Content Management Systems (CMS)

I'm aware that this type of question crops up regularly but I have been given the task of building somebody a website for their business which they can update easily. It won't be a massive website (5 pages) but it will be responsive and will contain Youtube and Soundcloud embeds. I am well versed in HTML/CSS and jQuery but need to employ, I presume, a CMS to allow the content copy to be updated easily. Is using something like Wordpress over the top for this kind of requirement or is there a better, more simple solution ? I don't want to have to learn PHP etc.. Many thanks

Hi guys, Its been a while since I posted here, but I would appreciate some feedback and help regarding a project proposal I received from a client. My client is looking to launch a marketplace business where they can upload their suppliers products but they will manage the distribution and liaise with buyers. The site will have multiple sellers, all selling multiple products. Some of the functionality that they are looking to include are: Ability for a seller to view when they have made a sale (possibly ability for seller to update stock numbers) Ability to show each sellers product as a 'shop' I have only had experience with creating a straight forwa…

Hi everyone. I developed (easy to use?) cms and I need your opinion about usability and ui interface. For this example I took free bootstrap html template from http://www.templatemo.com/templates/templatemo_395_urbanic/ then I made administration for services, our team, portfolio and blog sections. So, site is here: http://somehost.bl.ee/ Administration panel for end user is here: http://somehost.bl.ee/objengine/admin.php?userid=testuser3&password=testuser3 Please fell free to add/edit/delete posts and upload pictures. Anything you change will be visible on http://somehost.bl.ee/ Can you suggest how to make admin UI more user friendly?

Hi All, I have a problem where Wordpress crops any thumbnail from the very middle of the center of the image. This is a problem however as I really need it to crop from the middle of the top of the image instead. I've found a post on the wordpress.org forums that gives a fix but it edits core files and I really don't want to have to do that. The forum post is here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnail-cropping-from-top-left-instead-of-middle-center Does anyone know how I can do this without a plugin and without editing the core files? Any help much appreciated. Thanks, -Jack

Hey guys, im new here and often i visit a website and want to know with which CMS the Website was built. But sometimes i dont find a way to get this information. For example this site: http://www.kartinka.de/leistungen/webdesign Is there a regular way to find this out? Thanks for your help... kind regards Christoph

Hi, I have one main WP site. Now, I have designed some custom WP themes and I want to put them on sale on my main site. Now I want an option to show buyers, the working live demo of my designed sites. How can I achieve that? Will I have to create sub-domains for each demo site, install WP on that and then activate the theme on it? This will take lot of server space. What is the easiest option and what people do generally? Thank you. Update: I found these 2 links. http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_Multiple_Blogs http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network Are they the only path to opt for? They look difficult for me. Is their any other method?

Hi all, I'm working on a site that has a few apartments that they would like to rent out. Dose anyone know of an easy to use booking software that can book buy date. I have found a few but i'm keeping my options open. Cheers Mamba

I'm having trouble installing the packages in wordpress, whenever I get to the install page it gets stuck at unpacking the package. If you take a look here it just says : Installing Plugin from uploaded file: social-polls-by-opinionstage.zipUnpacking the package… And then does nothing else, it freezes like that. The package wouldn't even install in 10 hours... What's wrong?

we have already got a site with WP installed, which has got some customized codes i.e, URL's ending with .php or url having space.. now the problem is that we are installing BB Press which is creating problems or interfering with the customized URL, so now we are planning for a additional WP mult-site installation on subdirectories, eg: example.com/sampleone pl advise on SEO impacts plugin support or are there any other methods we should try eg : install separate WP for all the other regions

Hi guys, I'm looking into the possibility of helping a mate out (an estate agent) by developing a new website for him using wordpress to replace his current static site. At the moment when you click on "properties to let" it takes you to an external website, which is something we don't want. He currently uses an online property management service (LetMC) which allows him to enter each properties' details and it then gets uploaded to rightmove, zoopla etc etc using an XML file generated by LetMC. This is a link to a sample XML file from their website http://portal.letmc.com/PropertySearchService.asmx?WSDL In a nutshell, I need to know how I would go about us…

Hello! I have this small problem in Mozilla FF. When I open the article in FF (I usually use this program), the table line isn't straight. http://english.kotkovski.com/2013-09-17-23-37-35 I should probably add that after re-loading the page, this issue corrects itself somehow. I attach the picture to make it more clearer. Thanks!

hi i am using multisite and i am Export xml file from site 1 and import this to site 2 all the files, page , images, post, are import[i can see them] but them not active on my site when i look at my site it blank i click tools> import > WordPress > choose file > i keep the form[or create new user with login name] blank > and active the check box > submit when i view the pages in site 2 i can see them is like the homepage the content their don't active and it almost blank page without content.

