The best open source CMS?

Hi, I need your suggestions and experiences with open source CMS.

What modules I need - news, commenting on news, galleries, blogs, forum and complete CMS machine. (and url rewriting is very important)

I know for; expressionengine.com, typo3.org, drupal.org, wordpress.com etc..

What CMS would you suggest me?

 

Joomla is the best, but is pretty hard to use.

 

when its up to choosing the best CMS i always like to go with joomla and wordpress - i love designing sites in joomla and i think this is the best and easy to operate CMS available not to mention that wordpress is far simpler...

hope this helps...

 

I personaly prefer Drupal, Joomla! comes with a lot of extras I like to have it as clean and small as possible, joomla is 4 times bigger than drupal in space and drupal has (after standard installation) about 464 files and joomla 3915 files.

 

Probably the best is Joomla, but the easiest is Wordpress.

 

Typo3 should be able to cover all that.

But I believe there is no 'best', it really depends on your needs.

 

My first choice is always Wordpress. I know that it was designed as a blogging tool, but it is quite versatile and with plugins, it can basically be made to do what you want and the templating system is easy to manipulate to make it do what you want.

My second vote goes for drupal. I'm not as well versed in drupal as I am in wp, but for true CMS functions, drupal is hard to beat.

 

I personally think Joomla or Wordpress are the best as well, e107 isn't bad either.

 

Word Press is pretty good, because is SEO friendly. Joomla is very good too.

 

For SEO: wordpress is seo friendly, (use ALL IN ONE SEO plugin)
Joomla: for news
Gallery: gallery2 plugin in wp or 4images.de script.

For u, as my experience says, joomla or wordpress will be best suitable.

 

I would say Joomla with the following plugins:

News - you dont need anything, but good template or maybe
iJoomla News Portal component would be great addition (not free)
Commenting - Jom Comment (not free)
Gallery - Phoca gallery, Datso gallery or some of many flash galleries (free)
Forum - you have bridges for most of the commercial forums you chose (various)
URL rewriting - sh404 (also you get great meta tag plugin with sh) (free)
Blog - never tried but bunch of people like MyBlog for Joomla (however this is not needed if you want to run joomla as blog.

 

MODx is far easier to use than Joomla and it's best framework I have used. Only minus against Joomla is that Joomla has far more support in forums and far more plugins but you can use many of Joomla's plugins or any other scripts in MODx easily just by calling snippet.

 

Wordpress is cool, Havnt used Joomla so I cant say its as good as the others have here

 

Joomla is good but wordpress is the best!

 

Joomla is for rookies. It is not a professional solution. Wordpress rocks but has a few limitations depending on what your are trying to deploy. Despite the fact that I will now get a bunch of Joomla fan boys howling at me, I am sticking to my guns. I have had to use it extensively. Just because any idiot can throw it up does not make it good.

I would expand on my position but I have already done it ad nauseum(sp?) on this forum.... much like I have about Oscommerce.
hope that helps,
Nigel

 

Drupal. The learning curve is worth it. It's pretty darn powerful.

 

i also think joomla will be the suitable but it take time to learn, drupal will be second where easy to learn if compare to joomla

 

What do you guys think of Vivvo? It seems more powerful like Drupal but easier to use. Anyone with experience using it? I'm looking for something that can handle 100k+ hits/day per site easily.

 

I have used it but I gave the site a once over and ran through the demo. It looks like a really sound solution.

Nigel

 

I would suggest Joomla for any power users.