WordPress

WordPress is an open source blog application. WordPress forked from b2/cafelog in 2003, and WordPress Mu multiple website functionality has been integrated since 2010. Today WordPress is the most used blog application powering millions of blogs and being used by tens of millions of people every day.

WordPress is a personal publishing platform and blogging application with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.

Features:

• Additional pages allow you to manage non-blog content easily, so for example you could have a static “About Me” page.
• A full theme system enables designing everything from the simplest blog to the most complicated webzine a piece of cake.
• Changes made to templates and entries are reflected immediately on your site, with no need for regenerating static pages, and all generated HTML is fully compliant with W3C standards.
• Trackback and Pingback standards fully supported.
• Visitors can post comments on your blog entries, and commenting can be disabled on a per-post basis.
• Spam protection eliminates comment spam from your blog.
• User registration enables visitors to register and maintain profiles and leave authenticated comments on your blog, if enabled.
• Password Protected Posts enables you to give passwords to individual posts to hide them from the public.
• A full XML-RPC interface enables you to extend WordPress and use clients designed for other platforms like Zempt.
• User groups enables up to 10 levels of users, with different levels having different (and configurable) privileges with regard to publishing, editing, options, and other users.
• Bookmarklets make it easy to publish to your blog or add links to your blogroll with a minimum of effort.
• Ping-O-Matic is supported, which means maximum exposure for your blog to search engines.

Drupal

Drupal is an open source content management application and PHP development framework.

Drupal is a publishing platform created for building dynamic web sites offering a broad range of features and services. Drupal can support a diverse range of web projects ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven and corporate sites. Use as-is or snap in any of thousands of free designs and plug-ins for rapid site assembly. Developers love our well-documented APIs. Designers love our flexibility. Site administrators love our limitless scalability.

Features:

• Organize and Find: Drupal comes with many tools to help you organize, structure, find and re-use your content. Categorize with taxonomy, automatically create friendly path urls, create custom lists, associate content with other content on your site, and create smart defaults for content creators.
• Creative Content: Drupal’s flexibility handles countless content types including video, text, blog, podcasts, and polls with robust user management, menu handling, real-time statistics and optional revision control.
• Administer: Drupal comes with great options for new user accounts and user permissions. Users can be assigned one or more roles, and each role can be set up with fine-grained permissions allowing users view and create only what the administrator permits.
• Collaborate: Drupal’s focus on social publishing can help you create sites and applications to help your users express their opinions and engage with one another. You can have tight control over who can create, view, administer, publish and otherwise interact with content on your site.
• Design and Display: Drupal’s presentation layer allows designers to create highly usable, interactive experiences that engage users and increase traffic. Use an existing Drupal theme for your site or try designing your own.
• Extend: With more than 6000 available modules, the vast majority of your site’s requirements can be addressed with Drupal core and available add-on modules.
• Connect: Drupal makes it easy to connect your website to other sites and services across the web, using aggregation, feeds, and search engine connection capabilities. Social networking integration is also widely supported to help you engage with a wider audience.

Joomla

Joomla is an open source content management and portal application. Joomla forked from Mambo in 2005 and today is one of the most used applications having been downloaded more than 25 million times.

Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS) which enables web sites and powerful online applications to be built. With millions of websites running on Joomla, the software is used by individuals, small and medium-sized businesses, and large organizations worldwide. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular web site software available.

Features:

• Multi-user functionality enables different users to have different levels of access.
• Media Manager enables easy management of media files and folders stored online.
• Banner Management makes setting up advertisements on a website a breeze.
• Contact Manager helps users find the right person and their contact information.
• Polls and Surveys gather data from website visitors.
• Search helps visitors navigate content and provides search statistics.
• Web Link Management enables every click to be organized and tracked.
• Content Management tools enable website content to be organized in any way.
• Syndication and Newsfeed Management enables visitors to subscribe to your website using their favorite RSS reader.
• Menu Manager enables as many menus and menu items to be created as necessary.
• Template Management is a powerful tool that enables a site to look exactly as intended.
• Integrated Help System assists you at every step of creating your website.
• Joomla! is infinitely extendable using the Joomla! extension manager.

b2evolution

b2evolution is an open source blog application. b2evolution forked from the b2/cafelog application in 2003. b2evolution is a news post and blogging application. You enter news items through an easy-to-use web interface and the news items appear dynamically on your webpage. The application also handles archving and commenting.

