What is OctoberCMS and what are its top alternatives?
Top Alternatives to OctoberCMS
- WordPress
The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family. ...
- Grav
It is a free, open-source and self-hosted content management system (CMS) based on the PHP programming language and Symfony web application framework. It uses a flat file database for both backend and frontend. It is more widely used, and growing at a faster rate, than other leading flat-file CMS competitors. ...
- PyroCMS
It is an easy to use, abstracted, and modular CMS built using Laravel. It is built for developers, designers and users. You can build better Laravel websites and applications faster with it. ...
- Statamic
The open source, developer & designer-first, Laravel + Git powered CMS built to make managing websites easy with Git. ...
- Laravel
It is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. It attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching. ...
- Drupal
Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world. ...
- Joomla!
Joomla is a simple and powerful web server application and it requires a server with PHP and either MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server to run it. ...
- Laravel Nova
It is a beautifully designed administration panel for Laravel. Carefully crafted by the creators of Laravel to make you the most productive developer. It provides a full CRUD interface for your Eloquent models. Every type of Eloquent relationship is fully supported. ...
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WordPress
- Customizable415
- Easy to manage366
- Plugins & themes354
- Non-tech colleagues can update website content258
- Really powerful247
- Rapid website development145
- Best documentation78
- Codex51
- Product feature set44
- Custom/internal social network35
- Open source18
- Great for all types of websites8
- Huge install and user base7
- Perfect example of user collaboration5
- Open Source Community5
- Most websites make use of it5
- It's simple and easy to use by any novice5
- Best5
- I like it like I like a kick in the groin5
- Community4
- API-based CMS4
- Easy To use3
- <a href="https://secure.wphackedhel">Easy Beginner</a>2
- Hard to keep up-to-date if you customize things13
- Plugins are of mixed quality13
- Not best backend UI10
- Complex Organization2
- Do not cover all the basics in the core1
- Great Security1
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I've heard that I have the ability to write well, at times. When it flows, it flows. I decided to start blogging in 2013 on Blogger. I started a company and joined BizPark with the Microsoft Azure allotment. I created a WordPress blog and did a migration at some point. A lot happened in the time after that migration but I stopped coding and changed cities during tumultuous times that taught me many lessons concerning mental health and productivity. I eventually graduated from BizSpark and outgrew the credit allotment. That killed the WordPress blog.
I blogged about writing again on the existing Blogger blog but it didn't feel right. I looked at a few options where I wouldn't have to worry about hosting cost indefinitely and Jekyll stood out with GitHub Pages. The Importer was fairly straightforward for the existing blog posts.
Todo * Set up redirects for all posts on blogger. The URI format is different so a complete redirect wouldn't work. Although, there may be something in Jekyll that could manage the redirects. I did notice the old URLs were stored in the front matter. I'm working on a command-line Ruby gem for the current plan. * I did find some of the lost WordPress posts on archive.org that I downloaded with the waybackmachinedownloader. I think I might write an importer for that. * I still have a few Disqus comment threads to map
Below is my own professional history to give some context to my current skill set. I have been a front-end dev for 18 years. My tools of choice are:
- HTML5
- CSS 3
- JavaScript
- WordPress
- PHP (but not my strongest skill as I don't write it too often)
I first of all would like to become a better and more 'full stack' developer, and I have a business idea that will hopefully allow me to move in this direction. The queries I have will result in which approach I take here. One of the most important aspects to me is the system being 'future proof'. If successful I know I will eventually bring additional developers on board, and they will likely be better developers than me! I want to avoid them having to rebuild the system and would like it to be something that they can just expand and improve on.
The business which I'd like to create is the following (in a nutshell), I have ideas for many more features, but this is how I'd like to begin:
Web-based system for gym management & marketing. Specifically a class-based gym
- One-stop shop for a class-based gym owner
- Sell memberships
- Manage class bookings
- Reporting
- Automatically generated website
- Choose a pre-designed template and amend the content through their dashboard
- Marketing
- Easily send a newsletter to members
- Book a free trial form on the website linked directly to the booking system
Important requirements
- One system, one dashboard. I would like the gym owner to have one place to control everything. Members, marketing, and website amendments.
- Future proof. These features are the bare minimum and I'd like to keep expanding on the features as time goes on. Things like uploading programming for members, messaging between members and admin, and selling merchandise via the website.
- Fast to load & secure. I live in the WordPress world right now, which isn't the fastest or most secure environment. I appreciate there are better ways to develop a system like this, but I'm a little clueless about where to start.
- Mobile. The data created should easily communicate with a mobile app that customers will download to manage their memberships and class bookings.
TIA to anybody that can provide some guidance on where to start here.
