CONTENT (MANAGEMENT) IS KING If you are a web designer, you are no doubt familiar with the vast array of content management systems (CMSes) available today. WordPress has become the darling of the CMS and web design crowd and has been for quite some time now. Its large and active user and developer community has [...]

HISTORY CMS Made Simple (http://www.cmsmadesimple.org) (“CMSMS”) was founded in 2004 by Ted Kulp, who was looking for a solution to drive commercial, small business web sites, rather than just support bloggers or be a portal. Thus, CMSMS was born. And it remains today one of the best solutions for a small business or non-profit web [...]

HISTORY WordPress began as a fork of the blogging system B2 Café Log (which is still being developed under the name B2 Evolution). It got a jump start by then-top dog blogging system Movable Type when Movable Type changed its licensing structure causing a mass exodus of users away from Movable Type to WordPress. From [...]

COMPARING THE BASICS FeatureCMS Made SimpleWordPress URLcmsmadesimple.orgwordpress.org LicenseGPLGPL Latest Version1.10.13.2.1 PlatformPHPPHP Database(s)MySQLMySQL User LevelsYesYes WYSIWYG EditorYesYes Themes/SkinsYesYes Admin Themes/SkinsYesYes RSS SyndicationYesYes Multi-SiteNoYes URL RewritingYesYes XHTML CompliantYesYes Auto UpgradeNoYes Auto Upgrade Add-ons*YesYes Link ManagementAdd-onYes Community Resources**YesYes BlogAdd-onYes Support ForumYesYes e-CommerceAdd-onAdd-on * The term “Add-on” refers to plugins in the case of WordPress; and modules or plugins [...]

RECOMMENDED CMS MADE SIMPLE MODULES Form Builder This is on our short list of modules we install on every CMSMS site. You can have as many on your web site as you want and they can be as simple or as complex as needed. Aside from the standard contact form, we’ve used these as client [...]