Dotclear

Dotclear is an open source blog application. Dotclear was initially released in 2003.

Dotclear is an open-source web publishing software. Take control over your blog!

Dotclear project’s purpose is to provide a user-friendly tool allowing anyone to publish on the web, regardless of their technical skills.

Features:

• Easy publication
• Fully customizable theme, Flexible template system, comment system
• User-friendly administration, Automated installation
• Choose from several editing syntax (wiki, markdown, textile or directly in wysiwyg), Media management
• Built-in antispam, Localization
• Presentation widgets, Themes and plugins
• Pages, Tags and categories
• Support for several database types
• Multiblog, Multi-user with permissions
• Standards compliant
• Accessible, Importing / exporting
• Naturally optimized for search engines
• Syndication feeds
• Complete trackback support, Full Unicode support, XML/RPC client support
• Extensible, Performance and scalability

Geeklog

Geeklog is an open source blog application. Geeklog was initially released in 2000. Geeklog is a CMS and blog engine with support for comments, trackbacks, multiple syndication formats, spam protection, and all the other vital features of such a system. The core Geeklog distribution can easily be extended by the many community developed plugins and other add-ons to radically alter its functionality. Available plugins include forums, image galleries, and many more.

Blog/CMS Features:

• Create, Schedule, Post and Edit articles in multiple topics
• Save story drafts until they are ready for publishing.
• Control over formatting used in articles (HTML whitelists)
• Control over acceptable content (filtering of offensive language)
• Embed images or other content in articles
• Multiple Authors can post
• Submissions from users
• Support for comments, trackbacks and pingbacks
• Export and import in all common syndication formats (RSS/RDF/Atom etc)
• Spam detection and rejection
• Robust calendar feature with support for personalized calendars.
• Support for OAuth, OpenID and other remote authentication methods.
• Extendible via numerous Open Source plugins.

Administration Features:

• User accounts and access controls.
• Robust *nix-like security model for all objects which can be extended for use in plugins
• Access can be defined for each article, topic etc
• All passwords are stored encrypted.
• All admin access is logged.
• All errors are logged.
• Complete error logging on all forms and SQL calls.

Developer Features:

• Plugin support with API for developers.
• A fully configurable block system, with php-in-block support.
• Well organized codebase, use of PHP’s Object-Oriented features.
• Thin database abstraction layer allowing Geeklog to be ported to DBMS’s other than the defaults (MySQL and MSSQL supported directly).

LifeType

LifeType is an open source blog application. LifeType was originally released in 2003 (then known as pLog).

LifeType supports multiple blogs and users, media management, generation of standard content, clean URLs and support for subdomains.

Features:

• User Friendly Interface: Writing articles is comfortable with the included state of the art WYSIWYG editor. Adding pictures and sound files (for Podcasting) is just a matter of browse and click.
• Integrated Media Management: Podcasting, automatic thumbnail generation, mass uploading of files, a filebrowser and custom descriptions for each file is supported through the administration interface
• Choose your Style: Looking for a nice design for your weblog? Go check out the many freely available templates. Installation is as easy as uploading a file through your administration interface!
• Built-in anti-spam Filter: The built-in bayesian spam filter keeps comments and trackbacks in you blog clean. And comment moderation, Captchas and trackback validation is available through plugins.
• Support for Trackbacks: Trackback blogs you read by simply linking to them! LifeType will automatically find the trackback URL of the blog you are linking to.
• Multiple Users per Blog: You can easily give your friends permissions to write in your weblog, making collaborative web sites even easier!
• Mobile features: Are you into moblogging? Do you need to blog wherever you are? Do you need to easily provide low bandwidth versions of your site for mobile devices? Using the appropiate plugins, LifeType becomes the first mobile-ready application of its kind with seamless integration for publishing to and accessing blogs.
• Multiple Blogs in one Installation: With its multi-domain, multi-blog, multi-user setup and strict separation of single weblog administration and overall administration LifeType is ideally suited for blog hosting. It’s all provided through a single installation and one single database.
• Central Page for Communities: Easy 4 step registration for new weblogs, an overview of newest and most popular blogs as well as a user and blog index, everything ready to go with your intallation of LifeType.
• Performance: Template caching, data object caching and serious code refactoring to improve performance and keep the system load as minimal as possible make LifeType fast and reliable even with very large and busy communities.
• Nice Looking URLs: Creat your own customized URLs for SEO or to adapt your them to your language. Toggle a setting in the configuration of the site and LifeType will automatically use cruft-free URLs instead of the old style, raw ones.
• Powerful Plugin Framework: The impressive plugin capabilities let’s you add about any feature you like. With filters, events, registration of new actions, localization, MVC support (self-contained), perfect integration into the administration interface and template support you can add about any functionality you can think off.
• Smarty Templates: LifeType is built on top of the fantastic Smarty template engine, providing unprecedented power to template developers without compromising security, since Smarty templates do not allow by default to add potentially dangerous PHP code to our templates. This is specially important if you use LifeType to provide a blogging service to a community.
• XMLRPC: LifeType supports an XMLRPC interface for remote creating and editing articles. And of course you may ping as many directories as you like with the inbuilt XMLRPC ping service. XMLRPC pings are enabled/disabled per article.