- Easy to Update4
- No Databases3
- Fast Performance2
- Extensive Plugins2
- Strong Security2
- Full Control over customisation + functionality2
- Ligth storage use1
- Not easily to intergrate as an eCommerce (yet)2
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- No database6
- Version control your content6
- Surprising flexibility4
- It is based on Laravel4
- Easy templating3
- Great documentation2
- Too expensive for personal blog2
- Self hosting1
- Not user friendly2
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- Clean architecture553
- Growing community392
- Composer friendly370
- Open source344
- The only framework to consider for php324
- Mvc220
- Quickly develop210
- Dependency injection168
- Application architecture156
- Embraces good community packages143
- Write less, do more73
- Orm (eloquent)71
- Restful routing66
- Database migrations & seeds57
- Artisan scaffolding and migrations55
- Great documentation41
- Awesome40
- Awsome, Powerfull, Fast and Rapid30
- Build Apps faster, easier and better29
- Eloquent ORM28
- Promotes elegant coding26
- Modern PHP26
- JSON friendly26
- Most easy for me25
- Easy to learn, scalability24
- Beautiful23
- Blade Template22
- Test-Driven21
- Security15
- Based on SOLID15
- Clean Documentation13
- Easy to attach Middleware13
- Cool13
- Simple12
- Convention over Configuration12
- Easy Request Validatin11
- Simpler10
- Fast10
- Easy to use10
- Get going quickly straight out of the box. BYOKDM9
- Its just wow9
- Laravel + Cassandra = Killer Framework8
- Simplistic , easy and faster8
- Friendly API8
- Less dependencies7
- Super easy and powerful7
- Great customer support6
- Its beautiful to code in6
- Speed5
- Eloquent5
- Composer5
- Minimum system requirements5
- Laravel Mix5
- Easy5
- The only "cons" is wrong! No static method just Facades5
- Fast and Clarify framework5
- Active Record5
- Php75
- Ease of use4
- Laragon4
- Laravel casher4
- Easy views handling and great ORM4
- Laravel Forge and Envoy4
- Cashier with Braintree and Stripe4
- Laravel Passport3
- Laravel Spark3
- Intuitive usage3
- Laravel Horizon and Telescope3
- Laravel Nova3
- Rapid development3
- Laravel Vite2
- Scout2
- Deployment2
- Succint sintax1
- PHP54
- Too many dependency33
- Slower than the other two23
- A lot of static method calls for convenience17
- Too many include15
- Heavy13
- Bloated9
- Laravel8
- Confusing7
- Too underrated5
- Not fast with MongoDB4
- Slow and too much big1
- Not using SOLID principles1
- Difficult to learn1
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I need to build a web application plus android and IOS apps for an enterprise, like an e-commerce portal. It will have intensive use of MySQL to display thousands (40-50k) of live product information in an interactive table (searchable, filterable), live delivery tracking. It has to be secure, as it will handle information on customers, sales, inventory. Here is the technology stack: Backend: Laravel 7 Frondend: Vue.js, React or AngularJS?
Need help deciding technology stack. Thanks.
Coming from a non-web development environment background, I was a bit lost a first and bewildered by all the varying tools and platforms, and spent much too long evaluating before eventualy deciding on Laravel as the main core of my development.
But as I started development with Laravel that lead me into discovering Vue.js for creating beautiful front-end components that were easy to configure and extend, so I decided to standardise on Vue.js for most of my front-end development.
During my search for additional Vue.js components, a chance comment in a @laravel forum , led me to discover Quasar Framework initially for it's wide range of in-built components ... but once, I realised that Quasar Framework allowed me to use the same codebase to create apps for SPA, PWA, iOS, Android, and Electron then I was hooked.
So, I'm now using mainly just Quasar Framework for all the front-end, with Laravel providing a backend API service to the Front-end apps.
I'm deploying this all to DigitalOcean droplets via service called Moss.sh which deploys my private GitHub repositories directly to DigitalOcean in realtime.
- Stable, highly functional cms75
- Great community60
- Easy cms to make websites44
- Highly customizable43
- Digital customer experience delivery platform22
- Really powerful17
- Customizable16
- Flexible11
- Good tool for prototyping10
- Enterprise proven over many years when others failed9
- Headless adds even more power/flexibility8
- Open source8
- Each version becomes more intuitive for clients to use7
- Well documented7
- Lego blocks methodology6
- Caching and performance4
- Powerful3
- Built on Symfony3
- Can build anything3
- Views2
- API-based CMS1
- Steep learning curve1
- DJango1
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Hi. I’m a lead developer in charge of designing the build for version 2.0 of our startup SaaS website which is currently a traditional Drupal 7 site. I’m just looking for some peer advice that I am headed down an ok path now the product has grown & changed. tl;dr; 1) Is building a decoupled/headless Drupal 10 site with a JavaScript framework a dumb idea? 2) Should I look to a different headless CMS? 3) React or Vue.js or (other) in 2022?
Our requirements for our new site include
- White labeling / multisite spawning (will need separate databases for each)
- Complex permissions and several user roles
- Robust security
- Mobile app capability for iOS (for now - Android in the future)
- Multilingual capability
- Easy user management/creation by non-devs
- Reporting capabilities
- Some basic “marketing” pages (but this could be separate from the web app I suppose)
- A large amount of hosted video/image assets on AWS or similar
- Weekly/daily CRON jobs to send out emails & reports
Being that I am experienced in Drupal & PHP, my thought was to build a headless site with a Vue.js or React as the front end in Drupal 10. I've only got minimal experience in either JS framework so I'm not sure which I should choose to skill up. Does this seem reasonable or am I barking up the wrong tree?
Joomla!
- Powerful extension architecture17
- Powerfull CMS6
- Mid-Hight End level CMS5
- Highly customizable4
- Vast repository of free and paid extensions2
- Extensions & Templates2
- Multilingual in the core1
- Depleting dev community1
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installing a local Joomla! 3.9 website for testing - I already downloaded an installed XAMPP - when now reading some other docs I found mentioned MAMP ... have I to change?
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