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Ask Slashdot: What's The Best CMS?

Posted by EditorDavid on from the intermittent-updates dept.

Slashdot reader pipingguy recently inherited a 2012 installation of Joomla 1.5.26, and while performing four years worth of updates, began wondering about other content management systems. I've built more than a few static websites (I use Sublime Text 3 or Atom, not some fancy-pants WYSIWYG doohickey) and am quite familiar with CSS, but databases not so much. I've been through lots of online documentation and am a bit bewildered, but I'm following the recommendations regarding backups and the like.

What are Slashdot readers' latest opinions on the three most popular CMSes -- Drupal, Joomla and WordPress? Any tips for me before I accidentally blow away the existing site and have to rebuild everything...?
Leave your educated opinions in the comments...

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  1. Notepad by invictusvoyd · · Score: 4, Funny

    Notepad

    1. Re: Notepad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Real programmers use butterflies.

      http://xkcd.com/378/

  2. Re:What's the best fruit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can't you at least recommend a decision table software?

  3. Re:The one you've written yourself. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    For the love of the poor people who have to fix your shit don't. I come across the odd DIY CMS every so often and they're always a clusterfuck. There's a point where you'll figure out WHY people use frameworks. Something to hande SQL injection? framework. Something to handle XSS? framework. Something that can assist in making actual maintainable code? framework. Something that lets you focus on the actual site rather than have to deal with all the repetitive shit? framework. FFS this is a solved problem. Stop re-solving it again just to appease your ego. We get it, you understand how this stuff works. Go re-write a CMS using Tensorflow. Jeez.