PivotX

PivotX is an open source blog application. PivotX forked from Pivotlog in 2007. PivotX is a web-based tool to help you maintain dynamic sites, like weblogs or online journals.

It uses the Smarty web template system and the TinyMCE editor. One installation can handle several blogs, each with its own configuration, including themes. Users belong to different levels regarding managing and editing privileges. New functions can be added via extensions managed through the admin interface.

Its development began in 2001 under the name Pivot, using only flat files. In 2012, PivotX developers announced that future versions of this CMS will go two ways: full-fledged “Pivot 4”, built on Symfony2 framework, and lightweight “Bolt” CMS, built on Silex framework. However, work continued on PivotX, with version 2.3.8 released in January, 2014. In 2017 it was announced that it’s no longer actively developed.

PivotX is free software released under the GNU GPL 2.0 license.

Serendipity

Serendipity is an open source blog application. Serendipity was initially released in 2005. Serendipity is a PHP-powered weblog application which provides website owners with an easy way to maintain an online diary, weblog or even a complete homepage. While the default package is designed for the casual blogger, Serendipity offers a flexible, expandable and easy-to-use framework with the power for professional applications.

Serendipity’s basic features include something for everybody, from the personal blogger to the professional corporate web designer:

• WYSIWYG and HTML editing
• Built-in, powerful media database
• Multiple authors, configurable permission/usergroup system
• Threaded comments, nested categories, post to multiple categories
• Online plugin and template repository for easy plug-and-play installation
• Cool plugins: category-based sub-blogs, podcasting, RSS planet/aggregator, static pages
• Robust spam blocking
• Can be embedded into your existing web pages
• Standards-compliant templating through Smarty, remote blogging via XML-RPC
• BSD-style licensing
• Shared installations can power multiple blogs from just one codebase
• Native import from earlier blog applications (WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog)

Textpattern

Textpattern is an open source blog application. Textpattern was initially released in 2003.

Textpattern is an elegant content management system. Web designers, developers, publishers and bloggers love Textpattern’s flexibility and extensibility. Textpattern has a powerful, sophisticated engine that can be infinitely tuned to suit whatever type of web site you can imagine.

Features:

• Direct, easy to follow interface
• Standards compliant
• Browser-based organization and upload of files and images
• Articles can be protected with a password
• Unlimited site sections, categories, page layouts and styling
• Browser-based template and CSS editing
• Anti-spam comment system
• Unlimited site authors can be assigned a variety of posting, editing and design privileges
• Human-readable clean URLs help SEO and visitors
• Up-to-the-minute visitor logs
• Wide range of plugins enable additional features

ClassicPress

ClassicPress is an open source content management application. Forked from WordPress 4.9.x in 2019, development focuses on improved security, less bloat, and block-free.

Still using WordPress 4.9.x? Is the WP block editor not for you? Then ClassicPress is just made for you. With all the same features and familiarity as WP 4.9.x and still very much in active development, ClassicPress is like meeting up with an old friend.

ClassicPress is a community-led open source content management system and a fork of WordPress that preserves the classic TinyMCE editor as the default option.

We believe that when we combine careful, deliberate planning with the insight and collective wisdom of the ClassicPress community, we will ensure the success of ClassicPress for many years to come. Check out our roadmap to learn more.