Hello I'm creating a site that I just want to have some simple data in (basically a list of books for a book club - I would just need Title of Book, Month / Year Read and whether just nominated or selected to read - In various places in website I'd call in data - for example a 'current read' book and 'past reads' list) I think I could create a simple cms using php and mysql but I have no idea about security. So I'm wondering if there are any tiny cms open source ones out there that connect to a database and are very easy to manipulate (I've been trying anchor but I'm struggling with getting it to do what I want it to do) or how I go about securing a custom buil…

I am wanting to add multiple category's with posts displayed like this on a home page like the attached image. How what do I need to code in to make it do so?

Good afternoon! Motocms use html templates for every page, respectively all the pages indexed by SE. For example www.google.ru/#newwindow=1&q=site:ldm.ru www.google.ru/#newwindow=1&q=%22opening+of+Children's+and+Youth+Marine+Center%22 What can you say about this CMS? In the this topic said that it full flash site (http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/topic/69001-anyone-know-about-moto-cms-need-some-insite-and-review-from-a-designer-stand-point/?hl=motocms) but it is not true (maybe html released recently). I Want to use this CMS, because it's simple, secure and beautiful, but i'm afraid

Hello friends, I wanna know has anyone used udraftplus wp back up plugin ? if yes! is it gud enuf ? i am asking this as me going to use it for one of my clients

Hi All, I will be designing my freelance web designer site for myself, however I need some help. Do I use a CMS for my site to manage the content if so shall I purchase a theme an configure it or should I design in PS and convert to CMS after if so how would I go about doing that? Also do freelancers use a CMS for they're site? Thanks

Here we go again! Can anyone give me a good reason to use Wordpress for a blog over ExpressionEngine? Bearing in mind the existing site is in EE. Sadly EE doesn't have a Yoast equivalent as far a s I know. Please give sensible unbiased replies. Thanks all!

Hello everyone, I am looking into move from Dreamweaver to WordPress for making websites for clients. I could do with some advice. Can it save a lot of time? Thanks.

As of yesterday I decided to scrap my drupal development site and move on to WP. It wasn't an easy move because I've spent the last 6 months learning drupal and customizing it so much that it was barely possible to say it was a drupal site! My only gripe is that it takes balls of steal and patience to hack/tweak drupal and it's much easier to break than we think! Don't get me wrong, I am a drupal lover but sometimes patience has it's limit and I sure hope that d8 will be a lot easier for us al! Anyways, I am tweaking WP right now and I find it quite easy editing templates! I will have a working prototype to show soon and will start writing articles. Cheers!

Hi, I am trying to set the width of columns to allow the client to update the content of their website. I am really pressed for time so instead of waiting for my developer to do this I hope to be able to fix it myself, my knowledge of HTML websites is ok but I am struggling locate the template to make changes to the table column widths within wordpress - which folder will it be located in? I hope then to have the knowledge to be able to set the column widths but any advice would be most welcome on how best to achieve what I need done. I have set up a test page which I can supply a URL for in a PM, I don't want to post it here incase it causes any issue with…

Hello everybody! Would like to discuss something with all of you. I have been learning and using PHP for 5 years now and everything I know, I have learned by myself. I mostly made websites for myself, friends and one company i worked for. I would like to think that i have moderate knowledge of php and website building, maybe a bit lower than that... not sure how high is the bar for moderate though. That said, for last year I kept stumbling on posts about CMS systems and how great they are. I have always passed the idea of using one myself, thinking that "i know enough PHP and and dont need one, besides i like to have control over the whole code of my website and to know …

Which of the following CMS's are better in security, Wordpress - Joomla - Drupal? Your advice is highly appreciated. Thanks!

