of work but I wouldn't recommend it at all. It crashes a lot, doesn't work properly in any browser other than IE and sometimes screws up CSS classes. For example: I would set an image to the previously defined "imageleft" to make it float to the left but when I edit the page a bit, it decides to also add the class "sys_clear" to the image for some unknown reason. A class which doesn't exist which wouldn't normally cause a problem but it doesn't put a space between the classes so in the code it looks like class="imageleftsys_clear" meaning it's trying to call a non existent class.

In short: don't use Contensis.

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