We have an active and growing community of users from many different backgrounds. Whether you are a developer, designer, business owner, or blogger, the ClassicPress Forums are where you can discuss all things ClassicPress. Add your voice to the conversation!

• Improved Security – Concerned about security? ClassicPress has a “security-first” approach. No matter how shiny or exciting a new feature is, if it’s not secure, it won’t be added to the platform.
• Less Bloat – We believe that powerful does not need to mean code-heavy. We’ve trimmed unnecessary plugins and features from ClassicPress core, and continue to actively seek smart ways to reduce code bloat.
• Block-free – Choose the development path that works best for you. With the flexibility and stability that ClassicPress provides, you have the freedom to create a solution that meets your unique needs.

CMS Made Simple

CMS Made Simple is an open source content management application. Initially released in 2004, CMS Made Simple received the 2010 Most Promising Open Source Content Management System award by Packt Publishing.

CMS Made Simple provides website developers with a simple, easy to use utility to enable building small-ish (dozens to hundreds of pages), semi-static websites. Typically CMS Made Simple is used for corporate websites and websites promoting a team or organization. There are other content management packages that specialize in building portals, or blogs, or article based content. CMS Made Simple can do much of this, but it is not our area of focus.

Features:

• SEO Friendly URLs, Integrated and online help
• Modular and extensible
• Easy user and group management, Group-based permission system
• Full template support, for unlimited looks without changing a line of content
• Easy wizard based install and upgrade procedures
• Minimal server requirements
• Admin panel with multiple language support
• Content hierarchy with unlimited depth and size
• Integrated file manager with upload capabilities
• Integrated audit log, Small footprint
• Friendly support in forums and irc

Composr CMS

ocPortal is a free content management and portal application. ocPortal is a content management application with many Web 2.0 and community features for building modern, sophisticated websites.

ocPortal supports many types of content, including but not limited to galleries, news, newsletters, and it enables rich media and advertising to be integrated. Community features include forums, member blogs, chat rooms, WIKI, and content commenting/rating. ocPortal lets you decide how your site will look and behave. Features are plentiful, but also optional. Feature integration is at the core of the ocPortal philosophy – for example, the site-wide search engine, and the unified member profiles. Out-of-the-box your site will meet the highest accessibility and professional standards, and will appear higher in Google due to automatic SEO. Your website will automatically block and record hacking attempts, and you can control access in different ways such as via paid subscription. ocPortal is designed as the software that’ll handle all your needs; you’ll get much more than just a Content Management System.

concrete5

concrete5 is an open source content management and website builder application.

Building and running a website are two very different challenges. Certainly, one person may wear both hats, but the process of launching a great website is far different from running a great website over time. concrete5 lets you do both: build and run great websites. Most other content management systems are built for one side of the equation or the other.

Many CMS’s were designed by developers, for developers. Building and maintaining a site with them can be pretty complex and intimidating for someone who can’t program computers. The end editing experience works, but to make even basic content changes you’re typically working with long web forms in a “back-end.” Adding new functionality is something you’ll need some technical know-how to pull off. Imagine having to call a consultant every time you wanted to write a new Word document. How useful is that to your business?

Conversely, there’s a number of solutions that are geared for the DIY market. Typically starting as a blog, these sites get added to and added to over time until they fall apart. Imagine being told your document was always going to have a cover page, a table of contents, and an index – no matter how simple you wanted it to be. Sure it’s great you can get started quickly, but if you want to do much more than what these systems were designed for like using a hammer to drive screws.

With concrete5, you get the best of both worlds. Anyone can start making their own website in seconds, and the editing experience is easy; just click on what you want to change. Developers still get a flexible and robust framework for building sophisticated web applications. With concrete5, however, site owners will be able to make changes and additions on their own, for years to come.

Features:

• Intuitive Editing: Our Editor makes it easy to customize your site exactly the way you want it. No creative limits or coding needed.
• Powerful and Extendable: The real power is in the way you customize concrete5. A wide variety of add ons to extend your website and broaden your functionality.
• Mobile Optimized and Responsive: Your website will look good on any device. Built with modern browsers and mobile devices in mind. They employ the latest HTML, CSS and Javascript techniques.
• Create Forms and Collect Data: Create forms and surveys in a few easy steps without any design or code needed. With the form builder, you can easily create, edit forms in minutes.
• Great Discussions: Our completely integrated commenting system supports threaded comments, and all comments have individual like counts.
• SEO Enabled: Concrete5 is optimized for search without any additional code or add-ons required. Improve your search rankings from the start.

