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Looking for a CMS with inline or front end editing.

bristolcat — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:48:33 -0800

A simple CMS with an inline or front end editor? I searched the archives and I was surprised that for all the questions about CMS solutions, there weren't many mentions of inline or front end editing (assuming those are the correct terms for what I'm looking for, of course).

My holy grail of web design right now is to find a CMS that is dependable, simple and dead easy for the client to edit. I usually use Joomla, but I'm finding that it is anything but simple for my average client to use.

The ideal solution would be a system in which the person in charge of content could edit directly on the page. It would also be necessary to be able to add images and video. An added bonus would be the ability to add new pages from a front end editor, but I don't know if that would work well or be any easier than logging into a backend.

I searched and found a reference to Plone, which seems a bit complicated and unfortunately isn't demo-ed on Open Source CMS. I haven't found much else. I remember a friend of mine using a simple ASP CMS back in 2003 that had inline editing, but I know that it changed its name and now I can't find it back.

I've seen some mentions here and there in searches of plugins that would do this for Wordpress. I'm not crazy about that idea, but it would work. Does anyone have any experience with them? I have also seen a plugin developed for Joomla that did this, but the developer I spoke with had it custom programmed for a private organization and wouldn't share any information about it.

Does anyone have any suggestions? It would preferably be either free or really worth the money. Any help or leads would be appreciated.

On preview, I'm seeing a few related questions with interesting solutions. Would like to see if anything new has come up in the last year since the previous question, though. Thanks

Plone vs Drupal

Kerasia — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:05:06 -0800

Plone or Drupal? We are a non-profit organisation looking to develop our web presence and move from a hodge-podge CMS to something using either Drupal or Plone. We have one part-time web editor who is enthusiastic about one of these platforms but hasn't really built anything with it. Other interested folk like myself have used both (but built nothing on my own) and I have a favourite too (although I think there are flaws with both).

Assuming it's one or the other, if you were building a site, which would you choose? Plone or Drupal?

Website for the masses!

sirliberal — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:05:32 -0800

Non-Profit Website: How to allow non-techies to edit! Problem: I work for a small (150 ppl) non-profit as a netadmin and we want a webpage (zomg 2007 right?). My specific issue is I want a platform that will allow:

Adding content/deleting content/adding PDF's/adding images

Without requiring input from me. The bureaucracy of our organization means that this will make life MUCH easier for me. As a result I prototyped the site in Plone, which worked out great except Plone is a flaming turd of a product.

I really like Plone's in-template editing, drag and drop content ordering, staging (ie, bits can exist on the site ONLY when logged in). I need something that will run on Dreamhost (which is pretty much anything PHP/Perl/etc).

I have looked at: (ask://cms)

WordPress
Expression Engine (I'd love to have their main site tempate)
TextPattern (Perfect Implementation)
SilverStripe

This seems like a rather trivial adventure, except all of these products seem geared directly towards running a blog, with side static pages, as where Plone was a content manager with a blog addon.

Is CMS a synonym for Blogging these days? My users are fairly inept, and I do major styling (ie, they can handle textarea with buttons for formatting). I would love something where they can easily add sections. Let's use the Library site linked above as 'implentation' which uses features that aren't available to the public.

* Major sections, subsections shown on the right in content area
* Each major section has a 'landing page' that is styled differnetly
* User's can concievably add a new content area and it is automatically added to the navigation system.

One specific gripe with MT is that it seems to be all static pages, and I see a benefit to having dynamically built pages so I can add in php code later to do things on the fly (database lookups in page?).

I don't need any blogging functionality at all, which is the biggest stumbling block here. Everything I look at is primarily driven off this 'articles' idea, whereas I simply want 'pages'. I want to have a way to specify the display order in the navigation. All things Plone did, but I cant find something more lightweight (preferably in PHP) that can do the same.

I am on the edge of just writing my own custom app in PHP/Smarty, but it seems silly to do that when SOMETHING must automate this all for me. There are great examples of sites running off these platforms.

CMS on IIS

bricoleur — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:36:32 -0800

What is the best CMS for a high-traffic IIS website with a wide variety of content (forum, articles, article archives, product listings, hardware comparisons, tips, blogs, podcasts, etc.)? I did search AskMe and I learned a lot, but I could still use more information, especially information that focusses on a) the breadth of content, and b) the fact that it's an IIS site.

I realize that trying to integrate everything under one solution isn't always the best solution, but we really need to unify and expand our content creation interface.

We're willing to grind a steep learning curve to get the best possible long-term solution. It's a given that we will be doing loads of tweaking and developing for the front end of whichever CMS we choose, in order to maintain the current look and functionality of the site, so it's important that template modification be, if not painless, at least not too tortuous. Even more important, though, is the ability to classify a wide variety of content (Drupal's taxonomies look capable in this respect).

Currently, the contenders are Drupal, Plone, and MS Content Management Server (pricey, but has some features, such as integration with MS Word, that make it attractive in this case). If you have experience with any of these, please tell me about strengths and weaknesses. I would particularly appreciate compare/contrast comments from those of you who have used more than one of these.

Plone Hosting Recommendations

srboisvert — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 03:52:39 -0800

Anybody have experience with plone hosting service providers? I need to find a good reliable provider. So far I have come across High Speed Rails, Siteground and Interlix. Any feedback on them would be helpful. Specifics: I don't want to have to maintain the plone installation. I just want to setup the site and then walk away and let others manage it. I will be needing fairly large amount of space 4gb-10gb at first growing thereafter and a fair bit of bandwidth - the site will be sharing some large multimedia files with a small number of users.

Forwarding traffic to the appropriate application and port with IIS

letterneversent — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 09:14:50 -0800

I've just installed Plone (www.plone.org) for a client on their server. They currently run their sites on Windows 2000 with IIS on port 80. I set up Plone to run on port 81, but what do I need to do to make this accessible to outside traffic? It is currently inaccessible to anyone outside the offices, and I'm afraid I have no expertise with IIS. It might also help to have it available via a subdomain. I am willing to reward someone for a good answer with a nominal fee.