Before delving into types of CMS & which type of CMS we want, it is important to know whether you need a CMS or not. A content management system (CMS) is a computer application that allows publishing, editing, modifying, organizing, deleting, and maintaining content from a central interface.

2. What is a Content Management System ?
 What is ‘Content’ ?
 What does the ‘Management’ of content refer to ?
 What is the ‘System’ that manages the content ?

3. CMS or Hard Coded Website
 Before delving into types of CMS & which type of CMS we want, it is
important to know whether you need a CMS or not.

4. Types of CMS
 Wordpress
 Drupal
 Joomla
 Magento

5. Wordpress
 Wordpress which was released in 2003 is a free & open sourced CMS
based on PHP & My SQL.
 Wordpress is mainly used for Blog, corporate websites.
 More than 60 million websites use Wordpress.
 Its latest version is 4.4 Clifford which is mainly focused on mobile
experience, better passwords & improved customizer.

6. Drupal
 Drupal was released in 2001. It is a free & open sourced CMS based on
PHP.
 More than 1 million websites run on Drupal.
 It is used mainly on Government, corporate, knowledge management
based websites.
 New Drupal version 8.0.0 was released in November 2015, which
focuses on improved mobile support.

7. Joomla
 Like Wordpress & Drupal, Joomla is also a free open sourced CMS.
Released in 2005, Joomla is written in PHP.
 It is the second most used CMS after Wordpress.
 Latest version 3.4 was released in October 2015 & focuses primarily on
increasing security and reducing vulnerabilities.
 Joomla is considered to be midplace between Wordpress & Drupal.
 It is considered good for E-commerce websites.

8. Magento
 Magento is an open sourced CMS which is mainly used for E-
Commerce websites.
 Magento was released in 2008, is completely owned by Ebay and is
written in PHP.
 It is considered to be the best E-commerce platforms.
 Magento as a CMS platform isn’t as strong as Wordpress, Joomla &
Drupal.

9. Market Share
Wordpress,
58.80%
Joomla,
6.50%
Drupal,
4.90%
Magento,
3%
Others,
26.8%
CMS Market Share
Wordpress
Joomla
Drupal
Magento
Others

10. Wordpress Pros & Cons on CMS platform
 Pros
1) User Friendly
2) Strong SEO Capabilities
3) Flexibility
 Cons
1) Security
2) Inability to handle large amount of content
3) Incompatibility with older plug-ins

11. Joomla Pros & Cons on CMS platform
 Pros
1) User Friendly
2) Strong Content Management Capabilities
3) Extension Variability
 Cons
1) Lacks SEO Capabilities
2) Lack of comment system
3) Incompatibility with older plug-ins

12. Magento Pros & Cons on CMS platform
 Pros
1) Security
2) Good SEO Capabilities
3) Mobile friendly
 Cons
1) It may reduce page load speed
2) Only creates simple pages
3) Requires more robust server, large disk space

13. Wordpress as E-Commerce platform
 It was mainly used for blogs & it has advantages as far as content
creation is concerned.
 E-commerce is not available on Wordpress. So, an add on woo-
commerce is used for that.
 It is only suitable for small e-commerce websites.

14. Joomla as E-Commerce platform
 Joomla has become popular for setting up small & medium size E-
commerce websites.
 E-commerce is not available on Joomla. You need extensions to build
e-commerce platform on Joomla.
 Relatively little costs for maintenance & development.
 Installation isn’t that difficult as compared to Magento.

15. Magento as E-Commerce platform
 It is suitable for large & complicated e-commerce websites.. It has
options like social media login.
 Extensive shipping options & filtering products in categories.
 Offers multiple payment options
 High security
 Difficult to set up & costly

16. Joomla SEO settings
 By default, Joomla disallows images to be indexed. We have to remove
the “Disallow: /images/” from robots.txt file.
 By default Joomla set page title to Heading 2. We can go to global
settings, hide the page title & then add H1 in content.
 By default, URL rewrite function is disabled in Joomla. First we have to
rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess After that in global settings, we have to
enable URL rewriting.
 We can also use Easy Frontend SEO an extension which can make your
SEO work a lot more easier.

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18. Magento SEO settings
 First thing we have to change the default title, description & keywords.
 We should remove category URL suffix which is by default html.
 To avoid duplicate content issues, we should not use category paths for
product URLs.
 Canonical link meta tags for product & categories should be set Yes.
Also, enable category URL rewrites.
 SEO Suite Ultimate Magento Extension is one of the best SEO
extensions available.

19. Magento SEO settings continued

20. SEO Yoast by Wordpress

21. Image SEO

22. You can analyze your post before you publish it.

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