Contao

Contao is an open source content management application. Contao was formerly known as TYPOlight. Contao is an open source content management system (CMS) for people who want a professional internet presence that is easy to maintain. The state-of-the-art structure of the system offers a high security standard and allows you to develop search engine friendly websites that are also accessible for people with disabilities. Furthermore, the system can be expanded flexibly and inexpensively. Easy management of user rights, the Live Update Service, the modern CSS framework and many already integrated modules (news, calendar, forms, etc.) have quickly made Contao one of the most popular open source content management systems on the market.

GetSimple

GetSimple is an open source content management application.

GetSimple is an XML based, stand-a-alone, fully independent and lite Content Management System. To go along with its best-in-class user interface, we have loaded it with features that every website needs, but with nothing it doesn’t. GetSimple is truly the simplest way to manage a small-business website.

Features:

• XML Based: We don’t use mySQL to store our information, but instead depend the simplicity of XML. By utilizing XML, we are able stay away from introducing an extra layer of slowness and complexity associated with connecting to a mySQL database. Because GetSimple was built specifically for the small-site market, we feel this is the absolutely best option for data storage.
• You can “Undo” Almost Everything: This feature was based off an eye-opening AListApart article explaining how warning messages never work as planned. Because of this, we’ve included “undo” into almost every action you can take on the site, giving you peace-of-mind for when you make those inevitable stupid mistakes.
• Easy to Learn UI: The top priority when designing our user-interface was to make it the best in it’s class. We had the luxury of trying and testing all the competing management systems before designing ours, so we took the best out of each one – then refined it.
• Simple Installation: The total time in setting up a website took a total of 5 minutes, from starting the FTP to finishing the setup procedure.
• Simple Theme Customization: We have how to documents that show you how to create a custom theme. Our goal was not to bloat our software with hundreds of little-used theme functions, but to offer more than enough to allow for a fully customized theme.
• Designed For the Small-Site Market: This is one of the reasons GetSimple uses XML rather than a robust database such as mySQL. For most small businesses, their only real need is to be able to easily update their site without the need of a ton of extraneous rarely used features. GetSimple’s goal is to manage small websites efficiently and effectively

ImpressPages

ImpressPages is an open source content management application. Initially released in 2009, ImpressPages received the 2011 Most Promising Open Source Project award by Packt Publishing.

ImpressPages CMS is a web content management system that simplifies and speeds up the content management process, enabling websites to be managed up to 4 times faster. The technology behind ImpressPages CMS empowers people with no technical knowledge and with no upfront learning to manage their websites as professionals. Features:

• Simplified, drag and drop interface.
• In-place content editing.
• Automatic generation of SEO friendly URLs, meta tags, and sitemaps.
• Smart copy and paste, automatically filtering HTML and CSS trash from copied content.
• Easily create and deploy multilingual websites.

liveSite

liveSite is an open source website builder and content management application.

liveSite is a back-end website engine that can drive any front-end website design.

Features:

• User Management: Add unlimited member and client portals, and delegate every aspect of site design, site content, and site management to your staff using amazingly flexible access control.
• Content Management: Integrated CMS features empower your staff to create, publish, and update website content easily. Site maps, tag clouds, full-text search, and SEO metadata are all updated in real-time.
• Forms Management: Create custom web forms to gather information securely for any reason, including event registrations, custom product purchases, trial memberships, and even online quizzes.
• Contact Management: liveSite tracks every user interaction and automatically updates contact information and mailing lists, so you can effortlessly send timed e-mail campaigns to any user or audience segment.
• Membership Management: Create members-only areas within your website. Members can pay for access, sign up for a trial, or register using a security code you provide to access privileged content for a limited time.
• Community & Social Media: Discussions can be enabled on any page so your users, members, staff, or any other group can communicate securely within their own private space to provide feedback or build consensus.
• Calendaring & Scheduling: Create public calendars for visitors, or protected calendars for any group of users so they can quickly find event information, reserve a seat, or purchase a ticket.
• Commerce & Payments: liveSite can process payments for almost any type of product, service, event, fee, or donation. And liveSite doesn’t add any transaction fees on top of your own payment gateway.
• Custom Workflow & Apps: Collect any type of data and display through secure and personalized views. Sync with user data, update custom databases, and trigger autoresponders and future e-mail campaigns.