Hello, Struggling to understand what if any i've done wrong in Joomla. Im trying to edit the menu items and there should be a Save, close etc tool bar. But its missing

Pixel and Tonic have just launched Craft in public BETA, which looks very promising. I thought id share it here http://buildwithcraft.com/. I like the emptiness of it, the fact you choose your content, fields and literally 'craft' a CMS without having to start writing custom PHP. For those who are used to ExpressionEngine, you will be familiar with this style of building sites and just how effective it can be. I think initially people will comment on the price more than anything, but honestly I see no issues passing costs on for enhancements to my clients, if it's a requirement. It would of been nice to see a bit more information on the add-ons though. Thought…

Good evening, I have noticed some issues with my website's blog page, on the thumbnails and title. I have looked in chrome and firefox editors and it looks fine... can anyone help me solve this problem? URL is http://www.charlyanderson.co.uk/blog Thanks in advance :-)

For all you EE developers ExpressionEngine 2.8 has been released and includes lots of lovely new features. Here's some of the highlights: 1. Template layouts You no longer have to embed common page parts separetely like header, footer, asides (or use Snippets). Template layouts work like embeds but work for a whole page. Typical layout template: <html> <head> <title>{layout:title}</title> </head> <body> {layout:contents} </body> </html> Of course you can create as many layouts as you need, and calling the layout into a template is one simple tag syntax: {layout="site/wrapper…

I have just made a site live (which can be viewed here), but now I am having trobule logging in on both the localhost and the live server. When I try to log in on the localhost using wp-admin after the url, the Wordpress username and password screen appears. Once I enter my username and password, the site redirects me to the live server and gives me the following error: "ERROR: Cookies are blocked or not supported by your browser. You must enable cookies to use WordPress." I cannot log into the Wordpress backend in the localhost or on the live server. Can anyone help?

I'm trying to add the company address to http://www.mdsltduk.com/ in the top right corner where it has the email and phone no. I don't have much experience with editing wordpress themes so could someone tell me whereabouts the file I need to edit would be. Thanks in advance

Hi all I'm trying very hard to find a plugin/mod/component etc etc that will provide me with the same layout, options and product settings as an ecommerce, only, not with the intention of selling, just displaying. Like an online catalogue of products on display. I'm having so much trouble finding something that suits. It's for a client, therefore it has to be as simple as possible, preferably not too much tinkering, which is all I can find at the moment! REALLY appreciate any advice, so thanks in advance. ST

Hello all. I am trying to write an IF statement to have one nav for the home page and a different nav for the other pages. So, if you are on the home page you see one nav. If you go to another page you see another nav. I'm not sure how to achieve this using PHP, so I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction with PHP IF statements? Thanks.

Hai everyone. I am new to this forum. Is pylon and wiki is based on content management system.

I've found out that most WordPress themes are very minimalistic in terms of graphics. They only contain basic elements + usually large animated slider (taking half of screen), which is not what I'm looking for. Such themes are not really useful if you don't have truly professional, beautiful images to populate sliders and image rotators. Perhaps I might have more luck with Joomla? I need really well designed, beautiful, rich in graphics theme with premium support if possible. Topic is: gym, fitness, sport in general and classic company presentation. Where may I found such themes? There are so, so many websites that offer Wordpress and Joomla themes so I'm really s…

Newbie Alert! Ok so I've got my first web project underway - my Dad has asked me to create a simple website for a walking group he organizes. He has asked me that I make it so he can update it with information (i.e. dates of planned walks etc.), and as he is not very computer literate, this needs to be as simple as possible! What is the easiest way to accomplish this? Is there another way to update information other than altering the html? I thought I should better find out first before start coding it all only find I need to do something completely different. Also I would like your thoughts on the best places to go to host a website, as I have never published…

hi i have attended web design courses which included graphic design and programming, but we did not learn about cms. which one could be the easiest cms to learn? i am on linux. i gues i have to set up LAMP and then set up one of the cms.

