hello,

 

i am just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on what would be a better content management system to use for a small newspaper style website?

 

the design will be based around a standard newspaper website like the telegraph.com for example, only smaller.

 

many thanks.

wordpress should do the job

I think most would agree, use wordpress

It depends what you need for your publishing process and how your content is structured. If you wanted to replicate the sort of CMS that newspaper sites manage their content with then Wordpress may not be powerful enough or you'd have to hack it a lot to get the functionalty you need.

 

Something like http://www.vivvo.net/ may be better suited for your content?

it also depends on the budget of the op if he is willing to go for free option or pay hundreds of dollars for a small newspaper style site

Have a look at my news site, it might give you a few ideas, is your site up?

it also depends on the budget of the op if he is willing to go for free option or pay hundreds of dollars for a small newspaper style site

It's easy to get misled thinking that "free" software is always cheaper. Sometimes spending a few hundred on a decent CMS is much cheaper than forking out 100 hours customising a "free" CMS to get it to do what you need.

It depends what you need for your publishing process and how your content is structured. If you wanted to replicate the sort of CMS that newspaper sites manage their content with then Wordpress may not be powerful enough or you'd have to hack it a lot to get the functionalty you need.

 

Why? A lot of the hacking has already been done and released back into the wild, like this plugin by the New York Times.

Depends what's needed for the site in question, if something like the plugin you mention works for them that's great.