Free content management software for linux

phpCMS is a content management system, which convinces in particular by small system requirements, high performance and above all its flexibility.

phpCMS is suitable for small private web pages and also for complex professional appearances and high traffic websites including the integration of webservices and external applications.

Admitted - the flexibility of phpCMS makes the life not always easy for beginners - nevertheless for professionals, who rather want to create an unique website then clicking unflexible template blocks together, phpCMS gives all the freedom a webdesigner needs to support his creativity. This might be a reason, why even several webdesign companies are using phpCMS to create their own company website.

And the best of all is: phpCMS is Open Source (licensed unter the GPL)and is free of any charges available - more cost-efficiently a CMS can not be.

phpCMS is more than just a content management system - it is a mixture of a template engine, a content management system and an application framework.
phpCMS simplifies a lot of tasks for the maintenance of complex web sites with the automatic updating of the sitemap, the central administration of menu entries, or the provision of a comprehensive text search. And it gives you a good basis to separate layout and form from the actual content of your pages, another big simplification in a webmasters job.

Changes to the layout or of the menu structure have only to be made in one central place and have immediate effect on all web pages. Also the integration of external applications into the layout of your web site is possible - thanks to the possibility of direct integration of PHP scripts, as well as to the Webgrab module (allowing you to integrate almost any application that is addressable via HTTP without depending on the programming language used in that application). Many plug-ins and scripts extend phpCMS by useful functions and features and make the webmasters task easier.

phpCMS is no "drag and drop" web site toolkit, but it helps even the inexperienced HTML author to quickly create a web site.
Contrary to the so-called portal systems, that very often limit you to compose your web site from prefabricated modules only by clicking on check boxes and options, phpCMS offers a flexible framework in which you can integrate existing applications - but on the other hand that demands a bit more skills.

We rather believe in not to integrate everything into the system (forum, web shop, news system, picture gallery, ..., just name it), but to concentrate our work on the phpCMS core system and to make that so flexible that you can integrate the forum, the picture gallery etc. of your own choice with ease into your phpCMS-powered web site.

We are convinced that it is more sensible to offer to the user the possibility to integrate the application in each area that suites her/him best than to offer a system that can do everything, but binds you to applications of our choice, and might not fulfill the users needs or expectations.

Gespinst WebCMS is an easy-to-use Web content management system. It features a file manager designed to be familiar to users of Windows Explorer or GNOMEs Nautilus that is used to work with news, images, calendar events, and users.
A variety of text formatters are provided, including support HTML and Wiki syntax. A forms system is also included for printing, receiving, and validating HTML forms. Additional functionality is provided with optional modules.
Enhancements:
- Fixes a bug relating to a template parameter.
- Adds some functionality for the new module lastcomments.

Galena was originally designed as a modular bot to serve commands on various protocols (Jabber, IRC, email, HTTP, FTP).
Because of its design, Galena2 developed into a framework for server side applications, especially for Web applications and content management systems (CMS).
Addins like wiki, message board, and news system are already included.
Enhancements:
- Galena2 is a complete new layer above the Addin Interface of Galena1.
- This turns Galena into a framework for Web applications and content management systems (CMS).
- It has a built-in theme system (templating using Velocity), an HTTP server, caching, and more.

Page Manager is a content management system (CMS) for sites that does not need (or cannot have) a database back-end. Instead Page Manager uses the HTML-files itself as storage.
This makes it ideal for static (or semi-static) websites that does not need to be updated every second, but need an web-based editing/management interface.
It includes a browser-based WYSIWYG HTML editor (using TinyMCE) and it can also be used to maintain news, blogs (or other lists) and online image galleries.
New in-place wysiwyg editing (using AJAX) makes the web management easy for non-technical people.
Main features:
- Browser-based website management
- Simple editing interface for site content, news lists, blogs and image galleries
- WYSIWYG editing of HTML pages using TinyMCE
- No database: The pages themselves are the database
- VERY simple installation: Just unzip to your public directory.
- Minimal configuration required: Only username/password must be specified.
- Simple XML syntax to include meta information (for the editor) in HTML-pages.

Podius is a content management and web publishing system.
Main features:
- o dependencies (download and run anywhere with perl installed)
- intuitive component model with rich configurable properties
- file-based or rdbms-based persistence and high level transactions
- support for concurrency and auto-merged changes (optimistic locking)
- nice and powerful template syntax, easily extensible
- support for multilingual content, synchronized between languages
- support for inheritable and reusable projects
- clean storage-data division (no sql in perl code is needed)
- clean data-presentation division (no perl code in html is needed)
- management scripts, allowing full control from command line
- web-based interface for non-technical editors

Command Line Content Management System is my own command line content management system. Its not a dynamic cms, but a script that takes a source tree and creates a web site out of it.
The idea came to me when i was using m4 for my website to generate the HTML, but i did not like the idea that i was still typing HTML in my pages, even if it was simplified by using macros. I was updating a wiki page somewhere when it hit me: i wanted a command line system that was able to take wiki style input for page content. The result is clcms.
Its in beta state at the moment, mostly to try out some different approaches to various
challenges. But i thought id share it now, so if youre interested and might have some ideas on where to go from here, drop me a line (or a patch). At least it can build this site and the tutorial site, but anything more fancy will probably not work.
Its also a way for me to learn Python, so i might in my ignorance produce some weird constructs here and there. Please let me know, but be gentle.
Main features:
- Updates should be possible with a terminal and an editor
- Content is stored in a directory tree
- Adding pages (or items?) should be as easy as creating a new file and typing some lines in it.
- For default pages/items no config necessary
- No HTML, XML or anything alike for normal usage
- All pages have their binary content (images, download files) in the directory of the page itself
- All output is static, no generating on the fly
Usage:
After untarring the tarball, add < dir>/bin to your path or copy bin/clcms.py to a directory in your path.
You can now go to < dir>/examples/documentation and build the tutorial by running
clcms.py
Now wasnt that easy?
Point your browser to file://< dir>/examples/documentation/out/index.html and see the result of all your hard work.
If it did not work, its not your fault. Just remember that version number.
Enhancements:
- .page files can now contain content attributes.
- Filename extensions are removed and replaced by attribute lines in .page files.
- The page.meta file should now be called page.attr.
- The nomenu option had disappeared in a previous release, and has been put back.

X Portal project is a powerful CMS (content management system) which can handle multiple language files.
English and Hungarian languages are included in the basic package. The engine was taken from phpnuke-textportal.
Enhancements:
- autoHALT automatically logs out when the browser is closed.
- Security was enhanced with lots of new security tools.

Chronolith project is an easy to use content management system, commonly used for blogging. Based on the venerable WordPress blogging engine, Chronolith has powerful yet easy to use interfaces, clean code, and well-written documentation.
User Centred
We dont use cute slogans or empty marketing. Although Chronolith is developer driven, you dont have to be a geek to use it. Everything we do aims to make Chronolith as easy to use as possible.
Enhancements:
- The config files were cleaned up.