Hi, I'm rebranding a website that has an issue with the shortcodes not rendering, it seems to be spoke of a lot on the internet but no one comes back with an answer. Anyone got any ideas why? http://wdf.co/XW Joomla 2.5 Plugins are breezing forms and a gallery plugin. Cheers

Just wondering what you guys think of the plethora of instant site builders out there? All the major hosting services offer them, some seem to be terrible, whereas others offer a decent range of features. I made a quick website earlier using on of these sites, and shared it with a few friends - http://www.socialexperts.info/ The general consensus is however, that we are better off coding from scratch or using wordpress type sites? Can anyone recommend to me which host has the best instant site builder type features available? As these are the ones that I am really interested in.

Hey all, Im currently building a website and I am using some custom post types. The menu section on the admin interface will let me but individual posts from a cpt into my navigation menu but I want to put the name of the custom post type in it instead and then have that list all the posts inside that when clicked on. Is this possible? Previously I created a dummy page and added that to the menu but that solution is not perfect at all.

Hello everyone, im new to web designing and stuff i want to create a website with some eduacational stuff. more of like a e-book. i created a theme for the home page, i want to keep the same theme for the rest of the pages. whats the best option. someone ask me to use CMS, but than i dont need to create admins and user id database. regards

hi ye! is anybody familiar with Graphpaperpress' fullscreen theme http://graphpaperpress.com/themes/fullscreen/ if so could anybody help me with cropping my slideshow images in wordpress? or do I have to go to photoshop to edit? please say the former. fingers crossed. thanks E

Hi everyone, new member here. I have recently become a freelance designer (self-taught) and only set up properly a year ago. Whilst I don't claim to know everything about web des/dev, I have a decent business brain and my business is doing ok. Until now I have been using Dreamweaver and Serif WP to build sites. All the while I have been learning code and have now started doing bits in code. Something I haven't done as yet is set up a CMS. I have had a big job come in to build a website and provide a CMS so that the business manager can update things on a daily basis, such as pictures, profiles, rotas and text content. I know that Wordpress is apparently a …

A client has asked if I can create some projects in Joomla but I mostly use Wordpress. I was just wondering, how easy would it be to learn? I hand code everything so it's not like I rely on themes from Wordpress anyway. Any help or relevant forums would be appreciated

hello there, i need a help on creating a forum site using phpmyql.. what i need is this: Topic- only user can create new topics Cartegory - only user can create new cartegory user can also view, add and post comment if you are not user you can only view post.... i also want it to be user friendly.... i started something already but it not really working.... please guys i really need....

Anyone here used Filemaker to create a website?

Cockpit - super lightweight and "pluggable" cms. Features: Keep complete control. Cockpit doesn't dictate the way you organize your site. Manage regions and collections No need for a full SQL server for your small to mid-size site. Cockpit just delivers content. Implement your site the way you want. Less, Scss, Assets, Thumbnails and many more tools/helpers Cockpit Website Any feedback on functionality or anything else is appreciated! Thanks, Artur

Can anyone tell me wt are the content mgt system avaliable and its uses

I currently have a project that is being built in Drupal 7 which requires a slider to be incorperated into the website. I decided to go for FlexSlider to accomplish this. I've tried loads of different methods to accomplish this, they only seem to get so far and then nothing. All dependant modules are active, I've created the content type for the slider and I'm using views to control what is viewed. When I go to preview the slider, nothing appears. The documentation I've been finding for this isn't the best, does anyone know of any resources for accomplishing this? Many thanks Ben

Hello, I need advice…please help.. I owned HTML5 kindergarten website. It's static website. The website designed in Dreamweaver CS3 from HTML5 template. I would like to make it dynamic (content management), I mean that I could add pages, images, videos from some interface/platform (something like WIX concept) Do I need to hire some web developer what will develop this kind of platform to make this website or I can use editors like ckeditor. In the bottom line I want when the kindergarten teacher enter the website, she will see two fields: username and password. After login she could see kind of control panel with p…

Hello there, I'm new in these forums because I need advice for a new web project I'm working on. I know this might sound insane, but what I want to do is developing an online community with user submitted how to's, message boards, member profiles, private messaging, and a lot more features. I don't want to get too much into detail about functions of the service, but I'm pretty sure there is no CMS out there that might fit my needs, because I want to be able to extend the features over time and want it to be fully customizable. Now as I said before, I know it might sound insane to build something like this from scratch, but on the other hand, it definitely can be d…

I want to know , is there any plugin for making the wordpress site to responsive design website ?