Best Content Management System (CMS)

What do you think is the holy grail of the CMS?

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• 1.

  WordPress

  WordPress is great at what it does and even some things that it wasn't specifically intended for. It's extremely user-friendly and is probably the best place for a person with no programming background to start.

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• 2.

  MediaWiki

  Really good at what it does. If you want a Wiki, why look elsewhere?

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• 3.

  Drupal

  Drupal is a nice CMS system if you happen to be building something it's already set up to do. It is more expandable than Wordpress, but can get overly complicated for what it is. It's useful if you don't know enough to use something like CakePHP, but want something more than what Wordpress provides.

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  Joomla!

  A lot like Drupal. Probably easier for a newb to pick up and use, but once again makes me wonder why I'm not just starting from a basic framework. Good for people doing some kind of basic commerce site who don't want to do any of the heavy lifting.

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• 5.

  CakePHP

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• 6.

  Zend Framework

  Zend Framework is extremely well thought out and robust. In the CMS -> Framework -> Component Library spectrum, this sits somewhere between the latter two. Takes some knowledge to get off the ground, but has excellent documentation and TONS of components. Great if you want to stick to strict OO PHP and build from the ground up.
  This would be first in my list of "Best PHP Frameworks," but is demoted for being a little time-consuming if you just want a basic CMS and nothing else.

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• 7.

  CodeIgniter

  Another framework that really isn't a CMS. This is the most basic of the frameworks I've used. It is very efficient and has very low bloat. If you are used to writing PHP from scratch and want an extremely simple framework to get off the ground with, CodeIgniter is worth taking a look at.
  Third in my list of "Best PHP Frameworks" - affected by same issue as the other two.

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