Ask HN: Favorite CMS?
Looking for recommendations on a CMS. My needs are pretty standard, blogging abilities and editable content for non-technical folks. Bonus points if it integrates with Rails nicely.
I was a .NET developer for many years before moving onto a Linux stack, but I am still yet to find a CMS that rivals Umbraco for ease of use.
It's open-source, has a great community behind it, has cloud offerings, and has enough extensions available that you can plug in (mostly) any functionality you want. The key thing, for me, is that it blows WordPress out of the water in terms of ease of use - it's not even remotely close.
It's not perfect by any means. there is a disconnect between what HQ wants and what the community asks for, the back-office is on Angular 1 (for good reasons - switching would break existing extensions), and it suffers from the same problem that WordPress suffers in that dev jobs are quite cheap. The ease of use means the market is flooded with bad developers, and there seems to be little incentive to offer more money to get quality in.
I hope to never touch it again.
If I had to start a new website I’d likely use craft or Jekyll+netlify+netlify CMS or forestry
1. The UI. Most people know it, at least a little bit, so it is sold on the fact that it is usable. I'd say this is true in the same sense that Hacker News has a great UI. It's functional, but all its warts are masked by its familiarity.
2. The plugins. I know loads of WordPress developers in 2018 that couldn't tell you what composer is. I don't want to tar everyone with the same brush, but a lot of people choose WP because they don't need to write code, and that comes with its own problems when you want something a bit different to what your favourite plugin offers.
The plug-ins could contain ok to vulnerable to malicious to disastrously bad code and could change from one version to another so when you update an OK plug-in you may introduce malware to your site.
WordPress. There is no better CMS when it comes to the ability to edit content by non-technical folks.
You should check the plugins marketplace for each platform to check about RoR integration.