MODx

MODx is an open source content management application and development framework.

MODx is not a typical plug-and-play CMS. It’s liberating and different and designed to work the way you think about sites, not how sites are built.

Features:

• MODX offers you a system that lets you publish your offline content onto the web in any form, shape or presence you want.
• You can setup everything from a simple site, to a blog, to a full-scale web presence with MODX, and keep your admin interface simple and usable.
• MODX helps you organize your content the way you want it, and get stellar built-in SEO results.

Nucleus CMS

Nucleus CMS is an open source blog application. Nucleus CMS was initially released in 2001.

Nucleus CMS’s features include:

• Maintenance of one or more weblogs/news-sites: With Nucleus, you can set up one or more weblogs. If you want to, you can even show the contents of multiple weblogs on the same page.
• Multiple Authors: Each blog has its own team of authors. Some authors will only have posting rights, others will be allowed to change settings for the blog as well.
• Categories: Within a weblog, you can set up one or more categories. Each item you add in your weblog will be put in one of these categories.
• Built-in commenting system: Nucleus provides a built-in Commenting System, so there’s no need for external commentingtools. A karma-voting system is also provided.
• Drafts and Future Posts: In a hurry? Need some more thinking? Mark an item as draft and continue working on it later. Or would you like an item to only appear starting from a certain date? Mark it as a future item.
• Fully Tweakable: The way your Nucleus site looks is fully tweakable through skins and templates, and multiple CSS files. Next to that, the language used by the Nucleus admin area can easily be changed through language-files.
• Plugins: Additional features can be programmed in so called plugins (see Nucleus plugins API) and be installed on Nucleus. This allows you to have the features you want, without having the Nucleus core to become bloated. The Nucleus plugin interface offers plugin authors lots of flexibility. For examples of how plugins can extend Nucleus funtionality, see further down in this document.
• Bookmarklet and right-click blogging: So, you’re visiting a site and want to write something about it on your weblog. No need to open the admin area, just open the bookmarklet or use the right-click context menu option and an add-item window will popup. Easy!
• Archives and Search: Archives for your weblogs are automatically managed by Nucleus, and a search function is provided to look up old items. Nucleus also features highlighting search terms, both in articles, and in comments!
• RSS and Atom Syndication: Syndication feeds are provided (as skins). Nucleus provides RSS and Atom feeds. Extra feed types (your favorite RSS flavor) can be added easily.
• XML-RPC interface: Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType APIs: Nucleus provides implementations of the Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType APIs. This means that Nucleus can be used with tools like w.Bloggar, Ecto, and Zempt.
• File/Image Upload: Want to include an image in an item? Open the media popup, choose a file to upload and off you go! No need to open an FTP program and upload the file manually.
• IP-banlist: Some nasty people screwing up your comments? Ban their IP address or IP range or nickname from further comments/votes.

Omeka

Omeka is an open source content management application.

Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. Omeka is a Swahili word meaning to display or lay out wares; to speak out; to spread out; to unpack. Omeka falls at a crossroads of Web Content Management, Collections Management, and Archival Digital Collections Systems.

Omeka is designed with non-IT specialists in mind, allowing users to focus on content and interpretation rather than programming. It brings Web 2.0 technologies and approaches to academic and cultural websites to foster user interaction and participation. It makes top-shelf design easy with a simple and flexible templating system. Its robust open-source developer and user communities underwrite Omeka’s stability and sustainability.

Until now, scholars and cultural heritage professionals looking to publish collections-based research and online exhibitions required either extensive technical skills or considerable funding for outside vendors. By making standards based, serious online publishing easy, Omeka puts the power and reach of the web in the hands of academics and cultural professionals themselves.

Easy to use:

• Omeka is designed with non-IT specialists in mind, allowing users to focus on content and interpretation rather than programming.
• Omeka is a web application, making it accessible from any computer or mobile device with an internet connection.
• Users say Omeka is “simple,” “logical,” and “unscary.”

Strong community of documentation and support:

• Learn to use Omeka with step-by-step tutorials and screencasts available in the documentation.
• Connect with other Omeka users and the Omeka team through end user forums and developer discussion lists.

