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I've been looking forward to someone publishing a new CMS. WordPress is great, but I've been wanting something new and fresh. I got the alpha installed and it looks good but there is still work to do, but I like what I see. Keep it up!

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There are some new CSM's out there that are growing at an amazing rate. I have been a part of the craft cms[0] community since beta and now they have their own stack overflow (stack exchange) site which was the fastest any stack exchange site has ever been put into production from user voting and participation.

I encourage everyone to check it out.

[0] http://buildwithcraft.com

We just switched to Statamic and could not be happier. We modified it a bit so that our staging server has the admin panel enabled while still being backed by a git repo. Every save action commits and pushes to master, giving our non-technical folks a super convenient way to see their changes immediately without making a fatal mistake in production. Devs can then merge into prod after a quick review of the final changes.

Our design and workflow were largely inspired by the Asana team (http://eng.asana.com/2014/02/scaling-asana-com/) but we wanted to give our folks a fully featured admin panel instead of making them trudge through the Bitbucket/Github interface.

Edit: do not want to rain on the Pagekit parade at all...looks great so far.

I'm wondering if it could be possible to rewrite WordPress using modern PHP Aires approaches and keep some kind of Finnmark compatibility layer with its plugins temporarily until they get updated to the new APIs. Will be a lot of work but for a project this popular it might be worth it.

If you're into shiny new things, I'd recommend Keystone:

http://keystonejs.com/

"Node.js CMS and web application platform built on Express and MongoDB."

It's a pain to get going on a Windows machine, but I got it working on my Linux box inside of 10 minutes. If you're on a Mac, its probably about the same time to get up and running.

It also uses Jade for templates along with Markdown.

Personally, after using Keystone a couple times, I've found it to be more analogous to something like Django or Drupal; it's more of a content management system framework.

Nevertheless, it's a great tool.

The guys at Thinkmill recently did an amazing presentation at SydJS where they released the full source to a Keystone app project. Should be a great place for anyone starting out.

http://www.sydjs.com/showbag

Big thanks to @bladey who put a lot of it together!

I've used the Kunstmaan CMS a few times, also very easy to use. Also built with bundles (Symfony2). http://bundles.kunstmaan.be

My neighbor is the guy behind this one that's fairly new on the scene: https://buildwithcraft.com/

http://www.concrete5.org/ is worth checking out

Try OctoberCMS, ProcessWire, or CouchCMS.

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