CMS News: Drupal, WordPress and Others
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2014-02-19 13:03:12 UTC
- Modified: 2014-02-19 14:04:33 UTC
Summary: Content management systems that challenge proprietary legacy
Drupal
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Drupal v7.25, a maintenance release with numerous bug fixes (no security fixes) is now available for download. Upgrading your existing Drupal 7 sites is recommended.
WordPress
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The open-source WordPress content management system (CMS) project officially released its 3.8.1 update on the evening of Jan. 23 and provided users with bug fixes and stability updates. The 3.8.1 release is the first update to the WordPress 3.8 platform, which was originally released in mid-December 2013.
Others
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Question2Answer (Q2A) is a popular open source Q&A platform for PHP/MySQL, currently running on more than 11,000 sites in 40 languages.
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Ease of use sets Concrete5 apart from other CMSes. You can do everything – from adding and editing content to managing add-ons – with a few mouse clicks. Concrete5 supports drag-and-drop for moving blocks of content to your pages, and lets you edit content inline.
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