Extensible, scalable, and flexible:

• Omeka can handle large archives of meta data and files (with over 100,000 items).
• The only limitations are on your own server. Element sets for institution-specific meta data maybe added.
• Zend framework for PHP allows for customization.
• Omeka accepts and stores all types of files, including images, video, audio, multi-page documents and PDFs, Power Point presentations, et al. Individual items may contain multiple files.

phpwcms

phpwcms is an open source content management application and PHP development framework. Initially released in 2007, phpwcms has been downloaded over 125,000 times. phpwcms is a very flexible, fast, robust, customer and developer friendly but yet powerful web based content management system and cms framework.

Canvas

Canvas LMS is an open source course management application. Initially released in 2011, Canvas LMS is used by more than 3 thousand universities, school districts, and institutions.

Canvas is the LMS that makes teaching and learning (and implementation and adoption and customer support and student success and bragging to your non-Canvas-using peers) easier.

Features:

• Openness: Canvas is openness—from our open APIs to the openness of our security audits, from our open feature discussions and Canvas Studio to the open source software that is Canvas itself.
• Customizability: Canvas provides an extensive, open API that we publish to the world, making it easy for third-party apps to plug right into Canvas, pull from its data, and push data back in.
• Pedagogical Flexibility: We built a whole app center just to make it even easier for institutions and instructors to experiment and adapt new technologies into their courses. Browse through loads of LTI apps and install them in a single click. No IT support necessary.
• Support: Who knows Canvas better than Canvas? Our in-house Canvas experts take the support burden off your hands, ensuring the speediest, most frictionless interactions.

TYPO3

TYPO3 is an open source content management application and framework. TYPO3 was initially released in 2000 and today powers over 500,000 websites.

TYPO3 is an enterprise-class, Open Source CMS (Content Management System), used internationally to build and manage websites of all types, from small sites for non-profits to multilingual enterprise solutions for large corporations.

Features:

• Enterprise level professional system
• Scalable web application framework
• Large, active global community
• User friendly with unlimited extendability

SilverStripe

SilverStripe is an open source content management application and PHP development framework. Initially released in 2000, and open source since 2006, SilverStripe has received numerous industry awards including Best Open Source Project in the 2010 New Zealand Open Source Awards.

SilverStripe CMS is an open source web content management system used by governments, businesses, and non-profit organisations around the world. It is a power tool for professional web development teams, and web content authors rave about how easy it is to use.

Features:

• Powered by SilverStripe Framework, enabling programmers to easily extend functionality.
• Supports multiple page templates.
• Draft and Live versions of a site.
• Rollback options to bring back an old version of a page.
• Uses SEO-friendly URLs and page meta data.
• Community of developers behind the project.

PyroCMS

PyroCMS is an open source content management application. Initially released in 2009, PyroCMS has grown rapidly, accepting code from over 120 contributors, and today PyroCMS powers more than 43,000 websites.

PyroCMS takes a different approach to many content management systems and tries very hard not to try too hard. So many content managent systems try to do everything and they often end up seriously confusing the end-users. PyroCMS can make the majority of simple websites out of the box and will be the first 80% of anything more complex. When you need to fill in the final 20% you can take a look at the Add-on Store for existing modules, widgets and plugins or you can make your own and sell them afterwards.

By avoiding the full 100% we have built a much more usable system and we will keep it that way. The extensibility and simplicity of Add-on development makes it easy and financially viable for everyone.

Features:

• General users will like the simple Word-like (WYSIWYG) editor, more technical users will love that they can add their own SEO, CSS and JavaScript. You can even switch to Markdown or plain HTML for your Page Chunks so you can create content however you like. PyroCMS can take you by the hand, or let you go all out.
• You’ve created a super-awesome site with great content but it’s no use if no-one can see it! That’s why PyroCMS is built with SEO in mind, not only is it super fast(search engines love fast sites) but it also has automatic SEO built in and even has an analytics dashboard!
• PyroCMS is so easy to theme anyone with basic HTML knowledge can create a great theme. Don’t want to mess around creating your own theme? No worries, we’ve got you covered! Just head over to the Addon sections and you’ll find a theme to get you going! PyroCMS Professional even has admin themes! Your site, your way.
• Looking to extend the base functionality? Easy, with lots of developers creating addons and modules you’ll be sure to find what you need. PyroStreams, Social Integration, Forums, Download Widgets and more, we’ve got it all!